I would bury a bunch of identical time capsules all over the world, each with the location of the other time capsules and a detailed timeline of increasingly terrible global events.
The later it’s dug up, the more credible it’ll be.
Alright you primitive screw heads, listen up! You see this? This, is my boomstick! The twelve-gauge double-barreled Remington. S-Mart’s top of the line. You can find this in the sporting goods department. That’s right, this sweet baby was made in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Retails for about a hundred and nine, ninety five. It’s got a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel, and a hair trigger. That’s right, shop smart shop, shop S-Mart. You got that?
I see Ash, I upvote.
Introducing firearms even sooner in history… What could go wrong. Surely won’t change the course of history or anything. ☺️
Being a gun nut, I’ve thought on this. Take something simple like an AR-15 back. They wouldn’t have had the metallurgy 150 years back to duplicate it. Not the barrel or bolt anyway. Springs? Certainly not the propellant. What about the precision needed for the shells alone? And forget rifling a barrel!
I’ve got a couple of 130-yo, double-barrelled shotguns. One is Damascus steel, the other is Belgian laminated steel. Sounds fancy, may rapidly disassemble with modern shot.
Bet the mechanisms and overall design would be a mind blower! Mankind, being mankind, would certainly figure a way to get some kinda better killing machine out of the deal.
LOL, this would have been a solid /r/AskHistorians question!
guns of the south by harry turtledove is based on this premise
A bag of cool ranch Doritos.
Spell-checker
A time machine.
That’s not a time machine, that’s a phone blue booth.
A fistfull of random coins of varying ages.
I would bring a list of supernovas that occured in my past, but in the future of the time I traveled to. A couple matching observations will provide indisputable proof that I have information from the future.
At first I thought you talked about Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Been a while since I heard Supernova for it’s actual meaning o_o
I’ve never heard a nuclear bombing described as a supernova, but you do you?
It’s a somewhat apt descriptor. 🤷🏻
An almanac of the time period I’ve traveled to.
I think a dirtbike and some gas would do it tbh
I’d bring a scientist with me. Not sure which one. Just grab one with a cloth sack when they’re having breakfast with their kids, and stuff em into my time machine. They’ll figure it out.
Then I’d prod them to do future math and stuff for peasant farmers.
Then the peasant farmers either burn you both for witchcraft or shun you as the village idiot rambling about nonsense.
But… but… The Taylor Series expansions!
Bring a gun so I can shoot some nazis.
Nay, a nuke with the power of Fat Man in the middle of Berlin in 1933.
Sorry Germans, I know not everyone is a nazi, but hitler and the rest of the nazis gotta go 💥
Anything weaker is just gonna result in hitler escaping again
Imagine how beautiful the world would be if the nazis were eradicated before they start doing atrocities.
(Again, sorry Germans, it had to be done. Enough of you will live to tell the tale that a time traveler saved y’all from fascism)
Pictures of them holding a newspaper
Assuming we’re going back far enough, antibiotics. Cure one person of the bubonic plague or tuberculosis and people will start taking you seriously.
Often wondered how much mileage one could get out of moldy bread. This looks promising, haven’t read it all.
https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/ubrekq/before_flemings_accidental_discovery_of/
Burn the witch!!!
Aluminum foil
Generator. Television. PS2. Cowboy Bebop on DVD.
Idk if it would work at all, but TANK is such a good fucking song, and I hope they enjoy at least that much before burning me for witchcraft.
