Time Travel Accident!
Discussion
This is something i have thought of before, and i bet others probably have, but what would you do in this situation.
It starts off when you hitch a lift in a Delorean, the door bangs you on the head as you get in, and the driver is some crazy guy with mad staring eyes. For some reason, A minibus full of angry Libyans turn up, the guy floors it, and you find yourself heading back through time, pulling up in a forest, where you get out and all of a sudden the car vanishes, and you are left in the English country side in 1500.
You realise you are stuck, but what do you do for the rest of your life?
It's about now you realise you should have paid attention more in history and sciences, as you are full of futuristic information.
I suppose i'd have a go at making steam powered engines, but what would you do?
It starts off when you hitch a lift in a Delorean, the door bangs you on the head as you get in, and the driver is some crazy guy with mad staring eyes. For some reason, A minibus full of angry Libyans turn up, the guy floors it, and you find yourself heading back through time, pulling up in a forest, where you get out and all of a sudden the car vanishes, and you are left in the English country side in 1500.
You realise you are stuck, but what do you do for the rest of your life?
It's about now you realise you should have paid attention more in history and sciences, as you are full of futuristic information.
I suppose i'd have a go at making steam powered engines, but what would you do?
You would be full of futuristic information, but not enough knowledge to implement much of it! You'd quickly be labelled a mad man, rambling on about linked computer networks and 220mph cars.
1500... I'd be a giant compared to other people so I'd probably go on the rob
Maybe being one of the first settlers to America and claiming California would help out my relatives.
1500... I'd be a giant compared to other people so I'd probably go on the rob
Maybe being one of the first settlers to America and claiming California would help out my relatives. Edited by Maxf on Sunday 29th March 19:57
"invent" stuff, lots of money making stuff, take the money made and buy treasure, hide the treasure and send your self a letter to be delivered at a certain time (before you got in the car) telling yourself where the treasure is and not to get in the car, Voila, in one universe/reality at least you are minted and not stuck in the past.
- may not work, might cause the universe to implode, this does not matter as you are stuck in the 1500s and will probably be burned as a witch/heretic soon anyway.*
Write to both Popes, and the King, create the International Patent Agency for all patents in the world ever.
Now start creating patents for things like....
Electricity
Telephone
Antibiotics
Graphical User Interfaces for multi-tasking computer operating systems (Windows)
Atomic Weaponary
Piston Heads
etc....
Create a legacy that leaves the ownership of those patents to yourself, with all of the monies accrued stored as gold/diamonds/etc... (not in a regular bank).
Also, leave yourself a note to get another Emmet Brown modified DeLorean delivered a few weeks later so you can get home and enjoy your new found global ownership!
While you're waiting, use your modern skills to tempt a wench or two, but remember you'll probably need to visit a STD clinic when you get back!
Now start creating patents for things like....
Electricity
Telephone
Antibiotics
Graphical User Interfaces for multi-tasking computer operating systems (Windows)
Atomic Weaponary
Piston Heads
etc....
Create a legacy that leaves the ownership of those patents to yourself, with all of the monies accrued stored as gold/diamonds/etc... (not in a regular bank).
Also, leave yourself a note to get another Emmet Brown modified DeLorean delivered a few weeks later so you can get home and enjoy your new found global ownership!
While you're waiting, use your modern skills to tempt a wench or two, but remember you'll probably need to visit a STD clinic when you get back!
Getragdogleg said:
"invent" stuff, lots of money making stuff, take the money made and buy treasure, hide the treasure and send your self a letter to be delivered at a certain time (before you got in the car) telling yourself where the treasure is and not to get in the car, Voila, in one universe/reality at least you are minted and not stuck in the past.
Paradoxes can get confusing.- may not work, might cause the universe to implode, this does not matter as you are stuck in the 1500s and will probably be burned as a witch/heretic soon anyway.*
I read a short story once about a time traveller who found himself in Berlin in 1931.
"What's going to happen in the next 5 years?" they asked him.
"Germany will be ruled so a certifiable lunatic and his gang of Yobs."
"So in 10 years it will all be wrecked?"
"Well no, in 10 years Germany will rule an empire stretching from the Urals to the Atlantic."
"So in 15 years we will rule the world?"
"No, in 15 years Germany will be defeated and occupied with all the industries smashed and cities full of rubble."
"So in 30 years we will all be starving?"
