Gray's Sports Almanac 1950-2000.
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1 gun and as much ammo as I can carry. I'm gonna need to get some people to work for me if I want to survive.
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A gun and plenty of ammo. Don't need anything else to be Caesar.
Speaking of Caesar, I think you vastly overestimate how useful a gun is against a bunch of determined guys with knives.
Et tu, Brute?
I didn't say which gun. I think the right submachine gun would do fine.
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Can I order these goods from our time travling agent? Maybe a pocket electron microscope, a bunch of capsule corp products, sanitation pills, maybe the bugout bag of some rich future CEO near the end of capitalism
If I'm going to be transported to the European peninsula too, besides time travelling, I'd want at least:
- my laptop. Download everything from multiple Wikipedias, including the Italian one for good measure. (Why Italian? Largest Wikipedia in a Romance language that I'm proficient with.)
- some charger for the above. I don't even mind if manual.
- Latin vocabulary printed book. I can speak some but I'm not proficient in the language.
- Some silver and gold. Money back in Roman times was still based on the value of the coins. And money never hurts.
- Clothes carefully prepared to not look Roman, but typical enough from the times. The idea is to pass as a cultured barbarian from a tribe that is too far away from Rome to bother.
Power has yet to be invented. Once your laptop dies it becomes uselesss. Batteries deteriorate over time and without the latest security patches you'll definitely get infected sooner rather than later.
Yeah you gotta watch out for those ancient roman black hats. Or togas.
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I find it uncanny just how close this reply is to an idle thought I've had for many years.
My university level math, physics, statics/dynamics and strength+materials textbooks.
A latin/english dictionary.
Enough gold valuables to cover my funeral expenses since our bodies aren't capable of handling the bacteria in the water and food back then and we'd be dead in a week.
Literally none of the bacteria would be resistant strains.
You could just bring some penicillin instead of gold and actually survive.
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I'm either gonna bring a bunch of 'For Dummies' books to speed up development and get executed or make a fortune selling meth and get executed
Lol .... Roman Empire collapses 300 years before it's time because of a meth crisis.
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Portable power supply
Portable dvd player
Portable display
Bluetooth speakers
A copy of Morbius on dvd
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Either 1, a bunch of textbooks and encyclopedias. Or 2, a tablet/computer with said texts downloaded, a battery pack for said tablet/computer, and a few fold out solar panels or maybe one of those hand crank things. If I still have space I'd bring a soldering iron, a bunch of tips for it, flux and a bunch of different solders. Maybe a few spare parts for the laptop.
Tablet with tons of downloaded info + solar panels is my answer too. If you were wise about how you used the info you could be a demigod. Just knowing the process of how to refine aluminum could make you the wealthiest person on the planet.
There's a legend that the Roman Emperor Tiberius executed the inventor of flexible glass.
After the inventor swore that he was the only man alive who knew the manufacturing technique, Tiberius had the man beheaded. He feared that the glass would devalue gold and silver, since the material might be more valuable.
So y'all better watch out with any plastic...
If we lived in a world where plastic didnt exist, and some body brought it in. The closest approximation of articulating clear plastic would be flexible glass.
That guy was definitely a time traveler.
Do I have to go? They didn’t even have A/C back then :/
For rich people there were passive air cooling systems available. And if you were truly wealthy you could have blocks of ice shipped to you
https://blogs.getty.edu/iris/how-ancient-romans-kept-their-cool/
For rich people there were passive air cooling systems available
Bro for rich people there were active air cooling systems.
Unless you're talking about something like a guy fanning you with a big frond, then i don't think that's true. If you have a specific example please cite it.
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Without doing any research, the answer is "watchmaking tools." Equipment to make small things like watches, and revolvers and what ever you'd need to start a factory. A few things like microscope, binoculars.
They had good craftspeople on hand, just need a little push to start an Industrial Revolution.
You need good quality metal to make precise clockwork. You need to be able to make those metals.
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Nice!
Also seeds for modern veggies. Easier to grow and more nutritious.
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Sent back in time, but at the same place as I am now?
How large is the time travel device, does it fit into a backpack?
Now I want to rewatch Primer.
Every time I rewatch Primer, I go in thinking, "This is going to be the time I fully understand this movie!" Then, half way through, I'm thinking "What was so complicated about this? This isn't bad at all." Then I get to the last 20 minutes and I remember.
Then I go watch a 'Primer Explained' video that's almost as long as the movie itself, am satisfied for a while, and then some time in the future the cycle repeats itself.
Are you sure you didn't enter the machine yourself?
I'd fill the entire backpack with antibiotics, and vaccines for TB, Polio, and Smallpox.
And don't forget the condoms, Mr. I'm my own great-great-great-great...-great grandfather!
He did do the nasty in the pasty