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CandidGamera
Behold, I have a Master's degree but I am not fluent in Latin or Ancient Greek! I am considered educated in my time!
BakingMaybes
Whittle an iPhone
Deerum
I would memorize the greatest gold mines discovered in the west. Have a working knowledge on the theory of flight.
GameOfLiesAndDeath
Do people really think the U.S. is the only place in the world or something?
SirLantsBojangles
I'd just start a wine business.
Frogapus
After Hours did a good video why time travels is kinda sucks for most people https://youtu.be/H-WHAISI02w
captainmobyahabdick
I’d be inventing photography about 26 years early.
lovingspace
The best option would be to reach out to scientists you know exist. They would be the most open minded, I'd hope.
lovingspace
A second option would be to reach out to kings and queens. They'd be happy to listen in exchange for the advantage.
punderstorm
i feel like everyone just forgets that in roman times, it didnt matter what color/race/religion/sex/species you were, everyone got enslaved.
MissSiesta
Equality at its saddest
MeteorD8
Wasn’t there a post about how if someone went back it time you’d just kill them because of immune system stuff?
MeteorD8
So my proof would be me bringing them a new plague
PaladinAstro
More like all the plagues
JohnQPubic
telling people you're from the future is a fucking death sentence. just invent the airplane or fucking basketball or something.
SirChadwellHeath
or reusable rockets
ATerribleArtist
By pasteurizing milk. And seriously if any of you do go back in time, boil all your water. It was insanely unhealthy back then.
ThePunishersVengefulBrother
I love that in BTTF 3, when they serve Marty water at dinner, it's brown. A nice touch of realism.
TeishaTaisha
As a trans woman... no thank you! I'm fine with modern pharmaceutical technology. Can I go forward?
SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem
I'm exactly the person history was kind to/dominated by, and I say fuck the past. I agree with you. Modernity and progress is where it's at.
werewolffbarmitzvah
i like the idea of going forward, only to see if we advance or if the whole thing just blows up and we have to evolve all over again
Fuckweasel
This is the only reason I don't want to die. I am just so fucking curious about how it all turns out.
Elleusive
Ditto!
RandomlyAppointedNSAAgent
If I could prepare, I'd study historical horse races and make winning bets. That's price it and make me some money.
Garbonzo00
butterfly-effect and all... you might only get in one or two before outcomes stopped matching up with your original timeline.
RandomlyAppointedNSAAgent
Hey, if I pick the right one or two I would be fine, assuming I could continue to exist in the new timeline.
FeChefImgur
Sighered
Not having shit all over me, I presume I’ll be pronounced king.
badatediting
King are you? Who made you a king then?
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ComplexSystemsGuy
I’m hella good at math and the entrance exams in 1800’s were cake. I wouldn’t prove anything but unproved theorems!
Kittynomnoms
Might be a bit awkward trying to remember what is and is not established though. I know it's physics, but trying to prove Kepler's Laws 1/2
Kittynomnoms
might be a bit awkward considering Newton's 3 laws weren't established yet. 2/2
Kittynomnoms
Also: tons people that had groundbreaking discoveries were ridiculed and not recognized until after their deaths
ChilledOutEntertainer
No apostrophe in 1800s.
Maevellous
I wouldnt bother trying. But I would invent a bunch of shit.
zerkalot
I would invent trains and monorails!
Maevellous
Heavier than air flight :)
MrInternationalWorldwide
I can easily prove I am from the future, observe my futuristic stupidity. Only someone from the darkest timeline could be this stupid.
CorneliusCornwall
*chicken dances for 2 hours* do you believe me now!
SamAndJanetEvening
Ah - the Idiocracy Theorem. Any forward time travel makes you smarter, and backwards makes you dumber.
StandBackSomeonesOffened
Probably something due to the fact we view the old as a wise
astrid28
Ima girl. No matter what I said they'd either institutionalize me, or burn me at a steak screaming 'WITCH!' also epilepsy. So no. Ty.
