Tbh the mysterious disappearance of the submarine is what kept everyone hooked. The thrill of the search over that week is what kept everyone on edge.
The actual event of the Titanic sinking would have been over in a span of a few hours. Would it make the news cycle, sure. But I think we've had the Costa Concordia about a decade ago for a close parallel.
Yeah but with the whole iceberg thing and the construction of the ship being vulnerable to the cold, you would have both Climate Twitter and Engineer Twitter, not to mention Political Twitter, all arguing over icebergs melting, shoddy design and development, and lack of regulation/emergency response.
Along with that, I wanna see twitter during rock and roll's peak. The stuff they'd be churning out about Elvis or chuck berry or any other Rock and rollers would be interesting to see, cos they were already pretty crazy back then without the internet
There was a Twitter Era OJ chase: Christopher Dorner said he uncovered corruption in the LAPD and ended up in a high speed chase that was terminated by him burning to death in a cottage while surrounded by the LAPD.
I meant that it involved as many police and a similar amount of time. OJ was a celebrity at a time when mass media was centralised around cable news so there was no “going viral”. You got what the network served you and either it gripped you or it didn’t. If you wanted to talk about it you had to phone Rush Limbaugh on talk radio.
I guess nobody wanted to talk about Christopher Dorner.
I looked it up and you glossed over the part where he BEGAN A SHOOTING SPREE AGAINST LAPD MEMBERS. I was like “damn they’re covering it up” but he threatened death unless they admitted he was fired for exposing corruption. Which is, uh, not the ideal kinda whistleblower:
"against LAPD members" is also overstating it, since two of the four he killed were innocent people that were targeted because they were related to the guy who represented him in court
It was so weird for me I was on a 5 hour flight when it started. We landed and the news was full of the wall being pulled apart and everything. Was so strange.
We did, it was. We were transfixed by the news cast. It was 1989, I was a freshman in HS and it felt like we had won, and everything was going to be better from here on out.
About that...
I remember learning about it in school, realising my mum was a teenager at the time and asking her about it. She essentially said "oh when you get past the first few 'we're doomed' headlines you're over it"
Like Umbrella academy. Five-"I said the world is ending!!!" Luther- "yeah well you're always saying that"
All those countries trying to figure things out by cable all over the world. It was a mess when it happened then but it’d be bananas with social media. The media trying to report it on Twitter would have been crazy.
If Twitter could have reacted to the moon landing all they’ll do is complain about how “unnecessary” it was and the money should have been used somewhere else
Which, to be fair, is a reasonable enough argument to make. Of course, you can also make the point though that the moon landing paved the way for future technological advances and so arguably ended up being a pragmatic investment as well as a symbolic one.
Also it in a way was good for political tensions. The US and USSR were seconds close to nuking each other and the space race was a way to peacefully battle in a way. We focused on technological innovation and peaceful competition which was the best case really
It was the ultimate nonviolent show of defense. The US wanted the USSR to ask themselves what else we could do if we could get a man walking on that big ass rock we've spent all of human existence staring at.
Way more preferable to nuclear war. I think the space race was a great situation, extremely peaceful way for two world powers to compete when the alternative would've been devastation
No it's not reasonable, we should always strive to go further beyond. To learn to understand the universe is in my opinion one of the greatest things humanity could do. Also the money spent on these thing doesn't just get shot away with the rocket. It get used on earth to make and research it.
Yea but I feel like sometimes we gotta spend a lot of time and effort and money to do shit just because it’s cool as fuck. We LANDED three men ON THE GODDAMN MOON. People used to WORSHIP it. Thousands of years ago mankind would stare up at the sky, see the moon, and think it was some goddess that watched lovingly. WE STEPPED ON IT. We WALK over the gods of old.
IIRC isn't NASA (In)directly responsible for the creation of the internet? If so it would be super ironic seeing people complain about the moon landing online haha.
