WIERD HYPOTHETICAL: Your thrown back in time 600 years, what do you do?

[Amadan]

Originally posted by boann
you know if you take with you all that way out stuff
they would just burn you at the stake thinking you a witch or wizard.
folks back in that time were very supersitious.

That was my first thought -- I'd end up getting killed pretty quickly.

[Amadan]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
I'd take a list of where each of you was going, then show up and kill you and hide your body before you could do any damage to history. Then I'd fling all of the corpses in Stromboli and pitch myself in aftwards.

BTW, I'm wondering how any of youn could carry a tank in your arms, let alone a battleship.

You could always go with the fixed path view of time:
Whatever you try to do to change history is doomed to fail, as your actions merely help along the events that have already occured.

[Evil Knevil]

Hmm, I'd go back to Uni to get my medical degree. Then, in an act of unspeakable blasphemy I'd claim I was Jesus Christ, come to liberate mankind. I'd heal the sick and order the pope about. Form another crusade to liberate the Holy Land, kick turkish butt, then ascend heaven...

fair?

[OneFootInTheGrave]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
I'd take a list of where each of you was going, then show up and kill you and hide your body before you could do any damage to history. Then I'd fling all of the corpses in Stromboli and pitch myself in aftwards.

BTW, I'm wondering how any of youn could carry a tank in your arms, let alone a battleship.

No when he went to "tank with supplies" I upped the ante to something really able to control the world for the time to come.

Maybe that would be the latest US secret instant-inflattable nuclear battleship project where you have all the ingredients for a full battleship with the crew in the special carry pack, that you only add some ORMUS white gold dust , leave it on overnight in the deep water and when you come back you have the whole thing floating.

And than you go around, come to Venice and say listen to me or else

However being a Croat I would probably choose the center of the world to be Dubrovnik, and sink pesky Venetians anyway

[Faeelin]

Originally posted by faded glory
Nuke Baghdad?? You dont need to go back anywhere. Just wait a couple more weeks....


(yes in 1400 Bagdad was considered the most advanced city in the world)

Note: Not so. Venice was considered the best city in the world in 1400, by Europeans. Muslims happened to agree.

The claim was true in 1000, but by 1400, Europe was leaps and bounds ahead of the muslim world.

[Skanky Burns]

I wouldn't want to go back in time - no internet.

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by TheStinger
A tank and supplies for it. I could take over in the space of a few weeks

Watch out for spearmen!!!!!!

[Tuberski]

First I'd take a way to come back.

I'd take medicine, science, math and medical texts. I'd give those to somebody from that era that could possibly understand them. Or several such people.

I'd do a little partying with the maidens, steal a bunch of things and press the way back button to the present.

Then I'd see what had changed.