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For me it is the "fall of the Berlin wall" and the celebrations after the border openings.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I honestly can’t think of any historically significant event that doesn’t involve or depend upon major suffering of some sort -even the happy moments are only happy because of an end of horrible things- so I’ll just pass entirely. History sucks because humans suck.

But If we assume that time can flow in both ways, I’ll choose to go somewhere in the future-past. Maybe the day we put boots on ground in another solar system, or put an end to scarcity, if either of those ever even happen..

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yes, the Berlin wall for me too.

And when the white government in South Africa resigned, and Mandela became the boss.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Franz Ferdinand.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Charles I getting a little off the top.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Me too, I used to live there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

My favourite one is yet to come. Come on Putin die already.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I'd be kind of interested to see the gathering where the Dutch killed and ate their prime minister.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not a major event, but there's a number of football ⚽ matches I wish I could have been at, not least the 1961 and 1968 Scottish Cup finals.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

1968 European Cup Final for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Assuming I was in some kind of protective bubble, the big bang, to see how it actually looked like.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Human extinction. Be it a massive, catastrophic event or a whimper of a thing, it would be fun to witness the end of our run through time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You are in real time. Imagine some eerie music

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Rod Serling approaches

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

It'd have to be the construction of The Sphinx or the Giza pyramids for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Assuming I have to be a passive observer, the moment when humans learned to create fire.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Hard question. Something that had to be amazing was Times Square on V-J day. Had to been a hell of a party and a feeling knowing that mess was over.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Last time this was asked, someone said the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and I don't think they meant for the historical insights...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Drpends. If i was allowed to live past it, the extinction of the dinosaurs

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Probably the christians arriving in Jerusalem and killing everyone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Which time?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

Pretty grim choice.

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