I wouldn't call them whackjob's I would however say they are misguided. My Bible doesn't say a specific age of the Earth and fossils do prove we have been around for more than 6,000 years.
I would try to stop the 1000 years of scientific repression. Or grab a bag of popcorn and watch some Dinosaur fights.
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After 10:30 PST, my IQ drops to around that of a shovel, please disregard anything I say after aforementioned time, it will likely not make any sense, and is best ignored.
I like how people are saying they'd go way back and change everything for the better, like one undereducated person could do that.
It helps if you have working knowledge of how to make things. If I were to go back, I'd probably go back to the time of the Republic of Rome and try to learn Latin. Then I'd be able to teach math, chemistry, and physics, as well as sell my ideas and engineering services to the government. Ideas I could potentially develop include:
camouflage and modern military tactics
fiberglass (for boats)
different hull designs (such as catamarans and sloops, which are much faster and more efficient than period vessels)
firearms (probably can't do much better than cannons and flintlock weaponry due to period manufacturing limitations)
electricity [generators, lights, motors, solenoids, electromagnets, et cetera (oh damn I know latin already)]
steam-powered vehicles
reinforced concrete
modern political ideas (how to not make tons of enemies and drive your economy into the ground)
modern ideas on currency (specifically, how to give a currency faith value without it having any material value)
plumbing without the plumbum (ie: how to not poison your country's drinking water)
Not to mention my historical knowledge. I could predict the rise and fall of the republic and the empire. But of course all I would do there would be aimed at preventing the fall. I could outshine Archimedes and make Hari Seldon look like a two-bit fortune teller. It would all be too grand until I was assassinated.
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I wouldn't call them whackjob's I would however say they are misguided. My Bible doesn't say a specific age of the Earth and fossils do prove we have been around for more than 6,000 years.
It helps if you have working knowledge of how to make things. If I were to go back, I'd probably go back to the time of the Republic of Rome and try to learn Latin. Then I'd be able to teach math, chemistry, and physics, as well as sell my ideas and engineering services to the government. Ideas I could potentially develop include:
camouflage and modern military tactics
fiberglass (for boats)
different hull designs (such as catamarans and sloops, which are much faster and more efficient than period vessels)
firearms (probably can't do much better than cannons and flintlock weaponry due to period manufacturing limitations)
electricity [generators, lights, motors, solenoids, electromagnets, et cetera (oh damn I know latin already)]
steam-powered vehicles
reinforced concrete
modern political ideas (how to not make tons of enemies and drive your economy into the ground)
modern ideas on currency (specifically, how to give a currency faith value without it having any material value)
plumbing without the plumbum (ie: how to not poison your country's drinking water)
Not to mention my historical knowledge. I could predict the rise and fall of the republic and the empire. But of course all I would do there would be aimed at preventing the fall. I could outshine Archimedes and make Hari Seldon look like a two-bit fortune teller. It would all be too grand until I was assassinated.