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!
I see Ash, I upvote.
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.
Aluminum foil
Good one! Bring enough and you would be rich as well.
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.
A spork, man, a spork.
A bag of cool ranch Doritos.
A fistfull of random coins of varying ages.
Two girls at the same time, man.
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.
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.
I think a dirtbike and some gas would do it tbh
A time machine.
That’s not a time machine, that’s a phone blue booth.
Pictures of them holding a newspaper
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.
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