Which Event In History......?

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  1. Pegscraper

    Pegscraper Elite Member

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    If you could go back in time and witness one event in history, first hand, which would it be?
    For me it would have to be a Saturn V launch from a forward observation bunker. I remember watching Apollo launches on the TV with my Dad back in the 60's. The operational stats of a Saturn V first stage rocket are impressive even today.

     
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  2. Wessa

    Wessa Cruising

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    What an awesome piece of history in that video.
     
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  3. Hubaxe

    Hubaxe Good moaning! aka Mr Wordsalad :)

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    Probably a lunch aboard "Paquebot France" in Martinique (Caribbean) in 1972. I was 3 too young to measure the opportunity and remind it, and would like to be able to live that again.
     
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  4. Vulpes

    Vulpes Confused Member

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    I actually visited that cruiseliner after it was rebaptised "Norway", when it was moored in Amsterdam in the eighties.
    For that time it was incredibly luxureous - in my capacity as a customs officer at the time I had dealings with the captain. His quarters were amazing!
     
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  5. Vulpes

    Vulpes Confused Member

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    I'd be interested to see the creation of the universe...
     
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  6. Helmut Visor

    Helmut Visor Only dead fish go with the flow
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    For me it would have to be an event that has never been properly explained ie. the death of Hitler, what happened on the Mary Celeste, being witness to a Jack the Ripper event, JFK assassination etc
     
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  7. Octoberon

    Octoberon Crème de la Crème

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    I'd like to go back and see if I could avert a renowned disaster. I'd start with 1988 and tell myself not to go out with Sue Matthews.
     
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  8. PatW

    PatW Senior Member

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    Battle of the little Big horn ....and not shagging Sue Mathews...again
     
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  9. DCS900

    DCS900 Careful, man! There’s a beverage here!

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    I’m not currently in the mood to watch spectacular feats of death, violence or morbid fascination... and the “big events” like the moon landing will just be stuffed with time travellers etc. There are moments in history that I’d like to see.. signing of the Magna Carta, the Rosa Parks moment, Elvis’s first recording sessions etc... you could go on and on, but I think what would really impress me would just be a none specific date in the late Cretaceous period and enjoy a time watching the largest of dinosaurs mooching about...
     
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  10. Flay

    Flay Well-Known Member

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    Not an earthshattering event, and it didn't happen, but I would love to have been present when Bloodhound LSR had a go at the 1000mph mark
    [​IMG]
     
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  11. Col_C

    Col_C I can't re...Member

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    Would you mooch around with this one? You could watch an asteroid landing too! :)
    (great idea though, beats anything man made)
     
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  12. Fork Lock

    Fork Lock Crème de la Crème

    #12 Fork Lock, Apr 20, 2022
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    Today is April 19, 2022.

    I would have liked to have been in Lexington and Concord Massachusetts 247 years ago on April 19,1775.

    No one knows who started the melee, who took that first shot, but that was, indeed, where it started.

    With all due respect to my new British friends, it was the true birth of the American Revolution.

    It was when we became Americans.

    “By the rude bridge that arched the flood/Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled/Here once the embattled farmers stood/And fired The Shot Heard Round The World.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
     
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  13. DCS900

    DCS900 Careful, man! There’s a beverage here!

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    Dude... It’s not like you guys invented revolution... :D so enjoy the day, you’ll be 250 years old soon... a chance for a big party!
     
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  14. PatW

    PatW Senior Member

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    Most of them were British anyhow..
     
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