For the sake of the argument, you get to arrive up to 24 hours before the event starts and leave up to 24 hours after it ends.
Tough to choose, but I think it would be interesting to see what the heck was going on with the dancing plague of 1518.
Would I still be able to remember the visit? Witnessing the hiding of some long lost treasure would still be directly beneficial.
Sure. That’s a good one.
The start of the universe. The big bang, or even what came before that. The big dinner and a movie.
24 hours before the beginning of time, there was oldGregg. And oldGregg said, “This is lit”, and it was.
Given that time itself began at the Big Bang, would you get stuck there forever? I’m not familiar with the laws of “what if” scenario physics
I bet it would be like one of those shitty tiktoks/shorts where the instant the video starts the person is mid word. Because that dopamine cycle doesn’t have time for you to properly cut a video.
Personally I think the position would be harder to nail down. You can’t exactly fit a person into a singularity without some compression. So you’d have to start watching it after at least a few nanoseconds so you’d have room for your physical body.
The conception – not birth – of Jesus. Assuming God doesn’t show up, I’m still watching two human beings go at it, and that’s kind of fun on its own.
In later apocrypha Mary was described as being about 12 when she was married into the household of Joseph who was the eldest person in the town.
So in reality you’d probably be watching a child being raped, either by someone in their household before falling pregnant and being married off to someone else before she started showing, or by an old guy who married her, or by one of his older male children after she was taken into his household.
So maybe less fun than you’d think.
I had heard that Mark Twain was a fantastic orator, so I would love to be in the audience for one of his shows.
I wanna witness the Roman who graffitied about being gay in the bathroom stall - just to see the kind of man they were.
Gay, probably.
An astute observation
Normandy Beach, D-Day. You read about the scale, but to see it in person…
Either watch the building of the Tomb of Tutankhamun. Watch and record what happens. I can’t interact or interfere (which mean I would have zero effect on the time line), but I would have video evidence of how they did it. Since it took years to build (supposedly) we don’t really know how long it took, I would watch the beginning week or two of it.
Be a hell of a shock if it really was “aliens”. lol
I’d like to see the asteroid that finished off the dinos and Mount Vesuvius erupting.
For everyone who doesn’t want to google it, Mount Vesuvius is the volcano that destroyed Pompeii.
It’s also what I’m interested to see in person if I could go back.
I want to see a day during the Cambrian explosion
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
I would love to see the moment humans first learned complex speech patterns. Yes it was probably a long process. But to see the first complete sentence uttered would be cool as hell. Even better if I could somehow understand it.
The first human being to say something like, “I am grog” and you walk up and hit them with modern day internet slang they’re just going to say fuck this and go back to the trees
Can I watch the first moon landing from the moon? Or maybe one of the big astrod impacts…
I think it would be a toss up between attending the sermon on the mount and spending a day in America before Columbus landed.
How is your Aramaic? Assuming it did happen.
I need 3 days to see the crucifixion of Jesus and what happened with the empty tomb. I want to know if that story the BBC told was correct, about him getting poisoned to make it look like he died, revived, then snuck off to India to live out the rest of his life as some dude named Issa, where there is a tomb with some casts of his feet that apparently look like a stake went through them at some point.
If I only had one the 48 hours mentioned, then I’d probably go see Greece or Rome in their prime…. Or go see how the great pyramids were built.
