• hlqxz@lemmy.ml
    16·
    9 months ago

    They should make a movie about this. An average guy accidentally time travels and feels embarrassed every minute

  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
    9·
    9 months ago

    Fools as i carry with me all of human knowledge, right here in this fragile tiny black slab. I can tell you all once you tell me what your wifi password is.

  • trailing9@lemmy.ml
    6·
    9 months ago

    All you have to do is teaching intelligent people some math and tell them about experiments and that nature can be understood. The rest will follow.

    Everything can be accelerated by adding the idea of the printing press.

    • yata@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      9 months ago

      The main challenge with inventing a working printing press would be the papermaking and level of metalworking required for the movable type.

      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
        6·
        9 months ago

        pretty sure you can just use wood or whatever for the lettering, sure it might be kinda shit and tend to break but it should work. having to make new letter stamps every now and then is better than painstakingly writing every letter for hand.

        • yata@sh.itjust.works
          4·
          9 months ago

          The main problem with that is that you can’t make the types very small with wood, and the singlemost expensive ingredient in this whole printing press concept is the paper.

          So you would end up having books with very little text on each page, and especially in a slave economy, it would just be much cheaper to make handwritten copies, since you could cram a lot more words on each page.

          And again, this is not adressing the issue of even having the skill to make paper in the first place.

      • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee
        3·
        9 months ago

        Not to mention inventing an alphabet depending on where and when you go to. Or you could go with ConstantScript if you feel like being a gigantic troll.

        Abugida might be workable if you reform it so that vowel markers can only appear above or below the modified consonant.

    • WarmSoda@lemm.ee
      2·
      9 months ago

      Did the Greeks not do experiments? They knew math. They even hypothetically knew about atoms.

      • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
        3·
        9 months ago

        The Greeks held themselves back because most of their intellectual elite considered abstract thought as more noble than hands-on experimenting.

  • PatFusty@lemm.ee
    5·
    9 months ago

    If you went back in time and tried this, most civilizations would probably burn you at the stake

  • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
    2·
    9 months ago

    It isn’t so hard really, to make electricity even in the olden days.

    A dynamo is just a copper wire with a magnet spinning inside.

    Making a copper wire you can accomplish by having a hole at the bottom of a kiln that drops directly into a big vat of water. Or even just drawing a line in the sand and pouring it in there.

    Getting your hands on a natural magnet might pose more problems, but ultimately those are found in nature. So they should have already been dug up by someone.

    Using the electricity usefully is harder. Since creating a light bulb needs access to gasses. What could we even use the electricity for?

  • Arcania85@lemmy.world
    2·
    9 months ago

    Watch the docter stone anime, it’s quite amusing. TL.DW super dude get petrified for like 3000 years and wakes up and re-introduces technology.

    • Chailles@lemmy.world
      1·
      9 months ago

      Something that people miss though is that they do hit some roadblocks that if not for some extremely lucky coincidences, they wouldn’t have any way to do it. Specifically for various materials that just so happen to be around them.

  • WarmSoda@lemm.ee
    1·
    9 months ago

    For anyone interested a simple way is to wrap copper wire around a magnet. Static electricity was also one of the first ways people started noticing electricity.

    Parlor tricks might be able to get you far when you time travel to the ancient past.

  • sivalente@lemm.ee
    1·
    9 months ago

    If you could find a jeweller and had an understanding of basic electrical systems, you could probably get a rudimentary capacitor and engine going. From there, who knows what you could do. Maybe even lightbulbs.

  • Papercrane@feddit.de
    1·
    9 months ago

    First of all, no one would understand you, but how someone already pointed out, make a spool with copper and spin it. For bonus points, put a iron slab inside the spool

    Edit: as someone pointed out you kinda need a magnet

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      9 months ago

      eh language barriers are generally overstated i think, people with completely unrelated languages develop pidgins within the decade, and if you’re dropped into a place where they speak some complete gibberish like french you’ll still just naturally figure it out given a year or so of being forced to endure it.

      • Papercrane@feddit.de
        0·
        9 months ago

        That is very true, but maybe they would just kill you or think that you are crazy before you would have the chance to actually change mankind

        • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
          1·
          9 months ago

          maybe, but frankly i think it’s at least equally likely that they just see you as a blessing from the heavens and frankly get a little too enthusiastic about your knowledge.