Famous Events You'd Like To Go Back In Time To Witness...

Bradford Match. 1912 Fa cup.

I love history, especially military history. So stuff like the viking siege of Paris, their attack on Lindisfarne, anything to do with Romans or vikings.

Then as others have mentioned, pyramids, temples, hanging gardens of babylon, alexdra lighthouse. See the neanderthal first create fire. Witness the reaction of oppenheimer and others when they detonate

 

Grassy knoll....and I wouldn't be looking at the motorcade.

 

The VAR room when we played at Wembley.

 

One of the Nuremberg rallies

 

Can we only go back? As interesting as that would be, I'd rather go forwards in time. See the state of the world in 25, 50, 100, 500 years. See how my grandkids have fared, and their grandkids. See if we managed to save the planet after all (unlikely, but you never know). If not, visit Doncaster and see the tide rolling in. Check out Oakwell and see if it's still standing and being used as a sporting venue. Maybe it'll be gone and sports will all be virtual reality in the future. If so, play in a match and score a hat trick for Barnsley VRFC.

The possibilities are endless...

 

The donkey wasn’t Amos. Amos was the lad who rode on the donkey.

 

Pearl Harbour.
3rd Sept 1939 in England.
As someone has already suggested, a Nuremburg rally.
To witness France's surrender to Hitler in the railway carriage in 1940.
To be already on the moon waiting for the first Apollo landing craft.
1960 Berlin as the citizens woke up to the first bricks of the Berlin wall being built.
Just a few out of so many.

 

Stood on the goal line in 1966 to see if the ball was over...
2 days before Pearl Harbour in Churchill's
office to see if he did kno the Japanese we're coming.
CIA main centre just before 911

 

As a big fan of Queen as a youth, I saw them at Knebworth in 86, I disagree with that.

They released The Works in 84 and had been touring it for a year with the last dates being in May 85. They'd already done Rock in Rio festival earlier that year and had had played dozens of stadiums for the past 12 months which is why they were right on their game for Live Aid.

The rest of the band told Geldof not to mention to Freddie that Live Aid had anything to do with charity or politics as he wasn't in to that. If there was any convincing done it was the other way.

 

I really wouldn't want to see the future the way things are currently going.

 

The problem is where/when would you be observing it from?

 

I'd like to relive every sliding doors moment taking the other option and seeing if I returned to the same place. Just to see if fate really does exist.

 

It's difficult to be positive about the future, I'll admit, but I live in hope that eventually humanity will see the light. Maybe I've watched too much Star Trek...

 

But you'd have to have been inside it, because that was the universe - everything, there was nothing "outside" it because "outside" didn't exist - as far as we know .

 

More likely to be an uninhabited world with temperatures of 30C at the poles and 90C at the equator. Any surviving descendants will be on Mars or a moon of Saturn.

Or summat.

Sorry to be so pessimistic but the state of things at the moment don't breed optimism.

 

Things have been much worse. We've had two world wars for a start, Cuban missile crisis and the constant threat of nuclear war, Vietnam, Korea, Balkans, Iraq, Afghanistan. And that's just a few lowlights of the past hundred years or so.

When you're living through something it always feels like it's the worst it's ever been. But is it? There are fewer wars than there have ever been, far less poverty, far fewer women dying in child birth, infant mortality is almost a thing of the past in many countries, life expectancy has accelerated, many diseases that used to kill us are all but eradicated.

You'll hear many people claim that things are getting worse but demonstrably they're not, using any metric.

There's some stuff that needs sorting out, climate change for a start, but the money being spent to tackle this is beyond anyone's imagination. Not enough yet but going in the right direction. Then there's the issue of the disparity between the super rich and everyone else but Trump and Musk are doing their best to ensure this will be addressed. People will only put up with nob heads for so long before something is done.

I don't really like what the world is turning into but that's cos I'm getting old. If I was young I'd be drinking, kissing girls, sitting in the sunshine and having a lovely time.

 

I’d like to go back to hitlers birth and smother the *******

 

Not disagreeing with you, but life expectancy has stalled - and is even decreasing in some parts of the country/some countries - pregnancy mortality for the mother and child is increasing again (especially in USA) and there are currently around 50 armed conflicts ongoing at the moment.

 

https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy

https://ourworldindata.org/maternal-mortality

https://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace

 

The garden of Eden.
Or at least the Plymouth Brethren I used to work for would have you believe.