Bro’s resume just says I watched Fast & Furious 9 twice. Hired on the spot.
John_Oakman on
That’s why you should shrill NFTs & crypto, you don’t need to understand any of the underlying tech to get people to hand you their money hand over fist!
IanAlvord on
I’m sure you could get your hands on oranges and pioneer penicillin.
Or maybe you could buy glass and pioneer tiny lenses and germ theory.
capybaring_capybara on
Bro is not Senku Ishigami
Temporary-Guidance20 on
Telling them to wash hands and sterilise medical equipment would help a lots.
Even a complete idiot can probably get to steam age era tech.
The trouble begins when you get to electricity, because it requires high-end metallurgy. But even if you can’t build anything, the things you can explain can cut about 200 years to get to our current timeline. 1600 is not bad at all actually compared to going to a 1000 years ago.
Drudgework on
Hah! I’ve watched every episode of “How it’s Made”, I’m set!
DueDig6588 on
I’d be out there explaining WiFi to farmers while dying of a common cold two days later.
allskinbabe on
draw them pictures
hellmarvel on
The thing is, you DON’T have to build it yourself. You just have to explain to someone with the craft, tools and materials how it’s done and they will do it for you.
Murky_waterLLC on
I understand the basic concepts of electricity and how to generate it using magnets. How to practically apply it is another thing entirely.
BrokenPokerFace on
Engines aren’t too difficult, surround yourself with smart people and then describe the idea of expanding a chamber using combustion to make a shaft rotate. Eventually they will develop it.
ExpensivePractice164 on
Even if you remember and know how to. It’ll take a very long time to get to this level
FLG_CFC on
Given enough time and resources, I’m 100% confident that I could build a modern cartridge and firearm. This will have unforseen conquences and significantly alter the course of human history. Ohh well, I’ll have plenty of wenches and mead.
Crippman on
I feel if you’re able to describe it well enough you can get some modern like tech working
unimportantinfodump on
Assuming anyone would even believe you.
Ideas would advance technology way faster.
Even if you just told some really smart people, it’s possible for people to talk from other sides of the world in real time I’m sure someone would figure it out faster than if they didn’t think it was possible
Susdoggodoggy on
can I wake up in Skyrim instead?
newbmaster123 on
invest bitcoin man
Defiant-Reference-74 on
We are standing on the shoulders of giants
ThisReditter on
I know how to write programs. All I need is a computer!!
sjeveburger on
If you could get people to take you seriously you could make major advances in medicine with even the most basic knowledge
Cleanliness to prevent infection, germ theory, even stuff like the recovery position are going to be advances that otherwise wouldn’t be discovered for hundreds of years
You can encourage people to grow more efficient food like potatoes, clovers are a natural and easy way to fertilise fields that were only starting to become a thing at that time
You can read, write and do maths which are all extremely valuable, your main barrier would be spoken language
You might not be able to invent the Internet, but you could definitely advance society a lot if you could get people to accept your knowledge
Dillenger69 on
I know how to make a generator. I know how to make a light bulb. Heck, I even know how to make a crystal radio. It’s getting quality materials that would be the difficult part. I know how a solid state transistor works, even hiw a basic memory flip-flop works. But where does one source gallium arsenide in 1600? Much less the facility to grow and cut the wafers
You could fall back on tubes, but I have absolutely no idea how to make a diode or triode tube
Chiparish84 on
Only if you’re a total tool today… JK! You could still dominate by remembering how magnesium can make fire?
Free-Suggestion4134 on
I know ancient Mesopotamian peoples had knowledge of mathematics and astronomy, so they likely also had a strong grasp on pure logic. Logic that transcended centuries and utilized throughout many empires. Examples being the Babylonians, Egyptians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans to name a few. So, perhaps, knowing basic logic could serve in the study of such technologies to where someone who, assuming to have time traveled, could reverse engineer many of the technologies from 1600 (assuming CE) onward.
AllenKll on
Is the general populous this dumb or is this just a joke?
guardwoman12345 on
At that point, I’d get small barrels and make muskets at that point.
