The day the music died.
RIP Mozart
Watching Hitler killing Hitler.
No, finding his worthless ass in a WW I trench and I do not care which side you were on, Entente or Central Powers. That fucker should have been buried in the mud during the Battle of the Ypres in 1914.
I just want to see dinosaurs
The Nov 12-13 Leonids meteor shower of 1833, which was said to have been measured in excess of 100,000 meteors viewed per hour (about 27+ per second). This obviously was profound to basically everyone alive at the time who could see it (it wasn’t visible in Europe), and honestly it just sounds cool. I wanna see the insane space fireworks!
Ooh, what about one of the supernovas:
SN 1006 (The Brightest)
- Date: April 1006
- Brightness: Reached a magnitude two or three times brighter than Venus, casting shadows on Earth.
SN 1054 (The Crab Nebula Creator)
- Date: July 1054
- Brightness: Visible in broad daylight for 23 days and stayed glowing in the night sky for nearly two years.
Oh that’s easy - the Zanclean flood.
What is now the Mediterranean sea used to be a land mass full of grass fields. A few million years ago, the Strait of Gibraltar gave way and hundreds of millions of cubic feet of water poured in. It’s debated how long it took to fill up the Mediterranean. Could’ve been weeks, could’ve been decades. But for whatever period it was, it’d be nuts to sit there and watch it all unfold.
Imagine the noise
The grand opening of the Roman Colosseum.
OG Woodstock easily
Mitch McConnell’s death. Just to settle this once and for all.
I’d stop the supreme Court from giving the presidency to W Bush. I try not to think about what a timeline where we actually do something about climate change would look like, it’s just too depressing.
Al Gore is an asshole and a neoliberal but I think he actually would’ve done something about climate change. I also don’t think Osama Bin Laden would’ve gone through with 9/11 without a Republican in the White House.
Yeah, I was reading this thinking ‘Who the hell does this asshole think he is?? I was there and I couldn’t do shit about it except watch. And somehow he thinks he could influence the supreme court?!?’
LOL
In my defense there’s definitely the occasional post around here asking people what historical event they would change if they could. I thought it was amusing so I left it up.
I’d go farther and kill Saul of Tarsus. No Christianity and no Islam.
The first “human” artwork. We will never know what it was or what medium it was in (cave painting? sculpture of some kind?¿?) but my personal belief is that moment is when we started being the humans we would eventually become and it would be so interesting to see what the first person came up with to express their thoughts.
It was likely a handprint in a cave but still.
If I choose the Moon landing, do I get to watch it from the Moon? Because that sounds pretty fun.
I’d hang out with Leonardo Da Vinci in his studio.
the inception of our universe.
with any luck the portal will trigger a causality loop that will rip our entire existence apart so quickly that we won’t even have an opportunity to understand that we no longer exist.
quick and painless way to make all the stupid go away.
Can I choose the moon landing, but from the moon?
Well sure, I guess if that’s what you want, but it’d be hard to see the studio from way up there.
is it just viewing? am I safe from harm? is there automatic translation?
It’s subtitled and in 720p
can I move the view around and can I keep it up for years?
Sure, only for $9.99 a month with our Premium package!
I will buy that over any other streaming service.