Feralkyn
A steak wouldn't be so bad. A stake, maybe.
SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem
Yeah history was pretty fucking awful for anyone who isn't a white, straight, christian man. I say that as a white dude. The past was awful.
kojenk
Eehh plenty of periods where skin tone was irrelevant too. Color of your hair, your caste, your birth. Nobility, riches.
kojenk
People get imaginative with what differences make you shit. European ancient history reveals that a lot.
Astrocuties
Entirely dependent on when and where. The world and history is not (pun intended) black and white. People seem to think only Europe existed.
WitchIrkalla
As a pagan lesbian that is educacted.... I'll pass
werewolffbarmitzvah
as a left handed person, i’m also gonna pass. history has not been kind to us lol
teebob21
Educacted, eh? Hope the readin' and 'rithmetic game is strong....
ChilledOutEntertainer
*who is educated.
TheBurritoConfederacy
*whomst'd've
Lamborghinileglock
Fewer
macpall
I think the way you speak and certain knowledge of historical events would prove yourself. Of course you’d need to know early 1800 history.
LeSethX
Maybe, but that would be no different from people today predicting what is going to happen in a few years. Unless you can be VERY specific
baltec1
Napoleonic wars and industrial revolution. Also that incident in which a white house turned black.
tinbed25
Tell them about WW2 and then wait a 140 years to be proven right. Checkmate.
LibrarianCatLady
You'd mention ww2 and everyone would wonder what happened to ww1.
baelaron
Or you could go with the war of 1812. Im not 100% sure but Im fairly certain it started before WWII.
LavaAxe
That won't prove anything very fast. If it's just about to begin, you're not much of a future teller. If not it's going to be years.
etcnotect
I think it started in 1812
cvJoint
I would make that the industrial revolution happened 100 years earlier. I'm an mechanical engineer btw.
ThePunishersVengefulBrother
Have you read "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" yet?
cvJoint
No, what's it about?
ThePunishersVengefulBrother
A mechanical engineer from the 1880's gets transported back in time and ends up on King Arthur's Court. Being industrious, he uses his 1/2
ThePunishersVengefulBrother
knowledge of machinery and gun-making to supplant Merlin as Arthur's advisor and take over Camelot. Written by Mark Twain.
notajuniorchemist
Regardless of color, I wouldn't try to prove it. No intention of being burned at the stake.
Duros62
Pretty sure they stopped burning people at the stake by 1800.
JHawke
Hangings otoh...
Rip42
Talk about ammunition with casings, rifling, steam power. Easy to understand basics; military applications. Gov't protection guaranteed.
notajuniorchemist
Nah then you tip the scales of war. It'd be nice to advance sooner, but I imagine people will abuse the tech even more than they already did
Deadpoolio7
Proving it would probably go something like this
dart223
What is this from ??
badatediting
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thepikachubandit24
Tomska, https://youtu.be/AwXJcQkvRa4
SuckerOfFun
I'd say it depends on when you go and where. Not all places had problems with black people all the time.
kendoddsdadsdogsdead
Yes they really did
CandidGamera
Though "not having problems" could entail sticking you in a circus or zoo to admire you as an exotic curiosity in many places.
SuckerOfFun
It might just be me, but I'd call that a problem.
AintNoRestForTheWookie
France, for example! I only just leaned recently that the guy who wrote the Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas was 3/4 black, and his father>
AintNoRestForTheWookie
>, who was half black was a famed general for the french army!
IxnayOnTheOttenRay
In 1800 everybody was racist af. There were Jewish blocks, black blocks, Italian blocks etc. If you had to traverse the wrong block you RAN!
purina5
Africa.....
bobaFoot
....Was occupied by rabid racists. Except Ethiopia that is!
FredeFuppe
The world is bigger than America though.
cynicalhumor
Nah fam, rest of the world isn't even real. That's why you only see it on TV and in movies.
horseWnoname
uhhh...phrasing
SuckerOfFun
Explain please.
