You've traveled back in time to the year 50 BC. What do you do?

[docus]

A painfully bright ray of sunlight illuminates the insides of your eyelids, and you open your eyes to find yourself laying under a copse of trees, your head resting on a damp patch of moss. You realize it's 50 BC and you've got no idea how or why you got there. Your only posessions are the clothes/items you have on you right now. In the distance you see a white plume of smoke, presumably a village. With no plan in mind, you stagger in its direction.

You could be anywhere in the world. Ancient Rome, the British Isles, Satavahana India, Roman-occupied Greece, Han China, Pre-Columbian America...
And you can't go back to your own time, ever.

What would you do?

[Agent 008]

How would I know it's 50 BC? Would my phone calendar tell me that or what?

[docus]

How would I know it's 50 BC? Would my phone calendar tell me that or what?

I dunno. A magic ferret with a wizard hat tells you that or something.

[Arkham Knight]

You probably don't understand that anybody sane in mind would not care where or when the fuck he / she is.

The person in this situation would follow the three basic human prerogatives that are: 1 find shelter, 2 find food and 3 find a mating mate.

The situation would be really interesting if the person in this situation would be highly educated, or at least form a highly educated family.

Otherwise an average person would become a minimum wage slave as it happens now, but without the fucking gatgets they got now.

[Anima Mundi]

I would promptly go to the Library of Alexandria, and give them all the basic knowledge I know about how to create basic guns, and we'd get to work. And then we'd eradicate Christianity before it got the chance to do anything to the world. And of course we'd rule the world as Gods.

[docus]

You probably don't understand that anybody sane in mind would not care where or when the fuck he / she is.

The person in this situation would follow the three basic human prerogatives that are: 1 find shelter, 2 find food and 3 find a mating mate.

The situation would be really interesting if the person in this situation would be highly educated, or at least form a highly educated family.

Otherwise an average person would become a minimum wage slave as it happens now, but without the fucking gatgets they got now.

You probably don't understand that being able to read, write and solve 9th grade algebra would count as being highly educated back in the past. Also, you can predict the future and you probably know a thing or two about things that hadn't been invented yet.

[reject]

I would stay the fuck away from that village.

Turning up in modern clothes with modern items, speaking a very strange language?

You'd be killed almost instantly.

[Lord hang man]

If anyone wouldn't prophecize the birth of Christ then they're dumb as fuck. You'd be famous, yo!

[Agent 008]

If anyone wouldn't prophecize the birth of Christ then they're dumb as fuck. You'd be famous, yo!

Fuck prophecizing.

What I would do, is act his life out. Spread his ideas as if they were mine. Steal his lines. The whole lot.

And then, when he is born and grows up and tries to do his thing, people will laugh at him as a copy-cat. That's when I would walk up to him and say "lol pwnt".

Edit: But it's 80 years before the action, way too long.

[Arkham Knight]

I would stay the fuck away from that village.

Turning up in modern clothes with modern items, speaking a very strange language?

You'd be killed almost instantly.

It depends of what kind of village.

What you say would be true in case of a viking village.

Anyway you have to understand the lanaguage of that fucking village in order to talk.

[unstableasatable]

go to jersulam, tell them to make space in 000 for joesph and mary for the sake of the thousands of school kids who have to perform annoying christmas plays in school

[Captain Falcon]

First of all, my current equipment. Since I'm sitting naked at my desk right now, I assume I can wear something and take anything within immediate reach of me, so:

Loaded Smith and Wesson Sigma with a full clip, the book "The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire" and a spare clip, my cell phone + Thinkgeek solar charger+USB cord for my phone, a knife with a 4 inch blade, my lighter and my change jar with a bunch of coins. Clothes are light with Lugz steel toed boots like a motherfucker and one windbreaker. Miscellaneously, I'd take my Old Spice Deodorant, bug spray and a calculator and maybe all the pens in my penholder, about 7, discounting felt-tips. Also, maybe my iPod. Okay, opening my desk, I'll take, uh, the lint-free glasses cloth, a shitty-ass flashlight and batteries, some glue and an old electric toothbrush that I bought in 1998 and has been lying in my desk without a head, but has a pointy tip.

