So your stuck in the year 100... how do you conquer the world?

[Provost Harrison]

I'll trade them round shiny things for it, precious round shiny things. CDs in fact

[Zoid]

Originally posted by BeBro
I'd scare the hell out of the others by crying "OMG!!! YOU ARE TEH PWN3D!!! " to everyone I meet. Then they would think I'm a messiah or whatever and therefore they'd all follow me

I´m sitting in a friends study. Nothing here but a lot of books and a computer (and some porcelain cats). And since there isn´t much to do in Sweden in the year 100 (the vikings won´t show up for another 700 years...) I think I´ll scare the natives to submisson with the books of Leo Trotskij in the bookshelves around me. After I successfully form a communist cadre I´ll rally all the natives/comrades and head for Rome, collecting new comrades as I go. Well in Rome me and my cadre will organize the working masses and overthrow the bourgeouis oppressors and form the Peoples Republic of Rome. And when that´s done I´ll send comrades to other parts of the world reachable and organize the working class there and so on...

[The Mad Monk]

Originally posted by Az

Ask me again in ten years, when I have my 100% infrastructure-independent Kansas home built.

Cool!

I plan on having one too, with giant see-through tubes running through the entire house, and piranhas swimming in them. Or maybe goldfish.

The tricky part will be having enough wind generators within fifty feet.

[Zkribbler]

Terrific. I'm with stone-aged indians, probably a thousand or more miles away from the nearest civilization.

There's got to be some hallucinogens around. I could get whacked out of my mind and think I've conquered the world.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison


I'll go there then, closer than London. A chalice of wine or two? 7pm, 100AD at the "Roman Villa near Orpington"? I'll post it in the poly meet thread

Its next to the station, on the wrong side of the tracks to me.

There's a Roman fort and villa at Lullingstone aswell. Plus the Romans had a lot of fun playing spot the Minotaur in Chislehurst.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Starchild
Romans have few uses for undergraduate biochemists.

He's a witch! Burn him! BURN HIM!!!

[Az]

aren't you half a planet away, surrounded by wilderness?

shush!

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Az
Btw, KH, I've been thinking about it, and where are you going to get alcohol?

Uh...distillation of wine? Pretty simple to make wine, by the way. It's been around for over 7000 years.

[KrazyHorse]

Plus I've got about 4 litres of liquor with me according to the rules of the game.

[Az]

Uh...distillation of wine? Pretty simple to make wine, by the way. It's been around for over 7000 years.

a)How are you going to distill it, if you're in the goddamn new world, surrounded by what I suppose are woods, and a chunk of your appartment?

b) you need a very good distillation - the amount of water needs to be very low ( not the Azeotrop, but more to that region than Vodka, I presume - Potassium Nitrate wouldn't precipitate in Vodka, IIRC.

[KrazyHorse]

Distillation to 80% is easily accomplished even with a single distillation.

[KrazyHorse]

The Native Americans have earthenware vessels, by the way. should be easy enough to get a length of clay tubing made.

Anyhow, I don't think that making a cannon is the smartest thing I can do with my time in the new world. Just pointing out that it can be done within a year or so if you put your mind to it...

[Immortal Wombat]

If we make it 50AD rather than 100AD, I'd hike my way south to the Iceni and betray Boudicca to the Romans, thus earning me fame and fortune with the Romans. Then if I really wanted to take over the world, I'd kiss ass to as close as I could to Emperorship. Otherwise, I'd just wander back to Rome and write poems.

[Az]

I've never actually attempted this, I must admit, but I see a problem with you distilling it in field conditions.

As to the concentration, I just wanted to say that your booze won't do.

[KrazyHorse]

I've distilled alcohol before. It's very easy with a heat source, water supply, tubing and glass vessels. Makeshift ones would be harder in the New World. In Roman Europe or China the rightmaterials would be easy to come by, and you could make a very efficient still.