Feralkyn
It sounds vaguely like "problems with roaches" sorta phrasing.
wigwagthenwam
Implies that some of the time all places had problems. Phrase should say ‘some places never had problems’
SuckerOfFun
Remember your Punnett squares.
DieFlammenwerfer
Define between the places having issues with black people. Like the places didn’t like them, orrrrr, the places were overrun with them...
DieFlammenwerfer
Bruh that’s literally how some people read that, it’s not even a stretch.
SuckerOfFun
I'm not a historian. I'm just saying there are places and times that would be safe. One should just do their research first.
TheGeorgica76
I think Scandinavia is safe, Europe, and all the way to the east
Tokomek
Your immunity to terrifying diseases like polio and smallpox.
periwinklepanda
So like on Outlander
Neoeon
I read a while back that the biggest issue with time travel would be getting exposed to diseases which dont hurt the natives but would hurt
Neoeon
modern people, and vice versa. I mean, can you imagine how adapted our immune systems are to what in the past couldve been a super virus?
Neoeon
Or what viruses once existed but died out so we have no immunity to it at all? That was peoples idea anyway. Im a software engineer not doc.
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Tokomek
Well one supposes the time travel is a planned event, you can go get vaccinated for any number of exciting and deadly things
Tokomek
Polio vaccine is required for public school students in California.
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NewtonWren
Polio isn't in the USA but it still exists and it doesn't take much to kick off again, see measles. Eliminated in 2000 in USA but back now
Tokomek
Heavy immigrant population in California, we vaccinate for whooping cough too.
Jonataurus
Good luck explaining to them why that means you're from the future.
Tokomek
The knowledge I carry will either prove future or demonic influence depending the the region I go too.
shortbutsquat
The fillings in my teeth?
somekindafuckingidiot
This is just defeating the point of the question without actually engaging with it
YucateCosa
I always think my nail polish will get me in troble. Yes, I had thought about it before, many times.
Rosfmmmhzdrozzley
Yeah but if you have a good dentist those would be very hard to see
Rodltwo
They’d think you’re a witch
firrup
Silver fillings were seeing use during the civil war according to my dentist so they might just look like really good work.
mcotgr
Fillings were a thing as far back as Ancient Egypt.
twitch760
That only works on shape shifting aliens everyone knows that.
drduffer
Your size, physical condition, absence of the usually common chronic diseases of the day like TB, the condition of your teeth, nutrition.
imnotryan
Only the condition of teeth might be considered quite out of the ordinary. People were still 6' and healthy most of the time.
drduffer
Might check that fact. There’s a big difference between avg heights then and now. Yes there were 6 ft tall men, but they were rare-ish.
DancingPanther
My 2008 Phillies World Series Champion shirt
RufusTheNakedMoleRat
you really missed the whole not bringing anything back part huh?
DancingPanther
I thought wearing clothes while time traveling would be ok but I guess not
broverdose
Hahaha love this
Wolf2Worrior
“Without bringing anything back”
DancingPanther
Am I not allowed to wear clothes when I time travel?
fyggnuuton
Gotta be nude. Terminator rules
vigilantvigilantes
“Without bringing anything back” That won’t end well if you have a pacemaker.
LavaAxe
Well you can't even bring yourself back
Duraxis
Well I’ll be blind as fuck. Great
judgemasterven
Right?! Like damn.
SpaceSphere
Does that include the extra radiation we all have?
vigilantvigilantes
So well be healthier?
greatgoatman
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O, by Neal Stephenson, had this kind of time travel, you show up 100% naked, nothing that isn't you. Rough time.
Sildroni
I would be DOA. No time travel for me
AndThenIWasLikeOMG
Or a heart transplant.
gunnLX
Or the guy who wanted to get a body transplant.
ExecutorHideo
Or that guys teeth.
stauffalopagus
Give me back my fuckin coin.
ExecutorHideo
badatediting
I choose that guy's dead wife
ndapp
Does knowledge fit into "anything", if not then it should be rather easy for any averagely educated person to prove it.