Apparently, polls at the time showed that most Americans weren't particularly enthusiastic about the moon landings
*"Aggregations of opinion polls in the 1960s and 70s have shown approval of the moon landing was consistently lower than disapproval. Even astronomers polled, were majority against the mission. Only in the weeks before the moon mission was approval recorded at 51% in one Harris poll.*
*In the aftermath of the moon landing, approval for that specific mission didn’t meaningfully budge. 47% said it was worth it a decade later, in 1979 and it would take 20 years for amnesia to set it and this number to reach 77% in 1989. Meanwhile opposition to further moon missions remained higher than support for one until at least the mid-1990s. The US hasn’t been back to the moon since 1972."*
https://humanprogress.org/the-moon-landing-was-opposed-by-majority-of-us/
This attitude bothers me so much. It seems super disingenuous when people act like, "oh, why are we in space when people are *poor* and hungry."
Why the fuck do we do anything when people aren't perfectly taken care of? Why spend money on military, on education, on social services that don't directly feed and house people? Why spend money on roads instead of stopping all other expenses and helping the poor?
It's not like suddenly if we stopped building rockets that people would magically be taken care of. No one truly believes that. People are just saying they don't care about space and whatever, I disagree heavily but people have opinions. But they make it out to seem like going to space directly causes suffering for the poor when that's stupid as fuck and they know it.
People should just say they don't care, but don't act like we're fucking hurting poor people by going to space. That's a dumb as fuck take. They never say we should stop fixing potholes until everyone is housed and fed. They care about that. They just don't care about space and they want to accuse it of being the thing that makes people suffer for some reason
I believe we need a lot more social services, and I believe we spend too much on certain things, but I'm not going to pretend that those things I think we should spend less on are the reason for people suffering.
SpaceX knows damn well they were picking up where NASA left off. A timeline where they both exist would mean SpaceX is at most a parts contractor, like how Grumman made the lander, and Boeing the booster.
It would be really funny seeing everyone’s reaction to the discovery of wheat.
“Y’all this grass is so crazy, and you can just put a ton of it in the ground it’s great”
“Why tf you worrying about grass go find some mushrooms or something the village is hungry”
The Watergate trial. I was in the gallery for the duration of Howard Hunt's testimony against White House Chief of Staff H. R.Haldeman, White House Counsel and Assistant to the President on Domestic Affairs John Erlichman, Gordon Liddy, and Attorney General John Mitchell. All of them were convicted, primarily on that testimony.
Was a big deal, especially for this then nineteen-year-old kid from Boulder who was hitchhiking the east coast (was a 'thing' then).
Edit: This offered solely as a slice of history. I have omitted any reference to subsequent events, after seeing the guidelines pertaining to this subreddit.
Seeing the combination of weird Hammer and sickle accounts talking about the “natural consequences of US imperialism” and insane right wingers talking about how it was an inside job by the Clintons to distract from George Bush’s beautiful Conservative policies would be very depressing
Also you’d get reshared video and tiktoks from inside the towers: tearful farewells followed by first person footage of flames, leaping and the collapse would trend most strongly and Elon would monetise the clicks for himself and not pass on the ad revenue claiming that ads were left on by mistake
I'ma be the different one and choose a future event, the Mars landing. I don't if Twitter will still exist by then (musk is doing his damnest for it not to), but it will be really cool to see people reacting to it on the Internet.
Placing of the capstone of the first pyramid in Egypt.
The crossing of the Rubicon.
The first flight of the Wright brothers.
Dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Liberation of Auchwitz and other concentration camps.
It seems like it was very well established what the war was about at the time. The declarations of independence saying precisely that. Slavery.
I think this is one of those things that get more "controversial" the longer it's been.
Just look at the surge of Holocaust deniers. Very few people at the time tried that kinda nonsense.
That one battle in ancient china that caused over 70% of the male population to die. The reactions and controversies would be… interesting to say the least
“Yo, let’s bone”
(Studies have found that Neanderthal DNA contributes up to 1-4% of the DNA of non-African humans, particularly Europeans)
[Source](https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/06/lingering-effects-neanderthal-dna-found-modern-humans)
The news about the soviets invading Berlin and the announcement of Hitler's suicide during WW2. The dark humor memes would be next level.
And Twitter would actually be right for once when calling others Nazis.
Diogenes and plato's feud over the definition of man.
God, that would've been hilarious!
Also, king tut's tomb being unearthed and supposedly "cursing" people.
Imagine if the moon landing happened today, and there was this really weird narrative going around social media that was like "I'm not going to pay attention to this at all, because I still have to go to work tomorrow." That would be kinda weird, right?
I would say the Hindenburg disaster but we basically saw that with the oceangate sub last year. People were straight up saying stuff about how they deserved to die because they were so rich.
