Leto

Who's she?

LoganSnake

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Shauk

6'6" dude, all his teeth, with peircings (and if they wait a few more months, tattoos?)

yeah, I'll blend right in!

I wouldn't speak a word though, I'd act mute.

hannukah harry

so what we really need is for anyone transported to the past to first to be transported to the future, where star fleet academy already exists, take a class on temporal causality, and then head to the past. that way no one mistakes stopping the plauge in teh 1300's is a good thing. star trek and history channel ftw?

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shabbat shalom, mother fucker! - the hebrew hammer

debaser

In case they shoot back?

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LoganSnake

Gotta protect myself from the arrows.

I also figure I would need a full body motorcycle armor with a scary looking helmet. That ought to strike fear into the hearts of the wicked...and everybody else.

Something like this:



with this:



and this:



I mean, I could look like this, but it wouldn't be comfortable on the dirt bike.



Though it might fit in a little better with the time period.

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DaveOrion

You don't need an advanced education in temporal causality (taught at Star Fleet Academy) to realize that the grandfather effect is a constant threat involved in Time Travel. Anyone with the ability to travel into the past could conceivable kill their own grandfather before they were ever born, and would then have never existed. If they never existed how could they have killed their own grandfather??? Temporal Paradox 101.

I was only teasing you will because you went from changing the world for the better, which is totally uncertain as you have said, to living alone in the woods. Good to see you've rethought your position.


I just saw Harry's post, great minds think alike!

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pocon1

nothing to say

lotsofmagnets

hooray! fun with languages!

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mother nature made the aeroplane, and the submarine sandwich, with the steady hands and dead eye of a remarkable sculptor.
she shed her mountain turning training wheels, for the convenience of the moving sidewalk, that delivers the magnetic monkey children through the mouth of impossible calendar clock, into the devil's manhole cauldron.
physics of a bicycle, isn't it remarkable?

Baraka_Guru

Actually, this here is an excerpt from a book that would prove quite resourceful to the time. It's from The Domesday Book by William the Conqueror. It's a census and survey of English landowners made at around 1086. It was basically a "who owns what." Might prove useful if you go to that time in England.

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

LoganSnake

Useful for targeting for theft. I wonder how the medieval armies would stand up to a fully armed and armored Hummer...

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Baraka_Guru

With the number of horses that William the Conqueror brought to England from Nomandy in the Battle of Hastings, and that his knights numbered 5,000, my guess is maybe not too poorly.

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

LoganSnake

Nothing a few well placed claymores and well thrown grenades couldn't help with...

If anything, there's always a speedy retreat.

Now this got me thinking of something else. Say I get transported and bring all the crap I posted earlier with me. Also, say somebody jacked it all and brought it before the greatest minds of that time. Could they possibly reverse engineer it and create their own weapons? And if they could, how would that change history?

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Baraka_Guru

Not by much, I don't think. The Britons didn't really know how to make and use gunpowder until the 13th century. They might get some ideas, but they simply wouldn't have the technology.

We can, with saltpeter and other substances, compose artificially a fire that can be launched over long distances... By only using a very small quantity of this material much light can be created accompanied by a horrible fracas. It is possible with it to destroy a town or an army ... In order to produce this artificial lightning and thunder it is necessary to take saltpeter, sulfur, and Luru Vopo Vir Can Utriet.

-Roger Bacon, circa 1248-1257

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

loquitur

Baraka, that's a GREAT quote. I like that a lot.
I wonder what they would have thought had they been told that gunpowder was invented by the Chinese.

Baraka_Guru

I think at that time, many of them would have asked who or what are the Chinese.

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

ShaniFaye

its is kind of a bit off topic, but on topic really lol

has anyone see the altoids commercial where the guy is in olden times talking about doing morse code (but not calling it that) and they accuse him of being a witch and haul him off?

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I want the diabetic plan that comes with rollover carbs. I dont like the unused one expiring at midnite!!

loquitur

More to the point, in the year 1008 - er, I mean, MVIII - did they have baseball? beer? hot dogs? talk about the need for extreme survival skills if they didn't..!!

snowy

Nerd.

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Baraka_Guru

I doubt a form of baseball existed. But you had wrestling, tournaments, and hunting. Sausages and beer. Not too bad. Maybe even more fun.

I probably shouldn't tell you I understand it, could read it aloud with reasonable accuracy of pronunciation, and could translate it to contemporary English?

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

LoganSnake

A non-carbonated beer!

Baseball's ancestor didn't appear until the 14th century and was called Stoolball. Don't ask what they were throwing....

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Baraka_Guru

It was better than drinking the water (wild cows), and it was normal to have it for breakfast.

Why not? What were they throwing? Bar stools?

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

LoganSnake

Close. It was a game played by milkmaids. They used their milk stools as wickets.

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Maturity is knowing you were an idiot in the past. Wisdom is knowing that you'll be an idiot in the future. Common sense is knowing that you should try not to be an idiot now. - J. Jacques

loquitur

actually, from what I understand, those who drank beer rather than water during the Black Death managed not to get sick. Of course that was more than 300 years after MVIII.