I would pick a truly transformative moment.
Time: 02:56 GMT, 21 July, 1969
Location: Mare Tranquilitatis, 00.67408° N latitude, 23.47297° E longitude, the Moon
I would want to watch Neil Armstrong* take his first footstep onto the Moon.
That one small step for a man was a giant leap for mankind. We went from a species that 150 years earlier thought they would never travel faster than a horse, to a species that 66 years earlier made its first flight, to a species that just 22 years earlier first broke the sound barrier, to a species that set foot upon another celestial body - a celestial body 238,900 miles (384,400 km) above us.
That moment transformed our species and civilization. We became a people that could break the shackles of gravity and leave our planet, simply because we chose to. No one can take that away from us, except ourselves.
*The above picture is of Buzz Aldrin. There was no-one on the lunar surface to take a nice sharp Hasselblad picture of Neil. I would do that for him.
Read other answers by Robert Frost on Quora:
- If you travel through a wormhole and end up millions of light years away, instantaneously, would physics deem that to be time travel (since you're technically breaking and re-entering the fabric of spacetime), or faster-than-light travel? Both?
- If you could transmit three words of advice back to humanity in 1912, what would they be?
- What sports would you like to play on the moon?
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