Well, first, I'd go to the Roman republic, request an audience with the King and pose as the world's greatest artist. Then I'd take a picture of him and show it to him and blow his mind with the sexy bigscreen and nice shots of him/his wife's tits, becoming his trusted advisor and establish trade with China, specifically Gunpowder.

Then I would be at his side, and call a royal review of the palace guards, lining them up nicely between gunpoweder charges and blow their shit off, threatening the king to descend and hand over kingship to me, then blow his brains out and blow my load into the queen's tits and onto her face.

Then I would lead my kingdom to technological domination of all mankind in terms of weaponry, constructing cannons at a time when having a sharp piece of metal was considered "weaponry" and get gunpowder from China and blow the tits off the rest of the world, including China, establishing my Captain Falcon empire, with plenty of Falcons. I would introduce the concepts of washing hands, and sewage and be remembered as the greatest person to ever live, ever, and make all my royal subjects love me by being a greatass ruler through my technological advances in health and agriculture, not to mention the freeing of slaves with appropriate reasons of economy provided. I'd also introduce them to chess for entertainment.

Oh, and spread Islam as my state's original religion, and kill Jews if they didn't convert.

[Vox Ducis]

Depending on the region, the first step would be certainly to learn the language.

Knowledge is a clear advantage as you would be the most educated person in the world. You could use it to help the populace revolt against the tyrans, or help the local rulers expand their influence. Anyway, you would have as many friends as enemies.

[Captain Falcon]

Pictures speak louder than words.

[Vox Ducis]

Pictures speak louder than words.

You wouldn't be able to send your iPhone pics to your friends...

[Obbe]

Well, first things first, I would smoke a bowl. Then I would amaze people with my lighter, and tell them I'm the son of God.

[Vox Ducis]

Well, first things first, I would smoke a bowl. Then I would amaze people with my lighter, and tell them I'm the son of God.

In what language whould you talk to them ?

[alex chilton]

well, first i would kill the magic ferret for sustenance. He should keep me alive for a few days. Then I would play the stock market and win millions.

[Captain Falcon]

In what language whould you talk to them ?

It's okay, the unwashed dumbshits all speak via hormones, he's good.


You wouldn't be able to send your iPhone pics to your friends...

My Galaxy S2 has a nice big screen that I can use to portray that I can capture their souls. Maybe I'll even take a picture, poison someone and tear their picture with the picplay game right before they die, thus scaring the shit out of them.

[panthrax]

Introduce the people to porn I have on my phone and turn the nation into a nation of fappers.

[fuckbiscuit]

I'd probably put on my wizard hat and cloak and head to the nearest poppy field.

[Rude Louis]

First of all, my current equipment. Since I'm sitting naked at my desk right now, I assume I can wear something and take anything within immediate reach of me, so:

Loaded Smith and Wesson Sigma with a full clip, the book "The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire" and a spare clip, my cell phone + Thinkgeek solar charger+USB cord for my phone, a knife with a 4 inch blade, my lighter and my change jar with a bunch of coins. Clothes are light with Lugz steel toed boots like a motherfucker and one windbreaker. Miscellaneously, I'd take my Old Spice Deodorant, bug spray and a calculator and maybe all the pens in my penholder, about 7, discounting felt-tips. Also, maybe my iPod. Okay, opening my desk, I'll take, uh, the lint-free glasses cloth, a shitty-ass flashlight and batteries, some glue and an old electric toothbrush that I bought in 1998 and has been lying in my desk without a head, but has a pointy tip.

:facepalm:

You would show up in your underwear stroking your tiny cock with a tissue in your hand, wishing the picture of porn you were looking
at had come along too.

[crazzyass]

I've thought about this before, or some variant of it. Basically, if I was in pre-technological times and all by myself in the woods or so, how long would it take me to build up technology based off of my memory and skills alone?

OP, you should read A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain. It's very similar to your premise. A guy from the late 1800's gets transported to the Middle Ages and basically takes over with his industrial knowledge. Pretty cool.

