20 Historical Events People Would Most Like to Witness

As you get older, you’ll probably find yourself thinking about events you hope to live to see. The first flying car (expected around 2044). The colonization of Mars (2050, according to non-Musks). The first U.S. president who is a woman (about 2897, provided the United States or Earth or women still exist by then). It might be tempting to travel through time to reach these milestones, but that’s a bad idea for several reasons. You don’t have to worry about changing the timeline like if you went back in time, but think of all the exotic germs.

But what if you could go back in time? You’d have to be completely invisible, of course, limited only to observing. Physicists say even that is enough to affect the outcome of events, but let’s assume, for the purposes of this hypothetical, that everything is safe. What moment would you want to see? When user ishouldwriterightnow asked r/AskReddit, “If you could go back in time for a day to witness a historic event, which would you choose?” lots of other people answered that question, but none of them chose the invention of Hot Pockets, which is the correct answer.