Date: June 12th, 2015 11:30 PM Author: Thriller marketing idea
I don't think I would be able to shift up humanity's timeline by much, to be honest.
Perhaps I could try to explain a steam engine or even combustion engine to someone with the skills to try to build one. I suppose I could introduce the scientific method a bit early? If the engine worked I could probably fast track flight. Maybe early knowledge of geography would be advantageous. Realistically though, I'd be burnedatthestake-pwned before any lasting impact.
Date: June 12th, 2015 11:53 PM Author: wonderful chad
Why do you think anyone would listen to you though? You could explain genetics/germs/etc to people, but you can't prove it. They'll just be like "no, fuck you, it's actually caused by God and Satan."
ignatz semmelweis was roundly ignored when he proposed germ theory, cast out by the medical establishment, and committed to an insane asylum. good luck bro.
Date: June 12th, 2015 11:38 PM Author: Thriller marketing idea
Na, you wake up naked in a brothel. But by the looks of it, you've recently bedded a portly azn whore who is muttering "zzzz handsome zzzz" in her sleep.
unless you're a civil engineer or a REALLY bare-metal EE the best you could probably do is go to renaissance med school and just be a physician who is eccentrically fanatical about sterilizing everything.
you could probably write a bunch of letters with the basics of calculus and stats to the top scholars of the day and jump-start their thinking a little
Date: June 12th, 2015 11:43 PM Author: Thriller marketing idea
CR. A basic knowledge of anatomy and sanitation would go along way.
However, I don't think your need to be an engineer to communicate ideas like combustion, electricity, light etc... to intellectuals of the day in clear enough terms that they could assist in bringing this tech to light.
Date: June 12th, 2015 11:55 PM Author: Thriller marketing idea
This would be very impressive. I am confident I could describe an engine in broad strokes but would need a very intelligent metallurgist to deeply understand me in order for an engine to come out of it.
Date: June 13th, 2015 3:46 PM Author: rambunctious church building travel guidebook
at the very least, you could have led an expedition to the east to find out how the chinese had been making it.
and come to think of it, i don't know what saltpeter is. i would just say the word, and no one would know what i was talking about. pwnd. and come to think of it, i do not know how to get gasoline from oil. there would be a few setbacks on my way to an airplane.
Date: June 13th, 2015 3:45 PM Author: arousing lodge
"Ugh," says one progressive medieval to another, "why does he have to include so much unnecessary violence against women in his stories? Can't he push the narrative forward without resorting to another senseless rape? I mean really, in 1500?"
Date: June 13th, 2015 12:09 AM Author: lake tattoo location
I understand a lot of the principles to the point I could explain them, but I would start with an electric generator because once you have power (and copper was common enough and I am sure you could find a magnet) you can build a lot of stuff. I feel like I could get people to about 1910 technology.
Date: June 13th, 2015 9:23 AM Author: heady pearly crackhouse
I'm not an expert, but I don't even think a blacksmith could recreate one if he had it sitting in front of him. It probably requires precision machining and parts that only could be developed starting in the 1800s. So many of these inventions build on hundreds of earlier, incremental developments that it would be almost impossible to recreate it on your own.
Date: June 13th, 2015 10:13 AM Author: lake tattoo location
If you can get high quality steel and aluminium, you can make pretty much anything if you know how it is designed.
My big gap is I don't know much about chemical engineering, specifically how to refine oil so I am stuck with, at best, diesel type compression engines.
Date: June 13th, 2015 3:46 PM Author: arousing lodge
I could create an early form of XO, where one dude writes an OP on a piece of parchment and then puts it in a cubby hole in a tavern, and then other dudes come, read it, and write their own responses.
Date: June 13th, 2015 4:08 PM Author: sienna theater
I mean you would be a pleb lucky to live on a field with some shelter, you would never even come close to anyone that would be able to help you develop your ideas
Date: June 13th, 2015 4:17 PM Author: Cocky cumskin
I could illustrate the basics of electricity/batteries (which pretty much anyone who had to take intro physics in college can as well). Although I couldn't really build anything useful that uses electricity, I could probably communicate to people how it would be
Nobody will give a shit or pay attention to geology stuff
Date: June 13th, 2015 5:19 PM Author: Thriller marketing idea
I think the biggest change you could make would be to affect ways of thinking.
Maybe introducing coffee, and the whole coffee shop scene as a substitute for slamming ale all day and getting some scholars on board with the scientific method. That's a lasting change that would have an impact far beyond a shitty little steam engine you and a blacksmith bro would spend years almost getting right.
Boil water, wash hands, collect cow shit for burning. use said cow shit to boil water and aspire to opening a bath house with hot, clean babe whores. Paint and draw with perspective. make soap with ashes and animal fat. If I lived near the ocean, I'd collect ocean water and evaporate it to collect the sea salt. Then sell that shit. Save up and sail around the Mediterranean with a band of topless babes on my private sail boat.
Date: June 13th, 2015 6:09 PM Author: Deranged Garrison
LOL, I wouldn't even speak against unions. I'd just talk about bugchasers and hypergamy and cuckoldry and how it's all endorsed by heretical Christian sects.
Date: June 13th, 2015 8:22 PM Author: White exciting house wagecucks
I think the biggest impact you could make immediately would be in reasonably simple health and sanitation - germ theory, antiseptics and antibiotics, the flushing toilet, sewerage, vitamin deficiency, how certain diseases spread, food preservation etc etc