LavaAxe
Would it really? That's the precise question. What would you use?
ndapp
Pretty much any current basic knowledge of say physics would be extremely advanced. Now if you were educated you could easily prove it.
Vblink
Burn the witch
KarakLohr
Just healthy well maintained adult teeth in general would probably do. Dental care wasn’t too hot back then.
LavaAxe
I doubt they'd take that as proof of you being from the future
paperliger
Im fairly sure that before processed foods and crazy accessibility of sugar dentition was better in general.
TavisMcNamara
Potato starches are a tooth's worst fucking nightmare. Yes, often far worse than sweets!
Priscosaurus
Also means no access to antibiotics or dentistry that wasn’t crazy, I mean George Washington needed dentures and died of a throat infection
paperliger
I’m not saying dentistry was worse. I am saying that teeth were better before modern diets.
Itwasmyname
Not an anthropologist, would 1800 be early enough to predate sugar?
swellguy18
My knowledge of math and science breakthroughs. I'd find someone and start talking about every little thing I recall till something lands 1
swellguy18
Near enough to my current year that I'm proven right.
WuntchtimeIsOver
They might throw you in an asylum for being crazy tho!
swellguy18
Very possible. Have to find the right person.
EyeSpyABreathtakingPerson
IF I convince anyone, I'll be burned as a witch/warlock. Therefore, I'm gonna shut up and lay low.
Wankathon
It's 1800..
Lark2370
Britain burned a witch during WW2, I believe she was suspected to be a spy and it was more of a lynching, but y'know.
Psionickitten
I'd most definitely lay low and use what knowledge I could to live a comfortable life.
Ilostmypasswordsonowineedthisaccounttofuelmyaddiction
I'd probably be the town lunatic and end up in an asylum.. i dont actually know how to create things.. ill just be rambling about bs
IDrankAllTheRum
The entire premise of the Outlander series in a single response.
DrMaggot
In 1800? Fuck no read History. Depending on your location you may end up guillotined however in that period.
notsureofanything
I’m a women doctor, I also don’t want to go back
YELLOWnotYELLOW
Somebody watched outlander
theshinobi23
Idk about laying low, but I wouldn't mention time travel. I might find out where to strike a massive gold vein or something before going tho
GrumpyOldMillennial
Silver? Utah. Diamond? Botswana. Gold? Nevada. Everyone will have hit Cali. Nevada has much more ore.
LavaAxe
Lol "where's the silver?" "Utah" "where there?" "I have no idea, but in Utah." Useless.
GrumpyOldMillennial
Not so! You know its there, so, find a geologist. Offer him a partnership in the mine, he will know how to find it. Problem solving!
NearEastMugwump
1800, not 1300.
Compound515
I dunno, maybe life would be better as a potato farmer
Ilostmypasswordsonowineedthisaccounttofuelmyaddiction
Things to do soon: #1. Be the best potato farmer. #2. Learn something, anything about farming.
tallandskinny2
Like you could farm a potato
idiotcube
I think I'd do well as some kind of craftsman. Building and repairing stuff seems like the kind of thing I'd do if computers didn't exist.
FeChefImgur
and use you knowledge of modern farming methods to grow the best potato crops, then get burned as a witch...
DVsloth
The trick is to praise what ever God is in big and say they blessed you... then blame some other fucker as a witch for questioning god will
FeChefImgur
Beginning to think you might have done this before...
DVsloth
What no... I mean come on... there is no way *waves it off suspiciously *
DreadPierateRoberts
Nah sell inventions you understand how to make
LaughingInTheFaceOfDanger
One of the best and easiest would be gunpowder, guns, and weapons.
CommunCreator
Do you know how to build a cotton gin? Do you even know wtf it does?
DreadPierateRoberts
I do! Probally could figure out a design.
Nize426
Everyone: "...sooo you're a witch then."
judgemasterven
Build it in plain view of everyone. "Hi, just showing you there is no devil trickery happening."
