If you could witness a historical event in person which one would it be?

[Breadbassket]

im going to go with Mount Vesuvius erupting and destroying Pompeii in the process

 

[Jason Wynn]

The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa

 

[Russian Bot]

The holocaust.

 

[Popper Whiting]

To see if James Joyce was being honest when he said he fucked the farts out of his soon to be wife Nora Barnacle. I believe he was embelishing the facts in that letter.

James Joyce’s Love Letters to His “Dirty Little Fuckbird”

On Nassau Street in Dublin, on June 10, 1904, twenty-two-year-old James Joyce saw (as clearly as he could see, since he was not wearing his glasses, and his vision was poor) the twenty-year-old Nora Barnacle, then a young chambermaid, sauntering by. Nora would later tell the story of their...

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[Exigent Circumcisions]

The resurrection.

 

[DDBCAE CBAADCBE]

I would have really loved to see The Salem Witch Trials or maybe the first tests of the nuclear bomb.

 

[Shidoen]

Hitler painting before the Holocausting so I can convince him to take a vacation to Hawaii. I think it would be cool to see a young hitler in a Hawaiian shirt.

 

[Suburban Bastard]

The Sea People just to see what the fuck happened

 

[Skitarii]

I visited the gas station today to see how high the prices have gotten

 

[Table Country]

None of them. History sucked for the people who experienced it firsthand.

 

[Joe Swanson]

The time of Jesus' ministry to see exactly why he garnered such a following

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

The two I would like to see -

Battle of Waterloo, and the construction of Iron Bridge it was the first cast iron structure in the world and is widely considered the first major event in the Industrial Revolution.

Another one I would like to see but from a certain perspective was the construction of and sinking of the Mary Rose, don't ask me why but that ship has always fascinated me.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

We need multiple 8K high-speed cameras capturing Hiroshima and Nagasaki getting nuked. Beirut 2020 was a small taste of that.

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

We need multiple 8K high-speed cameras capturing Hiroshima and Nagasaki getting nuked. Beirut 2020 was a small taste of that.

Yea I'd like to see a nuclear test on a more modern type of city that's mostly Brick, Concreete and Glass etc - a city designed for it not a city with people etc.

Also the fastest manmade object for a while was a Manhole cover that got over pressured and sent blasting upwards at a speed meaning it could have achieved orbit, it likely didnt but it was possibly the first man made object in space.

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

the pyramids being built

 

[NekoRightsActivist]

I want to conquer mecca with prophet Muhammad, inshallah.

 

[My Name is Ed]

The early Chris-Chan saga.

It's just not the same now.

 

[MadStan]

In all recorded history, perhaps no other event is more significant in regards to the future of the human race.

I'd go back in time to the moment Velcro was invented.

 

[Uncle Sid]

9/11

 

[Manul Otocolobus]

Birth of the universe, equipped with all the best possible scientific equipment. It would provide data that is just so incredibly valuable to understanding the fundamental nature of our universe as well as our existence.

The Sea People just to see what the fuck happened

Can you elaborate on this one?

Yea I'd like to see a nuclear test on a more modern type of city that's mostly Brick, Concreete and Glass etc - a city designed for it not a city with people etc.

Supposedly this was done on a replica of a "typical" US downtown circa 1950's that was built somewhere in the US southwest by the government, but the info is still classified.