It's so easy how is everyone so stupid. I'd invent the train afterward and drive around everyone saying "you're so fucking stupid I'm not even good at this and I did it".

  • 420sixtynine [any,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    I would do really simple electricity , like waterwheel + magnets + copper wire that heats up for warmth (simple af stator simple af rotor exposed copper wire) and off of that simple technology I figure everyone else would be able to learn and take it from there, people have always been about the same smartness they just didn't have as much human history and discoveries to learn from as we do today

    • happybadger [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      You would be sitting there with a science fair project trying to convince people who have never seen dirt that they can have warm copper if they try hard enough. Me? I know what uranium is. I know it comes out of the ground. I sure as shit know that if you put it in a thing and pour water on it or whatever it makes nuclear power. My village would have megawatts of energy while you're being lynched for displaying magnetism.

      • 420sixtynine [any,comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        What are you gonna do with that electricity? Megawatts of energy that you can't a) use or b) store. They're gonna look at your dumbass and go oh wow you made steam please fuck off

        I would do it somewhere cold in the winter obviously, showing the romans how to heat up wire in a mediterranean summer would be stupid, hell I would join in in bullying me if I tried to show that off. But showing this to say, idk somewhere colder than a well diggers ass in the middle of winter like those scandinavians and you have heating without firewood, which is useful as fuck. Hell if you show it to the Romans in the winter at night.

        • happybadger [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Look at me. Imagine who I must be if I'm this confident. How gifted a child I was. You think I'm going to stop at inventing nuclear power or that I'm just doing it for the hell of it? That's Step 1. I'm inventing slot machines, porno, MRI machines because they're cool as shit, and multiple domestic uses for electricity as I remember them. Electric kettles. Lightbulbs. Vapes.