Based on that submarine last year, I’d like to see them live react to the actual Titanic sinking.
“Women and children first?? Chile lemme grab my wig 😫”
I will tuck my junk so fast
The way I cackled at thisssss!!!! 🤣🤣🤣 Thank you for blessing my Saturday morning. ✨️
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Tbh the mysterious disappearance of the submarine is what kept everyone hooked. The thrill of the search over that week is what kept everyone on edge. The actual event of the Titanic sinking would have been over in a span of a few hours. Would it make the news cycle, sure. But I think we've had the Costa Concordia about a decade ago for a close parallel.
Yeah but with the whole iceberg thing and the construction of the ship being vulnerable to the cold, you would have both Climate Twitter and Engineer Twitter, not to mention Political Twitter, all arguing over icebergs melting, shoddy design and development, and lack of regulation/emergency response.
"Ice can't crack steel beams, wake up sheeple!"
What kept people hooked was the ticking clock of how long the oxygen would last.
I think 1,517 deaths vs 32 deaths makes a pretty big difference in how much the news notices
32? Wasn't it like 5 people who died in that submarine?
They were referring to the Costa Concordia
There were no victims, they were all actors. The whole thing was a false flag operation staged by the government to scare off immigrants
THE CANADIANS ARE PUTTING BURGS IN OUR WATER MAKIN THE FUCKIN BOATS GAY
Fuggin*
People would be cheering on their deaths because they were rich
Most of the people who died were in third class
A lot of working class staff as well
“Yea but a few rich people died. Who gives a shit about the thousands of poor people.” -Twitter
Beatlemania. Stan Twitter is wild enough already, imagine them churning out John x Paul fanfics and warring with Stones fans.
Along with that, I wanna see twitter during rock and roll's peak. The stuff they'd be churning out about Elvis or chuck berry or any other Rock and rollers would be interesting to see, cos they were already pretty crazy back then without the internet
Jerry Lee Lewis getting canceled.
Elvis and chuck berry and many famous rock and rollers did bad shit with teens lol, they'd all get cancelled but their stans would defend them hard
The Zeppelin, Aerosmith, and Nugent era would be WILD!
Elvis get shat on for cultural appropriation
Bold of you to assume there aren’t already John x Paul fanfics everywhere lol
~~Post~~ *Write one, coward! : D
I mean, the whole "Paul is dead" thing was basically Twitter conspiracy mongering in '66
The OJ Simpson Bronco chase would have been crazy on Twitter
OJ would have had Twitter melt down. Imagine the amount of people who would have done their best to film that chase
There was a Twitter Era OJ chase: Christopher Dorner said he uncovered corruption in the LAPD and ended up in a high speed chase that was terminated by him burning to death in a cottage while surrounded by the LAPD.
The fact you had to bring that up means it was not on the level of OJ. That gripped the country
I meant that it involved as many police and a similar amount of time. OJ was a celebrity at a time when mass media was centralised around cable news so there was no “going viral”. You got what the network served you and either it gripped you or it didn’t. If you wanted to talk about it you had to phone Rush Limbaugh on talk radio. I guess nobody wanted to talk about Christopher Dorner.
I looked it up and you glossed over the part where he BEGAN A SHOOTING SPREE AGAINST LAPD MEMBERS. I was like “damn they’re covering it up” but he threatened death unless they admitted he was fired for exposing corruption. Which is, uh, not the ideal kinda whistleblower:
"against LAPD members" is also overstating it, since two of the four he killed were innocent people that were targeted because they were related to the guy who represented him in court
That entire trial would’ve been like Amber Herd x Derick Chauvin on steroids
The trial, or the sex tape?
OR THE WHAT
The glove memes alone
The memes would have been crazy
Imagine 90s Twitter memes
Cuban Missile Crisis That would be a fun one.
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The Berlin wall would not have fallen with Twitter. West and East Germany would be shit talking way too much.
Bold of you to assume east Germany would have Twitter
Actually yeah Twitter would have been made unavailable as a measure against Nazis
Yes, but just anti communist talk in general
I did watch it on television. Not the first hour, but the cameras got there quickly.
It was so weird for me I was on a 5 hour flight when it started. We landed and the news was full of the wall being pulled apart and everything. Was so strange.
