If you woke up one day and discovered you'd time traveled backwards two thousand years, would you be able to use your knowledge of the future to invent anything useful?
>tfw I literally don't know how to build anything with material substance because I'm a software developer brainlet and in a world without electronic computers I would have zero utility for society
If you woke up one day and discovered you'd time traveled backwards two thousand years...
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tfw you couldn't even make an internal combustion engine for a caveman because he hasn't invented metal yet and you know f/a about smelting... or carburretors...fml
“The Vintner”
After getting horribly drunk on a radical new brew he made, a homebrewer ends up in the distant past (3,000 B.C.E.) and must time travel through various times to return to his own time.
Like Sliders and Quantum Leap mixed in a bottle, where the “hero” must get completely passed out drunk in order to advance to the next era in civilization. It will not work with the same brew twice. He must make a new brew that does not exist in that era for it to work. He becomes responsible for many of the more famous/staple brews in civilization. General exploits follow each episode in trying to create a new brew in that era with ingredients in whatever random location and time he ends up in. His drunken time traveling leaves him hung over and with a fuzzy memory between his time traveling trips. The story line focuses heavily on solving other people’s problems through alcohol and knowledge he attained when not hung over and asleep during college lectures.
He finally makes it back to his time, only to get drunk at a party after mixing up a new drink out of habit and ends up passed out, on a busy highway, while hover cars zoom just inches over him. That being the last scene of the last episode.
Regardless of what you were able to do, you would probably be put to death for being possessed because of speaking in tongues (as 'English' back then was completely different), and for creating things that could only be the work of the devil as far as they knew.
I would introduce them to the concept of the sandwich.
i have enough of a knowledge base to jump start the industrial revolution.
its like, 4-5 critical processes and a handful of fairly simple machines.
i could make a table and chair. sandwich bombs cannons. genital shaving
Europe wasn't Christian 2,000 years ago...
Tits or gtfo
Could you build a steam engine from scratch? Because that'd be pretty impressive.