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Posted: 7/28/2019 11:09:16 PM EDT
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Central heating via steam boilers would probably blow them away.
Knowledge of many medical ailments and their treatment along with disease and prevention. Really just about any early Industrial Age technology I could recreate with a few competent blacksmiths. Steam engines for example. Simple electric batteries and electro plating. Barrel rifling. Cased primer fired ammunition. Introduce the concept of mass production and assembly lines. |
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Posted: 7/28/2019 11:13:45 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/28/2019 11:27:01 PM EDT
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I'd introduce HIV so that my generation would be genetically immune...or humanity would cease to exist.
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Posted: 7/28/2019 11:28:27 PM EDT
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I'd be super unimpressive
Ive been into traditional archery for about a decade and HEMA for about four years. Odds on the king would say "meh" |
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Posted: 7/28/2019 11:30:34 PM EDT
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I'm a civil engineer who also has a degree in physics, I think I could muster up something they didn't know.
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Posted: 7/28/2019 11:30:58 PM EDT
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That would depend a very great deal on who you talked to, and what you said, as well as where and when you are located. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I would tell the king the locations of the California Gold Rush and the Klondike and Nome deposits along with Africa gold and Diamonds deposits I know of. I would be the single most valuable person on Earth. My only worry would be avoiding syphilis and the plague, but I would soon invent penicillin. I would try to make some vaccines even and introduce modern hygiene. Maybe do water and sewer systems in my spare time. Whichever country I fell into would soon be the richest on Earth. And the best health also. https://www.akg-images.co.uk/Docs/AKG/Media/TR3_WATERMARKED/3/a/f/b/AKG4802317.jpg https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4oGAlS-HTXE/WkWEEaY4VLI/AAAAAAAADrQ/18PiBjcISesmgcRi8OSWpviiKpOoNSs8QCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2017-12-28%2Bat%2B4.39.31%2BPM.png After you finally confess, they give you a warm welcome before your departure. https://i.pinimg.com/736x/12/83/86/1283864b41a360b5822ef8a28fea00c5--dark-ages-bog.jpg |
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Posted: 7/28/2019 11:35:35 PM EDT
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Trying to introduce future knowledge into the society of that time would mean that more than likely you'd be branded a heretic and burned at the stake.
I'd just try to do something useful with my life like get a job as Antonio Stradivari's apprentice. And maybe, somewhere along the line, make a few useful "discoveries" in various fields, discoveries that would be plausible as they'd not be too far above the state of knowledge at the time. Maybe the steam engine....later to be followed by internal combustion. Magnetism and electricity. The locomotive and the sewing machine. The vacuum tube, the diode, and the transistor. Capacitor, resistor, inductor. Refining techniques for various metals. Advancements in chemistry and physics. You know...the little things. 
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Posted: 7/28/2019 11:38:39 PM EDT
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I don't know because history before 1775 isnt important.  |
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Posted: 7/28/2019 11:39:30 PM EDT
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Timeline was a great book. Movie sucked. Fucking Paul Walker ruins everything he touches... 
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Posted: 7/28/2019 11:40:30 PM EDT
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If you know music, you could bring back some catchy tunes and become the composer for the King's Court.
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Posted: 7/28/2019 11:41:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: History started in 1763. Everything before was a mistake. |
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Posted: 7/28/2019 11:46:37 PM EDT
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Yep. American English is closer than British as well. The non-rhotic English pronunciation came in the 18th century. Shakespeare actors are doing it wrong.
Slang and determining common usage aside, it would be easy to communicate with English speakers. They might tell you "you talk like a fat and your shit's all retarded."
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Posted: 7/28/2019 11:49:20 PM EDT
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If you know music, you could bring back some catchy tunes and become the composer for the King's Court.  Metallica - One (medieval cover by Stary Olsa) ???????.Live |
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Posted: 7/28/2019 11:51:56 PM EDT
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I would find a greedy bastard and sneak into his room on a Christmas morning when the clock struck one.
I would tell him, "I am the ghost of Christmases future imperfect conditional! I will show you what would have been going to happen had you not been going to change your ways!" Then I would throw dog poop on his shoes. 
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Posted: 7/28/2019 11:55:14 PM EDT
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If you know music, you could bring back some catchy tunes and become the composer for the King's Court. 
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Posted: 7/28/2019 11:58:23 PM EDT
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Invent the paperclip?
