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

[dank69]

I'd send the teleporter.

 

[InflatableBuddha]

A red Swingline stapler...to an office worker sometime in the 1800s.

 

[InflatableBuddha]

space shuttle

More importantly, where would you dock it?

 

[HardcoreRobot]

high yield GMO wonder crop seeds, not sure on the time period... but back when people spent most of their free time farming just enough food to survive.

hardier higher yielding plants would put humanity into food surplus much faster, freeing up more time to start inventing crap and developing economy/trade resulting in growth of civilization.

could send it WAY back too, and unlike technology dont need any intelligence to use

 

[Red Squirrel]

I'd send back a sports statistics magazine with all the scores in them.

Or maybe a sears catalog, that would be funny.

 

[sandorski]

Roll of Saran Wrap. Back to the time of the Witch Trials. They'll be just as pissed off using the stuff as I get, kill a bunch of People for Witchcraft, and the annoying Moralists of our time wouldn't be focused on Sex, but on some aspect that prevents the Discovery of Saran Wrap. Thus I will have improved my Life and the lives of countless others.

 

[Platypus]

More importantly, where would you dock it?

I'll volunteer for that!

btw most people don't prepend the word space to it

 

[bobdole369]

Here we go, this is even better than my own.

high yield GMO wonder crop seeds, not sure on the time period... but back when people spent most of their free time farming just enough food to survive.

hardier higher yielding plants would put humanity into food surplus much faster, freeing up more time to start inventing crap and developing economy/trade resulting in growth of civilization.

could send it WAY back too, and unlike technology dont need any intelligence to use

CORN!!! The most selected, modified, bred for, and awesome plant that didn't exist hundreds of years ago!

 

[BeauJangles]

A 2010 Encyclopedia to 1700s England.

 

[soulcougher73]

A microwave back to 1850.

That Japanese lifelike female robot back to Jesus' time.

 

[Fox5]

high yield GMO wonder crop seeds, not sure on the time period... but back when people spent most of their free time farming just enough food to survive.

hardier higher yielding plants would put humanity into food surplus much faster, freeing up more time to start inventing crap and developing economy/trade resulting in growth of civilization.

could send it WAY back too, and unlike technology dont need any intelligence to use

If it's something that grew well enough of its own that we didn't need farmers for the limited population of the time, we might just end up with a nomadic society.

 

[Gibsons]

A nice scientific calculator back to Isaac Newton.


Based on a short story I read once.

 

[BurnItDwn]

I would send a loaded 357 magnum revolver back 10000 years in time. Yes, that is my evil streak. They will likely injure or kill at least 1 or 2 humans when figuring out how to use it, then ....after maybe successfully taking out 1 or 2 prey ... it'll run out of ammo and be useless to them ... perhaps at a time that they are under attack!

 

[darkxshade]

I would send a loaded 357 magnum revolver back 10000 years in time. Yes, that is my evil streak. They will likely injure or kill at least 1 or 2 humans when figuring out how to use it, then ....after maybe successfully taking out 1 or 2 prey ... it'll run out of ammo and be useless to them ... perhaps at a time that they are under attack!

careful not to send it too far back... if adam kills eve, humans are doomed

 

[amdhunter]

A book on evolution to the time before religion started to fuck everyone's head up.

 

[arcenite]

I'd send a propane torch to my cavemen brethren.

 

[dainthomas]

A Nimitz-class aircraft carrier complete with air wing to the Taino Indians prior to October 12, 1492. Imagine being the first lookout on the Pinta to see this barreling over the horizon!

"Um, thanks, you can go ahead and keep your beads and genocide. We're good."

 

[Chaotic42]

Steam Engine to the year 500BC

 

[BoomerD]

careful not to send it too far back... if adam kills eve, the Jews are doomed

Fixed.

The other "tribes" would have already been thriving.


I'll go along with the hydrogen bomb suggestion...with a large "PUSH ME" sign on the button. The problem is, to whom should I send it?
Hitler doesn't qualify since he lived less than 100 years before my birth.

 

[Fox5]

Fixed.

The other "tribes" would have already been thriving.


I'll go along with the hydrogen bomb suggestion...with a large "PUSH ME" sign on the button. The problem is, to whom should I send it?
Hitler doesn't qualify since he lived less than 100 years before my birth.

It says a random stranger, though the farther back you go the better the chance that stranger lives in the cradle of civilization.

Maybe you'll get Mesopotamia, or the Vatican.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Large Hadron Collider to 1900?

(Not expecting them to work it, but there's a ton of stuff to reverse engineer )

EDIT: oops, make that 1883

 

[irishScott]

A fleshlight to 1776.

 

[Snock514]

A book on evolution to the time before religion started to fuck everyone's head up.

:thumbsup:

 

[Kadarin]

How about a nuke to whatever ship the Puritans came to North America on.

 

[sandorski]

A Nimitz-class aircraft carrier complete with air wing to the Taino Indians prior to October 12, 1492. Imagine being the first lookout on the Pinta to see this barreling over the horizon!

"Um, thanks, you can go ahead and keep your beads and genocide. We're good."

nice