Anyways, as far as myself...I'm going to assume that we can speak the native language, because otherwise it would be impossible to do anything.

I think I would prefer the Roman Empire since it's the most developed and most similar to what I'm familiar with. I would begin developing modern science and mathematics after securing income of some sort. Possibly an apprenticeship. Optimally, I would blow the government's mind with my knowledge and get a lucrative position advising them. However, one would want to maintain the upper hand. I could see them viewing you as so valuable that they would lock you away and force you to produce technology for them. So you would want to keep the balls in the relationship.

Anyways, the first thing I would do is write pretty much everything I know about math down. I would begin working on proofs later and publish them. I would try to offer my math skills to businesses to help optimize prices and improve profit levels. The biggest problem is that they might not understand enough of the math to believe me.

From here I could get wealthy enough to build workshops. Considering that the most advanced artillery piece in the Roman Empire was this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpio_(Dart-thrower) I could build some trebuchets that would blow their minds. Obtaining gun powder and building cannons would be the next step.

One could also jumpstart the industrial revolution by a few centuries through building a steam engine and other mechanical devices.

[Obbe]

In what language whould you talk to them ?

Oh yeah. I only know modern english, so I guess I would be fucked, unless I'm fortunate enough to be able to share my weed with a couple of them, and they decide to protect my time-traveling ass from the rest.

[Obbe]

It's okay, the unwashed dumbshits all speak via hormones, he's good.

:hrmph:

[Dandamano]

I'd find me some of that legal 13 year old pussy

[Piles of Crack]

Introduce the people to porn I have on my phone and turn the nation into a nation of fappers.

lol this was definitely posted from a stall in a public bathroom :D

[T.K. Baha]

I think with my basic mechanical and electrical knowledge along with bits and pieces of early history I would definitely make my way to Rome or the nearest metropolis and cause a huge technological leap forward. I would lay out a lot of "prophecies" about things I didn't know a lot about like modern medicine that could lay a guideline for people to follow when the technology caught up. I would also try to alter things to avoid the dark ages, feudalism and the establishment of the Roman Empire, instead bolstering democracy, the life expectancy and basic human rights with economic prosperity and new labor saving inventions.

You would likely be assassinated though. By attracting so much attention to yourself you would definitely make yourself a target.

[Lord hang man]

Fuck prophecizing.

What I would do, is act his life out. Spread his ideas as if they were mine. Steal his lines. The whole lot.

And then, when he is born and grows up and tries to do his thing, people will laugh at him as a copy-cat. That's when I would walk up to him and say "lol pwnt".

Edit: But it's 80 years before the action, way too long.

lol but wut about the miracles :o

[Xlite]

I'd stick around long enough to find and fuck the marry the virgin.

She'd give birth to jebus christ stuperstar, which would make me god.

[virgil caine]

well im wearing my 1911 so i figure walk into the village pop off a few rounds and convince them im the thunder god or something

[Tits "Sugar Tits" Mcgee]

Attend to the livestock,Cooking, weaving, personal hygiene, caring for the elders, worship ,Priests, bread, maize bread, dresses, garments, sacred writing, common writing, counting,Religious fanatism, hygiene, shaving, garments, circumcision ,Diets,Religious, popular festivities, wine, Temples, sex, hygiene, animals ,Garments, dress code ,Origins of Astrology ,Medical system, specialized doctors, specialized treatment.

Just to be a badass.

[Number13]

i would get some pussy then build a few nukes after taking over the world and then set them off creating a post-nuclear wasteland then get some kinky bitch pussy then still being a god in their eyes i would make them build a massive tablet with a downsized 900 ton sculpture of my dick and an order to make me a trillionaire in the future and then i would go get me some pussy

[Bin "Fuck Towers" Laden]

I would be in South America and I would give writing and technology to all the people.

[Bin "Fuck Towers" Laden]

I would go to the placed I would later exist and place a marker tellling myself to not be in the place I was in the future so I don't go back in time. So I would create quite a paradox and the universe would explode.

[Tits "Sugar Tits" Mcgee]

Would the universe not of created a sub paradox to distract you from creating such paradox?

