Which past event would you want to view?

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You have a time machine which can make just one return trip to any place and time you want. Where would you go and what would you see?

You can't interact with anyone or change history, but you can watch it unfold.

The last major dinosaur extinction, to see what happened 16
The Neander valley a few million years ago to see Neandethals 3
Ancient Rome to see Caesar with your own eyes 13
1492, to sail with Columbus 3
Tudor England to see Shakespeare 3
The Great Fire of London 1
Sarajevo, to see World War I start 0
Hitler's bunker at the end of WWII 4
A grassy knoll in November 1963 2
Watching the moon landing in 1969 10
Other (please add yours - the list above is just to get you thinking). 18
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  • airflare
    13 years ago

    I'd like to see one of Mozart's symphonies LIVE :D

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  • peelover
    13 years ago

    how about the resurrection of jesus

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  • piggowiggo
    13 years ago

    I want to see Hitler's suicide. Seeing a horrible person's death is always pleasing.

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      13 years ago

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  • MahBoi24
    12 years ago

    I'd want to be there when Jesus was alive, just to see if his little magic tricks actually happened, or if it was all a bunch of bullshit.

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  • TreePeek
    13 years ago

    Life of Leonardo da Vinci

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  • Blowjobqueen
    13 years ago

    Albert Eninstien (sorry for my horrible spelling) creating the equation E=mc2

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  • penguin1
    13 years ago

    I would love to witness the time of the dinosaurs (not necessarily witness their extinction, but maybe just to observe them. (NON-Jurassic park style. LOL)

    Watching the moon landing or seeing Shakespeare would be cool too.

    Another thing that would be cool to do with a time machine is to go back and witness the birth of Jesus. Or see the signing of the Declaration of Independance.

    I'd like to be able to be there right after the "big bang" or watch famous painters like Da Vinci paint the Mona Lisa or Michelangelo paint the sistine chapel. Or maybe watch mount vesuvius erupt. (From the air. Maybe about a mile up. LOL! Or at least a safe distance!)

    There's just so much to choose from. I'd want to witness a bit of everything!

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      13 years ago

      Great point. I forgot to include anything religious or cultural/artistic and I really should have done. Hopefully they'll be covered in the answers to this post.

      There is so much I'd want to see it's impossible to choose just one, but seeing dinosaurs as they really were (not how we think they were) is very difficult to say no to.

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  • OppositeofNormal
    13 years ago

    When pop music started, so I can stop it for the time being.

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    • [Old Memory]
      13 years ago

      I like yours!

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  • Golden
    13 years ago

    I'd go to Egypt during the building of the pyramids or to visit the library of Alexandria Jesus spent his childhood in Egypt. It'd be fun to see the things he saw.

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  • howaminotmyself
    13 years ago

    I'd like to see Krakatoa go, but be the witness who heard it from a distance. This was one of the first times it became obvious that we were living in a global society. The news of this event traveled the world more quickly then any other event in history before that time.

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  • wigsplitz
    13 years ago

    I don't see that it would do me much good to witness any random historical event that doesn't concern me personally. I have some questions about some things regarding my own family and loved ones, so I'd probably go back in time to see what happened on their part during certain life events.

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  • hugmonster
    12 years ago

    i wanna see who shot 2pac

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  • Aleks85
    12 years ago

    I want to see with my own eyes what really happened at the Roswell crash and what's really inside Area 51.

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  • dalmationUntoyourSoul
    12 years ago

    the virgin mary not having sex?

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  • stone_love
    12 years ago

    Some of the brutal shit that went on in Ancient Rome would be cool to see. I want to say something like "the creation of early stars" but that would take forever to watch.

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  • instazombiinaboxx
    12 years ago

    I would like to go back and witness... my own birth and watch myself grow up.

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  • RevDMB
    13 years ago

    I would of loved to of been in NYC when the two planes hit and the towers fell. No disrespect to anyone that lost any loved ones. I just think it would of been crazy to see that all in person. Also would be nice to see what really hit the Pentagon ;)

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    • [Old Memory]
      13 years ago

      I was there. Saw the second. It was not fun or anything you would wish to see. Still have nightmares.

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  • Flea50
    13 years ago

    The big bang

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  • Malice27
    13 years ago

    I want to go back and experience woodstock...even though I've heard horror stories I'd still want to go.

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  • [Old Memory]
    13 years ago

    Though this wouldn't really be an event, I'd like to see the Greek Acropolis in it's glory.

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  • [Old Memory]
    13 years ago

    I wanna know exactly how Stone Henge was constructed.

    I wanna know exactly who killed J.F.K., Medgar Evans, Malcolm X, Bobby Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

    I wanna know what happened to Jimmy Hoffa's body.

    I wanna know who Jack the Ripper was and how he got away with his crimes.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      13 years ago

      Watching Stonehenge or the Pyramids being built would be amazing!

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      • [Old Memory]
        13 years ago

        Yes it would be amazing. To this day we haven't a clue how those people did it.

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      • howaminotmyself
        13 years ago

        And Machu Picchu and The Nazca Lines, and Easter Island...

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  • BoredGuy
    13 years ago

    Why can't chat with anyone either?

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    • BoredGuy
      13 years ago

      We can't*

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  • [Old Memory]
    13 years ago

    Napoleon during the Six Days Campaign or meeting Emperor Vespasian at any point in his life.

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  • Anonymous Post Author
    13 years ago

    * NeandeRthals - sorry for the typo.

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