You are an accidental time traveler. You are sent back with nothing but the clothes you are wearing, and enough cash to last you three weeks.You can choose what year you land in:> 1700> 1800> 1900Questions:1. Which year do you choose?2. What do you do to survive and thrive in the past?3. Which modern(ish) technologies could you recreate from memory, and in what order would you create them?
>>180391111700 survival was very easy if you're not an NPC. 1800 it's not really any different.1950 you might need to use money. Before then everything was free. That's it. You're asking about boomers. All modern technologies would be easy in all those cases because resources were available.
>>18039111OP here. I'll start:I'd go to 1800. In that year, there's enough industrial development to support building new tech, but not so modern that most industries are locked outThe first tech I would develop would be the safety pin. Originally invented in 1849; it's relatively easy to produce, instantly profitable, and can be used to help finance everything else going forward. With help on the machining, I could probably get a good start on:> Petroleum distilling, gasoline> electrical generation and the telegraph> the internal combustion engine and the tractor
>>18039117thank you for participating. But:> all modern technologies would be easyThat only applies if you take with you, in your mind, the knowledge to develop those technologies. half the battle here is being able to remember enough of the design and construction of the various techs to be able to reproduce them without a modern example or diagram
>>18039133It isn't hard. It's impossible to not make a computer if you have lithography. It's just iteration of what chemists do.Although making computers cheaply on a large scale is hard, an amateur can make a chip in about a year and it isn't complex especially if everyone around you is a boomer and will just do whatever you ask.Main problem would be the shock of someone being able to do things so easily rather than difficulty doing it. You would be some kind of demon and everyone would kill themselves.
>>180391111900bettinganti biotics
>>18039162Betting as a professional gambler, or will you be betting on the most famous games/events?
>>18039111>1900>get basic white-collar job >begin betting on stock market, buy the dip during during the Panic of 1901>by 1914 have a sizeable fortune>make a killing off the war, begin involving myself in politics>involve myself with prominent peace movements in Europe>convince Mosley to stay with Labour, help him win the 1937 election>meanwhile help the Germans develop radar+jet engines>With Britain out of the war, WWII essentially boils down to fascism and communism destroying each other with the West swooping down on the losers>retire with my now dynastic fortune>enjoy a White ruled world in my old age
>>18039111>no 1600Come on, man!
>>18039185All things considered, a practical plan. Just make sure you don't accidently take that white collar job at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company
>>18039187Way to difficult, in my opinion. Drop an average anon anywhere in 1600 and they probably wouldn't last the week.
Internal combustion engines are nascent; designing improved engines could be my chance to dominate early aviation industries.
>>180391111900I walk into a store, give the owner a handshake and ask for a job.I wouldn't invent anything, I'd listen to what they wanted to invent. And that's what no one else did.
>>180391111933. I use my future knowledge to ensure that Germany wins the war.
>>18040523You would have better luck waiting 5 years for the Russo Japanese War instead of waiting 39 years for WW2
>>18040523> follow behind you> 1907... offer Hitler an art scholarship to some small college in the United States> World War 2 possibly avoided>>18040531Interesting times for Europe. I know the Russian Revolution happened during the first world war; but I'm not sure if losing the fleet during the russo-japanese war sped things up or somehow made the revolution possible later. However, if you're going in that direction, you have a lot of theoretical options:> do you prevent the russian revolution, or do you speed it up?> do you allow Lenin to get on that train or do you stop him from going to Russia?> If you stop communism from happening, what does that do not only to germany's future but also the rest of europe's?Of course remember the rules, you're landing with nothing but your clothes, your brains, and a small amount of money. Knowing how history will play out and being in a position to walk in and tell anyone anything is different
>>18039206Thats because this board is majority atheist and they would get killed.
>>18039185>>enjoy a White ruled world in my old ageYou didn't stop ZOG, though.
>>18041373One day I look on the internet, there's a picture:Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone, Henry Ford, John Burroughs, and this anon >>18039185 having out at a rich guy's only weekend party
