CW: child molestation
Early 90s, back to the baseball field me and all my friends used to hang out at. It was like a chocolate factory for sports bros. My little league coach was the guy who put it all together. Our field had a mini green monster in left field. A water tower over the fence in right field had a bullseye painted on the roof and free Dodger tickets to anyone who hit it. Off the field there was a BMX track and mini skate park. We had a Jordan Jammer and a 5 hole mini golf course. He let us work in the snack shack where everything was free. Turns out he was a child molester who was arrested as part of a world-wide child-porn ring and died in police custody. When I heard the news I started reading about kid predators and omfg this dude checked every fucking box. Like today he wouldn't be allowed within a mile of a little league; single male, successful attorney who was rich but lived with his parents. Could not maintain relationships with adults, although he could manipulate people if it got him closer to his goal. He always had gifts, trips to baseball games, movies, water parks, Disneyland once a year, we never paid for shit. But, every year he selected one kid that he wanted as his special friend. He actually tried to get me at the Malibu Grand Prix, but it weirded me out when he sat me on his lap. I was like, I don't even let my dad do that shit, know way I'm letting this creep do it. After that the gifts stopped and we never really talked. I haven't thought about this shit in like 30 years. At the time it was the best time of my life. Looking back it was a fucking horror show.
I take a tablet full of information about modern science and technology and give it to soviet scientists
50s or 60s? Not too early that they don't have industrial systems capable of supporting modern tech but not too late so they actually have money to spend on that shit.
on the other hand a technical advantage in WWII may have led to, shall we say... further progress westwards by the Red Army
Fewer soviet losses would probably have the most long lasting improving effects. I'm just having trouble thinking of what technologies the soviets would actually be able to make use of at the time that could give them an edge.
Jet engines. If you could find complete specs for a jet engine that would be a huge game changer in the air. Jet engines are massively cheaper than high performance piston engines needed for warplanes, and can run in a wider variety of fuels without losing performance, thus sidestepping the issue of poor quality Soviet fuel. The technology to manufacturer a jet engine existed in the 20s, the understanding to design a working one just didn't.
The reason why jet engines took so long to develop is the math that goes into them is so complicated that at the time the only practical way to solve it was to just build it and tweak it till it works. A lot of the features of early jet engine designs weren't chosen for efficiency, they were chosen because the math was easier. So, if you brought back the plans for a Nene jet engine (the engine that went into the Mig-15) I think they could get it working in time to have a working jet fighter for most of the war.
Another thing is all the information on nukes you could get your hands on. It is a massive industrial project to build a the machinery needed to process uranium, not to mention the fact they would have to build the mines and all the infrastructure around that, but it would give them a huge headstart knowing for certain what they needed. All the early nuclear programs wasted a lot of time trying very inefficient dead end processes before they figured out better methods.
Well there ya go I guess. Time travel into stalin's office and give him that info, plus a bunch of other math and science shit, then come back to the present and enjoy your communist utopia :)
I suppose also throwing in some supperior agriculture technologies and some tailored gmo crops could also help significantly. Additional info on the haber process and modern catalysts would also ensure long term food security.
Our modern world is built on chemical knowedge that wouldn't be widespread for a while, partially due to the difficulty in computation. Throwing an assload of precompleted qmech calculations about common molecules would be useful, as well as modern chemical manufacturing processes.
Modern medicine would also be a huge one. I have to imagine that many of the injuries sustained in ww2 could have been treated with modern medical knowledge. Even a slight decrease in casualty rates would have big effects long term not to mention the societal benefits of advanced medical care.
Nuclear energy would also be hugely important, and some of the bomb making parts could be quickly repurposed into nuclear power. Advanced nuclear early on (with modern turbines and such) would have huge affects on preventing climate change.
Computers would probably be the most significant thing long term, allowing for better automation of the soviet economy and more effective material distribution.
Obviously you would want to include as much as possible but it would be important to highlight the highlights.
The Aztecs didn't just give them everything on a silver platter. The aztec way of waging war prioritised captives and there was significant dissent.
It would take more than an hour to keep the aztecs from sinking
Cortéz's army was actually fairly small, he had to forge alliances with other peoples who felt animosity towards the Aztecs, so you'll probably have to convince all of them too, I don't think you'll make it in an hour tbh . Not sure about whether he was seen as divine, rather than they never imagined that Cortéz would eventually bring a massive empire behind him, truthfully it's a bit hard to imagine.
From what I recall the alliance consisted of about 2,000 conquistadors and like 200,000 soldiers from nations at the periphery of the Aztec empire. Cortez didn't so much conquer the Aztecs as he provided a catalyst for the formation of a huge army that took down the Aztecs.
Cortez was only able to do what he did because he was heading up a coalition army of about 200,000 Tlaxcalans. It's a bit more complicated than just sinking his ships.
Looks like I'm giving John Brown a crate of AK-47s + ammo the day before Harper's Ferry. "You don't need to raid that weapons depo, here's a weapons depo." Hope the Southern planter gerontocracy enjoys the taste of Soviet lead!
Cahokia at its peak. I'd just walk around and record as much as I possibly can. There is an enormous knowledge gap about pre-Columbian North America. With an hour of recordings of people going about their day, we should be able to learn an enormous amount.
Any other times I would consider would similarly be about filling in knowledge we don't have, so someplace like Catalhayuk or Indus Valley/Harappan Civilization.
I'd say the Cretaceous or something but I think I'd be unlikely to see as much useful info, because wild spaces are often sparse. I might barely see any dinosaurs at all, and I'd have a way higher chance of dying.
I'd like to go back just to see what pre-feudalism was like, especially the bronze age civilisations and pre-Columbian America because I know very little about that.
In terms of actually changing history, give the Spartacists AK-47s or just tell the soviets not to fuck up the first invasion of Poland.
Or go waaaaay back, like before civilization, and drop some pack animals off in America so that the natives could build immunity to disease and make further use of domestication
give the Spartacists AK-47s
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give Spartacus AK-47s
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Right before publishing Das Kapital I will give Marx an Iphone, destroying communism forever
the bay of rincon on January 13, 1493.
I'll bring a rocket launcher
will this include any special ability to understand languages of the past
I go back to prehistory and start writing things down :joker-troll:
I would go to the Devonian era just so I could see the 30 ft tall mushrooms.
if i'm just a sightseer, i'd love to see California before colonizers fucked it up. If I'm taking action, I'd have to think about it some.
a shop in grantham on the 13th of october 1925
i'll take a hammer
