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I think I could do fairly well. I can calculate 2D motion physics, do grade 12 level trigonometry, understand quite a few chemistry principles, can do basic calculus and know a few random scientific constants. I could tell everyone about germ theory/disease prevention/steel production/electricity and maybe even how to generate it 1900 years ahead of schedule.
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"This is called a computer. You use it to shitpost."
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Nov 27, 2015 00:32
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Pretty sure i would be put to death on day 1, so very little.
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Nov 27, 2015 00:33
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I know Ancient Greek and Latin and also the names, political agendas, and ultimate fates of powerful Romans in that time period. I could change history in significant ways. So naturally I would end up in 1AD in Mexico and be a sacrifice to the sun god, which, you know, would advance civilization into the next day at least!
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Nov 27, 2015 00:33
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I think about this all the time, I would love to see a show where people go back in time and explain technology to people back in time or bring them forward in time and just freak them out with all the insane magic we can do on a day to day basis. I like, go over in my head while I'm showering how to explain germ theory or electricity. It's a really fun way to get through periods of time where you don't have immediate access to sweet consciousness-crushing media.
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Nov 27, 2015 00:36
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my diseases would spread, incredibly virulent and deadly to the local undeveloped immune systems.
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Nov 27, 2015 00:36
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Unless you're a hella good metal worker you're probably hosed
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Nov 27, 2015 00:38
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chaosbreather posted:I think about this all the time, I would love to see a show where people go back in time and explain technology to people back in time or bring them forward in time and just freak them out with all the insane magic we can do on a day to day basis. I do this constantly.
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Nov 27, 2015 00:38
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actually I think I would spread a bunch of stories about gods coming from space on great ships, just to gently caress with the ancient aliens guy
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Nov 27, 2015 00:39
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Energy is the biggest thing. Maybe better farming techniques. The funniest thing is gonna be the realization that your single voice is ineffectual against doctrine
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Nov 27, 2015 00:39
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behold the magick of this wondrous black stone i possess oh poo poo no wifi, nm
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Serious Frolicking posted:my diseases would spread, incredibly virulent and deadly to the local undeveloped immune systems. actually you're super clean compared to them, they would have tons of diseases that we would have driven instinct from immunisation, antibiotics and hygene. you would die preeeetty quick like no-one has sewage, they just pour their poo poo outside in the streets (or directly into their drinking water sources). and the romans have got plumbing which is cool but it's all made of lead (plumbus, get it, Pb?) so everyone is getting lead poisoning pretty bad on the plus side no HIV but wicked syph oh also alcohol was insanely weaksauce back then, like strong beer was like 2% abv
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Nov 27, 2015 00:40
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I'd spread AIDS
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Nov 27, 2015 00:41
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We'd all be dead within a week.
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Your Dead Gay Son posted:Energy is the biggest thing. Maybe better farming techniques. The funniest thing is gonna be the realization that your single voice is ineffectual against doctrine Theres always a risk of getting galileo'd, but I think you could establish a pretty strong 'cult' fairly quickly when you start using your math and science to prove things that happen in the real world. Like maybe you talk about electricity and then you generate some static and shock all the dirty illiterate peasants. Or predicting how long it takes for an object you drop to hit the ground. That might get you somewhere. quote:oh also alcohol was insanely weaksauce back then, like strong beer was like 2% abv This was probably intentional. Alcohol was basically the only way anyone knew how to sanitize water. Drinking straight water would almost certainly give you dysentry or otherwise murder you, but drinking diluted wine and beer wouldn't be so bad. It was a pretty lovely situation because alcohol is a depressant and that likely contributed to the lack of development. I doubt it's a coincidence that once the world replaced the depressant alcohol with a stimulants coffee/tea as primary drinks development suddenly started going through the roof exponentially. Methanar fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Nov 27, 2015 |
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Nov 27, 2015 00:43
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Technology would take away power from the local churches and/or Rome, so expect to be pretty assassinated if you actually started making a difference.
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Nov 27, 2015 00:45
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you could just refine bauxite and buy every government with your aluminium, then you could do whatever you wanted
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Nov 27, 2015 00:46
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how did people in 1ad gently caress even. im guessing it was digusting and dirty as gently caress
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Nov 27, 2015 00:46
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momerath posted:how did people in 1ad gently caress even. im guessing it was digusting and dirty as gently caress they had to be pretty careful and do it like constantly, if you stayed abstinent you could accidentally give birth to Gods and poo poo. They were pretty hygeinic about washing pussies back then. just a little history fact for ya.
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Nov 27, 2015 00:48
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momerath posted:how did people in 1ad gently caress even. im guessing it was digusting and dirty as gently caress This but someone in 4700AD posting about 2015AD on their telepathic communicator while traveling through an intergalactic network of slave clone bodies psychically linked to each other to quantum tunnel through space.
