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Just take my word for it.
#funny #memes
Dec 19, 2017 10:32 PM
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#funny #memes
NortonGuy
"Hello good people of Salem. I am here to tell you about the wonders of electricity. "
TheWarHymn
First thing I'll do is probably build a still and introduce the local ancients to high-proof alcohol.
SharonStone
spin a magnet in a metal loop?
redzombie
you put a key on a kite. i thought everyone knew this
Mack1986
Duh. And then store it in a jar. Stays fresh for 70-90 days. Then you have to catch a new one
WhyAreThereSixPedalsIfThereAreOnlyFourDirections
He came from a world which had cars and computers, he didn't know how any of it worked. Left to his own devices he couldn't build a toaster.
WhyAreThereSixPedalsIfThereAreOnlyFourDirections
From “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”
Baldybeardman
Sneeze on them all
MightyIink
Just run a magnet through a copper coil!
robo133
A connenicut Yankee in king Arthurs court by Mark twain is similar to this. Excellent book and very funny if a little dry at times.
rlfcl
+1, and its counterpoint, The Man Who Came Early by Poul Anderson. which i know i said above already but damn it's a good story.
robo133
I love those types of books! Like the one part where he straps a religious man into a contaption to make electrcity because he spins to pray
RaistlintheRed
Another similar series to OPs premise is 1632 by Eric Flint.
Laggmonster8
But if you miscalculate celestial movement or the rate of universal expansion you could wind up in deep space.
schmooz
You think people would believe you???? Our president doesn't even believe in global warming. GOOD FUCKING LUCK IN THE INSANE ASYLUM
Saigon333
Do not slur our ancestors by calling them as dumb as the President!
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
They didn't have those back then. Crazy people either became beggars or went into the prophet business if their crazy was infectious enough.
Emracruel
"Gather round and gaze at this wonderful technology of the future - the smartphone ... does anyone have a charging port?"
evilspyre
Bring one of those solar powered ones, or create baghdad batteries
lordstinkynuts
Is that Christian Slater?
SpecialAgentFoxMulder
IIIHalezIII
NotAHugeSpider
gingersnapdragon
Until day 2 when you're burnt as a witch.
N1c380085
Try to burn me with my magical death stick that launches small metal projectiles faster than the eye can see! Owhhhaaao!
GadenKerensky
Go back with safeguards.
bluemofia
Pretty sure no one will understand what you are speaking most of the time.
iLikeHockey
Thom Yorke approves
davidrzr
She turned me into a newt!
Mickm26192
I will make the king of the land pancakes and everthing will work itself out
IGoInCanadaDry
Magic is just technology that hasn’t been invented yet
Yourmuffinfuckingsucks
That wouldn't happen. This is an overused bullshit thing to say.
nsdev
Sigh, better put on my witch uniform - just ignore the word firefighter.
theycallmemrfish
*Town of Salem intensifies*
MysteriousKaos
Or die from an incurable disease, or kill everyone with future diseases
Vaeevictiss
Holy fuck what if that's what happened to the Roanoke settlers. Some time traveler killed everyone.
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shedooooooooo
You can literally breathe on someone and spread a virus. Also, good luck finding clean water, and soap, and bathrooms.
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
Oh yes. A modern day flu virus could do as much damage as the bubonic plague.
bumpusfrancus
Move a magnet past a coil. Make a magnet by rubbing any ferrous objects past each other in the same direction.
MinorityOpinion
No, one of your "any two ferrous objects" would have to be a magnet.
candythesquirrel
Or just put a metallic object in north-south direction and let earth magnetism do it's job
JohnMagneTrane
Get hundreds of cats. Rub them on your hair.
bomboy23
*looks up "ferrous" in ancient dictionary scroll as king waits, quickly losing patience*
bumpusfrancus
Good luck with the wire though.
TheWarHymn
It's called a draw plate. Still used today, but mechaniz. https://www.tf.uni-kiel.de/matwis/amat/iss/kap_a/illustr/wire_drawing_compound.gif
Cheomesh
Maille armor is made from wire, and the Celts had it in the BCs...
ImalwayslatetotheStephenKingreferences
Depending on how far back, what's a magnet, what's a coil, and what are those noises you're making? (Paraphrased.)