TheS4ndm4n
I know how to write software...
vowofloudness
I'm not an idiot, but the more I think about it the less confident I am that I could actually build anything useful with 1800s supplies.
ElbowdeepinElmo
Supplies weren't as bad as you might assume...steel would be far from what it is today and generally you'd probably be hard pressed to find
ElbowdeepinElmo
certain metal alloys but besides that, it'd be much of the same. Harder to find and more expensive for sure but quality would be acceptable.
ElbowdeepinElmo
Just examples as points of reference for attainable quality: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/27305
DreadPierateRoberts
I could do electricity and light bulbs, telegraph maybe a phone
GrumpyOldMillennial
Also, airplanes are the easiest thing to pull off. Mechanically, they are very simple to engineer a basic Wright Flyer and the tech is
CommunCreator
Except you need an engine strong enough to push it at speed and light enough to be lifted. Internal combustion engines weren’t a thing yet.
GrumpyOldMillennial
So, make one! An engine the same power as the Wright flyer is dirt simple to make. And with basic modern small engine knowledge,
GrumpyOldMillennial
Iterative so you could sell each new generation as you go, despite knowing the most modern product. Sneaky.
LavaAxe
I don't know much more about the modern product than what I've learned from Microsoft flight simulator.
LavaAxe
I know almost nothing of airplane mechanics.
GrumpyOldMillennial
Its just like modern stuff, but with iron, bronze, and copper instead of plastic. Imagine selling them a steel mold board plow! Hell,
LavaAxe
I don't know what a mold board plow is.
GrumpyOldMillennial
Hard to describe but it was revolutionary. They went from something little better than a pointed 4x4 post being pulled by horses to a
MLGsamantha
Do you know how much metals cost? You'd never be able to get enough to build anything, unless you know 1800's stock market prices somehow.
GrumpyOldMillennial
....mine it. Ffs you have general knowledge of where yet undiscovered motherlodes are. Use it!
GrumpyOldMillennial
Imagine 'inventing' the Bessemer Steel process before even he does. High carbon steel instead of iron, you would be worth billions.
LavaAxe
I don't know what that is.
DieFlammenwerfer
ANY AND ALL TIME TRAVEL BEFORE 1973 IS NOT RECOMMENDED FOR THOSE OF US WITH EXTRA MELATONIN.
FredeFuppe
Yes because we hate sleeping
WaterUnderTheRocketAppliances
Shit was probably decent in some places before the white dudes showed up
BNabs
Ouch, that's really not that long ago
honeyboobees
Got it. No time traveling if sleepy;)
jamesCosmosBaron
Will Smith was in Wild Wild West. Jamie fox was in Django, Mario Van Damn Peebles Posse! Oh you mean Reality! Yup! Don’t do that...
Lulabel73
I’ve got one word for you - convicts
Sensino
Damn Darklings! Hogging up all the melanin so we can't have any ;P
CloudberryMoose
Splinter free toilet paper was invented in the 1920's, so going back to the 1800's seems unwise anyway. Just go to the disco era and enjoy.
Tumescentpie
I wouldn't go back before 1980 and even then I'm not going to the South of outside of major cities. Maybe it gets better in 2030.
CorneliusCornwall
You're still correct.
LavaAxe
Me sleepy, no time travel for me
mikeatike
Because you fall asleep?
Damnenginelight
Unless your name is Allison. Even then, she barely used her damm powers.
EugeneEff
You sleepy bastard.
alonsay
You can time traveling, just not in US or Europe
karlingkoss
Depends on where and what time
creechville
I sure wish I had extra melatonin
Mou5e
*serotonin
creechville
Yes please
wamphyri13r
Dark, not sleepy. ?
superpooper123
Better go back reeeeeeeaaaaaal far. Also going back before toilet paper is going to be a naw from me.
otchyirish
Hey guys just back from 10 years in the future, wow, I wouldn't even go forward in time if I wasn't as white as old dog shit.
tzxAzrael
let's be real; even "before the 90's" is still pretty sketchy. hopefully "later in the 2020's" shows improvement.
jiynxed
Shit it's bad now bruv. The 90s would be kinda shit
Flyspyro
Dido for the females as well..
meganical
Fuck. There’s still parts of the world I wouldn’t travel to in THIS time
maststick
*ditto
hwmcbeast
*dildo
SansAandAnguS
Or if you have XX chromosomes. Women weren't treated much better no matter skin tone.