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Nov 27, 2015 00:49
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I'd probably just end up getting drunk on lead based wine in a gay bath house. Assuming of course I wasn't enslaved immediately on arrival. Then everyone would die from the 6 different flu superviruses I'm carrying and I succumb to some combination of dysntery/polio/smallpox/alocoholism/lead poisoning/gladiator pit.
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Nov 27, 2015 00:50
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id go to ancient egypt to see some nefretitties and cleoterises
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Nov 27, 2015 00:50
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i would wander around in my blue jeans and tucked in polo shirt, with a horrid neckbeard trying to speak the latin they teach you in highschool super casually to blend in w/ ancient rome and i would totally be accepted and successful in everything i did
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Nov 27, 2015 00:52
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Would probably be good to know the classical Latin or Greek for "Please don't kill me, I know poo poo." Otherwise, it's slavery for you, since you're dirt poor and incapable of surviving the classical times all on your own.
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Nov 27, 2015 00:53
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And I'm the grateful slave people will point to for centuries when their lessers whine
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Nov 27, 2015 00:56
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According to this thread, I could probably make a fortune by boiling water.
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Nov 27, 2015 00:56
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momerath posted:how did people in 1ad gently caress even. im guessing it was digusting and dirty as gently caress Sweaty, filthy, probably spread an STD in the process, the woman had little to no pleasure, and it's likely consent was not involved. Today we call it "goon style"
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Nov 27, 2015 00:56
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I already did, with my understanding of plumbing and running water, you're welcome for the Aquaducts.
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Nov 27, 2015 00:57
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*starts painting portrait of myself* this, you plebs, is called..... the selfie
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Nov 27, 2015 00:59
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Blistex posted:Sweaty, filthy, probably spread an STD in the process, the woman had little to no pleasure, and it's likely consent was not involved. Today we call it "goon style" nice. just my style. 
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Methanar posted:I think I could do fairly well. I can calculate 2D motion physics, do grade 12 level trigonometry, understand quite a few chemistry principles, can do basic calculus and know a few random scientific constants. I'm not great with math but I'm sure if I talked to the top math guys I could get them to work out calculus and poo poo. I don't know how feasible electricity would be: I think the most feasible and important major industrial advance to try to impart would be rail locomotion. I mean the Greeks already had crude steam engines. That should would really build/cement an empire. Maybe movable type for propaganda would be almost as useful, but I think probably only Rome or some Chinese cities had enough literacy for it to make a difference. I mean it wouldn't be at all like A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court but you could surely get something done. You'd have to watch out, though, because I suspect even pagans might get pretty upset if you told them about heliocentrism.
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Nov 27, 2015 01:03
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I think if you brought an iPod with rock music on it to pretty much any point in the Middle Ages in Europe they would kill you (and frankly they would be stupid not to).
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Nov 27, 2015 01:04
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chaosbreather posted:you could just refine bauxite and buy every government with your aluminium, then you could do whatever you wanted anyone with a secondary school education in science has a good 2000 year headstart like they were ignorant as poo poo, even finding out that thoughts come from the brain and your heart pumps blood round your body to provide oxygen is a millenium of medical advances all at once i would make sure they murdered all the messianic figures in the near east so rome could stay pagan and strong forever
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XMNN posted:i would make sure they murdered all the messianic figures in the near east so rome could stay pagan and strong forever uh they tried this and it didn't work out 
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i origianlly typed millenarianist jews (and converts obv, you have to be thorough) but i got a bit of a  vibe so i chickened outits what i meant really though
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Nov 27, 2015 01:15
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wouldn't be able to communicate with anyone have fun
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i would warn Augustus about his 3 legions getting owned in the Teutoburg Forest, thus establishing myself as a powerful auger (and keeping the expansion of Rome going for a few more centuries). then i would teach him about germ theory so that plagues from the distant regions don't decimate everyone every few years. maybe crop rotation too, before i hunker down and get started on the real projects: radios, and steam engines that should keep the momentum of the empire going long enough to conquer the entire globe, long before the barbarians can learn to defend themselves and gently caress up civilization for 1000 years
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Nov 27, 2015 01:20
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I would become Judas just so I could betray Jesus for 30 pieces of silver. Then I'd take that silver and ball out hard big time.
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eSports Chaebol posted:I think if you brought an iPod with rock music on it to pretty much any point in the Middle Ages in Europe they would kill you (and frankly they would be stupid not to). I sometimes wonder what composers like Mozart would think of our modern music and instruments. I would probably become a witch who lives in the shack outside of town. If I had a download of wikipedia on my iPad and a solar charger, I could become a pretty powerful witch. Also, I would bring a bunch of spices with me to the past. Spices were the cocaine of the era. Sell some spices and buy a nice house on the coast.
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