ZenMaps
Instructions unclear, I now have 2 angry ferrets and 0 electricity.
jeeeps
or two happy ferrets?
Starsky84
Soylencer
Two metal prods suspended in an acid. The Baghdad battery predates the epoch in this image.
Taxicat
"Quick! I need a lemon! Or a potato! Anyone got a potato handy?"
Saigon333
"Sorry, those are in America, we haven't been there yet."
Taxicat
"Well...shit...got any kind of sour fruit?"
Soylencer
Old grapes. They were like loaded with failed wine and succeeded vinegar back then.
Taxicat
There we go!
purpleader
Magnet + copper + water mill
MinorityOpinion
Magnet and copper wire will do. Good luck making those.
purpleader
Magnets are easy we've made them for centuries and copper is one of the first metals Humans mastered
MinorityOpinion
To make a magnet, you need either electricity, or a magnet. As for copper, sure, just nip out in the garden and mine some. Again, good luck
purpleader
Humans have used magnetic rock to navigate for centuries my dude and you could go buy copper back at bronze age shops
YooserNoom
Theoretically yes, but I'm not sure they'd have the ability to produce high enough quality copper wire.
purpleader
That's relatively easy compared to steel melting it down and remove the slag if that's not possible billit folding works
Taxicat
They might have enough to at least prove the basic principle behind it. Then you let human curiosity take it's course.
MinorityOpinion
It's invisible! You have to make enough that you can make something move.
Taxicat
Shouldn't be too hard to rig something really small. Like the sort of project elementary school students do.
MinorityOpinion
Could do the iron filings, but paper.
Ibetyouthinkmynameisaboutyou
I wonder if people have and that's the stories we hear of crucifixions or burning at the stake.
Sfinski
So that's why Elon Musk chose this time rather than earlier one.
m3m0ryleak
Crucifixion wasn't anything special. It's just Rome telling you how colossally stupid it is to try and fuck with Rome.
NihonJinLover
No, really humans are just garbage
mrmayortheiv
I like to believe witches existed and we were just really good at finding and killing them, so now they are extinct.
Complexwren
I wrote a short story once that was basically all mythology is actually time travelers fighting off calamities
dangledeez
Just started the book Off to be the wizard. It's kinda like this
ConfuseMeThis
Could you imagine trying to explain what an old t.v. antenna does and is? A burning bush, maybe?
heghmoh
“So the words come through the antenna- like a branch on a Bush powered by...hm....lightning” “so it’s a burning Bush that talks?” “Sure?”
Saigon333
More like "Weirdo who couldn't speak our language showed up, struggled because he had no money, then died of a disease we're all immune to."
MeatballManWithAddedSauce
It's more likely that the weirdo would spread a disease from the future rather than catch something.
stonedrunkdoctor
Wow u accurately managed to take the fun out of time travel.
Saigon333
And that's just my first trick!
DaedaIus
The former was being a criminal the Romans hated, the latter was having social enemies in the US or political enemies in France.
MeatballManWithAddedSauce
Or being accused of being a witch in most Christian countries.
m3m0ryleak
Wasn't as widespread as people think. There were executions, but they also *just so happen* to have been used against political enemies.
MeatballManWithAddedSauce
Not in Sweden they weren't. I was referring to those, I just figured they existed elsewhere.
DaedaIus
Nowhere the inquisition operated, they put a stop to it wherever they found it. Witch trails weren't a common as media likes to portray.
MeatballManWithAddedSauce
Yeah, I told the other commenter as well. I was talking about Sweden, and simply figured other countries shared that piece of history.
NZSheeps
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C Clarke
VirtualNaut
-The Flash
Lambdafish1
- Thor
JNied
"A quote found on the Internet will rarely turn out to be correctly quoted." - Abraham Lincoln
NZSheeps
Source: Profiles of the Future (revised edition, 1973)
Lambdafish1
This one though, just so happens to be real
PirateMath
"What's a...meme?"
bomboy23
"well, in 2000 years or so, it's literally just about any cave drawing. White text is optional at that point. We're not really sure either"
Jama2014
Whats a computor
pterodactylptime
Computer is actually a pretty old word.
CmRock136
I hate that commercial.
malbec
WhaTs a CoMpuTer
shiftTieTraveler
Name checks out +1