Fools as i carry with me all of human knowledge, right here in this fragile tiny black slab. I can tell you all once you tell me what your wifi password is.
As a side-note: You can download Wikipedia.
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It’s happened. He’s time traveled and been cut off mid post. Also apparently lemmy doesn’t handle timespace folds gracefully.
Something went wrong, looks like they are stuck in a time loop.
Keeps posting the same cut off sentence.
I hope this is fixed in 0.18.6
Truly we’ve all been affected by this bug from time to time to time to time.
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Next they just need to find a way to charge their phone.
86 GB? Yike.
86GB is nothing for a condensed form of all human knowledge
Yeah. I had to expand your comment to see what you said, but when I read 86GB I audibly said, “that’s not bad at all.”
I can fit a summary of all human knowledge on an external 1TB hard drive, and still have room for Skyrim and all the mods that I want.
But it is a lot to fit on a phone.
Keep it on a 128gb MicroSD.
Then you realize that, back then, the only thing they had were Xfinity hot spots.
Worst Isekai. I didn’t finish it though so no I don’t really know I just didn’t enjoy episode 1 with my smartphone.
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This book Tells you how to handle this, along with everything else you need to know to rebuild all systems in society from scratch should there be some sort of time machine based accident. It’s a good read!
This is good stuff!
Edit - now i need a big ass tattoo and a time machine
This book tells you that it’s really, really fucking hard.
There’s also [The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch](!wiki The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch) by Lewis Dartnel. Great book
It isn’t so hard really, to make electricity even in the olden days.
A dynamo is just a copper wire with a magnet spinning inside.
Making a copper wire you can accomplish by having a hole at the bottom of a kiln that drops directly into a big vat of water. Or even just drawing a line in the sand and pouring it in there.
Getting your hands on a natural magnet might pose more problems, but ultimately those are found in nature. So they should have already been dug up by someone.
Using the electricity usefully is harder. Since creating a light bulb needs access to gasses. What could we even use the electricity for?
You can create light with electricity with two carbon rods to make an arc light. It was literally the first electric light source and in widespread use for a long while, along with incandescent bulbs.
You just invented cumbersome fire. Ugh ugh. No good.
And we illuminated streets and factories with that for half a century.
I’m a caveman, I have night vision, why need pretty lamps?
If you can make a dynamo, you can make a motor. Now, you aren’t about to create Tesla. But there’s plenty of things back in the day that could benefit from being motorized.
Also making carbon Zink batteries should be possible, so a handheld fan would definitely be a possibility and would already be mind blowing
Could you also do ac/dc conversion to make the electricity useful elsewhere? I’m guessing charging and transporting primitive batteries won’t be able to fulfill any useful purpose at all.
You use it to charge your phone, duh.
You should watch Dr Stone
This is exhilarating
You can run a carbon arc lamp without glass bulbs, and without a huge voltage.
Electrocuting elephants?
Let’s see… electricity in a preindustrial environment. You’ll get into Factorio levels of invent a tool to make a tool to make a tool…
Copper wire existed at the time, (depending on the time period) but drawing it involved a person on a swing pulling it through a hole in a metal plate. So we need a metal plate. Surely there is a town blacksmith? We will need a few plates with gradually decreasing hole diameter. Enough wire for a demonstration would be difficult and expensive, but not impossible. Could also use copper busbars instead of wire.
Now that we have conductors, we have to figure out what method of generation we want. Rather than trying to make bearings, balanced shafts, and stacks of thin metal plates all identical and radially symmetrical so we can make a generator, we should first attempt a battery. For this we can get away with stacks of two dissimilar metals in a glass or ceramic jar, bathed in some sulfuric acid. Aqua Regia was a mixture of nitric acid and sulfuric acid, but it might dissolve copper and zinc plates. Could also use lead plates, those are easier to hammer out flat. With this we could get an output around 2v per cell, put a half dozen of them together in series and one could build a simple arc lamp.
After the proof of concept demonstration, hopefully you’d interest more smiths in the project, increasing your talent pool. With some mercury and wire you could build a version of Faraday’s homopolar motor.
After that I’d probably be burned at the stake.
We need some sorta optimal pathing tech tree.
Man if we could just find the user manual for the universe
I just know a guy who sell copper.
No, that won’t do. Unless you want to travel through enemy territory all for some shitty copper.
You spin a magnet near a loop of wire
“What’s a magnet?”
Umm you go to the beach and something about certain grains will be different. Look mate, see how you boil liquid. Do that with milk until just before it boils and that’s the milk now pasteurised which means it will kill the things in it that make you ill. Also boil the water before drinking it?
That’s all I got. I guess sphagnum moss is good for absorbing blood/dealing with wounds?
“Get something bottle-ish, add a layer of charcoal, a layer of sand, hooray and a cheer! you just beat diahrea”
Do that with milk until just before it boils and that’s the milk now pasteurised which means it will kill the things in it that make you ill.
Imagine being Louis Pasteur and finding out that your research success is already being done in a technique with your namesake for thousands of years.
A fucking miracle according to some
Watch this Jim Al-Khalili documentary for the BBC, then jump into the time machine.
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Love this documentary! My professor made my class watch this and I must say that all of it just clicked.
Such a good book. Wish it would stop being relevant.
Part of that image is cropped, just below the diagram of the wing. That’s going to be an interesting test flight!
Is this a repost? Has lemmy already entered the repost phase?
I mean, could you imagine? The horror…
Just remember to pack an encyclopedia Britannica and squirrel it away before you Jesus them.
You might want to check out this movie ; Idiocracy.
Welcome to Costco, I love you.
People always think about going to the past for their knowledge power-trip, when going to the future could be even dumber.
There was a short story I read ages ago in some collection somewhere I’ve been dying to find. I think it was from the 60s or 70s, but a scientist brings a man from the future and the man is just a normal guy, so he can’t explain anything to the scientist’s satisfaction and the scientist gets more and more exasperated.
The dialogue was like:
“What is the dominant mode of transport in the future?”
“Oh, we fleem.”
“Fleem? What’s fleem?”
“It’s a kind of garbol but with more slimp.”
“Okay, never mind. How do you do it?”
“Oh, that’s easy, you simply merfingle the blem and you’re fleeming away!”
“WHAT IS THE BLEM?!?”
Something to do with turbines.
Water wheels seem to spin a turbine. Maybe it generated current or something. Similar with windmills? Gyroscope or something.
Solar ? Quite clearly magical and a heretic, likely to burn me at the stake. Steam power pushes steam through A turbine maybe ?
Lightening sky electricity. Get a bunch of metal and kites. Die.
Solar are LEDs. But instead of putting electricity into that light comes out, you push the light in to get electricity out.
Photovoltaic isn’t the only solar. Probably much easier back then to direct mirrors at a kettle to drive a steam turbine.
Spinning an iron bar between another iron bar wrapped with one thin copper piece makes zap light.
It also makes a magnet for convenience.
So magic ? To the burning pile
Joke’s on you, that’s my fetish
Kinky
Business majors
Potatoes and lemons I was told
