Things that would have been cool to have seen in person...

[Malevolence]

The initial stellar ignition of the sun.

 

[Naff8000]

Meet Jesus, to see what all the fuss is about

 

[Pooh]

What time of year?
I went to north Norway but it was summer so didn't get dark enough.

Planning on Greenland this year and would love to have a chance to catch it

Went in early February.

Just need clear skies and a lot of solar activity. Good luck

 

[theone8181]

I'd quite like to see a shuttle launch. We honeymooned in florida in 2012, and there was due to be a launch but it was postponed. I also (embarrassingly) didn't realise how far away spectators sit, I'd like to be closer but obviously not outside of the sun temperature close.

 

[Martynt74]

I may be weird with this one, but the first nuclear bomb test, Trinity test in July 1945

No-one had ever seen something of that magnitude.

We were just saying yesterday it'd be cool to see a proper mushroom cloud in real life. Obviously not to be impacted by the aftermath of it though!

 

[jeffk]

The Zanclean Megaflood. The Mediterranean Sea was mostly a dry valley until the Gibraltar Straight broke and the Atlantic Ocean flooded it. The entire thing filled in less than two years.

 

[Derek W]

Meet Jesus, to see what all the fuss is about

 

[SixTwoSix]

The total eclipse in 1999

I slept through it.

Wow, i'd forgot about this - I was at work and they let us all out for half an hour to watch it, I viewed it through some welders glass.

The most striking thing for me was just how quickly it got cold, not just it went a little bit cooler but it went from comfort to needing a jacket in a very short space of time.

 

[potatolord]

Wow, i'd forgot about this - I was at work and they let us all out for half an hour to watch it, I viewed it through some welders glass.

The most striking thing for me was just how quickly it got cold, not just it went a little bit cooler but it went from comfort to needing a jacket in a very short space of time.

The birds started roosting as it got dark, too. Very odd to see that at 11AM, or whatever it was.

 

[jpaul]

VE day .. definitive patriotic day; travelling on concord or seeing it take off would have been an engineering high.

yes, saw eclipse with work colleagues in the firms car park, witnessed 9/11 at our office desks(netscape.?)

 

[Hades]

Meet Jesus, to see what all the fuss is about

Just catch him the second time round.

 

[RxR]

It (maybe) would have been nice to see the minutes before the Big Bang.

 

[sidimmu]

Suella getting savaged and sacked would have bene a pleasure to see in person.

 

[bimbleuk]

Moon landing on a crap black n white TV wouldn't have been that great

However I could one day see a Space X rocket stage land itself.

 

[COYS]

Epstein not killing himself

 

[dirtychinchilla]

Suella getting savaged and sacked would have bene a pleasure to see in person.

Probably wasn't savaged though. I imagine Rishi said, "you said what we (horrid Tories) were all thinking but the public has turned against you."

Good riddance anyway!

 

[sigma]

Suella getting savaged and sacked would have bene a pleasure to see in person.

Do you think it went down like that? Sunak probably ask her very politely, apologisisng loads with tears in his eyes. She would eat him for breakfast, surely? Unless he called in his wife and father in law for support.

 

[sigma]

Probably wasn't savaged though. I imagine Rishi said, "you said what we (horrid Tories) were all thinking but the public has turned against you."

Good riddance anyway!

Probably not even that!

 

[Conscript]

I imagine a huge volcanic eruption must be something to behold, obviously from a distance. Pompeii, Mouth St Helens, or Krakatoa. The latter one especially (with ear defenders). Boggles my mind that it was heard 3000 miles away.

 

[Pooh]

I imagine a huge volcanic eruption must be something to behold, obviously from a distance. Pompeii, Mouth St Helens, or Krakatoa. The latter one especially (with ear defenders). Boggles my mind that it was heard 3000 miles away.

Almost as loud as Motorhead back in the day