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What technology/knowledge could you bring to the Middle Ages?

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What technology/knowledge could you bring to the Middle Ages?
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RE: What technology/knowledge could you bring to the Middle Ages?
August 24, 2015 at 5:05 pm
A good White Russian, they always seem tense when I read history.

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August 24, 2015 at 5:05 pm
Come onnn, you can do better than that guys! Tongue You'd have the chance to reshape scientific advancement! Even the most basic of 21st century knowledge could be game-changing Big Grin
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RE: What technology/knowledge could you bring to the Middle Ages?
August 24, 2015 at 5:14 pm
The printing press.
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RE: What technology/knowledge could you bring to the Middle Ages?
August 24, 2015 at 5:21 pm
Microscopes would allow them figure things out on their own. Probably for the best.
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RE: What technology/knowledge could you bring to the Middle Ages?
August 24, 2015 at 5:37 pm
Pole dancing.
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RE: What technology/knowledge could you bring to the Middle Ages?
August 24, 2015 at 5:41 pm
(August 24, 2015 at 5:37 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: Pole dancing.

Think of the poor comely wenches, having coins thrown at them on stage. That would be painful.
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August 24, 2015 at 6:40 pm (This post was last modified: August 24, 2015 at 6:46 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 24, 2015 at 5:05 pm)Iroscato Wrote: Come onnn, you can do better than that guys! Tongue You'd have the chance to reshape scientific advancement! Even the most basic of 21st century knowledge could be game-changing Big Grin

IDK, you might be surprised at what knowledge was available in the middle ages.   They -had- a great deal, in truth...they just didn't deploy it (for a variety of reasons). Agriculture, though, exploded in the middle ages. They deployed that left right and center. You might find that you could hand the bumpkins an airplane and they'd just shrug.

You'd get alot of mileage out of a 20$ if you brought in a bucket of pennies though Thena.....make it rain.

LOL, Min, you know they'd just print a bunch of fucking bibles with it......like last time.
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RE: What technology/knowledge could you bring to the Middle Ages?
August 24, 2015 at 6:58 pm
Sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads.

What, you think I'm going to not exploit time travel for evil purposes?
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RE: What technology/knowledge could you bring to the Middle Ages?
August 24, 2015 at 7:01 pm
A platoon of particularly cranky warbadgers.

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RE: What technology/knowledge could you bring to the Middle Ages?
August 24, 2015 at 7:04 pm
Germ theory: that would include the value of washing food, and washing hands before preparing food, covering sneezes, getting the latrines out of the water supply, washing hands and sanitizing instruments before surgery or assisting at childbirth, burying the dead outside the water supply, etc.

Food preservation was another problem. Canning would be a good addition.

Silly, I know but the screw can late. The expression dead as and door nail comes from killing "deading" nails, that is nailing them flat across the wood where they pop out on the other side of the boards. Without deading door nails would work their way loose.

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