England, June 1913
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I think I'd come up with Schrodinger's Equation, myself. Only a decade early, so not too unrealistic or history-damaging 
Plus I'm actually likely to remember it by rote. A lot of more modern advancements I'd probably struggle to 'invent' without a textbook or two.
Oh, and I'd make sure Arrhenius' description of Global Warming got a bit more press.
Plus I'm actually likely to remember it by rote. A lot of more modern advancements I'd probably struggle to 'invent' without a textbook or two.
Oh, and I'd make sure Arrhenius' description of Global Warming got a bit more press.
So you're an aeronautical engineer?
All Seeing Eye
Admiral
No, but I don't need to be, I know how rocket/missiles and jet engines work and I don't just mean the basics.
WIKI:
This is where I'd step in.
i'd head for Serbia and and to shoot a certain Serb before he shoots Franz Ferdinand. Stop World War I and you stand a good chance of stopping World War II
Supreme Admiral
Captain
Hell, there's good chance to stopping nazis craziness! All you have to do is shooting hilter's head off and all of Jewish people are saving from being murdered. This should never happening to those poor people who has to suffering to remember during the horrible days of nazis.
That would be preventing the great tragedy, don't you agree?
The first thing I'd do is try to find a clean pair of underwear.
I don't think that would change a thing, honestly. World War One was pretty much an historic inevitability. The cause was not the assassination of a minor and disliked royal, it was merely the trigger. The war began because of the period's fierce nationalism, the intricate and highly interconnected series of alliances that existed between major and minor powers, and the beginning of the end of imperialism, as European empires ran out of places to conquer and colonize and began turning back to fighting one another on European soil.
The bottom line is if Ferdinand wasn't killed, the war may not have begun in August 1914, but it almost certainly would have been triggered by some other relatively minor event by 1920 at the absolute latest, and Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottomans would be at war with Britain, France and Russia.
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Captain
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Very true!
Very true!
I think I would be quite sad to displaced in time without my family. Add to that, the lack of modern essentials, like washing machines and electric lighting and everything that uses transistors... computers, audio/video equipment, etc. Practical modes of transport, supermarkets, microwave ovens, central heating, and clean hot water on demand.
After coming to terms that I was going to be without these, I might try to find relatives who would be alive at that time. I'm not sure what I would say to them when I found them, but it would be my first instinct to try and make contact with them.
I don't know if I'd want to try and change history, if this really is my past or some alternate reality, and does that make a difference? Would the fate of an alternate reality matter? Are the events in alternate realities arbitrary and meaningless? Would I care much about the fate of this time line? Would it feel less real to me? I'm not sure what the best attitude would be on that. So that would be something I'd think about.
So as for inventing things, I'm not sure about that either, since it's all old to me, it would feel like reinventing the wheel from my perspective. Is that how I want to spend my life -- reinventing wheels? Perhaps things that are easy to invent that I would directly benefit from, like central heating and hot water on demand.
I might also see if I could change history just to establish what kind of reality I was in -- my actual past or an alternate reality.
After coming to terms that I was going to be without these, I might try to find relatives who would be alive at that time. I'm not sure what I would say to them when I found them, but it would be my first instinct to try and make contact with them.
I don't know if I'd want to try and change history, if this really is my past or some alternate reality, and does that make a difference? Would the fate of an alternate reality matter? Are the events in alternate realities arbitrary and meaningless? Would I care much about the fate of this time line? Would it feel less real to me? I'm not sure what the best attitude would be on that. So that would be something I'd think about.
So as for inventing things, I'm not sure about that either, since it's all old to me, it would feel like reinventing the wheel from my perspective. Is that how I want to spend my life -- reinventing wheels? Perhaps things that are easy to invent that I would directly benefit from, like central heating and hot water on demand.
I might also see if I could change history just to establish what kind of reality I was in -- my actual past or an alternate reality.
Given a lack of provable skills or handy "living wild" techniques I think my only option would be to throw myself on the mercy of the nearest convent. They are the only people I can think of who would actually take me in if I had no bona-fides.
I believe that the act of going through the vortex and appearing in the past would be what creates the alternate reality; you would not (and indeed could not) actually reappear in your own past...from the moment you appeared, onwards, it would be a whole new reality. Things may not change unless you act to change them, but you could change things. And if somehow the vortex sucked you back to your original place in time, there would be no record of you in 1913...that "happened" in another reality.
I'm sure there are some posters who can explain in greater detail.
She'd only be about six. But she did turn out to be quite a Flapper in the 20s. Of course, by then I'd be way too old for her....
They had stagecoaches and railways in 1913. And if you were VERY rich you had a car.Well you've got a long walk if you came out in Carlisle.
How would you pay for it? with 2009 coinage you had spare in your pocket?
Probably not, so eventually somebody would ask me "What does it mean, exact change?" and I'd be like "Well, I don't know. I'd really like to tell you, but I don't know." ...Further into the action, I would count on this sombody having mercy with me and, as it luckily turns out that he's a farmer, and agreeing to give me a lift to London on his hay wagon, since this is - totally unexpected and by pure accident - exactly where he's gotta be by the end of the day, too.
If you mug someone, you set them free.
Further into the action, I would count on this sombody having mercy with me and, as it luckily turns out that he's a farmer, and agreeing to give me a lift to London on his hay wagon, since this is - totally unexpected and by pure accident - exactly where he's gotta be by the end of the day, too.
I'd sell anything I had on my person, work odd jobs, whatever and raise enough money to move to America. There, I would try to get a job working for Mack Sennett and befriend Charlie Chaplin.
Hopefully, Kelso & Chaplin would become the best two-man act in the history of cinema.
Hopefully, Kelso & Chaplin would become the best two-man act in the history of cinema.
Try and find an early scientist to help me get my horse and cart up to 88 miles an hour.
