For the sake of the argument, you get to arrive up to 24 hours before the event starts and leave up to 24 hours after it ends.

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    Would I still be able to remember the visit? Witnessing the hiding of some long lost treasure would still be directly beneficial.

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    The start of the universe. The big bang, or even what came before that. The big dinner and a movie.

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      24 hours before the beginning of time, there was oldGregg. And oldGregg said, “This is lit”, and it was.

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      Given that time itself began at the Big Bang, would you get stuck there forever? I’m not familiar with the laws of “what if” scenario physics

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        I bet it would be like one of those shitty tiktoks/shorts where the instant the video starts the person is mid word. Because that dopamine cycle doesn’t have time for you to properly cut a video.

        Personally I think the position would be harder to nail down. You can’t exactly fit a person into a singularity without some compression. So you’d have to start watching it after at least a few nanoseconds so you’d have room for your physical body.

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      In later apocrypha Mary was described as being about 12 when she was married into the household of Joseph who was the eldest person in the town.

      So in reality you’d probably be watching a child being raped, either by someone in their household before falling pregnant and being married off to someone else before she started showing, or by an old guy who married her, or by one of his older male children after she was taken into his household.

      So maybe less fun than you’d think.

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    I had heard that Mark Twain was a fantastic orator, so I would love to be in the audience for one of his shows.

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    Either watch the building of the Tomb of Tutankhamun. Watch and record what happens. I can’t interact or interfere (which mean I would have zero effect on the time line), but I would have video evidence of how they did it. Since it took years to build (supposedly) we don’t really know how long it took, I would watch the beginning week or two of it.

    Be a hell of a shock if it really was “aliens”. lol

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    I wanna witness the Roman who graffitied about being gay in the bathroom stall - just to see the kind of man they were.

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    I would love to see the moment humans first learned complex speech patterns. Yes it was probably a long process. But to see the first complete sentence uttered would be cool as hell. Even better if I could somehow understand it.

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      The first human being to say something like, “I am grog” and you walk up and hit them with modern day internet slang they’re just going to say fuck this and go back to the trees

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      For everyone who doesn’t want to google it, Mount Vesuvius is the volcano that destroyed Pompeii.

      It’s also what I’m interested to see in person if I could go back.

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    Can I watch the first moon landing from the moon? Or maybe one of the big astrod impacts…

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    The big bang, especially if I can record it (don’t think that counts as interacting, it’s just a more trustworthy version of the recording it into my memory)

    Especially since this means we’d get the conditions before it