80

You would still have the same age, gender, personality, skin color, etc. and you would be able to speak at least one local language and would know basic information of the era and place. Your family, social standing, and such would be randomly picked.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Can always take the knowledge with you. Memorize how to do critical parts of plumbing. The antibiotics part yeah that would suck.

[-] metaStatic@kbin.social 14 points 11 months ago

Memorize how to do critical parts of plumbing

Ok, we need to go to the store and buy some pipes.

What are pipes?

Oh. I think I fucked up.

[-] kinttach@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Come on, obviously they knew what pipes were in the 1940s. They are cylinders made of lead.

[-] zero_gravitas@aussie.zone 1 points 11 months ago

You could probably memorise how to identify the right fungus and isolate penicillin, right?

[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Exactly. Although a person can really only retain so much info, but yeah if you can figure out how to memorize both anti biotics and plumbing you'd be a very popular person and potentially be an excellent leader.

this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2023
80 points (94.4% liked)

Asklemmy

43942 readers
515 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy ๐Ÿ”

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS