Exercise: You can teleport any one object to a random stranger in the past

[Freshgeardude]

ignoring the rules, id send myself a sports almanac on all of the scores of games for the past 10 years.

Invest money from those winnings into google, microsoft and apple.

richest man alive much?

 

[darkxshade]

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It was the best example I could come up with at the time... when I think of a better example, I will amend it but people should understand what I'm trying to say with that rule.

 

[shiner]

I'd send Dave McCowen back to the late Permian / Early Triassic period.

 

[Platypus]

come on, no one is going to say something inflammatory ? like sending a copy of a lil jon CD and a player back to 1863 or something?

you guys are falling off lately

 

[Anonemous]

Send a T800 to terminate Sarah Connor.

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

A 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88 loaded with scientific textbooks, a shotgun, and a chainsaw.

 

[child of wonder]

The book "Dude, where's my country?" to England circa 1300 CE. That should confuse the fuck out of them.

 

[OCGuy]

I'd send Dave McCowen back to the late Permian / Early Triassic period.

Read the rules. It would have to be at least 100yrs before he was born.

 

[darkxshade]

There, amended the gun example, hopefully that makes more sense.

 

[Blackjack200]

ignoring the rules, id send myself a sports almanac on all of the scores of games for the past 10 years.

Invest money from those winnings into google, microsoft and apple.

richest man alive much?

Biff beat you to it.

 

[SlitheryDee]

I would send a random person to the precambrian. Creationists would then have irrefutable proof that humans lived alongside dinosaurs when scientists find their fossilized remains sometime in the early 1900s. The world will then bind together in one unified christian theocracy.

It didn't have to be a good outcome did it?

 

[Ancalagon44]

I'd send a self contained compact factory powered by a small nuclear reactor that took metal in one side and produced M16s out the other, along with ammunition, back to the 1300s. And maybe simple Portal-style diagrams on what to do with them. Armored knights vs M16s, hell yeah.

I'd send a Delorean back to 1955. Just because.

 

[RoloMather]

Fleshlight with lube.

 

[Fox5]

Eh, without books, no direct knowledge can be sent back. I guess you could send a diagram depicting some mathematical concepts but...

A piece of easily understandable technology would probably be best. Something self powered too, since you won't be able to go too far back relying on something that requires a wall socket. A car would be a good idea, there'd be a pretty good chance of figuring out how it works, how to fuel it, and how to use the ideas well before the actual invention of the car. Imagine how devastating war could have been if they had vehicles and tanks before civilization even approached modern levels? It would be complete genocide.

 

[Quasmo]

space shuttle

 

[Fox5]

space shuttle

That could cause a lot of advancement even if just a bit of the technology in that was reverse engineered.

Most likely it would just be the rocket engines, and war would become terrible much earlier.

 

[darkxshade]

That could cause a lot of advancement even if just a bit of the technology in that was reverse engineered.

Most likely it would just be the rocket engines, and war would become terrible much earlier.

Which is why there's also a "when" aspect as part of the question which he didn't answer. Send it back too far and risk them tearing it apart and not figuring out what it does = wasted. Send it back to soon and we don't advance very far technologically.

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

A cadillac sent to the age of the dinosaurs.

 

[bobdole369]

A steam engine to the 1600's. It would have a pictogram denoting wood to be placed and set aflame in the burner area, and water into the boiler.

I'm thinking rule 3 violation, but it isn't a manual, just pictures and arrows.

 

[hanoverphist]

A cadillac sent to the age of the dinosaurs.

the tv show was great

 

[darkxshade]

A steam engine to the 1600's. It would have a pictogram denoting wood to be placed and set aflame in the burner area, and water into the boiler.

I'm thinking rule 3 violation, but it isn't a manual, just pictures and arrows.

yup violation though what you could do is send a used one so that one look into the burner by the stranger, they should be able to see evidence of what it did and would therefoer be more inclined to set something in fire in there and figure it out on their own.

 

[Kadarin]

I would send a random person to the precambrian. Creationists would then have irrefutable proof that humans lived alongside dinosaurs when scientists find their fossilized remains sometime in the early 1900s. The world will then bind together in one unified christian theocracy.

It didn't have to be a good outcome did it?

Sarah Palin would probably die from orgasm overload if that ever actually happened.

 

[BassBomb]

A gun... to Jesus

 

[sdifox]

giant block of platinum

 

[soulcougher73]

Id send a solar power flash light to the caveman era.