How about a hole puncher and 3 ring binder? Pasteurization Invent the steam engine and then a propellor. Naval supremacy because of maneuver! One thing to remember, materials could cost more than the labor involved in making something. |
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Posted: 7/29/2019 12:00:02 AM EDT
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Nothing too wild. Don't want to be accused of witchcraft. Probably knowledge of modern firearms and munitions, etc. Warfare shit would make you a valuable man. Throw in some engine and mechanical knowledge that is easily understood and demonstrated. After I established my bona fides as a "scientist" I would branch out into medical stuff. Got to go gradually. Witchcraft was the excuse to get rid of enemies at every level. One would have to attain a solid grasp of the local politics down to the neighborhoods, before doing a damn thing or helping anyone. From there on out, demonstrating each "Invention" would have to be tied to Gods inspiration, or you are gonna get Molten lead poured into the ears. |
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Posted: 7/29/2019 12:03:29 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: This. Witchcraft was the excuse to get rid of enemies at every level. One would have to attain a solid grasp of the local politics down to the neighborhoods, before doing a damn thing or helping anyone. From there on out, demonstrating each "Invention" would have to be tied to Gods inspiration, or you are gonna get Molten lead poured into the ears.
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Posted: 7/29/2019 12:03:37 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm sure they'd fire J. S. Bach and hire you. I'd bring back Beethoven, Mozart, Verdi, Rossini, Vivaldi, Schubert, Wagner and some marches (Col. Bogey, Field Artillery Song, etc.). |
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Posted: 7/29/2019 12:18:58 AM EDT
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People make the mistake of thinking humanity was literally retarded and incapable of understanding science and technology back then. There were lots of great scientific minds at the time. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I would tell the king the locations of the California Gold Rush and the Klondike and Nome deposits along with Africa gold and Diamonds deposits I know of. I would be the single most valuable person on Earth. My only worry would be avoiding syphilis and the plague, but I would soon invent penicillin. I would try to make some vaccines even and introduce modern hygiene. Maybe do water and sewer systems in my spare time. Whichever country I fell into would soon be the richest on Earth. And the best health also. https://www.akg-images.co.uk/Docs/AKG/Media/TR3_WATERMARKED/3/a/f/b/AKG4802317.jpg https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4oGAlS-HTXE/WkWEEaY4VLI/AAAAAAAADrQ/18PiBjcISesmgcRi8OSWpviiKpOoNSs8QCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2017-12-28%2Bat%2B4.39.31%2BPM.png After you finally confess, they give you a warm welcome before your departure. https://i.pinimg.com/736x/12/83/86/1283864b41a360b5822ef8a28fea00c5--dark-ages-bog.jpg |
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Posted: 7/29/2019 12:20:00 AM EDT
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Captain Jenks Of The Horse Marines is a real song
Rose Wilder Lane was a real badass. Brilliant writer/editor. Her mother was Laura Ingalls Wilder The USA was a great country once.... |
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Posted: 7/29/2019 12:26:15 AM EDT
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I’d go hang out with Sir Issac Newton.
I’d be his apprentice. There would be a hard and delicate balance to introduce new ideas and concepts to him without letting him know you know it all. He was well respected, he could get away with advancements in tech without burning at the stake. |
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Posted: 7/29/2019 12:39:04 AM EDT
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I’d go hang out with Sir Issac Newton. I’d be his apprentice. There would be a hard and delicate balance to introduce new ideas and concepts to him without letting him know you know it all. He was well respected, he could get away with advancements in tech without burning at the stake. |
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Posted: 7/29/2019 12:40:48 AM EDT
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The only contribution Issac made is that bull scrotum tobacco pouch.
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Posted: 7/29/2019 12:42:22 AM EDT
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People would ask him what it was, and he would just say, "Is sac."
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Posted: 7/29/2019 12:46:34 AM EDT
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Invent the paperclip? How about a hole puncher and 3 ring binder? Pasteurization Invent the steam engine and then a propellor. Naval supremacy because of maneuver! One thing to remember, materials could cost more than the labor involved in making something. |
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Posted: 7/29/2019 12:49:18 AM EDT
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Well, I wouldn't be able to speak the language. So there's that.
