
Let's say you're able to travel back in time and you aren't a 17 year old from Hill Valley with parental issues. Sure, you might want to throw down for some stock in Google, maybe purchase some property in downtown Manhattan ... things like that. But why not blow the lesser-developed minds of the 18th century? With the cheat sheet above, you'll be able to teach them how to fly, develop crazy glue, or fight diabetes by extracting insulin from the pancreases of dogs or pigs. They'll worship you as a god.
(The Long Now via Noah Brier)
Also print some YBNBY posts to read until they invent the internet... too bad you can't comment back...
Ass licking aside, I was just going to post it on the forum. I read it at my lunch time I found amazing how a little spare time and an empty head can bring us such gems.
I have downloaded this document, shrunk it, laminated it and placed it in my wallet. Just in case.
I strongly suggest the Loyal 77 do the same. We stress preparedness.
Great Scott...
JW
How do I make the gunpowder? Tanks? Pilotless drones?
Anon, apparently someone hasn't been watching old Star Trek reruns.
Sulfur, charcoal, and salt peter.
What if everyone who's ever discovered something in the past.
Or was a dominant figure in human history, actually came from the future?
If that's true, I hope to God M. Night Shyamalan doesn't write the screenplay.
May Jeebus bless your words Baier. Oh, how I hope it...
What no recipe for Turducken???
You should know the recipe by heart, Chad.