[Former_Member]

I'd find a way to make or be able to do something visibly impressive using some future information before I encountered anyone. My goal would be to find the nearest roman army, but if I just did it as is, they'd just sell me into slavery or some shit.

I'd find a roman army, and find a way to get myself sent to Rome. I'd attach myself to either a powerful general/politician or merchant, and use my future skills to help advance the guy. I'd get my own school set up under his patronage, helping him dominate while advancing society at crazy speeds.

It would be my goal though, to prevent the empire arising. I'd want to keep it a republic, advancing as fast as possible to dominate the world.

[kervin]

i would enjoy a world without drug prohibition

[Dread_Lord]

Find a way to destroy the Jews.
Maybe I already went back in time and did this because of all the Jewish-Roman wars that took place very near, but after 50 B.C. which, of course, killed at least 600 billion Jews.

[T.K. Baha]

For sure, drugs are tools not an offense against society. Prohibition has more bad then good that comes with it. Take away the black market element and drugs become a lot more manageable really.

[LucidInTheSkyWithDemons]

Wipe out humanity with my common cold.

[Tits "Sugar Tits" Mcgee]

Give all roman soldiers a new pair of air force ones.

[water bottle]

I'd head straight to Rome (the city). I figure I could pick Latin up fairly easily, at least easier than the other crazy ass languages floating around back then. I'd make a living doing things from the future, like discovering gravity, playing Beatles songs, and writing Shakespeare plays, just going on memory. I figure eventually people would just start patronizing me with goldz and then I'd live out my days surrounded by hot Roman girls feeding me grapes :cool:.

Also, using my high status in society as a revolutionary scientist-musician-writer, when Jesus comes around and everyone's all like 'omg let's crucify him!!' I'd be all like 'nah nigga it's koo :cool:' so that they wouldn't crucify him. Then Jesus would just get old and die a natural death and the whole martyr-dieing-for-your-sins thing would never exist and hopefully Christianity wouldn't have been so influential.

[Agent 008]

First of all, my current equipment. Since I'm sitting naked at my desk right now, I assume I can wear something and take anything within immediate reach of me, so:

Loaded Smith and Wesson Sigma with a full clip, the book "The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire" and a spare clip, my cell phone + Thinkgeek solar charger+USB cord for my phone, a knife with a 4 inch blade, my lighter and my change jar with a bunch of coins. Clothes are light with Lugz steel toed boots like a motherfucker and one windbreaker. Miscellaneously, I'd take my Old Spice Deodorant, bug spray and a calculator and maybe all the pens in my penholder, about 7, discounting felt-tips. Also, maybe my iPod. Okay, opening my desk, I'll take, uh, the lint-free glasses cloth, a shitty-ass flashlight and batteries, some glue and an old electric toothbrush that I bought in 1998 and has been lying in my desk without a head, but has a pointy tip.

Well, first, I'd go to the Roman republic, request an audience with the King and pose as the world's greatest artist. Then I'd take a picture of him and show it to him and blow his mind with the sexy bigscreen and nice shots of him/his wife's tits, becoming his trusted advisor and establish trade with China, specifically Gunpowder.

Then I would be at his side, and call a royal review of the palace guards, lining them up nicely between gunpoweder charges and blow their shit off, threatening the king to descend and hand over kingship to me, then blow his brains out and blow my load into the queen's tits and onto her face.

Then I would lead my kingdom to technological domination of all mankind in terms of weaponry, constructing cannons at a time when having a sharp piece of metal was considered "weaponry" and get gunpowder from China and blow the tits off the rest of the world, including China, establishing my Captain Falcon empire, with plenty of Falcons. I would introduce the concepts of washing hands, and sewage and be remembered as the greatest person to ever live, ever, and make all my royal subjects love me by being a greatass ruler through my technological advances in health and agriculture, not to mention the freeing of slaves with appropriate reasons of economy provided. I'd also introduce them to chess for entertainment.

Oh, and spread Islam as my state's original religion, and kill Jews if they didn't convert.

Sorry, China had no gunpowder at the time.

What a shame.

[faggot]

i would find people and/or animals to rape.

