VANITY You Are Transported To The Year 742 AD Europe And Allowed To Bring 3 Items From The Future

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[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.

[Robert DeLong]

3 gold bars. Then I can setup a kingdom of my own..

[flintsilver7]

http://www.amazon.com/Fleshlight-Original-Male-Masturbator-Pink/dp/B0026P3P7M

I hope you meant flashlight.

[Anima Mundi]

The series “Connections”, video player and solar batteries.

[FourtySeven]

1. A shirt
2. A pair of pants
3. A good pair of shoes

I didn’t know if clothes would be included in the trip. It wasn’t specified so I had to assume not.

Don’t wanna be caught naked in 8th century Europe.

[tcrlaf]

penicillin
Plans for a steam-powered electric generator
A Barrett 82A1

[Valpal1]

My spinning wheel, my drum carder and my interchangeable knitting needle set.

I won’t conquer the world, or jumpstart the industrial revolution, but I will be able to earn a living at fifty and female.

[mnehring]

Ipad loaded with reference books on medicine, chemistry, engineering, etc. (Still counts as one item). Solar charger for ipad.. Water purifier.

[FourtySeven]

Oh you do get clothes.

Ok well then:

1. A good telescope
2. A good microscope
3. A flashlight

[tanknetter]

1.) Hand-cranked flashlight

2.) 2-liter soda bottle (empty)

3.) Survival hatchet or Swiss Army Knife. I’d prefer both, but would lean towards the hatchet.

[occamrzr06]

and I need time to figure out what has vit C.

Let me give you a head start. Citrus fruit has vitamin C.

[Renderofveils]

I hope everyone carrying books back to 742AD Europe are capable of explaining paper. :)

That being said (and completely applicable to all three of these,) my three items:
One roll of duct tape.
One metal cup.
One Gerber Gator machete.

[mnehring]

That was awesome. It is cool that some people still have those skills.

[BwanaNdege]

Make sure you have the human diploid rabies, plague, meningitis and the whole alphabet of hepatitis shots, in addition to the usual yellow fever, polio, typhoid & tetanus immunizations.

(”Pincushion City!”)

A good backpacking water filter until you can make a “BioSand” filter for your home/hut/hovel/cave.

Pocket Ref 4th Edition [Paperback] Thomas Glover $8.68 Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Pocket-Ref-Edition-Thomas-Glover/dp/1885071620/ref=dp_ob_title_bk

Finally, your favorite Leatherman, Swiss Army Knife, Gerber, etc with belt sheath & lanyard (I’m cheating a bit here with the lanyard. Mine is 50’ of nylon parachute cord.)

[mnehring]

Pine needles

[skinkinthegrass]

1. A nuclear warhead to be used in Mekkah.
2. A second nuclear warhead to be used in Medina.
3. A third nuclear warhead to keep any followers of Mohammad in line.excellent choice...& put on some 45spf grade...
sunshade/sunglasses; before you go..safety first. 8-/

[cuban leaf]

And a hint about “How Few Remain”. In a subsequent war, the south’s secret weapon is the Camel.

there is a WWI stage of his books too. In that one, Germany sides with the country in the north and France and Britain side with the southern country, giving us an American front in WWI.

I bought hard copies of all his WWII books, where we are invaded by aliens in the middle of the war, but felt I was being strung along by the second book and threw out the lot.

But Guns of the South is awesome and “How Few Remain is pretty darned good.

[RandallFlagg]

Three items? Okay.

The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E)

Done.

[RandallFlagg]

I ALMOST was going to say something about that typo....

[GenXteacher]

A comprehensive book on engineering, a comprehensive book on gunsmithing, and a comprehensive book on chemistry. I carry the formulae for gunpowder (black and smokeless varieties) in my back pocket at all times, so it is part of the clothes on my back. My goal would be to first establish a private army armed with advanced weapons; second to establish an empire over Eurasia by 762; stamp out all traces of Islam by 782. I would also assume both the Papacy and the throne of the Byzantine empire, and in doing so establish permanently a united Christian faith all across the lands I ruled. I would be corrupted by the power I wielded, ruling by force and terror, and eventually be overthrown by my subjects, who would then fight amongst themselves and destroy civilization. No doubt I would have an interesting paragraph in a history textbook. Perhaps I would even be regarded by revisionist historians as a great humanitarian because of the wonders of technology.

[trailhkr1]

2.) 2-liter soda bottle (empty)

I would do what the locals did to carry my water and would come up with something else as my second choice...unless you have another purpose for the bottle.