If you could be the proverbial fly on the wall witnessing an historical event, which event would it be? As for myself... The Beatles recording sessions D-Day Sacking of Rome by the Visigoths and Vandals Watergate Breakin Fall of Berlin Continental Congress Sessions Gettysburg Address being delivered Picasso Painting Guernica Woodstock (albeit I would one tripped out fly by the 3rd day) Jefferson writing Declaration of Independence
caesars assasination the cracking of indigo the cracking of enigma the testing of trinity McCarthy at the mapes coming clean to journalists the invention of the electric guitar...
Loss of the Waratah Sinking of the Lusitania (with attention to the mysteries surrounding that) Sinking of the Empress of Ireland '36 Olympic Games The careers of Graf Spee, Bismarck, Tirpitz, Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Prinz Eugen, etc... A mass raid with 1000 B-17s and 700 P-51s The sinkings of Wilhelm Gustloff, Steuben and Goya Various nuclear and thermonuclear test blasts (esp. at Bikini) S/S United States breaking Queen Mary's North Atlantic speed record Sinking of the Andrea Doria
-Buddha under his tree when he attained nirvana -Jesus in the desert. The last supper and crucifixion would be neat too, maybe his whole minsitry, after so much discussion, debate and uncertainty, it'd be neat to see the real deal, if he existed at all. -the first shot at Lexington Green. I want to see what side fired first. -Attilla's death, to see what really went down -At Alcatraz, to see if that one guy who escaped and was never found, actually made it to shore. -at Stonehenge, while the original users used it, to see it's real purpose and how it was used.
Nalancer has a good idea. Find out if anyone was really on the grassy knoll or is Oliver Stone full of shit.
The building of the pryamid at Giza, to see how it was built. The day the Aztecs disappeared. The battle of Little Big Horn, to hear Custer's last words.
9 months before jesus was born, just to see if god actually got mary knocked up or whether she made it all up woodstock any bill hicks show discovery of the wheel/fire roswell jfk assassination humanitys first mushroom trip my birth and a few in the future to see what happens: 2012, i'll probably still be around but i want to know if anything happens now the destruction of humanity alien contact (it's gonna happen one day people) my death, i wanna see how i go out and it'll be hard to observe when i'm actually croaking
Seeing how and when you die will take all the fun out of living. Say you find out you die at age 89 from a heart attack. That means all your younger days will be spent saying "gee, I'm leaping out of this plane, but the thrill is gone because I know I have zero death risk". Death is the climax. It's like reading the end of a book before the beginning. What's the point?
The death of Hitler recording sessions of the Beatles rec. sessions of the Doors building of Charles' Bridge in Prague.
Attend the premiers of "King Lear", "Romeo and Juliet", "Hamlet",et al, in the original Globe Theater.
