Thinking about teletransportation.........

[Ponce]

Is a nice warm day when you went to bed that night... you wake up the next day and you find yoursel sleepin on the ground in the middle of the woods somewhere. You finally find out that you are in England in the year of 1534 (random number).......after this and that what about clothing and so on the question is.......

What do you know that could help the people of that era?......what knowledge do you have that you could use in order to survive? what job could you do?...remember that you have to use the tools and materials of that era......

If not England then in what country would you like to wake up in?.....to do what.

Thid is one of my "what if"......and then I make a list of what I could to.

[Dogman]

In that time , if one used medical knowledge that we know now. They probably would burn you at the stake as a warlock or sumthing. But that would be one of the skill sets that I would want. As for what country , I need to think abt that, those were some screwed up times back in that time period. Lot's of wars, religious and for other reasons also plagues were fairly common.

[Ponce]

Number one.....that's why I din't say America.....and ......number two.....that's why I said another country of your choice.

[Santa]

Mark Twain wrote, "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arther's Court." Pretty much the exact same scenario.

[Ponce]

I know Santa, I have seen many movies like that.....but....my question was.....what could you guys do in that era in order to survive and be able to eat.....for example.....I would be in the military and adapting their weapons to the modern era, also, how to make their defences better and also making a few new weapons.

[vacuum]

I'd probably take my college education of mathematics and invent calculus. Work directly for the king helping solve engineering and astronomy problems.

Also maybe try to remember the periodic table, and re-create it. Electrical engineering too. I'd need the resources though to make equipment, and staff to direct the experiments.

The most useful thing though would be able to remember history. Know the names of important people, especially the bad guys. Try to take them out. Also convince the king to support the really smart guys whose brilliance is only discovered years after their death. I don't think I'd be that great in this area though.

Maybe try to invent the cotton gin. Seems like that one took way too long.

[Horn]

First thing I'd do is re-discover electricity.

Then I might borrow a couple of Shakespeare's works before he had chance to write it.

[Ponce]

Thinking without thinking.....like I posted a while ago, look at one spot in your garden and you will see hundred of bugs crawling around......but.....looking out my window just now I can see that the reverse is also true, it is snowing and looking straight ahead all that you can see is a curtain of snow....but.....go with the flow and follow the snow while is coming
down and you will see each of the snow flakes going down.................it may sound weird but the consept of time travel came to mind, you don't want to time travel but rather to travel with time and get off where you want to, forward or backwards.

Heyyyyyy, I know that I am half nuts.......don't blame me, it is what is.

[chad]

there's a movie called timeline about this. i think michael criton wrote it.

[Ponce]

I'll have to look for it Chad, thank......

At first it will be like traveling in a train where you will have to wait for the train to stop to get out...but then... it will be like traveling on the roof of the train where you will be able to jump off at any period in time......hummmmmmm, I think that I'll write a Si-Fi novel.........The Cuban Time Jumper.........hahahahahahaah.

[Heimdhal]

Id invent the first steam engine, grow a handlebar mustache and develop a deep laugh.

[Carl]

Hunt down the Rothschilds and eliminate them from history?

[Shami-Amourae]

Hunt down the Rothschilds and eliminate them from history?

You mean the Bauer family? They changed their name to Rothschild since they fucked over so many people back then...

[mick silver]

buy a printing press , print some money and take all gold an silver . story over

[Ponce]

I have been thinking about it.....you must have a "receiver" in order to teletrans.....for example you have 1-10 if you placed your first receiver at three and your final receiver at nine then you can teletrans to three and no further back , like to two or one and not further into the future than nine..........it will be a longggggggg time before we can created a "Time Tunnerl" that will allowe us to actually trave anywher into the fufure or the past.

[Carl]

Back in the olden days when I thought about stuff like this, I came to the conclusion that the past is a dead zone, nothing alive in it because it's all here in the now, which would mean that the future doesn't exist because we haven't created it yet. That would also indicate that all of it, past present and future is right here and now, all at the same time.

[zap]

Well Ponce I looked up 1500's in England, But my first thought was If I wasn't nobility I would have been a Harlot, lol , Gotta use all the goods and services god gave me. Just joking! hopefully I would have married a man of means or been a Lady in waiting ! I couldn't use the tools I have now.... that wouldn't have been proper.

SOCIETY IN TUDOR ENGLANDIn 16th century England most of the population lived in small villages and made their living from farming. However towns grew larger and more important. During the 16th century trade and industry grew rapidly and England became a more and more commercial country. Mining of coal, tin and lead flourished. So did the iron industry. During this period England became richer and richer.
However there were winners and losers in Tudor Times. Upper class and middle class Tudors saw a big rise in their standard of living. As England grew more and more prosperous the homes of the well off became more and more comfortable. However the lowest section of society, the wage labourers, became worse off. population died of plague. .
In the 16th century about 50% of the population lived at subsistence level. In other words they had just enough food, clothes and shelter to survive. For them life was very hard.
However it was possible to move from one class to another. With hard work and luck a husbandman could become a yeoman. A yeoman could buy a coat of arms and become gentlemen. It was possible for an ambitious young man to rise in the world.
In the 16th century the parish became the basis of local government. The leading figure was an appointed magistrate called the Justice of the Peace.
In the 16th century the power of the monarchy increased. During the Middle Ages the barons held castles, which were very difficult to capture so it was easy for them to rebel.