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

[molly bloom]

Fermented honey or fruit will do the job, or barley.

[Az]

EDIT: not very, but concentrated, if you want to cause a precipitation.

[molly bloom]

Mead :

http://www.oldwestbrew.com/basic_meadmaking.htm

Mead and sex :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2949742.stm

(Especially for Az)

[Az]

Is there any water in it? Is it viscous?

[/geek]

[Vesayen]

Originally posted by Lawrence of Arabia
tell me im interested, how do you make a radio made out of natural components (besides lighting a fire and making smoke signals - THAT DOESNT COUNT !!!!!)

I don't know, ask the fourth year mechanical engineering and chemistry major across the hall whose room is built of books. I think between them, he could figure it out.


Okay it was late and I was exagerating.... I really don't think I could build a radio.

Originally posted by Qilue
Diptheria, scarlet fever, whooping cough, polio.

Were all foreign to the americas .


I left out the details of making saltpeter because I was tired.

[alva]

I..I..I don't think Sid was around at the time.

[Az]

I don't know, ask the fourth year mechanical engineering and chemistry major across the hall whose room is built of books. I think between them, he could figure it out.

What a weird major.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Az
Is there any water in it? Is it viscous?

[/geek]

Ooohh, you say the sexiest things. I'm all a-quiver now.


Go on, say Bund, and Rosa Luxemburg, I'll be on the floor....

[BlackCat]

Originally posted by Zulu Elephant
Get a boat to Denmark.
Hang out with Nordic shipbuilders.
Sail round past past Iceland, Greenland and down along the coast to South America.
Meet the Atzecs.
Claim I was a god.
Get loads of gold
Sail back to Europe the way I came.
Be a rich person in Europe.
Use my wealth to become a Roman citizen.
Become Roman Emperor.
Conquer the World.

Hows that for a start?

Slow, very slow. Remember to bring a book or two so you don't get bored in the 6-700 years you have to wait - the oldest known viking ship is from 834 .

[The Mad Monk]

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

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Starchild
Let's see...in the year 100, my current location is at the Eastern fringe of Roman Britain. The city I'm currently in didn't really get started for another few centuries by the Anglo-Saxons so I'd have to hike for miles to find the nearest Roman settlement. I'm an urban person to my very core. I do not know how to survive off the land in any reasonable way. Romans have few uses for undergraduate biochemists.

Yeah. I'm dead meat walking.

Well your nearest bet would be Colchester...quite a hike.

I would have to walk to London for any such thing, Watling Street runs remarkably close to here...although at this time I suspect that Canterbury would be a better bet

[Dauphin]

I live 100 yards from an old Roman villa.

[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.

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Dauphin
I live 100 yards from an old Roman villa.

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

[Az]

Why on earth would anyone give you wine for free?