If somehow you were involuntarily sent back in time...

kenberman · #1 06-20-2005, 10:39 AM

how would you prove to people that you were from the future?

Lets say you woke up tomorrow morning and found yourself in rural England, year 745AD. You're not a middle age historian, so you have no knowledge of the specific date/time of any event 'scheduled' to occur in the next 30 years.

You have nothing with you from the future, as even your clothes have somehow been transformed into typical clothes for 745AD in England.

How would you prove to people that you are from the future?

Could you 'invent' something? 'Discover' something?

jakethebake · #2 06-20-2005, 10:41 AM

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how would you prove to people that you were from the future?

Lets say you woke up tomorrow morning and found yourself in rural England, year 745AD. You're not a middle age historian, so you have no knowledge of the specific date/time of any event 'scheduled' to occur in the next 30 years.

You have nothing with you from the future, as even your clothes have somehow been transformed into typical clothes for 745AD in England.

How would you prove to people that you are from the future?

Could you 'invent' something? 'Discover' something?

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I'm pretty sure you don't want anyone to know you're from the future.

tbach24 · #3 06-20-2005, 10:41 AM

England, 745 seems like it wouldn't be a fun place.

I'd bide my time and then burn down some village full of heathens.

Then I'd show them oragami. That'd win their respect.

Patrick del Poker Grande · #4 06-20-2005, 10:44 AM

I'm pretty sure I'd either be the greatest mathematician/physicist/scholar of all time, or I'd be burned at the stake for witchcraft. It's a pick'em.

jakethebake · #5 06-20-2005, 10:49 AM

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I'm pretty sure I'd either be the greatest mathematician/physicist/scholar of all time, or I'd burned at the stake for witchcraft. It's a pick'em.

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Not me. I'd try to go the anonymous route.

kenberman · #6 06-20-2005, 10:57 AM

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I'm pretty sure I'd either be the greatest mathematician/physicist/scholar of all time, or I'd burned at the stake for witchcraft. It's a pick'em.

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Not me. I'd try to go the anonymous route.

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what would you do? live out your days as a potato farmer?

tbach24 · #7 06-20-2005, 10:58 AM

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I'm pretty sure I'd either be the greatest mathematician/physicist/scholar of all time, or I'd burned at the stake for witchcraft. It's a pick'em.

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what would you do? live out your days as a potato farmer?

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Better than being burnt at the stake. People were wicked paranoid at that time.

tworooks · #8 06-20-2005, 11:46 AM

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You're not a middle age historian, so you have no knowledge of the specific date/time

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I'm pretty sure I'd either be the greatest mathematician/physicist/scholar of all time, or I'd burned at the stake for witchcraft. It's a pick'em

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[/ QUOTE ] what would you do? live out your days as a potato farmer?

[/ QUOTE ] Better than being burnt at the stake. People were wicked paranoid at that time.

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technically, you're not supposed to know that. so stop cheating

TylerD · #9 06-20-2005, 11:00 AM

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I'm pretty sure I'd either be the greatest mathematician/physicist/scholar of all time, or I'd burned at the stake for witchcraft. It's a pick'em.

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Not me. I'd try to go the anonymous route.

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what would you do? live out your days as a potato farmer?

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Not in England in 745AD that's for sure!

jakethebake · #10 06-20-2005, 11:00 AM

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Yes.