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The Saurus posted:that plan sounds like there's a lot of room for universe-destroying error if closed time-like curves are possible in our universe then there must already be a zillion naturally occurring ones if they can destroy the universe it has already happened and this is the resulting universe
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chaosbreather posted:lol look at this pansy rear end poo poo I always figured the scenario assumed you didn't have control over where/when you travelled, and could only do it once. Obviously if you had a time machine you could control you'd do the thing you said, but if you just got flung back in time on a one way trip to a random time period then confusing some Romans would prob be the best course of action.
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I'm too scared of being out of the realm of human experience to smoke salvia let alone become some sort of omniscient deity through supertechnology
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I also don't necessarily know why you'd want to use the ability to time travel to attempt to benefit humanity. Knowing what we know about history, maybe it would be best if we did shake things up or gently caress around because tbh human history thus far has been overwhelmingly poo poo and terrible for 99% of all people ever living and we tend to justify our existence based on the 1% that were exceptionally lucky.
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Jul 13, 2015 17:45
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I'd start the ice bucket challenge so we wouldn't have to deal with it now. Actually all those weird one off fads: planking, pet rocks, tamagotchi, chia pets, democracy, etc.
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Jul 13, 2015 17:51
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send me to the americas where all I gotta deal with is starvation and syphillis
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Jul 13, 2015 17:53
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actually send me to japan I wanna teach them how to anime
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Jul 13, 2015 17:58
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I wanna be muhammad's dad edit: 7th cuntury...
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a hole-y ghost posted:I must say, I am curious as to who would be the stinkier between a 4th century European and a goon. My money is on for the first 2 weeks, it would be the 4th century people. Goon wouldn't be able to cope without AXE bodywash and modern dental care, though, and would rapidly become a smelly 4th-century pariah.
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Just think how advanced our animes could be if we had another thousand years of experience
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Applewhite posted:I always figured the scenario assumed you didn't have control over where/when you travelled, and could only do it once. If that was the case it would be even sillier to go. The insanely vast majority of time and area on the earth is spectacularly unfriendly to human life. You'd end up in an ocean or on a glacier or in a lava field or something and the odds of running into a single human would be similar to a time machine just appearing on your doorstep tomorrow. The advantage of my plan is you can do it on a single jump. You just download the dump of your computer before you send it back in time once. If alternate histories remain real then there will be an infinite numbers of alternate mes that thanks to the total physical isolation of the timeline change will be identical other than the contents of the transmission that they download into the satellite and send back in time but the prime non-spawning timeline will just have me receiving a solution to every problem I could ever have from a mysterious source.
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chaosbreather posted:If that was the case it would be even sillier to go. The insanely vast majority of time and area on the earth is spectacularly unfriendly to human life. You'd end up in an ocean or on a glacier or in a lava field or something and the odds of running into a single human would be similar to a time machine just appearing on your doorstep tomorrow. Well ofc it would be silly to go voluntarily. I always figured it's like you accidentally fell into a wormhole or something.
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Jul 13, 2015 18:16
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Jul 13, 2015 18:18
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Moridin920 posted:what if there is no time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjU5lXY8wHE
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Jul 13, 2015 18:22
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chaosbreather posted:If that was the case it would be even sillier to go. The insanely vast majority of time and area on the earth is spectacularly unfriendly to human life. You'd end up in an ocean or on a glacier or in a lava field or something and the odds of running into a single human would be similar to a time machine just appearing on your doorstep tomorrow. Imagine four balls on the edge of a cliff... teabagging you for all eternity time works the same way
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Yeah all of that sounds nice at first, but there are just two problems. Think about it. How would you be able to speak anyone at all? Secondly, you would be carrying hundreds of viruses that people from the past have no immunity to. You have to stop for a second and consider these things before just waltzing off into the past.
