Exercise: You can teleport any one object to a random stranger in the past

[darkxshade]

What would it be, to when would you send it and why?


Rules:

1. When you send it to has to be at least 100 years before you were born.

2. You have no control over who gets its... it cannot end up in the hands of an ancestor along your bloodline. OR This object cannot be sent for the purpose of benefitting only you in any way shape or form in the present.

3. The object will not come with an instruction manual or anything to explain its use to the stranger who receive it. They will have to figure it out on their own.

4. The object may be preloaded with what it needs to operate but nothing more... eg: a gun/rifle can be sent with a loaded mag but cannot be sent equipped with a scope, suppressor, laser sights, etc.

5. You cannot send ideas or anything that covers too broad a spectrum eg: You cannot send books, blueprints, etc.

6. You cannot send a person... ok you can but they will not survive the trip back in time because to send them back alive would violate rule 5 unless they go back in time a vegetable.



The purpose of this exercise is to determine the most practical item and most optimal time to send said item that would result in a change to our timeline with a successful overall improvement to our society as a whole today. Go!


edit: updated example for rule 4 and added rule 6.

 

[Platypus]

man... the comedy potential for this is huge

 

[PingSpike]

I'd send a rubber porn star butt mold back 500 years.

 

[Beev]

Slapchop. 1492. Let the Native Americans and Christopher Columbus slap their troubles away.

 

[Tim]

I would send the text of this thread along with the included words "Send this out to 10 people or you will have back luck for 7 years."

 

[kgokal]

2 girls 1 cup on old school film.
Year 1900.

 

[hanoverphist]

What would it be, to when would you send it and why?


Rules:

1. When you send it to has to be at least 100 years before you were born.

2. You have no control over who gets its... it cannot end up in the hands of an ancestor along your bloodline. OR This object cannot be sent for the purpose of benefitting only you in any way shape or form in the present.

3. The object will not come with an instruction manual or anything to explain its use to the stranger who receive it. They will have to figure it out on their own.

4. The object may be preloaded with what it needs to operate but nothing more... eg: a gun can be sent loaded but a car may not have a stereo.

5. You cannot send ideas or anything that covers too broad a spectrum eg: You cannot send books, blueprints, etc.



The purpose of this exercise is to determine the most practical item and most optimal time to send said item that would result in a change to our timeline with a successful overall improvement to our society as a whole today. Go!

a car NEEDS a radio. way too boring driving without music.

id send a microwave back 100 years, i think that would be funny.

 

[JulesMaximus]

NM...didn't read the damned rules first.

 

[Tim]

NM...didn't read the damned rules first.

lol, fixed before I could chastise you.

 

[Saga]

These rules don't make any sense. According to them not only would the car go back without a radio but it wouldn't have brakes (not needed to make it GO, just make it stop) any body panels (not necessary, creature comforts), seat belts (or even seats for that matter), etc, etc, etc, etc.. It would be a suspension, engine, alternator, and battery.

I think you might want to re-think this, your rules are borderline obnoxious - why would you send anything back without instruction?

 

[lxskllr]

These rules don't make any sense. According to them not only would the car go back without a radio but it wouldn't have brakes (not needed to make it GO, just make it stop) any body panels (not necessary, creature comforts), seat belts (or even seats for that matter), etc, etc, etc, etc..

Yea, I don't agree with that part of the rule. The radio isn't gonna do much anyway; just make a bunch of noise.

Edit:
I'd change the rule to make the object have to be in factory condition. You can send something back in time in an as-purchased state.

 

[TwiceOver]

If the item is normally sold in a package of multiples then does the whole package go or just one?

 

[darkxshade]

These rules don't make any sense. According to them not only would the car go back without a radio but it wouldn't have brakes (not needed to make it GO, just make it stop) any body panels (not necessary, creature comforts), seat belts (or even seats for that matter), etc, etc, etc, etc..

Use your common sense when deciding... brakes and seatbelts are ok... you could drive a car today without a radio, but it wouldn't be road legal without everything else. The radio is a luxury that's not really part of the overall function of a car.

