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What would you take back with you?

Started by eacao , May 05 2012 12:25 PM

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eacao
Posted 05 May 2012 - 12:25 PM

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If you were going to 20k B.C while we were still at the height of our primitiveness, and you were sent back to somewhere in Europe (say Germany) with your regular survival utensils (a knife, water bottle and a zippo lighter) and a backpack containing something of your choosing, what would that be?

I think I'd take back some yeast. That way I'd be able to brew alcohol for disinfecting and maybe bump medicine forward thousands of years.

P.S just for the sake of it, you're sent back into some friendly and welcoming tribe so you're not spending all your time scrounging for food. You have people to watch your back. That way, you can get down to business, and be history's first scientist if you choose to. :)

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Posted 05 May 2012 - 01:54 PM

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I know its cheating, but a solar powered laptop (durable military) with a cache of wikipedia on it.
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Posted 05 May 2012 - 02:32 PM

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Maybe keep it to stuff which you can have access to. Includes stuff from Bunnings and that, don't want to restrict you but realistic things.

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"If you don't want people looking down at you then grow up"
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Posted 06 May 2012 - 03:30 AM

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If I was limited to the stuff in my house, I would say my guitar. I would already have the kit you gave us in the first post. I don't want to be bored, so I'd take a lot of strings lol.

I don't really have any science books relevant to that era. I could bring my history books or math ones but they would be useless then.
"I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.” -E.B. White
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Logically Irrational
Posted 06 May 2012 - 05:06 AM

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I might bring a shovel or similar. Get irrigation and the green revolution started 10,000 years early.
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Posted 06 May 2012 - 09:09 AM

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I would take the modern day version of the Encyclopædia Britannica and hope we end up to become brainer in the past. So we would invent things and become more technologically advanced by thousands of years and be the first people in space or something by the Roman period whilst in the modern day we would be living in outer space by 2012AD..

Edited by Time_Traveller, 06 May 2012 - 09:12 AM.

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Posted 06 May 2012 - 09:39 AM

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Print of instructions to build some tools, tools to do it, some books that would help kickstart civilisation, and something to be able to pass that knowledge - books may be too fragile to survive centuries and kick things along the way...
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