[Tits "Sugar Tits" Mcgee]

You can do that right now faggot.

[T.K. Baha]

The animals he wants to rape are probably extinct now duh.

[Tits "Sugar Tits" Mcgee]

like the pyrenean ibex?

[Arkham Knight]

Any asshole can't do shit back in time.

You have to be extra intelligent and skilled to survive before even th eaudience wth the king and his council.

Anyway you can only happen to be in Rome or Greece, becoause every other part of the world was without science.

This means that you have to speak latin or greek at least, not to mention the fact that you have to be at least graduated in order to make anything there.

This is to remind assholes, that if you are an asshole now, you are double th easshole back in times.

[Former_Member]

That's seriously not true. It was a civilised world, all over. What the Greeks called barbarians were not what they claimed.

[Tits "Sugar Tits" Mcgee]

You also have to account what happened to some of the people who where trying to disprove that the earth was flat and where burned at the stake for herecy. I can see something along those lines happening when trying to explain to Julius Caesar how to use an Ipod.

[ratfrink]

Instantly die from smallpox, tuberculosis, typhoid, cholera, and all the other shit diseases.

As I'm reasonably good at Latin, I'd be literate and therefore part of the Roman high society. I'd probably go to a few orgies, and try to re-create some modern technology or demonstrate some modern principles, before going insane and throwing myself into the Tiber.

[Former_Member]

only it was common knowledge that the world was round for about half a millennia by 50BC.

[Tits "Sugar Tits" Mcgee]

So that knowledge was discarded right around the collapse of the Roman Empire? Lost within the dark ages?

[Wolf]

Go to Rome or Greece and show them how to make bicycles. Then watch the roman legions ride into battle really awkward looking.

Also teach them the basic concept of the deltaplan.

[Former_Member]

So that knowledge was discarded right around the collapse of the Roman Empire? Lost within the dark ages?

Nope, it's a myth that it was ever heresy.

[fuckbiscuit]

or drugs.

You could eat/smoke all the opium you could lay your grubby little Pre-Christ hands on :drool:

Also, i'm pretty sure it's documented that cannabis was used in egyptian and roman medicine.

:lapastada:

[beaker]

i would invent sharting, jerking off, hate fucking, nose picking and the dirty sanchez and patent or trademark them all. I would want at least a dollar every time some some slut has shit under her nose because some guy who would rather jerk off hate fucked her causing her to shart resulting in a dirty sanchez when she picked her filty ass nose.

[beaker]

i changed my mind, i'd probably just pick my ass and drag my bitch around by the hair

[Yggdrasil]

What a boring time in history to pick, OP. There was nothing particularly revolutionary going on, few historic or monumental moments to shape, etc. Fuck it, I'm going back to 500 BC, way cooler that 50 BC.

Even then, what the fuck could you do? You'd most likely die of starvation/killed for being an outsider before you can do anything interesting or history-altering. I mean, sure it'd be awesome to go back in time to Ancient Carthage circa 500 BC, teach the Carthaginians how to use gunpowder and instruct them to destroy Rome, thereby altering world history and making for a European world that would have instead been dominated by Carthaginian, Etruscan and Celtic civilization, but then again, how in the fuck would you manage to not have your head lopped off/teach the chemistry required to make gunpowder and primitive firearms to a bunch of people whose language you don't even speak?

[Sir Cornwell]

I would do like Martin Padway in "Lest Darkness Fall", when he's transported forever back to Rome in AD535.

Get my bearings, find shelter and then introduce:

"Padway begins his adventures confused, wondering if he is dreaming or delusional. Quickly he accepts his fate and sets out to survive. At first Padway hits upon the idea of making a copper still and selling brandy for a living. He convinces a banker, Thomasus the Syrian, to lend him money to start his endeavor."

Start off with an easy moneymaker and then go from there. One thing about me: I'm practical. Just buy the cheapest wine as people wouldn't have any liquor and therefore any quality brandy would be better than none.

[Masuvius]

Gee 50 BCE in north america. Not much I could do from there. But given the choice from the magic ferret, who hopefully gives me a star trek universal translator, I'd likely go back and attempt to destroy Christianity as well. But paradox would mean that would be an impossibility, so I'd likely just try find some ho and make babies.