"No, in 30 years you will be very prosperous, the richest country in Europe."
They decided the time traveller was a nutter and locked him up.
"What's going to happen in the next 5 years?" they asked him.
"Germany will be ruled so a certifiable lunatic and his gang of Yobs."
"So in 10 years it will all be wrecked?"
"Well no, in 10 years Germany will rule an empire stretching from the Urals to the Atlantic."
"So in 15 years we will rule the world?"
"No, in 15 years Germany will be defeated and occupied with all the industries smashed and cities full of rubble."
"So in 30 years we will all be starving?"
"No, in 30 years you will be very prosperous, the richest country in Europe."
They decided the time traveller was a nutter and locked him up.
A blacksmith, my great great great grandfather was, its sort of in the genes.
I haven't relay moved on since!
I think I would miss the radio in the work shop
but being the only blacksmith making horse shoes with an eagle F1 tread patten, i might be able to afford a wench to sing to me all day 
I haven't relay moved on since!
I think I would miss the radio in the work shop
but being the only blacksmith making horse shoes with an eagle F1 tread patten, i might be able to afford a wench to sing to me all day your superior knowledge of personal, communal and food hygiene could put another 20 years on the average life expectancy of 30.
you could create "new" music
without access to the materials we have today any engineering skills held would be of limited use in creating something that is many hundreds of years off
but you'd probably get killed within a week for being a mentallist.
this would make an interesting film. Its probably a book already.
you could create "new" music
without access to the materials we have today any engineering skills held would be of limited use in creating something that is many hundreds of years off
but you'd probably get killed within a week for being a mentallist.
this would make an interesting film. Its probably a book already.
Register lots of trade names and patents.
Do f
k all but wait for people to make you offers for them.
Imagine Coke Cola wanting to buy the name off you or your decentants.
You/they agree that they can use if FOC for 10% of their global profits.
Coke maker would think you were mad and agree!
Same with Micro Soft et al
Do f
k all but wait for people to make you offers for them.Imagine Coke Cola wanting to buy the name off you or your decentants.
You/they agree that they can use if FOC for 10% of their global profits.
Coke maker would think you were mad and agree!
Same with Micro Soft et al
odyssey2200 said:
Register lots of trade names and patents.
Do fk all but wait for people to make you offers for them.
Imagine Coke Cola wanting to buy the name off you or your decentants.
You/they agree that they can use if FOC for 10% of their global profits.
Coke maker would think you were mad and agree!
Same with Micro Soft et al
Bill Gates would probably go and spoil your scheme by calling it Microsoft instead........Do f
k all but wait for people to make you offers for them.Imagine Coke Cola wanting to buy the name off you or your decentants.
You/they agree that they can use if FOC for 10% of their global profits.
Coke maker would think you were mad and agree!
Same with Micro Soft et al
Edited by Gemsbok1000 on Sunday 29th March 20:47
Gemsbok1000 said:
odyssey2200 said:
Register lots of trade names and patents.
Do fk all but wait for people to make you offers for them.
Imagine Coke Cola wanting to buy the name off you or your decentants.
You/they agree that they can use if FOC for 10% of their global profits.
Coke maker would think you were mad and agree!
Same with Micro Soft et al
Bill Gates would probably go and spoil your scheme by calling it Microsoft instead........Do f
k all but wait for people to make you offers for them.Imagine Coke Cola wanting to buy the name off you or your decentants.
You/they agree that they can use if FOC for 10% of their global profits.
Coke maker would think you were mad and agree!
Same with Micro Soft et al
Edited by Gemsbok1000 on Sunday 29th March 20:47
odyssey2200 said:
Register lots of trade names and patents.
Do fk all but wait for people to make you offers for them.
Imagine Coke Cola wanting to buy the name off you or your decentants.
You/they agree that they can use if FOC for 10% of their global profits.
Coke maker would think you were mad and agree!
Same with Micro Soft et al
What happens if mr Coke Cola thinks i wont call it Coke Cola because a crazy guy (the one that was always on about pissed on heads? or something) ages ago took that name, so i'm going to call it something else like Boke Bola or Doke Dola?Do f
k all but wait for people to make you offers for them.Imagine Coke Cola wanting to buy the name off you or your decentants.
You/they agree that they can use if FOC for 10% of their global profits.
Coke maker would think you were mad and agree!
Same with Micro Soft et al
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