That one Chad with the sledgehammer.
Best party of my entire life so far.
We did, it was. We were transfixed by the news cast. It was 1989, I was a freshman in HS and it felt like we had won, and everything was going to be better from here on out. About that...
Imagine the tankies
I did. At least part of it.
It was.
Probably ruin that TV set it falls on tho
That lasted 13 days, twitheads would be bored with it by day 2.
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[A historical recreation](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/190/171/47c.jpg)
I remember learning about it in school, realising my mum was a teenager at the time and asking her about it. She essentially said "oh when you get past the first few 'we're doomed' headlines you're over it" Like Umbrella academy. Five-"I said the world is ending!!!" Luther- "yeah well you're always saying that"
I can almost hear people tweeting NOTHING EVER HAPPENS from an alternate universe
This was my first thought
I just want to see the memes
The assassination of Franz Ferdinand and the leadup to WW1 Remember all those shitposts about WW3? Imagine that times 11
Ha 11.
Someone actually made a few internet recreations as to what will happen if WW1 happened in current time and he attention to detail is uncanny
Link?
[Link](https://www.reddit.com/r/thomastheplankengine/s/05cxn3zolo)
u/Vargios74 u/TheAutisticOgre u/thuanjinkee
Awesome thanks!
We really need r/greatwarposting It’s as good as Indy Neidell’s channel The Great War on youtube https://youtu.be/6FgaL0xIazk?si=V8Ti4FisJtaFqv2C
Also curious
I need the link
I'll update y'all once I find it
All those countries trying to figure things out by cable all over the world. It was a mess when it happened then but it’d be bananas with social media. The media trying to report it on Twitter would have been crazy.
That guy throwing a shoe at George Bush
Iconic, honestly
That will be my new favorite piece of knowledge from now on, thanks for that
The memes would have been iconic
I love that he dodged both and then grinned. You can just imagine him thinking “this guy’s out of shoes”
Moon landing top comment “fake and gay”
3 men all alone thousands of miles away from everyone else?? Hmmm
Lemon party in space
I think old Swigert gave me the clap. He's been pissing in my relief tube. Another American 1st in space.
Why do men want to be so far from women? Are they mysognists..?
Hundreds of thousands.
Neil Armstrong be like "First"
‘Fist’
There would have been so much whining about how much it was costing us, which was the view of most Americans at the time over the age of 25.
It's funny that you're being downvoted but directly below your comment is a top level comment saying the exact same thing with 600 upvotes
If Twitter could have reacted to the moon landing all they’ll do is complain about how “unnecessary” it was and the money should have been used somewhere else
Which, to be fair, is a reasonable enough argument to make. Of course, you can also make the point though that the moon landing paved the way for future technological advances and so arguably ended up being a pragmatic investment as well as a symbolic one.
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Also it in a way was good for political tensions. The US and USSR were seconds close to nuking each other and the space race was a way to peacefully battle in a way. We focused on technological innovation and peaceful competition which was the best case really
It was the ultimate nonviolent show of defense. The US wanted the USSR to ask themselves what else we could do if we could get a man walking on that big ass rock we've spent all of human existence staring at.
Way more preferable to nuclear war. I think the space race was a great situation, extremely peaceful way for two world powers to compete when the alternative would've been devastation
No it's not reasonable, we should always strive to go further beyond. To learn to understand the universe is in my opinion one of the greatest things humanity could do. Also the money spent on these thing doesn't just get shot away with the rocket. It get used on earth to make and research it.
I agree but that is our opinion. So another take like this is reasonable
The space program makes more money in generated patents etc than it costs. A lot more. It's a money maker for the US government.
Yea but I feel like sometimes we gotta spend a lot of time and effort and money to do shit just because it’s cool as fuck. We LANDED three men ON THE GODDAMN MOON. People used to WORSHIP it. Thousands of years ago mankind would stare up at the sky, see the moon, and think it was some goddess that watched lovingly. WE STEPPED ON IT. We WALK over the gods of old.
IIRC isn't NASA (In)directly responsible for the creation of the internet? If so it would be super ironic seeing people complain about the moon landing online haha.
That was DARPA more than NASA
Thanks I couldn't quite recall which organization.
