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how would they be received? A lot of folks probably think a modern dude could wow the medieval peasants with their technology and knowledge, but i think they would basically view you as a retard cause you can't tell the difference between oats and barley or whatever.
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they'd probably die of the plague or something that we don't have any immunity against
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Jul 12, 2015 17:25
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i would get super rich by investing in AAPL or MSFT
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Jul 12, 2015 17:26
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they'd die a week after their batteries ran out
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Jul 12, 2015 17:26
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Uhhh this already happened op it's a little thing you might have heard of called bill and ted's excellent adventure
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Jul 12, 2015 17:26
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killed by the shock of seeing many unkempt bushes during sex imo
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Jul 12, 2015 17:27
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Weird Uncle Dave posted:they'd probably die of the plague or something that we don't have any immunity against imagine trying to convince a bunch of medieval folks that diseases are almost all due to these invisible things called "viruses" and "bacteria" and can largely be stopped by washing your hands after you poo Hell Yeah posted:killed by the shock of seeing many unkempt bushes during sex imo
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Hell Yeah posted:killed by the shock of seeing many unkempt bushes during sex imo what are you, a bush archeologist?
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Jul 12, 2015 17:28
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Would probably poo poo my pants to death from being exposed to hundreds of bacterial types that had been previously wiped out.
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Keep Autism Wired posted:what are you, a bush archeologist? 
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Jul 12, 2015 17:29
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I wanna bone a suit of platemail like a realdoll
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Harald posted:imagine trying to convince a bunch of medieval folks that diseases are almost all due to these invisible things called "viruses" and "bacteria" and can be stopped by washing your hands after you poo um how is that any different from thinking diseases are caused by invisible demons that hate soap and can be stopped by washing your hands after you do any unclean thing
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Jul 12, 2015 17:30
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw7dzS8UJ4Q
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Jul 12, 2015 17:31
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It'd be pretty hard to communicate. Assuming you travelled through time and space, depending on what year it is, English will range from difficult to impossible to understand.
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Jul 12, 2015 17:38
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFriRcIwqNU
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Jul 12, 2015 17:39
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Nah soon as the person sent back in time landed in their new timeline they would most likely be dead inside of 3 or 4 days. The diseases we have built a immunity to in our time are nothing compared to what they were then. Time travelling snot factory...and dead.
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Jul 12, 2015 17:52
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Weird Uncle Dave posted:they'd probably die of the plague or something that we don't have any immunity against I think we have more resistance to the plague now than we did back then. They were a totally naive population from an disease standpoint
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Jul 12, 2015 17:55
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If you think about it, we are descended from the people who survived all of the old plagues
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Jul 12, 2015 17:57
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we'd probably give them all a shitload of diseases we're asymptomatic carriers of and wipe out the human race
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Jul 12, 2015 17:59
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FordPRefectLL posted:we'd probably give them all a shitload of diseases we're asymptomatic carriers of and wipe out the human race Hell, aforementioned traveller would probably be radioactive compared to the background of that era. Also yeah, disease/bad water would probably be a factor. As would not speaking the language. Maybe if you knew French? Has it evolved as much?
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Jul 12, 2015 18:05
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They would be burned at the stake for witchcraft moments after they arrived.
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Jul 12, 2015 18:09
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I'd use my phone to impress some medieval pussy into letting me into her bed chambers while her husband is out tilling his Lord's crops and get cock blocked by my own sense of smell. I'd also probably be burned alive for witchcraft.
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Jul 12, 2015 18:10
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the average modern person couldn't teach a medieval person dick without Wikipedia, and an educated modern person would probably be accused of being a witch and burned at the stake
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Jul 12, 2015 18:11
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Future Mrs Booger posted:They would be burned at the stake for witchcraft moments after they arrived. This is probably what would happen.
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Jul 12, 2015 18:13
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Weird Uncle Dave posted:they'd probably die of the plague or something that we don't have any immunity against uh i'm pretty sure the opposite would happen you would be a loving harbinger of death everywhere you went as you spread vastly more evolved forms of illness every loving where to people that have literally no chance of being immune to it. also, you'd at least know enough to not drink the water and clean wounds and poo poo, even with just basic first aid skills you'd be the best doctor in town, of course, you'd also be killing everyone so....
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RadioactiveKid posted:the average modern person couldn't teach a medieval person dick without Wikipedia, and an educated modern person would probably be accused of being a witch and burned at the stake they didn't really burn people at the stake in the Middle Ages, that was a more modern thing sadly. also you underestimate just how powerful a basic understanding of first aid and germ theory would be. I think you'd be pretty god drat impressed at what you could do for them with just basic conceptual understanding of things. For example off the top of my head we understand how lift is necessary for flight, a pretty basic yet unknown at the time concept. the real challenge would be being able to communicate at all, and not killing everyone by coughing.
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Jul 12, 2015 18:18
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Hmm so much for French:Wikipedia posted:French also shows enormous phonetic changes between the Old French period and the modern language. Spelling, however, has barely changed, which accounts for the wide differences between current spelling and pronunciation. Some of the most profound changes have been: Looks like if you're time travelling you should hope you know 'classic' latin, Icelandic, or Lithuanian: http://www.quora.com/What-language-has-changed-the-least Start brushing up guys!
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EXTREME INSERTION posted:I think we have more resistance to the plague now than we did back then. They were a totally naive population from an disease standpoint EXTREME INSERTION posted:If you think about it, we are descended from the people who survived all of the old plagues an Epidemiologist and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck walk into a bar....
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Jul 12, 2015 18:23
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i would spread my seed so that 99% of people could trace their ancestry back to me
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Make sure to teach them about vaccines, and that they're evil and cause autism while you're there
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They would venerate you as sky king and treat you as a god
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Keep Autism Wired posted:an Epidemiologist and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck walk into a bar.... There's acquired immunity on an individual sense, and then there are the genetic changes that people as a whole have undergone over the last couple hundred years up through the industrial revolution that have allowed people to live in densely packed areas without always killing each other inadvertently with disease
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EXTREME INSERTION posted:There's acquired immunity on an individual sense, and then there are the genetic changes that people as a whole have undergone over the last couple hundred years up through the industrial revolution that have allowed people to live in densely packed areas without always killing each other inadvertently with disease lets burn this witch
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Jul 12, 2015 18:29
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For example, in populations that have been urbanized for a long time, they have undergone selective pressure on the the SLC125(? Idk look it up) gene, which appears to confer some resistance to common crowd diseases
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I often think about traveling back in time to another era in human history but I always stop short when I realize that everybody probably smelled like poo poo any further than 150 years ago tops.
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Dead Gay Romans posted:also, you'd at least know enough to not drink the water and clean wounds and poo poo, even with just basic first aid skills you'd be the best doctor in town, of course, you'd also be killing everyone so.... i would watch this time travel comedy
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even when it comes to something simple like cleaning a wound..yeah good luck getting iodine or hydrogen peroxide or whatver from the drugstore.
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If you were a carrier, for say, Small Pox, wouldn't the version you are carrying be the attenuated version you were once inoculated with? e.g. easier to resist? Also telling people about germ theory is all well and good, but unless you track down medieval Robert Hook and can have him grind you up a microscope you're not going to convince anyone.
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Shasta Orange Soda posted:i would watch this time travel comedy It would be great of the protagonist was a lower level aide of some kind and the king's physicians are all wanting to bleed people for being hot blooded or applying rat feces poultices or some poo poo.
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Scaramouche posted:If you were a carrier, for say, Small Pox, wouldn't the version you are carrying be the attenuated version you were once inoculated with? e.g. easier to resist? I wouldn't tell them
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