First I’d make enough money to buy gunpowder and start assembling muskets
Feenx_Fan on
Not a problem for my 🐐
Bullke on
Okay, lets start with the basics: the mythocondria is the powerhouse of a cell.
Nah for real tho, people are talking about technology but imagine introducing antbiotics and the concept of viruses to that people at that time? Without the risk of going to the stick of course. Just imagine the wonders we’d have with a longer lifespan at that time? Over population would actually be thought of by the middle of the 18th Century most likely.
Engines could be build bit by bit, we know the basics of how it works, imagine explaining it to a DaVinci or something like that? With your knowledge you would be able to tell, pretty much instantly, whats bullshit and not.
You would be an unbalance to wichever king would host you. Pretty much owning a walking domination machine.
The real question would be actually WHERE would you “spawn”? Would you know the language? I would NOT like to live in medieval europe or the 1600s America as a continent, so probably by china?
morbuz97 on
In the unprobable event of going back to medieval times there is one thing you need to know. How quickly send a message across a country securely, that single thing is gonna make you richest mf ever
XipingVonHozzendorf on
People underestimate the difficulty in pioneering a lot of these inventions. You may think, ” oh, the printing press, super easy, barely an inconvenience to make” but then you run into issues like what alloy of metal to use for the letters (yes, it matters).
It’s not just the invention itself, but all it’s component parts
-gisette on
In all seriousness, a fantasy series about a time traveler bringing modern tech or how to build it would be interesting as hell.
AthenaRedites on
You could figure out how to make:
Bike
Steam engine
Glider
No-Wonder1139 on
This is how you build a battery! -What is this sorcery? Thou casteth a plague upon this land with thine dark majick! Witch! Purify him with fire, cast the witch atop the cleaning flames of our Lord, to the auto da fe!
arglarg on
At least you can impress them with highschool maths
Owslicer on
I have a basic enough understanding of medicine and technology to be leagues ahead of anyone there anyways. I just gotta fuck around, and find out.
realultralord on
I have a degree in electrical engineering, but I wouldn’t know shit about fuck in how to make, or even where to find copper wire in 1600.
AnalysisParalysis85 on
Still on time to ‘invent’ calculus.
themagicalfire on
The priority in 1600s should be to teach medicine, not technology. Lol
kokvald on
Start with something simple. In 1600 it wouldn’t be much of a problem to build a mountain bike, it would change much.
That way you prove yourself as someone smart, you get access to everything you need to build even a simple electric generator/motor, then light system and so on. Most of it would be researched by brightest minds and advanced further.
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Bro’s resume just says I watched Fast & Furious 9 twice. Hired on the spot.
That’s why you should shrill NFTs & crypto, you don’t need to understand any of the underlying tech to get people to hand you their money hand over fist!
I’m sure you could get your hands on oranges and pioneer penicillin.
Or maybe you could buy glass and pioneer tiny lenses and germ theory.
Bro is not Senku Ishigami
Telling them to wash hands and sterilise medical equipment would help a lots.
And this would catapult humanity af:
https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/s/b7BUwHZ9st
Even a complete idiot can probably get to steam age era tech.
The trouble begins when you get to electricity, because it requires high-end metallurgy. But even if you can’t build anything, the things you can explain can cut about 200 years to get to our current timeline. 1600 is not bad at all actually compared to going to a 1000 years ago.
Hah! I’ve watched every episode of “How it’s Made”, I’m set!
I’d be out there explaining WiFi to farmers while dying of a common cold two days later.
draw them pictures
The thing is, you DON’T have to build it yourself. You just have to explain to someone with the craft, tools and materials how it’s done and they will do it for you.
I understand the basic concepts of electricity and how to generate it using magnets. How to practically apply it is another thing entirely.
Engines aren’t too difficult, surround yourself with smart people and then describe the idea of expanding a chamber using combustion to make a shaft rotate. Eventually they will develop it.
Even if you remember and know how to. It’ll take a very long time to get to this level
Given enough time and resources, I’m 100% confident that I could build a modern cartridge and firearm. This will have unforseen conquences and significantly alter the course of human history. Ohh well, I’ll have plenty of wenches and mead.
I feel if you’re able to describe it well enough you can get some modern like tech working
Assuming anyone would even believe you.