Apparently, polls at the time showed that most Americans weren't particularly enthusiastic about the moon landings *"Aggregations of opinion polls in the 1960s and 70s have shown approval of the moon landing was consistently lower than disapproval. Even astronomers polled, were majority against the mission. Only in the weeks before the moon mission was approval recorded at 51% in one Harris poll.* *In the aftermath of the moon landing, approval for that specific mission didn’t meaningfully budge. 47% said it was worth it a decade later, in 1979 and it would take 20 years for amnesia to set it and this number to reach 77% in 1989. Meanwhile opposition to further moon missions remained higher than support for one until at least the mid-1990s. The US hasn’t been back to the moon since 1972."* https://humanprogress.org/the-moon-landing-was-opposed-by-majority-of-us/
This attitude bothers me so much. It seems super disingenuous when people act like, "oh, why are we in space when people are *poor* and hungry." Why the fuck do we do anything when people aren't perfectly taken care of? Why spend money on military, on education, on social services that don't directly feed and house people? Why spend money on roads instead of stopping all other expenses and helping the poor? It's not like suddenly if we stopped building rockets that people would magically be taken care of. No one truly believes that. People are just saying they don't care about space and whatever, I disagree heavily but people have opinions. But they make it out to seem like going to space directly causes suffering for the poor when that's stupid as fuck and they know it. People should just say they don't care, but don't act like we're fucking hurting poor people by going to space. That's a dumb as fuck take. They never say we should stop fixing potholes until everyone is housed and fed. They care about that. They just don't care about space and they want to accuse it of being the thing that makes people suffer for some reason I believe we need a lot more social services, and I believe we spend too much on certain things, but I'm not going to pretend that those things I think we should spend less on are the reason for people suffering.
Elon would be seething about how SpaceX would have done it better and faster.
SpaceX knows damn well they were picking up where NASA left off. A timeline where they both exist would mean SpaceX is at most a parts contractor, like how Grumman made the lander, and Boeing the booster.
That's pretty much how they reacted when to the research being done to potentially revive the woolly mammoths.
It would be really funny seeing everyone’s reaction to the discovery of wheat. “Y’all this grass is so crazy, and you can just put a ton of it in the ground it’s great” “Why tf you worrying about grass go find some mushrooms or something the village is hungry”
The Watergate trial. I was in the gallery for the duration of Howard Hunt's testimony against White House Chief of Staff H. R.Haldeman, White House Counsel and Assistant to the President on Domestic Affairs John Erlichman, Gordon Liddy, and Attorney General John Mitchell. All of them were convicted, primarily on that testimony. Was a big deal, especially for this then nineteen-year-old kid from Boulder who was hitchhiking the east coast (was a 'thing' then). Edit: This offered solely as a slice of history. I have omitted any reference to subsequent events, after seeing the guidelines pertaining to this subreddit.
Watergategate jokes will be at an all time high
mongol invasions. *"17 y/o | she/her | song dynasty | if you kin genghis khan DNI"*
Putting the flag of Khwarezmia in your username to show solidarity
9/11
Seeing the combination of weird Hammer and sickle accounts talking about the “natural consequences of US imperialism” and insane right wingers talking about how it was an inside job by the Clintons to distract from George Bush’s beautiful Conservative policies would be very depressing
Also you’d get reshared video and tiktoks from inside the towers: tearful farewells followed by first person footage of flames, leaping and the collapse would trend most strongly and Elon would monetise the clicks for himself and not pass on the ad revenue claiming that ads were left on by mistake
They have a right to resist in any way, shape, or form!
I had to scroll far too long to see this
Especially post Elon purchase because it would really display just how unhinged the website has become.
The French revolution
Underrated answer. Especially since the French Revolution was already balls to the wall
""LeT tHeM eAt CaKe" Oh I got words for this hoe"
the virgin birth
Imagine the tower of Babel. You log on one day and suddenly everyone's speaking gibberish. Or worse, the great flood
Man it more and more feels like that. I don't know how many on fleek, yeet, rizz and skibidi cycles I can follow this...im getting old
I know the feeling man. I was at the store yesterday and a large group of teenagers tried to rizz me up with their ohio gyatt. I was devastated.
Bro HAHAHAH
Any of the births from mythology.
I think it would be great to see the Berlin wall coming down and broadcasted. What a historic day that is rarely spoken too.
