What historic event would you like to have witnessed?
 

Spinoff from the concert thread....

If there was a significant historical event that you could have been at live and in person (with no chance of dying or having any harm befall you) - what would it be?

And to make it interesting, you can witness this event by going back in time, and having all the knowledge you currently have carry with you to that place and time where the event occurred.

This is not a "prevent it from happening" opportunity - just as a witness.


My first thoughts - would have to be the last supper (and days following crucifixion) and the JFK assasination.

What say you?

The moment Arthur Bryant first perfected BBQ.

2 girls 1 cup

My parents' first date.

cool choice!:thumb:

The Crucifixion

Hitler's suicide

When the first person made fire.

Great post.
The resurrection of Christ.

The whole Jesus timeline seems too easy, so I'll consider it noted. October 19, 1781 Yorktown seems well worth witnessing.

Wright brothers take flight

D day..Gettysburg..Pearl Harbor..on the plane that dropped the atom bombs..Battle of Thermopylae..ride across the ocean on the Mayflower..Battle of Mogadishu..the battle with Marcus Luttrell..and to hang out with Einstein when he discovered E=mc2

Moon landing

Yep...thought of this as well....along with many Lewis and Clark moments.

Seeing sights and land for the first time (or at least first documented time) must have been an experience that words couldnt possibly do justice.

Which studio? :Poke:

The big bang

No, really.

It would be easier to explain it in class and prove it happened.

1. Building of the Great Pyramid.
2. Beginning of the Bronze Age (first person to make a bronze weapon), as long as I can stay a couple of days to watch how they live.
3. Discussion meetings regarding the Declaration of Independence
4. Caligula naming a horse to the Senate (and then perhaps one of his after-parties)
5. Columbus' discovery of the Americas.

To be at the party where supposedly Hey Jude and Sympathy for the Devil were screened for the first time.

Unless that's not true. Then I want to be in the kitchen the first time Thin Mints were created.

The building of the pyramids in Egypt. The "weather balloon" crash in Roswell. The first bbw strip club... Not necessarily in that order.

The original Constitutional Convention.

I would pick a high leverage moment when history hung in the balance and could go down one path or another.

Some candidates:

Kennedy's inner circle room during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Truman's inner circle when deciding whether to drop the bomb.
Gettysburg
Constitutional debates

Solid choices!

Anything with dinosaurs.

The day my Father and Mother made me. See if there was the gleam.

The instant I was born.

Sermon on the Mount.

The Resurrection.

The Exodus especially the sea parting.

The Gettysburg Address

Picket's Charge and the look on Lee's face when what was left retreated.

Superbowl IV

ROFL :clap: Rep!

The arrival of the Anunnaki in Sumer.

;)

when John Elway was concieved and kick his old man in the nuts before.

Adam and Eve eats the apple

Moses loses the other 10 commandments

lol @ people picking biblical events....they really happened!

Dr. James Naismith organizes the first basketball exercise

are you insinuating I would be sitting there awhile waiting for something to happen that never materializes?

If I had 30 seconds to live and could transport to anywhere/when it'd be Hiroshima...

Ice Age melts; I expect a lot of flooding

I don't really believe there was ever all that much debate or discussion about it, to be honest. From what I've seen/read, it seems like there was a pretty broad consensus that it was a bomb, and you use it. There were a few scientists who had started to go the other way on it, but I don't think the administration or many in the military (other than Leahy) really stressed about it.

The last super bowl

Al Gore invents the internet

God resting on the 7th day

Super Bowl IV

wOW.

That's deep...

The night Pat Garrett "shot" Billy the Kid.
Assassination of Lincoln
Assassination of Kennedy
The Manhattan Project

LMAO

JFK Assasination
First atomic bomb test
Moon Landing

the first ones that come to mind

He said historical events. The cricifixion isn't an historic event.

Good lord, where to start... I'll need a translator with me for some of this.

US/Modern History:

1. Surrender of the British at Yorktown; Reaction at Whitehall and Windsor when news of the event arrived.

2. Battle of Trafalgar

3. D-Day

4. Churchill and, errr, Patton I think it was, pissing in the Rhein (so I could stand next to them and piss in the Rhein too).

