From: "JACK L. URETSKY (C) 1996; HEP DIV., ARGONNE NATIONAL LAB, ARGONNE, IL 60439" <JLU@hep.anl.gov>
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 15:55:30 -0600 (CST)
Well, Dwight-
Are you sure that your art teacher wasn't just trying to get you
to read Mark Twain's "A Connecticutt Yankee in King Arthur's Court"? Why
don't you see if you can't improve on that? There's some possibly relevant
Jules Verne that also deals with this theme.
Some of the spoofs were in Fantasy&Science Fiction (in the '50 and
'60's) under the label of Ferdinand Feghoot, Time Traveler.
Regards,
Jack
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If you were some how transported back in time (anywhere from B.C.
to early A.D.) with only the clothes on your back and the knowledge in
your head, how could you benefit the "primitive" people? For example, if
you were transported to early North America, long before the white
settlers made contact with the natives, what could you do to benefit the
natives? Keep in mind, the only tool you have is the knowledge in your
head.
I was really stumped. The only things I could think of are guns
(and other explosive projectiles), farming techniques, and with lots of
trial and error, possibly penicillan(sp?), and maybe even know how to
treat small pox using cow pox. Given some time, I might even be able to
make a crude bicycle and better swords...again with lots of trial and
error. :-)
So can anyone think of anything else? Could anyone think of some
medicines that could be made with the crude tools at hand? Better forms
of protection against diseases and rival people? Farming?
Transportation? Could anyone make a tv using two blades of straw, some
bark, and some copper ore...but why bother...nothing good is ever on.
:-)
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