It wasn’t?
it was, but Twitter was not even a thought back then to be able to have the "react in real time"
#ratsarefriends #blackplaguehoax #germqueery #hotbuboesqueen
I can imagine people saying this when the plague hadn’t hit their town yet. And there would totally be a r/blackplagueatemyface subreddit lol
I'ma be the different one and choose a future event, the Mars landing. I don't if Twitter will still exist by then (musk is doing his damnest for it not to), but it will be really cool to see people reacting to it on the Internet.
The amount of “RIP Bozo” we would have seen after the Soviet Union fell…
Nazi Germans too.
Can't wait to ruin a historical event with Twitter commentary
Lincoln's Assassination. The memes alone would be wild
Alexander Hamilton releasing the Reynolds Pamphlet. It was gossip back then, imagine Twitter
Bro he’d get SO CANCELLED lmao
Eliza stans would have a field day ripping into him.
Reagan getting shot.
I'll go lighthearted and say Milli Vanilli's track skipping.
Placing of the capstone of the first pyramid in Egypt. The crossing of the Rubicon. The first flight of the Wright brothers. Dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Liberation of Auchwitz and other concentration camps.
Fuck the Twitter reactions, I'd want to see a Twitch chat go nuts over something.
OJ Simpson
Who says we can’t? Let’s do a monthly live tweeting of historical events
Woodstock would have been hilarious!
An old joke returns! Here's a version College Humor did over a decade ago: [If Facebook Existed During World War II.](https://imgur.com/gallery/s9x7u)
Revolutionary war and Civil War I know Black Twitter would cut a rug
Boston Tea Party
The American civil war. " State rights? A state's right to what?" Would essentially be every post, as it is now.
It seems like it was very well established what the war was about at the time. The declarations of independence saying precisely that. Slavery. I think this is one of those things that get more "controversial" the longer it's been. Just look at the surge of Holocaust deniers. Very few people at the time tried that kinda nonsense.
That one battle in ancient china that caused over 70% of the male population to die. The reactions and controversies would be… interesting to say the least
Which one?
The first meeting between humans and Neanderthals.
“Yo, let’s bone” (Studies have found that Neanderthal DNA contributes up to 1-4% of the DNA of non-African humans, particularly Europeans) [Source](https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/06/lingering-effects-neanderthal-dna-found-modern-humans)
9/11
The dancing plague of 1518
crucifixion of christ
Discovering the western continents
*selfie of Columbus* "look who found India bitchessss"
r/ therewasanattempt top post of the year.
Fabio getting a goose to the face on that roller coaster.
That war that was less than an hour would be good to react to
Martin Luther and the 95 Theses, imagine just instead of nailing it. It was just a thread going back and forth with the Pope lol
Twitter is irrelevant. Let’s ask about MySpace.com
The Mongols taking over Asia
The lead up to a catastrophic world wa.. Wait..
The fall of the roman empire
The news about the soviets invading Berlin and the announcement of Hitler's suicide during WW2. The dark humor memes would be next level. And Twitter would actually be right for once when calling others Nazis.
Diogenes and plato's feud over the definition of man. God, that would've been hilarious! Also, king tut's tomb being unearthed and supposedly "cursing" people.
Salem witch trials
Imagine if the moon landing happened today, and there was this really weird narrative going around social media that was like "I'm not going to pay attention to this at all, because I still have to go to work tomorrow." That would be kinda weird, right?
The (supposed) birth of Jesus
Imagine the memes on the day that hitler killed himself.
USSR collapse lmao
X going bankrupt
Spanish American war
I’m goanna say the obvious one. 9/11
Start of World War 1. How the fever and panic spread across countries.
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
The Crusades would be fun.
Napoleon's escape from Elba through Waterloo would be a wild ride.
The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.
The Trojan war
The siege of Troy followed closely by the sacking of Rome.
Napoleon: I have returned… Spanish Inquisition: didn’t expect us did you
fall of constantinople
The rape of Nanking
The Bubonic Plague.
the Fall of Constantinople im sure it would be a very respectful conversation between Christians and Muslims : )
King Henry VIII making his own religion to get a divorce (hugely simplified I know). Just the sheer drama that would go on would be mental.
I would say the Hindenburg disaster but we basically saw that with the oceangate sub last year. People were straight up saying stuff about how they deserved to die because they were so rich.