You just get to observe nothing more. You don’t get to affect the outcome of the event or anything moving forward and you don’t get to profit in any way from what you have seen. You have no way of sharing anything about what you have seen.

I guess I have two for different reasons.

First would be the Resurrection of Christ. Speaks for itself pretty much to be able to witness the most powerful and important thing to ever happen in human history would be amazing.

Second I would go back to ancient Egypt to see how all the pyramids and the like were actually made and see them in actual working form to know what they heck they actually are for.

If I can take video, my second motorcycle crash.

60 into an abandoned car in the second lane, outer loop of the DC Beltway, on a Friday evening. I would like to know how accurate is my memory of the accident.

The other event…

The Big Bang.

If you can’t influence the event, and the memory of what you’ve seen can’t influence anything you do in the future, what’s the point? How is that possible unless you had no recollection?

Probably lots of things.

First thing that came to mind was to attend my dad's college graduation. First in the family.

Second is attend my parent's wedding, as humble as it probably was.

Watch my parents sign their financial life over at the bank for the family business. That took some guts for them to make that work out.

That one's easy. The entire Passion, start to finish, continuing through to the Resurrection.

A second one, I'd have to think about.

The exact origin of the fire at Notre Dame

#1 is, without a doubt, Christ's passion, death, and resurrection. That would forever change me for the better.

Runners-up, in no particular order:

Pearl Harbor. I would like to see whether that pesky Japanese mini sub managed to make it into the main basin and fire two torpedoes into USS Oklahoma.

The attack on USS Housatanic by the submarine CSS Hunley. See what really caused Hunley to sink.

Dinosaurs. See what the REALLY looked and sounded like.

Battle of the Nile, or Copenhagen, or Trafalgar, or Jutland, or Battle Off Samar. See what those magnificent beasts (ships of the line, dreadnought battleships) really looked like in massive battles.


Operation Overlord at Normandy, Jue 6, 1944.

Hiroshima. Yeah, it sounds morbid, but it was one of the most important evets of the 20th century (and I am a History major...).

1908, Tungusta, to see what really happened there.

JFK's assassination. Same reason.

Area 51, in the late 1990s - present, to see what cool toys we have thatthe govt won't show us.

The Roswell Incident. It wasn't an alien spacecraft, but a good theory claims it was a Soviet spy plane overflying (or trying to) Holloman AFB, where all the USAF nuclear-capable B-29s were stationed.

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Originally posted by Black92LX:
First would be the Resurrection of Christ.

Indeed.

Also of note:

The making of the Antikythera mechanism.

The original telling of the Mahabharata.

The full journey of Noah's Ark.

Construction of the Colossus of Rhodes.

Building of the ancient roads of the Maya.

The siege of Die Glocke.

The rise and fall of the Roanoke settlement.

The work of Philo T. Farnsworth and his 'shadowgraph'.

Seeing and understanding the construction techniques utilized at the Dendera complex and the temple of Hathor.

Hmm...

How much 'then' time do I get?

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Originally posted by MNSIG:
If you can’t influence the event, and the memory of what you’ve seen can’t influence anything you do in the future, what’s the point? How is that possible unless you had no recollection?

No need to overthink this.
The whole premise is not possible! We’re talking time travel in the least.

The answer to your question is pure and simple curiosity of events and witnessing them first hand.

I wouldn’t mind catching Led Zeppelin’s September 19, 1970 evening show at Madison Square Garden in NYC.

I’ve thought about something similar for a long time, at a much smaller scale. In my years with the Forest Service I’ve looked at a fenceline built by the CCC in the 30s, fallen in cabins, irrigation canals built with fresnos, ancient Indian sites and more. I’ve long thought about how cool it would be to have a…looking glass, that I could hold up and see that cabin, or fence, or kiva on the day it was built.

Like others, the teaching of Jesus, his time with the disciples, and resurrection.

Number 2, God’s creation of the world.

OK, got my backup: the sinking of the Titanic. From a safe place, of course.

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Originally posted by kkina:
OK, got my backup: the sinking of the Titanic. From a safe place, of course.

On the iceberg I suppose.



I'd like to see the foundation of the first city.

Custer's last stand
Fetterman fight ( two civilians in that battle with Henry lever actions that didn't make it )

There was a TV show called YOU ARE THERE in the early 50s. Walter Cronkite did the narration. You would be transported back in time and witness the event. It was historical and interesting. link:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045458/

Definitely the whole Jesus story. All of it.

I would also like to go WAY far back to see if there were any global civilizations long before our recorded history. It doesn’t take long to wipe out all evidence so are we the “first”. Atlantis? Lemuria? “Lizzid people”? Whatever I’d just like to look WAY back.

11-22-1963. I would like to be on the Grassy Knoll. Then I would know exactly what took place.
I believe this was an event that changed America.

The fighting at Lexington and Concord or the signing of the Declaration of Independence.