In all honesty knowledge of how to make a printing press, and some shared info about modern scientific method would make more of a impact than gunpowder and guns. Providing that you avoid the paradox theory somehow....

[Captain Falcon]

or drugs.

Jenkem

[Former_Member]

What a boring time in history to pick, OP. There was nothing particularly revolutionary going on, few historic or monumental moments to shape, etc. Fuck it, I'm going back to 500 BC, way cooler that 50 BC.

Even then, what the fuck could you do? You'd most likely die of starvation/killed for being an outsider before you can do anything interesting or history-altering. I mean, sure it'd be awesome to go back in time to Ancient Carthage circa 500 BC, teach the Carthaginians how to use gunpowder and instruct them to destroy Rome, thereby altering world history and making for a European world that would have instead been dominated by Carthaginian, Etruscan and Celtic civilization, but then again, how in the fuck would you manage to not have your head lopped off/teach the chemistry required to make gunpowder and primitive firearms to a bunch of people whose language you don't even speak?

Well they weren't savages, being executed wouldn't have been an issue. Starvation could be if you kept safe and away from it all, but I think the real pressing issue would be being enslaved.

I think you'd be safer in 500BC than 50BC. Frankly, I'd prefer 500BC, then you could find a greek city state and would have a much higher chance of getting on alright.

[Vox Ducis]

Fuck it, I'm going back to 500 BC, way cooler that 50 BC.

I'm sure you'd like to go to Ancient Greece and have fun with the young boys. :gay:

[Xlite]

I'd prefer 500BC, then you could find a greek city state and would have a much higher chance of getting on alright.

This. You could become a gladiator with modern combat training.
Loads of pussy, killing, fortune and fame.

That would be a good life.

I might be wrong about timeline though :p

[Arkham Knight]

I'm sure you'd like to go to Ancient Greece and have fun with the young boys. :gay:

It is useless bother till the ancient Greece or Rome for faggots, you can find all the fucking faggots right here and right now in USA marching on the streets...

[docus]

What a boring time in history to pick, OP. There was nothing particularly revolutionary going on, few historic or monumental moments to shape, etc. Fuck it, I'm going back to 500 BC, way cooler that 50 BC.

There was the Gallic wars. Caesar's rise to power.

[Former_Member]

Oh, here's a point actually. I'd be quite tall, but not conspicuously so.

Most of you lot would be like giants, towering over everybody.

[J.P.W]

I'd make myself king of bat country, duh.

[Arkham Knight]

Oh, here's a point actually. I'd be quite tall, but not conspicuously so.

Most of you lot would be like giants, towering over everybody.

Cool, you would be like Conan the Barbarian then.

[Yggdrasil]

I'm sure you'd like to go to Ancient Greece and have fun with the young boys. :gay:

I could probably get into pederasty quite nicely, come to think of it :thumbsup:

There was the Gallic wars. Caesar's rise to power.

500 bc is a more volatile time, and history could have swung in lots of different directions then. Greece could have been overcome by Persia, Rome quashed by the Etruscans, Celtic civilization could have been spared and allowed to developed, and Carthage could have grown to fill the shoes of Rome. Plus there's the warring states period in Chinese history going on, Confucius and possibly the Buddha were around, etc.

[Shrike]

I think it's pretty unrealistic that anyone here would actually be able to remember enough scientific or technical concepts to actually design or make anything ahead of the time at that point.

Not to mention the fact that the technological base would not be sufficiently developed for anything remotely close to modern tech. Oh, you want to build a steam engine? Ok here, just invent deep coal mining, cast iron production, riveting techniques, pressure gauges etc etc.

Basically unless you're a historian who's studied the period just slightly after the one you land in, you would be pretty much the same as any other guy.

[The Pat-Man]

I would go to Rome, join their army, and kill some smelly Gauls.

[crazzyass]

I think it's pretty unrealistic that anyone here would actually be able to remember enough scientific or technical concepts to actually design or make anything ahead of the time at that point.

