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

[Ancalagon44]

Whats the point of the exercise?

I'd send a camcorder back to 0AD in the hopes somebody records something interesting.

 

[Kirby]

Electric guitar to sometime between 1685 and 1750. Hopefully JSB could get his hands on it.

 

[darkxshade]

Whats the point of the exercise?

No point really, it's was just an exercise... to kill time literally and figuratively

 

[Kev]

What would it be, to when would you send it and why?


Rules:

1. When you send it to has to be at least 100 years before you were born.

2. You have no control over who gets its... it cannot end up in the hands of an ancestor along your bloodline. OR This object cannot be sent for the purpose of benefitting only you in any way shape or form in the present.

3. The object will not come with an instruction manual or anything to explain its use to the stranger who receive it. They will have to figure it out on their own.

4. The object may be preloaded with what it needs to operate but nothing more... eg: a gun/rifle can be sent with a loaded mag but cannot be sent equipped with a scope, suppressor, laser sights, etc.

5. You cannot send ideas or anything that covers too broad a spectrum eg: You cannot send books, blueprints, etc.

6. You cannot send a person... ok you can but they will not survive the trip back in time because to send them back alive would violate rule 5 unless they go back in time a vegetable.



The purpose of this exercise is to determine the most practical item and most optimal time to send said item that would result in a change to our timeline with a successful overall improvement to our society as a whole today. Go!


edit: updated example for rule 4 and added rule 6.

I would send nothing, because the butterfly effect could possibly result in my never being born.

 

[dainthomas]

You've just come up with the plot for "The Final Countdown: The Sequel"

Final Countdown is one of the awesomest movies ever!

 

[sourceninja]

I would send a robot that contains the entire working collective knowledge of humanity, a atomic power source, and the desire to kill all humans.

 

[Patranus]

iPad -> Steve Jobs

 

[SunnyD]

I'd send a copy of the Qu'ran to Moses. By the time he gets done reading that shit, he'd give up on the whole religion thing and we'd have been spared about 90% of the wars that have happened in human history. Who knows, we might all even get along.

Edit: BTW, fuck your stupid "rules".

 

[illusion88]

I would send a giant pillar. With any luck it turns regular apes into bone wielding super apes!

 

[PricklyPete]

Am I too late to throw in a Fleshlight back to Adam....

 

[MegaVovaN]

Ignoring the rules (things so much more interesting if you could address things to people),

Send a giant vault full of precious metals (gold, platinum, etc) to Nikola Tesla so he can finance his research & not get so depressed as to destroy his writings.

 

[OverVolt]

I'd send a car to the middle of time square in 1000ad

 

[Ancalagon44]

You know time square wont exist then right?

I'd send a notebook with an atomic power supply back to leonardi da vinci so that he can record his work and hopefully not have it destroyed by ignorant monks.

 

[MegaVovaN]

You know time square wont exist then right?

I'd send a notebook with an atomic power supply back to leonardi da vinci so that he can record his work and hopefully not have it destroyed by ignorant monks.

They would club the laptop with stones

 

[yh125d]

Screw the rules. Send an enormous encyclopaedic compendium containing all pertinent info regarding the industrial revolution and it's innovations to kick modern civilization into gear 300 years before it did, so that by now we'd have FRIKKIN LIGHTSABERS AND SHIT

 

[Juddog]

I would send an iPad to Nikola Tesla.

 

[Possessed Freak]

I send a duplicate time machine with power through.

 

[Juddog]

I send a duplicate time machine with power through.

How many jiggawatts?