 

[TwiceOver]

Yea, I don't agree with that part of the rule. The radio isn't gonna do much anyway; just make a bunch of noise.

Edit:
I'd change the rule to make the object have to be in factory condition. You can send something back in time in an as-purchased state.

Yeah I think he was just trying to avoid the "I'd load a van up with {insert bunch of shit here} and send it to..." type of posts.

 

[PingSpike]

The rules are great, because chances are if you send something useful back its just as likely it'll end up used as some one's flower planter as it will be used for its intended purpose. In fact, its more likely to end up a flower planter.

 

[Saga]

Use your common sense when deciding... brakes and seatbelts are ok... you could drive a car today without a radio, but it wouldn't be road legal without everything else. The radio is a luxury that's not really part of the overall function of a car.

And considering it wouldn't be functional anyway why is it removed? Asinine decisions on what is and isn't necessary are going to really boil down to opinions from one person to the next.

 

[darkxshade]

Yea, I don't agree with that part of the rule. The radio isn't gonna do much anyway; just make a bunch of noise.

Trying to prevent someone of thinking an item(that I didn't consider) that comes with too many perks that ruin the exercise. The car/radio combo was the best I could think of on the fly while writing up the exercise.

 

[Kadarin]

Printing press to someone in the pre-Christian Roman Empire. Maybe we could have avoided the Dark Ages and be flying around in starships right now (thanks for nothing, Catholic Church!)

 

[tk149]

What would it be, to when would you send it and why?


Rules:

1. When you send it to has to be at least 100 years before you were born.

2. You have no control over who gets its... it cannot end up in the hands of an ancestor along your bloodline. OR This object cannot be sent for the purpose of benefitting only you in any way shape or form in the present.

3. The object will not come with an instruction manual or anything to explain its use to the stranger who receive it. They will have to figure it out on their own.

4. The object may be preloaded with what it needs to operate but nothing more... eg: a gun can be sent loaded but a car may not have a stereo.

5. You cannot send ideas or anything that covers too broad a spectrum eg: You cannot send books, blueprints, etc.



The purpose of this exercise is to determine the most practical item and most optimal time to send said item that would result in a change to our timeline with a successful overall improvement to our society as a whole today. Go!

The supersuit from "The Greatest American Hero"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greatest_American_Hero

 

[KGB]

I would send a hydrogen bomb.

 

[darkxshade]

And considering it wouldn't be functional anyway why is it removed? Asinine decisions on what is and isn't necessary are going to really boil down to opinions from one person to the next.

Like I said, trying to avoid someone thinking of something that comes with too many separate things...

 

[OCGuy]

Fuck the rules.

I would send Jesus a newspaper article on the Preist scandle, a tape of Benny Hinn, and a Double Down.

$10 says he would have gone athiest.

 

[theflyingpig]

I would send back that bio engineered plant bacteria that kills any plant in comes in contact with. I would send it back to 1910.

 

[Beev]

Yea, I don't agree with that part of the rule. The radio isn't gonna do much anyway; just make a bunch of noise.

Unless it's a CD player with a Dragonforce CD in it :awe:. That would probably freak out anyone from long ago. Or maybe a Brokencyde CD if you want them to commit mass omnicide

 

[hanoverphist]

Use your common sense when deciding... brakes and seatbelts are ok... you could drive a car today without a radio, but it wouldn't be road legal without everything else. The radio is a luxury that's not really part of the overall function of a car.

i drove one of my cars to the state office to have it inspected as legal to register in arizona without a hood or drivers door. im pretty sure the inspector noticed they were missing when he signed off on it and i got it registered. im pretty sure the spirit of that particular rule was so someone didnt army of darkness it and fill the trunk up with books on how to make steam engines, engineering and what not.

on a lot of cars, the stereo is also wired in line with your audible alerts for the vehicle, taking the stock stereo out poses a 115 dollar problem of adding an adapter to regain that function. besides, how will they listen to the ipod attached to the usb port without the stereo in there?