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Edgar Allen Ho posted:As a native francophone, it'd be super fun to just get a time machine and watch latin go from Cicero and Caesar to modern romance languages. Hell it also would be fun to see what people were speaking in Rome circa 600bc. loving  I fantasize about doing that with lots of languages, especially unattested ones like proto-germanic. Hearing ancient greek would be incredible too, finding out how those tones actually sounded.
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There are people who fantasize about somehow recovering audible sound from spun pottery, which I'm pretty sure is impossible.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Hell it also would be fun to see what people were speaking in Rome circa 600bc. Spanish, obviously.
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Tunicate posted:There are people who fantasize about somehow recovering audible sound from spun pottery, which I'm pretty sure is impossible. It's possible if you're intentionally trying to record sound on a pot and know the principles involved. Accidentally, not happening.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:As a native francophone, it'd be super fun to just get a time machine and watch latin go from Cicero and Caesar to modern romance languages.
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Grand Fromage posted:It's possible if you're intentionally trying to record sound on a pot and know the principles involved. Accidentally, not happening. Defeatist!!
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That whole "sound from pots" thing was an April's Fool article on BBC ca. 2003 (AD), I believe
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Chichevache posted:I am tasked with setting up a class motto (don't ask), and my pretentious rear end thought it would be better to have it in Latin than English. Would "Rise and Prevail" be best translated as "Surgo et Supero", or do I need to conjugate that? -Fabricati Diem, Pvnc -Nunc Id Vides, Nunc Ne Vides -Cousin Veni, Cousin Vidi, Cousin Vici
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FreudianSlippers posted:PYF latin mottos: Semper Ubi Sub Ubi
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Switzerland posted:That whole "sound from pots" thing was an April's Fool article on BBC ca. 2003 (AD), I believe It's been seriously investigated as well. Was an interesting idea but just isn't feasible to have happened accidentally.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:As a native francophone, it'd be super fun to just get a time machine and watch latin go from Cicero and Caesar to modern romance languages. Hell it also would be fun to see what people were speaking in Rome circa 600bc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appendix_Probi
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Grand Fromage posted:It's been seriously investigated as well. Was an interesting idea but just isn't feasible to have happened accidentally. Perhaps one day we'll be lucky enough to find the pottery of Alexander The Weird Yells At Pots Guy, an ancient Greek weirdo who really did invent a way to record sound on pottery as he spun it but never figured out a working playback mechanism in his time. I mean, the Phonautograph recordings of the 19th century were basically that, French people who figured out how to record sound to look at, but not how to play it back properly. That'd take until just recently to do.
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My Pointless Time Travel Dream is to head back to Rome with a full orchestra and see what they think of the Ride of the Valkyries or Daphnis et Chloe or one of Bruckner's symphonies. (Or better yet, Mr. Bach.)
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Tree Bucket posted:My Pointless Time Travel Dream is to head back to Rome with a full orchestra and see what they think of the Ride of the Valkyries or Daphnis et Chloe or one of Bruckner's symphonies. (Or better yet, Mr. Bach.) Same but The Prodigy or really anything with heavy usage of synth for a melody. I assume we'd all be stabbed to death, burned, and our cremains thrown into the Tiber.
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I'd bring them dynamite. See what shenanigans they get up to once they get the power to blow up anything.
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I'd imagine the early empire leaders (aka JC) would be loving terrifying if they had even rudimentary blackpowder. Those are guys who will find every advantage and leverage point to advance their ambition.
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I'd bring a crate of walkie talkies.
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I'd bring a host of unknown pathogens that I have immunity to, but apparently they don't.
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This thread has gone on multiple runs of what they'd time travel and give ancient Romans, but what would you give the Carthaginians/Gauls/Israelis/italians/various independent greek states?
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SlothfulCobra posted:This thread has gone on multiple runs of what they'd time travel and give ancient Romans, but what would you give the Carthaginians/Gauls/Israelis/italians/various independent greek states? A book on the history of Rome.
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SlothfulCobra posted:This thread has gone on multiple runs of what they'd time travel and give ancient Romans, but what would you give the Carthaginians/Gauls/Israelis/italians/various independent greek states? Potatoes. Every possible kind of potato. They're delicious, grow everywhere, are calorie dense and wont be introduced in Europe for another 1500 years. Not sure how I'd convince them to eat a root, but I'd totally exchange it for an ancient recipe book and/or a copy of Lives of Famous Whores. I'm just going to make this my default answer for what to bring back in time from now on.
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Don Gato posted:Not sure how I'd convince them to eat a root Mate, potatoes aren't the first root that people ate.
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what would we need to give romans deep-frying tech
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It’s a brass bull, but for potatoes
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Ras Het posted:Mate, potatoes aren't the first root that people ate. You can make quite a nice fry/chip-like thing out of a parsnip. Romans definitely ate those.
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You don't have to fry everything
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Ras Het posted:You don't have to fry everything Sure but I mean if you can then why wouldn't you?
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Ras Het posted:You don't have to fry everything Mods?
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Ras Het posted:You don't have to fry everything there are words coming out of your mouth, but i don't understand them
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Rubber, for ancient bicycles
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A twitter account. I think a lot of the old poets would have a lot of fun with one of those.
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OwlFancier posted:A twitter account.
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Ovid shilling for his PUA instruction seminars based on the Art of Love.
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Butterfly nets? Here's a weird one - to the Song Dynasty I'd probably bring caltrops, but I don't actually know if they had them or not. making GBS threads caltrops everywhere seems like it would have been a decent gently caress you to the Mongols.
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OTOH I'd give Genghis AK-47s and just see how far he could go.
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Rockopolis posted:Butterfly nets? The Song already had the best counter to the Mongol cavalry: city walls and forts. They got wrecked because the Mongols had siege engineers in their ranks by that time. Trebuchets > walls I guess I'd give the Song better artillery. Kassad fucked around with this message at 22:52 on Dec 11, 2017 |
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I'd chuck Enrico Dandolo in a canal, and save Byzantium. Alternatively, introduce the soothing tones and subtle harmonies of the bagpipes to Genghis and the lads.
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I'd bring Heavy Metal.
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Go back to about 1300 or so and teach people in the Western Hemisphere how to cultivate and use penicillin. It's pretty easy to grow yourself. The major challenge would be figuring out how a bunch of aztecs could make a vessel that could be sterilized for growing/storing the final product, but honestly that's not insurmountable. Maybe give a class on glass blowing while we're waiting for mold to grow. edit: hrm. Just realized smallpox is a virus. So much for saving the Aztecs. I dunno, same answer, but a decade before the plague hits Europe. edit x2: alternate, more deadly answer: go to the Americas about the time of Jesus with a bag full 'o disease culture. Have that giant columbian exchange die off happen but while they're still geographically isolated and have time to reconstruct their societies before Cortez shows up. Cyrano4747 fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Dec 12, 2017 |
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If you want to save lives via disease control isn't teaching people to boil water and not poop in the same river they drink from going to do a lot more work?
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