I'd probably start with some drawings. |
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Posted: 7/29/2019 12:52:46 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I'd have the Spanish or British commission a fleet of first rate ships based off the USS Constitution armed with cap-fired, breech loading rifled guns and arm my crew with 1858 style revolving carbines. Then I would mutiny from the host nation and rape and pillage the Ottoman coastline, importing silk, spices, and concubines to western nations. I'll leave the metallurgy of 1858 revolving carbines for later, for a number of reasons. |
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Posted: 7/29/2019 12:58:35 AM EDT
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Well, I wouldn't be able to speak the language. So there's that. I'd probably start with some drawings. |
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Posted: 7/29/2019 8:43:12 AM EDT
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Resources? - very little doubt the market could scale But you're now going about this arguing from capacity - that's no issue at all The resource constraint is not capacity,, knowledge or technology - it's value. Very few women had any resources of their own. Everything a women bought, possessed or had access to was contingent on the approval and oversight of males. So unless those males saw value - which you as a recent arrival ain't changing, its a non starter. Though for none of the fluctuating rationales you put forth. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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There was enough resources including total time and equipment to keep women clean shaven everywhere? But you're now going about this arguing from capacity - that's no issue at all The resource constraint is not capacity,, knowledge or technology - it's value. Very few women had any resources of their own. Everything a women bought, possessed or had access to was contingent on the approval and oversight of males. So unless those males saw value - which you as a recent arrival ain't changing, its a non starter. Though for none of the fluctuating rationales you put forth. Abo people styled hairless designs by plucking. Mohawks weren't shaved.
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Posted: 7/29/2019 8:47:27 AM EDT
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Bring back some novels and re-release them as if you were the author.
BTW, books were not cheap back then. I think a number of us have larger libraries than many people had in the 1600s. |
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Posted: 7/29/2019 8:47:47 AM EDT
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Most people today don't know as much as they think they know; they run to Google, Wiki, etc.
If they're going back in time as naked as Arnold in T2, they'll mostly be viewed as a hysterical rambling overweight moron. |
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Posted: 7/29/2019 8:48:10 AM EDT
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Don't need a razor to be hairless. Abo people styled hairless designs by plucking. Mohawks weren't shaved. |
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Posted: 7/29/2019 5:22:37 PM EDT
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Don't need a razor to be hairless. Abo people styled hairless designs by plucking. Mohawks weren't shaved. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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There was enough resources including total time and equipment to keep women clean shaven everywhere? But you're now going about this arguing from capacity - that's no issue at all The resource constraint is not capacity,, knowledge or technology - it's value. Very few women had any resources of their own. Everything a women bought, possessed or had access to was contingent on the approval and oversight of males. So unless those males saw value - which you as a recent arrival ain't changing, its a non starter. Though for none of the fluctuating rationales you put forth. Abo people styled hairless designs by plucking. Mohawks weren't shaved. Peeps tried pumice and depilatories like quicklime/arsenic. Dynastic Egyptians shaved and plucked it all - why I'm pretty sure if the 17th cent wanted to get their universal slick on, they'd been able too |
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Posted: 7/29/2019 5:32:59 PM EDT
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Yep. The Romans hated body hair and had scrapers to remove it. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Don't need a razor to be hairless. Abo people styled hairless designs by plucking. Mohawks weren't shaved. Hygiene was heads above later Europeans for centuries |
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Posted: 8/6/2019 9:58:29 PM EDT
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If you know music, you could bring back some catchy tunes and become the composer for the King's Court. If you have a good memory of music and movie quotes you could appear brilliant. "All we are is dust in the wind, dude". |
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Posted: 8/6/2019 11:02:35 PM EDT
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Possibly the best answer in the thread. If you have a good memory of music and movie quotes you could appear brilliant. "All we are is dust in the wind, dude". 
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Posted: 8/7/2019 4:13:28 PM EDT
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Well they has potassium nitrate and sulfuric acid so I'd make nitric acid, then nitroglycerin and become a dynamite producer. It's dicey with modern equipment, gages, and heat sources. I can't imagine trying with what they had. Not even an ice bath. 
I could build copper drawing dies, then wires, etc but I have no idea how to get magnets to may a motor and generator. No idea of where to get tungsten for a light bulb filament. My problem is, besides my modern vocation as a toolmaker, most of my hobbies revolve around living history....i.e. learning what they knew back then.
So, I could show them what they already know pretty well. 
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Posted: 8/7/2019 4:22:37 PM EDT
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With what? |
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Posted: 8/7/2019 4:25:07 PM EDT
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Ever done it? It's dicey with modern equipment, gages, and heat sources. I can't imagine trying with what they had. Not even an ice bath.
I could build copper drawing dies, then wires, etc but I have no idea how to get magnets to may a motor and generator. No idea of where to get tungsten for a light bulb filament. My problem is, besides my modern vocation as a toolmaker, most of my hobbies revolve around living history....i.e. learning what they knew back then.
So, I could show them what they already know pretty well. I'm sure people back then were, for example, aware that a repeating firearm would be a useful tool. But without a way to make an effective, mass produced, breech-loading weapon, and precisely produce the ammo, and deal with the powder fouling, etc...it wasn't practical, to the point that consideration of the concept in detail was pointless. I think if you went back with a steam engine and an AK the question wouldn't be "WTF IS THAT????" (well, maybe at first) but rather "how the fuck did you build that????" |
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