Alright you primitive screw heads, listen up! You see this? This, is my boomstick! The twelve-gauge double-barreled Remington. S-Mart’s top of the line. You can find this in the sporting goods department. That’s right, this sweet baby was made in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Retails for about a hundred and nine, ninety five. It’s got a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel, and a hair trigger. That’s right, shop smart shop, S-Mart. You got that?
Introducing firearms even sooner in history… What could go wrong. Surely won’t change the course of history or anything. ☺️
Being a gun nut, I’ve thought on this. Take something simple like an AR-15 back. They wouldn’t have had the metallurgy 150 years back to duplicate it. Not the barrel or bolt anyway. Springs? Certainly not the propellant. What about the precision needed for the shells alone? And forget rifling a barrel!
I’ve got a couple of 130-yo, double-barrelled shotguns. One is Damascus steel, the other is Belgian laminated steel. Sounds fancy, may rapidly disassemble with modern shot.
Bet the mechanisms and overall design would be a mind blower! Mankind, being mankind, would certainly figure a way to get some kinda better killing machine out of the deal.
LOL, this would have been a solid /r/AskHistorians question!
guns of the south by harry turtledove is based on this premise
A list of everything the church has ever had to walk back(they classified capybaras as fish), along with the scientific proof. And a thousand doses of Keflex.
Bring the Keflex to save your own ass, if nothing else.
A bag of cool ranch Doritos.
Pictures of them holding a newspaper
Generator. Television. PS2. Cowboy Bebop on DVD.
Idk if it would work at all, but TANK is such a good fucking song, and I hope they enjoy at least that much before burning me for witchcraft.
Aluminum foil
Good one! Bring enough and you would be rich as well.
An almanac of the time period I’ve traveled to.
Something like a digital version of Wikipedia could work out great. I could have encyclopedic knowledge of their world and future events, such as “the pope is going to name himself such and such” at the palm of my hand
Something like a digital version of Wikipedia
?? Wikipedia IS digital.
What did you mean?
Oh, my bad. I meant offline version hahahaha
Yeah, I wonder how robust an ereader and one of those solar phone chargers would be? I seem to recall English Wikipedia takes up about 5GB, so you could probably bring a good chunk of Project Gutenberg too.
Solar powered e-ink reader would work well.
Even if the battery dies you could use it in direct sunlight.
Imagine reading a book that’s still being written. Straight to the stake!
I think a dirtbike and some gas would do it tbh
A spork, man, a spork.
A fistfull of random coins of varying ages.
I would bring a list of supernovas that occured in my past, but in the future of the time I traveled to. A couple matching observations will provide indisputable proof that I have information from the future.
At first I thought you talked about Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Been a while since I heard Supernova for it’s actual meaning o_o
I’ve never heard a nuclear bombing described as a supernova, but you do you?
It’s a somewhat apt descriptor. 🤷🏻
More of a reverse supernova I’d think. You’re starting with the very heavy elements and fissioning them into lighter ones.
I’d want something that can help people and can be tested and has an immediate, dramatic effect to make it undeniable
Maybe insulin? You could literally bring comatose people back from the brink of death in minutes
Wouldn’t anyone needing insulin already be dead? Or is there a middle ground where a diabetic can go in and out of shock, yet survive without?
They would survive for awhile after diagnosis on a starvation diet, maybe weeks, and slipping in and out of a coma but it was a death sentence. There’s stories from the 1920’s when whole wards of kids were hit with a first dose that removed the symptoms in minutes. I can’t imagine being in that room when all that despair and anguish turned into hope and relief.
Why would I want to prove that it is real. I’d go full Connecticut Yankee and build a modern empire with me at the head.
How far back are we talking?
I mean the 90s were about 30 years ago (sorry for making you feel old).
So let’s say that that I managed to find a way to travel in time, and had time to prepare for a trip to 95…
I will also assume that it is a paradox self correcting time travel deal.
I’d bring an iPhone with me, that should convince anyone that I am from the future.