Posted on 10/14/2012 8:02:34 AM PDT by trailhkr1
What would they be? A gun? Then you are only allowed to bring 2 bullets..see how that works?? Some basic ground rules..has to be a realistic items you can get you hands on today..no tanks etc. You are going with just the clothes on your back + the 3 items to survive an mingle with the folks of the day. Never coming back.
Saw this question on another site and wanted to see what you guys would come up with..I will post that link tomorrow after everyone has a chance to come up with their ideas..some people came up with good ideas (detailed history text of the time in Europe, antibiotics) and other people's ideas..not so much.
So when a 15 cent part goes kaputt in the computer 2 days after arriving in 724 a.d. you are screwed...
Win.
A comprehensive volume on Medicine
A comprehensive volume on engineering processes
A comprehensive volume on modern weaponry
How about some anti-plague vaccine?
Lots of writers have taken a crack at that question over the years.
The Connecticut Yankee did pretty well (for a while).
In another short story I read the poor modern man transported back discovered he didn’t have the tools to make the tools he needed to make modern technology.
Eye glasses, big bag of gold, dental floss.
When has a part gone wrong in your computer lately?
Extra pair of boots
Extra pair of reading/eyeglasses
I’d have all my shots done, like for a trip to Uganda.
Books. Each one covering a multitude of items.
A book on gun and gunpowder making.
A book on health symptoms and natural cures including opiates for pain, alcohol production for sterilization.
A magnifying glass to make fire.
a Mountain Bike;
a “Seed” Potatoe [unless I’m being dumped in South America],
& a Farmer’s Almanac
Good idea.
an excellent compound bow...arrows will be easy to make
a book on how to make all the cool stuff needed to conquer....nitrate-charcoal-sulfur...where to find it etc and how to make a functioning barrel
endless supply of STD defeating antibiotics since I am sure to be rather popular with the girls given my tools will make me popular
My goal would be to jump start every century so that by the the time when Columbus would have discovered America instead Native Americans have already developed steam engines and an intercontinental railway and are about to achieve the first manned flight in an aircraft.
Let the Euroweenies fall to their knees knowing that in America the Indian tribes are over 200 years or more advanced than they are.
Hopefully an isolated superior advanced nation built soley upon native Americans like the Cherokee and such become the dominant rulers of the free world. Bigger than Britain or Germany, more powerful but not warmongers instead.
Laptop, alternator, copy of Encarta.
I’d use tools of the day to enable the alternator to be used as a charger for the laptop.
Three large ships, or I aint going!
Antibiotics and a tweezer
A sturdy knife.
Large print KJV Bible, I just know I’d drop my glasses.
And six months supply of vitamin C, most people had scurvy or where on the verge of scurvy, and I need time to figure out what has vit C.
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