Ideas would advance technology way faster.
Even if you just told some really smart people, it’s possible for people to talk from other sides of the world in real time I’m sure someone would figure it out faster than if they didn’t think it was possible
can I wake up in Skyrim instead?
invest bitcoin man
We are standing on the shoulders of giants
I know how to write programs. All I need is a computer!!
If you could get people to take you seriously you could make major advances in medicine with even the most basic knowledge
Cleanliness to prevent infection, germ theory, even stuff like the recovery position are going to be advances that otherwise wouldn’t be discovered for hundreds of years
You can encourage people to grow more efficient food like potatoes, clovers are a natural and easy way to fertilise fields that were only starting to become a thing at that time
You can read, write and do maths which are all extremely valuable, your main barrier would be spoken language
You might not be able to invent the Internet, but you could definitely advance society a lot if you could get people to accept your knowledge
I know how to make a generator. I know how to make a light bulb. Heck, I even know how to make a crystal radio. It’s getting quality materials that would be the difficult part. I know how a solid state transistor works, even hiw a basic memory flip-flop works. But where does one source gallium arsenide in 1600? Much less the facility to grow and cut the wafers
You could fall back on tubes, but I have absolutely no idea how to make a diode or triode tube
Only if you’re a total tool today… JK! You could still dominate by remembering how magnesium can make fire?
I know ancient Mesopotamian peoples had knowledge of mathematics and astronomy, so they likely also had a strong grasp on pure logic. Logic that transcended centuries and utilized throughout many empires. Examples being the Babylonians, Egyptians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans to name a few. So, perhaps, knowing basic logic could serve in the study of such technologies to where someone who, assuming to have time traveled, could reverse engineer many of the technologies from 1600 (assuming CE) onward.
Is the general populous this dumb or is this just a joke?
At that point, I’d get small barrels and make muskets at that point.
First I’d make enough money to buy gunpowder and start assembling muskets
Not a problem for my 🐐
Okay, lets start with the basics: the mythocondria is the powerhouse of a cell.
Nah for real tho, people are talking about technology but imagine introducing antbiotics and the concept of viruses to that people at that time? Without the risk of going to the stick of course. Just imagine the wonders we’d have with a longer lifespan at that time? Over population would actually be thought of by the middle of the 18th Century most likely.
Engines could be build bit by bit, we know the basics of how it works, imagine explaining it to a DaVinci or something like that? With your knowledge you would be able to tell, pretty much instantly, whats bullshit and not.
You would be an unbalance to wichever king would host you. Pretty much owning a walking domination machine.
The real question would be actually WHERE would you “spawn”? Would you know the language? I would NOT like to live in medieval europe or the 1600s America as a continent, so probably by china?
In the unprobable event of going back to medieval times there is one thing you need to know. How quickly send a message across a country securely, that single thing is gonna make you richest mf ever
People underestimate the difficulty in pioneering a lot of these inventions. You may think, ” oh, the printing press, super easy, barely an inconvenience to make” but then you run into issues like what alloy of metal to use for the letters (yes, it matters).
It’s not just the invention itself, but all it’s component parts
In all seriousness, a fantasy series about a time traveler bringing modern tech or how to build it would be interesting as hell.
You could figure out how to make:
Bike
Steam engine
Glider
This is how you build a battery! -What is this sorcery? Thou casteth a plague upon this land with thine dark majick! Witch! Purify him with fire, cast the witch atop the cleaning flames of our Lord, to the auto da fe!
At least you can impress them with highschool maths
I have a basic enough understanding of medicine and technology to be leagues ahead of anyone there anyways. I just gotta fuck around, and find out.
I have a degree in electrical engineering, but I wouldn’t know shit about fuck in how to make, or even where to find copper wire in 1600.
Still on time to ‘invent’ calculus.
The priority in 1600s should be to teach medicine, not technology. Lol
Start with something simple. In 1600 it wouldn’t be much of a problem to build a mountain bike, it would change much.
That way you prove yourself as someone smart, you get access to everything you need to build even a simple electric generator/motor, then light system and so on. Most of it would be researched by brightest minds and advanced further.