A moment in history.

[Pedrosa]

Edit:

I think it is may be way too hard to simply select 1 incident. Why not we throw it so that each poster has a choice of 5?



I was just wondering if you were able to stand by, be present and observe any one particular incident in the history of mankind, which would you choose?

To help out of course categories among the following might prompt you:

Nature/Natural disaster/wonders.

Sport

Politics

Discovery

Science

Humanity

Religion

The arts

Media/movies/radio/TV/Music

Feel free to share and really no-one can question you as it is a pure personal choice.

[Ping]

The first moon landing.

[Kate Moss]

cor, thats a tough one, there have been so many things that i would like to look upon (most of them i am glad not to have been apart of them) but to help get a better understanding, i guess the two towers incident?? Does that make me sick???

[Welsh_Wizard]

9/11..

I would want to know the planning involved, i would want to hear the conversation that sparked the idea.. the people involved, the training they took.. everything.

I would also love to read some of the CIA's file on the matter. Definately a couple of 'holy crap!' moments in there..

[stewie]

9/11 was quite a shocking piece of history thanks to the prevelance of tv, the internet, mobile phones, etc, I watched the whole thing from just before the second aircraft went in, it has to be the most shocking thing I have ever seen. Ive actually got some photo,s on facebook of the tiles on the fence in greenwich village, they are very poignant, especially the last one.

p.s im in facebook as stew johnstone, im also in the sv650 group

[slark01]

Hmm to be honest, for me the answer is "none".
I'm to focused on the future and what it holds, it may sound weird but thats me :)

[G]

I would liked to have been involved in the taking back of normandy during the 2nd world war and actually survive.

The feeling those soldiers must have felt from start to finish must have been immense, and the scale of what they actually achieved equally as immense.

Its the most amazing and brave event I can think of that I can't even begin to imagine what it was like to be part of.

[tactcom7]

I'd of loved to have been there when they invented sliced bread, best thing ever!

[sinbad]

It depends on whether I would be able to learn anything that I couldn't find out anyway. If not then for the sheer spectacle of it, I'd quite like to see Mount St. Helens' 1980 eruption in person (from a safe distance). Or if I could safely observe it, the dam buster's raid. Good question, it will keep me thinking :)

[rpwoodman]

I understand the mediteranean became a sea when some a big bit of land gave way - be interested to see that.
And Krakatoa
And the moon landings (on a decent TV - I was 1 month old at the time)
Testing of the trinity project
And dinosaurs.

[Ping]

Ooh, then there's Roswell... To have been there at the time just to make my own mind up on the whole thing... :lol:

So essentially, any point in history where the actual fact of what happened is under debate. :cool:

[Lissa]

+1 on the moon landings...to find out once and for all if they did get there!

+1 on Krakatoa...the 1883 explosion was apparently the single loudest sound ever recorded in Earth's history.

The building of the Great Pyramid at Giza, just to see how they did it.

The Battle of Thermopylae. 300 Spartans.............incredible.

The 1936 Olympics to see Jesse Owens win 4 gold medals and stuff one up Hilter and his 'master race'.

[keithd]

sorry, cant think of anything funny.

i'll be back later.

carry on (up the khyber)

[rpwoodman]

The building of the Great Pyramid at Giza, just to see how they did it.


That's a good shout - must have looked magnificent when it was finished - all smoothe, covered in marble.

[neilfab]

A certain book repository or behind that grassy knoll in Dallas on 22 Nov 1963.

[Supervox]

In no particular order :-

1) Dallas 22nd November 1963 - the grassy knoll - just to see what really happened

2) Paris 31st August 1997 - The Place de l'Alma Tunnel - again just to see what really happened

3) Egypt whenever & whoever it was decided to build the first pyramid - why a pyramid & how did they build it ?

4) Salon-de-Provence, France 1555 - to be able to ask Michel de Nostredame in his own language what he really meant in his writings

5) Whenever & wherever the first person to milk a cow was - just to ask them what they thought they were doing ?

[Jester666]

A certain book repository or behind that grassy knoll in Dallas on 22 Nov 1963.

And me!

Whenever & wherever the first person to milk a cow was - just to ask them what they thought they were doing ?

:smt046

Also:

One of Caligulas parties

To see the meteor (From a safe place!) that supposedly wiped out the dinosaurs

Krakotoa

Wembely Stadium 1966

Christmas Day 1914 in the trenches at Flanders watching the British Tommys beat the Germans 3-2 at footy!!

And for some odd reason I want to see close up a tornado, experience a hurricane and witness a big earthquake.

[MR UKI (1)]

And me!



:smt046

Also:

One of Caligulas parties

To see the meteor (From a safe place!) that supposedly wiped out the dinosaurs

Krakotoa

Wembely Stadium 1966

Christmas Day 1914 in the trenches at Flanders watching the British Tommys beat the Germans 3-2 at footy!!

And for some odd reason I want to see close up a tornado, experience a hurricane and witness a big earthquake.

The Tsunami on Boxing Day a few years ago

[Warthog]

Big Bang. Or visit the garden of Eden (what do you mean it doesn't exist?).

[Jester666]

Big Bang.


Good Answer!!!!

[Ping]

5) Whenever & wherever the first person to milk a cow was - just to ask them what they thought they were doing ?

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Erm... not sure how many I've had now but I'd also want to be there during Boudica's rampages, just to see what she was really like.

[Stingo]

The assassination of the Russian Czar and his family....:(


First world war Trench warfare....



The charge of the light brigade at balaklava, but also the victorious charge of the heavy brigade earlier which rarely gets spoken about...

[K]

I'd like to witness the writing of the American Constitution, just to make make comments over their shoulders about how much trouble their descendants are going to get in to arguing over 'the right to bear arms' line. ;)

Likewise the signing of the American declaration of independance, just to knock someone's elbow and smudge it. :p

I'd like to see the look on his second in command's face when Hannibal came up with his idea about the elephants.

I also wouldn't mind causing a distraction so that Guy Fawkes could actually get away with it.

Lastly I'd like to be there with a big hug, hot cup of tea and a biscuit for Oppenhiemer. Just to cheer him up a bit after he declares the has become Shiva, Destroyer of Worlds...
... kinda let him know that it may be touch and go for a bit, but it works out in the end.

[Pedrosa]

Well here are my dubious offerings!:p

With Pizarro the Spaniard demanding a massive ransom in gold and silver to free Atahualpa the Inca king, (1532)Rumiñahui vanished in to the Andes with an amount of gold objects,trinkets etc that would today have a staggering value. I would have liked to walk with him and noted where he hid the Inca Gold and to simply marvel at the amount and the exquisite items. The gold has never been found despite many attempts to do so.

I would have liked to have been a child of the 60's and have been able to attend the Woodstock festival in 1969.

Despite the sickening loss of life I would have loved to been able to observe the arrogant General Custer meet his end at the hands of the native Indians led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull at the battle of Little Big Horn.

To walk through Rome at the height of it's pomp and gaze at the spectacular buildings.

I would have loved to have been with the photographer that took the pictures of J Edgar Hoover which were passed to the Mafia and were used as tools of blackmail for many years against him to head off the FBI defeating organised crime.

[Biker Biggles]

I'd like to have been present on many of the great voyages of discovery in Africa and the Americas.Also Cook's voyages to Australia and Polynesia.
I'd like to have taken part in the cipper races and seen Thermopolae and Cutty Sark blatting it out round the Horn
Battle of Jutland-The last time the battle fleets of two nations lined up and slugged it out.