Not to mention the fact that the technological base would not be sufficiently developed for anything remotely close to modern tech. Oh, you want to build a steam engine? Ok here, just invent deep coal mining, cast iron production, riveting techniques, pressure gauges etc etc.

Basically unless you're a historian who's studied the period just slightly after the one you land in, you would be pretty much the same as any other guy.

External combustion engines run off of pretty much anything you can set on fire. You could build and run a motorbike off of firewood.

Some of the weaponry could be built as well. I'm not suggesting you sell iPods to the Romans, just that you could give them a serious edge if you have any engineering training or experience whatsoever.

In my opinion, the mid to late 1800's would be far better. With the power of the Industrial Revolution behind you and more modern infrastructure, you could build quite a bit.

You could also make several chemistry and electromagnetic "discoveries" right ahead of the pack. Building a lightbulb, for instance, is easy as fuck.

[testerman]

Here is the answer: You cannot travel in time, so I dont waste my time thinking about it

[dysik]

I think it's pretty unrealistic that anyone here would actually be able to remember enough scientific or technical concepts to actually design or make anything ahead of the time at that point.

Not to mention the fact that the technological base would not be sufficiently developed for anything remotely close to modern tech. Oh, you want to build a steam engine? Ok here, just invent deep coal mining, cast iron production, riveting techniques, pressure gauges etc etc.

Basically unless you're a historian who's studied the period just slightly after the one you land in, you would be pretty much the same as any other guy.

dude, i only study civil engineering but im sure i could "invent" lots of things unrelated to civil structures. im sure most people who get into similar career pathways could also...

[Bong McPuffin]

I'd take schematics for a nuclear power-plant with me and some plutonium/uranium.

Get the nuclear age started early motherfuckers!

*watches as several thousand Chernobyl-like disasters happen*

[Agent 008]

I think it's pretty unrealistic that anyone here would actually be able to remember enough scientific or technical concepts to actually design or make anything ahead of the time at that point.

Not to mention the fact that the technological base would not be sufficiently developed for anything remotely close to modern tech. Oh, you want to build a steam engine? Ok here, just invent deep coal mining, cast iron production, riveting techniques, pressure gauges etc etc.

Basically unless you're a historian who's studied the period just slightly after the one you land in, you would be pretty much the same as any other guy.

Pretty much.

The only thing I can think of is building a glider out of wood:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Aircraft_Glider_Vampyr.jpg

(Of course, the day someone crashes and dies, you will probably be in a lot of trouble).

[crazzyass]

Here is the answer: You cannot travel in time, so I dont waste my time thinking about it

Because thought exercises can be immensely useful. :thumbsup:

[testerman]

Because thought exercises can be immensely useful. :thumbsup:

Then do them for things that are possible.

[is all mememememe with me]

ive often thought it wold be so cool to go back to the middle ages with a hot sports car, a couple of mp5's and a laptop/tablet and make everyone think i was god, lol. no one would be able to touch you and you could amaze them with all manner of gadgets like lighters and shit. plus with all the knowledge we have that is basic now in our time, but you could invent electricity, combustion engines, tanks, guns maybe even airplanes and probably even take over as king if you used your head about it.

[FoodStamps]

smoke some sherm, wig out, rape some bitches, empty out a clip etc etc etc etc ertc

[Tits "Sugar Tits" Mcgee]

They would most likely catapault your ass.

[FoodStamps]

not while am on pcp bruh and some meth

[crazzyass]

Then do them for things that are possible.

You only limit your mind when you do that.

More specifically, you limit your perception of what is or isn't possible.



...fuck, I sound like ate now. :facepalm:

[Lucifereus]

A painfully bright ray of sunlight illuminates the insides of your eyelids, and you open your eyes to find yourself laying under a copse of trees, your head resting on a damp patch of moss. You realize it's 50 BC and you've got no idea how or why you got there. Your only posessions are the clothes/items you have on you right now. In the distance you see a white plume of smoke, presumably a village. With no plan in mind, you stagger in its direction.

You could be anywhere in the world. Ancient Rome, the British Isles, Satavahana India, Roman-occupied Greece, Han China, Pre-Columbian America...
And you can't go back to your own time, ever.