DieFlammenwerfer
Melanin*. Fucking autocorrect.
wabitgirl
Honestly, the original comment is gold.
thadukes
You mean auto-wrong
cnastykat
LOL I loved your passion
omnipotentpasta
*gestures vaguely* 2020 isn’t looking so great either
Justgoingtooleavethishere
gotta go back and help people.. what if its only nazi scientists going back?
LatteToTheParty
If you do maybe bring a five hour energy or something.
DillPixels
Behind that a good ways is having a vagina.
thedadwhobeatshiskidwithjumpercables
I would caveat this is America exclusive. Time travel in Europe to any period when the Ottoman Empire was the last of the civilized world
upsidedownalarmclock
There was a lot of racism in Europe back then don’t kid yourself. We still have some now
thedadwhobeatshiskidwithjumpercables
and you will be fine. The people who can’t fuck with time travel are Jewish people. At no point pre 1946 were they treated well.
Kbantar
They were kind of when they were the oppressing genocidal maniacs rather than victims.
arek314
Khazar empire, Islamic Iberia, 15-17th century PLC,19th century UK and Grrmany..
thedadwhobeatshiskidwithjumpercables
1/I did not know about the Khazar empire or the religious freedoms of the PLC although it makes sense because I do seem to remember a lot of
thedadwhobeatshiskidwithjumpercables
Heretical sects of Christianity settled there. Thanks for sending me on a Wikipedia binge :)
nightof11bangbangs
You make it sound like slavery was exclusive to America. Though i cant counter your point on the jewish people, constant short straw.
Cloud26Strife
Not exclusive, but it was one of a few slavery systems based solely on race. For instance in the Roman empire, slaves were citizens of
Cloud26Strife
whatever area Rome had recently conquered. It had nothing to do with skin color specifically. Greeks were among the most common slaves.
barnsandnobel
As a white guy i would reccomend you guys only go forward in time if you can.
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CrisprCAS
I also try to only move forward in time.
Lark2370
Depends upon the area, there were a fair few massive African empires that'd be worth seeing
JaimeLannistersRightHand
Unless they also travel to the time of Mansa Musa and became his advisors?
fryturama
Yeah but skip forward 5 years. Just in case.
lavendergirl
Make it at least 15 or 20 and only with the option to have just a peek just in case.
coffeebaby
I would feel totally useless going forward 50 years of technology. Wouldnt even have current brainpay chip or drone ankle.
barnsandnobel
Idk i would start at a good 50 years, most of the racists should have died out by that point.
coothlesscthulhuwastaken
Or there is a new breed of turbo-racists. Quite the gamble.
Whatdoyousaytoanicecupoftea
Its okay, we already have Turbonegro https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbonegro
NotDan1138
Racism 2
Zadwanaa
Wow... racist! First, only back of the bus, and now only to the future? That's just rude!
DomoriGato
Only BACK to the future. Get it right.
Goryofa
Look, even white people know how white people are. Gives us five years without minorities to blame and we'll destroy each other.
Thurdeye
I'm sorry this is happening to you
Ifyouthinkimseriousyoumissedthejoke
Nah we'd find another reason to exclude someone. First the poor, then the nerds, then the foreign ones then the brunettes.
worldwithoutrockets
Yeah... We really hated the Irish for a minute there. It's not just skin, hate has no sense
namtrohs
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LikeTotallyNotTheNSA
Oh look at Mr PNG over here. Thinks he's better than us JPG people.