5. Reaction of Stalin when Germany invades.

6. Reaction of Hitler when news of the surrender of the army at Stalingrad arrives

7. Reaction of the Japanese military leadership and Emperor when news of the Hiroshima bombing arrives

8. Third Day of Gettysburg and reaction of Bobby Lee and Longstreet when Pickett's Charge fails.

9. Debates of the Constitutional Convention.

10. Compound assault that ended in the death of Osama bin Laden


Older World History:

1. Building of the Great Pyramid

2. Burning of the Library at Alexandria

3. Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire

4. Death of Julius Caesar

5. Fall and sack of Baghdad by the Mongols

6. Martin Luther posting the 95 theses

7. Councils of Henry VIII leading to his decision to turn England Protestant, and the reaction of the Pope when he received news of this.

8. The Roman Catholic legates entering the Hagia Sophia during high mass and depositing a bull of excommunication on the altar of the church (e.g. the main event in the Great Schism).

The Jewish Holicoust...since it never happened.

The only way I could have enjoyed it more would be to be present to yell "MANNING YOU SUCK"

Historic event--stuff that actually happened.

So he was hatched?

No. You probably would have been raped by passing highwaymen before you realized what happened.

Big difference. There is proof of the Jewish Holocaust.

April 29th 1992

Personally, I would consider that quite harmful. That's me though. Perhaps you would lay back and enjoy it.

About as much proof as something that doesn't have a lot of proof. Proof that Otto Frank portrayed his daughter in a work of fiction in order to become famous and cash out on the Hollow-cost? Absolutely, there's plenty of proof for that.

We all might be around long enough to see the Constitution of this once great country get shredded into a million pieces.

Actually, that's not true and there's quotes by some of his generals which show they were opposed to it.
I posted a good amount of them several years back. It was Truman's decision and he took full responsibility for it.

You're living through it right now. :deevee:Good choice although sad!

My second choice would be The Last Supper--but only for the food.

I heard the lobster bisque was amazing.

Your a stupid human being. All those photos and videos are fake. Millions of personal stories are all made up to make Nazi's look bad. Actual physical evidence you can see today. But it's all BS? Anyone who denies the holocaust is an Anti-Semite.

They had that there? I suppose if God was there anything was possible.

I'd like to see what their olives and olive oil was like.

You're*

"hey.....we're out of bisque"!!!


"no you're not". SHAZAAAM


"Thank you Jesus (in unison). You're awesome"!

LMAO

To you all that would say that there was no crucifixion of a Jewish man named Jesus, you might do a little research. There are multiple examples of the event in non-christian writings to verify that there was a man named Jesus crucified by Pontius Pilate.
In Jerusalem they still have the death sentence passed down prior to handing him to Pontius Pilate, check out Pliny the younger and Tacitus or Josephus.


You can doubt the parting of the red sea, or the resurrection but to say that you couldn't see the crucifixion is ignorant. You don't have to believe but there was indeed a man named Jesus who stirred up the country side and was crucified by Pontius Pilate at the request of the Jewish leadership.

I believe Hitler hated Jews and had a lot of them killed. I dont believe it was anywhere close to 6 million though. I'm not an anti-semite; I just think that number has been severely inflated and there is a lot of evidence that supports this belief.

I would not want to see that. That still pisses me off.

You were really there the first time? Or did you undergo regression hypnosis and re-live it?

You really are confused. I don't know how there could be more evidence if the holocaust.

of the Holocaust*

Assassination of JFK.

It's a huge stretch to call this proof. There are writings about a lot of fictional people and fictional events thru the ages. Proof? Nada.

Chiefs superbowl victory.

What the ****. I am... so... floored....

You're a ****ing moron.

when OJ killed nicole and that other guy

I would like to go back and watch AustinChief create Chiefs Planet.

You should have kept your ignorant thoughts to yourself and your fellow Hitler apologist's. Your stupidity is dumbfounding.

I suppose you think the Moon landing was fake.

Are you a member of the Flat Earth Society?

If you don't want to believe, don't that is on you. If you want to be ignorant help yourself.

But consider this how many letters from the Roman empire still exist today in any form. The letters from Pliny the younger are coming from an anti-christian viewpoint on how to prosecute christians. This is from 110 ad. he would know about the existence of a man that had been executed a hundred years before. That would be like us doubting the existence of John Wilkes Booth.
He doesn't doubt that a man named Jesus that is the basis of this faith existed. That would have been an obvious thing to persecute them over ( they follow a man who never existed)

I don't want to drag this into DC but is your google broken, you might want to do a little research if you want to argue this point.

I was around (not at his house) I think you'd find it vaguely anti-climactic. It was cool but Custer's last stand would have more action.

History is overrated.