What would you do?

itd be jesus

[Tits "Sugar Tits" Mcgee]

http://almostdumb.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/home-made-catapult.jpg

time for some serious damage bruhs

[Grey Area]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Came_Early

[testerman]

You only limit your mind when you do that.

More specifically, you limit your perception of what is or isn't possible.



...fuck, I sound like ate now. :facepalm:

You limit your mind to sanity.

[crazzyass]

You limit your mind to sanity.

Mathematics has many topics that are practically useless or physically impossible to manifest.

Should it be disregarded?

Much of literature and art consist of impossible things.

Should their inspiration be disregarded?



I don't lack sanity. You lack imagination.

[Sir Cornwell]

Perhaps he has no room for imagination as he is replete with a full load of constipation.

[reggie_love]

Not know the language, not have any money, not know anybody, not have any immunities, not be able to tolerate the water supply, not know the local customs, probably appear a heretic...

I'm guessing I'd die alone.

[testerman]

Mathematics has many topics that are practically useless or physically impossible to manifest.

Should it be disregarded?


"i" ( (-1)^(1/2) ) is impossible to manifest in reality , but it's a shorthand to represent an impossible calculation temporarily, until the calculations can convert it back into real numbers.
other esoteric math, may not seem usefull today, but perhaps science of the future will find a use for it.


Much of literature and art consist of impossible things.

Should their inspiration be disregarded?



Art is either profound or shitty. It's up to you whether it speaks to you or not. if not, then disregard it.

If the medium of the art is absurd, like a book about time travel, then the book is gonna be fatally flawed, and probably not be very good.



I don't lack sanity. You lack imagination.

I don't think so. I have an advantage because I don't think about impossible, or abzurd things. for example, I have dreams all the time of interesting inventions and new possibilities of things which are POZZIBLE. last night I dreamed about an innovative new kind of wine bottle mouth.

[Agent 008]

Fellow time travellers:

http://i53.tinypic.com/502wlv.jpg

[Agent 008]

"i" ( (-1)^(1/2) ) is impossible to manifest in reality , but it's a shorthand to represent an impossible calculation temporarily, until the calculations can convert it back into real numbers.
other esoteric math, may not seem usefull today, but perhaps science of the future will find a use for it.

None of mathematics can be manifested is ground in reality, at least not the way you probably think it is.

Mathematical concepts are strictly abstract. Even the notion of a natural number. They have no meaning of their own.

They can, and are, however, applied in real life as they can model it. Complex numbers are no different from natural numbers in this regard. They are used in signal analysis, just like natural numbers are used in counting sheep. One activity may be more common than the other, but it is important to understand that in principle, there is no difference.

[testerman]

None of mathematics can be manifested is ground in reality

Mathematical concepts are strictly abstract.

They can, and are, however, applied in real life

They are used in signal analysis



oh, ok.

[ComradeAsh]

I'd probably take a dump.

Should have gone before I left.

But if I do take a dump, then I technically did go before I left.

PARADOX.

[Agent 008]

oh, ok.

Getting applied to reality is a second step. There are plenty of mathematical concepts out there that others are trying to find some use for.

[Rolf]

Invent the Scorpio and use it to capture Judea, proclaims Rolf.

[crazzyass]

"i" ( (-1)^(1/2) ) is impossible to manifest in reality , but it's a shorthand to represent an impossible calculation temporarily, until the calculations can convert it back into real numbers.
other esoteric math, may not seem usefull today, but perhaps science of the future will find a use for it.



Art is either profound or shitty. It's up to you whether it speaks to you or not. if not, then disregard it.

If the medium of the art is absurd, like a book about time travel, then the book is gonna be fatally flawed, and probably not be very good.




I don't think so. I have an advantage because I don't think about impossible, or abzurd things. for example, I have dreams all the time of interesting inventions and new possibilities of things which are POZZIBLE. last night I dreamed about an innovative new kind of wine bottle mouth.

I think you're missing the whole point of creative thinking. Flying is impossible too, so I guess individuals should have disregarded any notion of it, hm?