No way. Sitting around for 4.5 billion years doing nothing while nothing happens for most of the time? I'd go insane after a few months with billions of years still to go. The "with all your senses" part also sucks for the millions of years when earth was a ball of lava with a steady rain of asteroids and no atmosphere.

Kurzgesagt made a video about the entire history of earth, each second representing 1.5 million years. I'd suggest watching this to get a sense about the absolutely massive amount of time. Our monkey brains are not even slightly made to observe all of this.

Also funny that you mention money, as if someone who just witnessed the entire history of earth would care about a measly million dollars.

You keep asking this question, we keep saying no, and then you ask it again with LESS money on offer. You don't get how haggling works, and you definitely don't get how asklemmy questions work.

Would you sit in a chair in an empty, featureless room and not move out of it for a year? I'd give you a million dollars.

If you had to think about that, now consider multiplying that by a billion, for the same reward.

Like, in real time? That's an obvious no. It would be literally torture. Not being able to do anything other than just sitting in the same spot and watching a window for essentially eternity would make you literally insane. What a horror show experience

I mean, is this in real time because I won't lie, I bet there's an awful lot of 'boring' mixed in with all the amazing moments.

The market value of watching the world form seems to have dropped since yesterday.

500k or 1 million aren't enough. It would be a difficult transition from observing the world, to participating in it. I would basically need to receive enough to comfortably retire.

No amount of money would make me want to endure that torture. Most of earth’s history is just absolutely nothing. Apart from a few asteroid strikes, Cambrian explosion is about as exciting as things can get, and even that is just 100 million years of barely anything happening.

I don’t want to sit down and see how moss forms over millions of years.

I mean many billions of years doing nothing would 100% send u insane but if I had something to do I'd do it. A hell of a gaming setup and a fat steam library and I'd be good.

Here's the entire history of earth compressed into 1 hour long video. For the vast majority of it absolutely nothing happens.

No I couldn't sit for that long. My brain would melt into goo.

"You won't age, everything freezes" implies my body (and brain) won't change. That is, I won't be able to form memories. So even if I experience it all "with all my senses", it will only be for that exact moment and then it will be gone.

Like blinking and nothing has changed. You don't remember any of it. It's a bargain if you ask me.

I'm going to say no on this one! The Hadean Eon alone lasted for around 600,000 million years. A majority of Earth's life had nothing of interest happening so I can't imagine how bored I'd be 😭

Dude hell no wtf

So that's 4 billion years for one million dollars. In other words, would I like to earn $0.00025/year? Hmmmm....

Why would you not want that?