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feedmegin posted:Or, more likely, because you don't speak any known language on the planet (unless you're one of the like 1% of people who know Latin or ancient Greek). i wouldn't need to speak, i would let the populace draw its own conclusions as to my intentions by analyzing who I chose to publicly torture and execute
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Hogge Wild posted:nah, there are two subjects that you could't teach anything new to greeks; abs and sodomy i bet the greeks were tubby fuckers who never actually got laid and all the statues and poems about buttfucking are the ancient equivalent of photoshop and posting on SA about your date
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Came_Early
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Jul 13, 2015 22:48
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oh man the thread a few days ago about time travel made me hope there was a book like this
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Jul 13, 2015 22:53
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Oh poo poo wikipedia has doxxed me. Wtf Jimmy Wales you money-grabbing oval office.
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Jul 14, 2015 00:47
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I'm a Navy Seal IRL and I would kill any medieval motherfucker who looked at me the wrong way.
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i would wow them by inventing eggs benny 14 centuries ahead of schedule
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I'd introduce New World fruits and vegetables like the potato and tomato and such. Maybe use my high school Latin to teach how to make a burger.
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Jul 14, 2015 02:29
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Well pretty much anyone here would be known as the fattest gently caress around. Also, how quickly would our health falter? I suppose we grew up with a lot of vitamins and benefits like vaccines but after several weeks wouldn't we be screwed, especially because the environment is different and no longer have access to things like toothpaste, or heating or good plumbing?
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Jul 14, 2015 02:34
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The vikings kicked rear end and have their poo poo together in the modern era. Would probably help them take over the world with the help of advances in food preservation and metallurgy. I'd then sit back and get drunk and fat(ter) while the raiding teams go out and make me rich as hell.
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Jul 14, 2015 02:36
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Would a modern day person be less immune to 4th century diseases or does it only work the other way around?
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Benny Harvey posted:Would a modern day person be less immune to 4th century diseases or does it only work the other way around? Other way around most likely
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Benny Harvey posted:Would a modern day person be less immune to 4th century diseases or does it only work the other way around? you're not going to have any real immunity to any disease you've never had contact with so people in the 4th century wouldn't have much immunity and your immunity would depend on whether or not those diseases had anything in common with what we have today it'd probably play out about like Cortes and his adventures in the South American jungles as far as disease is concerned
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Robo Reagan posted:you're not going to have any real immunity to any disease you've never had contact with so people in the 4th century wouldn't have much immunity and your immunity would depend on whether or not those diseases had anything in common with what we have today This is not true. We would not have acquired immunity, but there's a good chance we could have some innate immunity
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Jul 14, 2015 03:03
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o okay, yeah then go with what the guy with the lusty germ avatar says
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I mean, I haven't tried it out so ymmv
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I've been thinking about this way too much over the last few days
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let's do it. let's go there and see what happens
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Jul 14, 2015 03:14
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Robo Reagan posted:let's do it. let's go there and see what happens We would need a good sampl size of goons, would have to abduct a sample of average people from that time, then drop everyone in a sterile environment and just expose everyone to the flu or something
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We could also try ebola; both populations would be naive to the virus itself most likely, and would probably require some kind of innate immunity, so whichever group had more survivors after a few months would be the winners
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I guess it could go many ways. Maybe the people back then were exposed to some kind of very mild filovirus, which would get people a little sick but not kill anyone or hurt them enough so that they couldn't reproduce, but would inoculate them against ebola somehow. So, there would have not been enough selective pressure put on the population to give us some kind of innate immunity down the line, but it would have inoculated the people exposed directly back then. In which case we would be screwed I guess
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I think that when all is said and done, we would most likely give them the modern flu or modern TB and they would die
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Most likely, the diseases themselves back then were not as virulent as the ones we have now. If you are infecting people in a small village or isolated group of people, you don't want to kill them off too quickly. You need to have like a disease that can be latent for a long time, like the older version of TB, which can be mostly dormant, passed on from mother to child, etc
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When people became more mobile and settled in big cities, the pathogens themselves were allowed to become symptomatic more quickly. The more virulent form is now selected for, comparatively
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