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Deus Vult my friend

Are you Capt Kirk?

Ed

you made me LOL

LOL

in 2950 years I would buy IBM stock

Absolutely correct, your immune system is optimized for whatever nasties are floating around today, not 1000 years ago. You'd be like the pet native Americans that were brought back to Europe and rapidly died.

You think IBM is gonna be around in 3950 AD?

I'm reading it right now, and I'm with you on this.  She's the turd in the punch bowl, and very dislikeable.

Haven't read Wizards Bane I take it?  

Introduce regular bathing and deodorant to the local populace.  Be crowned a hero, and die of type 1 diabetes 2 weeks later due to no insulin.

I would offer my services to the Byzantine Emperor.  With advanced knowledge of history and science I would do my best to prevent its collapse and to turn back the tide against Islam.

Pimpin' all dem hos

But the templars took money lending to a whole new level.

1000yrs ago? Good luck communicating.

English as we know it didnt exist then

Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, or the Templars, were part of the church.

Maybe deeper into Vinland than Leaf went, maybe the lake superior area.. or present day SE Michigan.. not sure how friendly the locals might be 700 years prior to the establishment of fort detroit but friendlies were found then..

Scandinavia / NW Europe
Language would be easier to pick up in NW Europe/Scandinavia if you lived long enough.. even english would be a very different language back then. The europeans might kill , enslave, imptison you just as quick as anyone for being a spy, an enemy.. a witch, a heathen, a christian.. relative to who you ran into..

at least with the natives I might be so different and rare that i might be more interesting, curious and non threatening..

or they might eat my heart but that seemed more the iriqois east than the algonquins of Michigan area.. but who knows 700years prior to any written record.. could even be pretty uninhabited and definitely loaded with wolves...

The other option is the Indian sub continent, language is a barrier but depending where there is a high probability of peaceful inhabitants

You’d be very surprised that the golden age of Islam was built on the backs of slaves. No, actually that’s not surprising.  The surprising thing is that the slaves were the ones doing the science for their mullah masters.

Templars tried it. Ask DeMolay how that turned out.

Sure they were. DeMolay threatened the Pope’s power. Head lopped off.

Geometric dimensioning and tolerancing???

You realize it would take you six months to get from SoCal to Montana, don't you?  And that is if nothing or nobody kills you along the way.

It was a good read, a few details that I didn’t like, but it’s worth reading.

I don't think he can ask the grand master anymore

Ironically, that was the muslims' strong point.

Tahiti or Bali.  Probably Tahiti.  I hear those chicks dig Americans.

They were probably headhunters back then, so you got that going for you.

This Gent was an engineer and sent back to about 1200 AD

Starve slowly to death.

At least I'm honest about it!

Not to mention some very virulent strains of syphilis that everyone apparently had. Everyone.

Do we get to take back a bang stick from S Mart?

All the options would suck.    Clothes on your back?   Would we have clothes of our choice to match the environment, or would be dumped there as 20th century standout?   I'd probably pick just outside a monastery in what's now England.    Show up, act friendly, helpful, and stupid until I could pick up enough of the language to fit in.   Plan on getting out ahead of the invasion but that might be an opportunity anyway w/ displaced people.

You don't think the Danes would just kill/enslave you?

I guess you could try to get out before they show up but it's not as simple as hopping in a car or in a plane.

Basically every option sucks.

I'm looking for geniouses here... haha

And you would live longer than anyone else in this thread.

Why would anyone want to go back to the age of sootikins???
No spank you.

If you guys don't know what it is, google it. You'll thank me.

From what I looked up you have about 10 years before the danes show up.    My point was that in a time of unrest if you went elsewhere on the continent you would stand out less.  More strangers moving around, and no I wouldn't want to stick around for he danes.  My location was based on the idea that there would be knowledge there and the potential to pickup language and customs a bit w/o standing out too much.  I think it would be a mistake to try to learn the language while paying w/ an obvious stash of money.

I remember reading radiant warrior I never knew it was a series.

Well yeah, how else are we going to effectively build our black powder M1 Garands and AR15s?

Everyone.......in peru

A year's wages? 1,000 A.D.? Anywhere I want? Just the clothes on my back?
I'd prep with some knowledge first, and make sure that I wore clothes with cool features.
I'm assuming that I live out my time back then?

I'd consider a few things:
Crushing Duke William would be an idea, if I lived that long.
Buying my way into an estate (nobility/title) would be ideal.
Taking a lot of memorized socialistic laws from today, current 'definitions' of words like welfare/regulated, failed concepts like the War on Drugs, and find a way to leave some clues for the late 1700's early 1800's future first Americans. Just to help out all you fuckers.

I would definitely find those old tinkerers/crazy dudes that lived in workshops out in the boonies. With a forge and some basic metallurgy techniques, whatever land I called home would have some pretty witchcrafty weapons of war to protect me and mine. Plus, I'd have cannons on ships. Yeah, 200-300 years before any ship had cannons, or even anybody had cannons.
I could be the undisputed merchant transport security lord. You want guaranteed passage to anywhere? 25% of your cargo, or equivalent value.
I would really only have 30-35 years left so 1,000 to 1,035 would be my time. I'd get busy right away making a family, hopefully some sons/daughters to cement my position in my home area. I'd alternate a classical education and modern education so they be light years ahead of their peers... just data dump future knowledge into them.
With the riches from the merchant shipping trade, I could invite neighboring nobility to my place... see if there are any potential suitors for my progeny.
Hopefully with some benevolent governance (due in large part to the revenue from the merchant shipping trade profits), and the protection of future tools/weapons/devices that I'd have dreamed up, I'd have a fairly loyal chunk of the world. I'd have to set aside a small area as "Communist" though, with instructions so anyone could join, people could get 'voted' out, and that people understood the 'voted' out people (in an actual communistic nation) are actually killed. Just as an example... "Oh, you want Communism? We've already got it going on as an experiment and it's been failing miserably for 200 years. Feel free to move there if you want, but remember that everyone 'voted' out would really just be killed. Have fun!"

While you were nitpicking... I looked it up: the current market weight for $50K of gold is...2.6 pounds.

I don't know we'll ever manage to carry that amount of gold on our person or secure it. What shall we do?

Should've done your research. Also, it's obviously a year's wages: substitute any commodity or past currency which is equivalent to that and you'll be fine... or just a few pounds of gold. You know, 'cause it's hard to Google.

How about .400 Whelen Garands with cast lead and cordite?

LOL!

@CCLJ03

You can watch me piss off the author in my thread here.

I finally got around to finishing the book but didn't make it back to my thread in time.

I liked the book.

LOFL....

Im sure you have the knowledge, capability and capital to create a modeen chemical industry to produce that.

Click To View Spoiler

Rr9876 - "I don't know that he would actually post here.... I wouldn't"

While you were typing...

MW - "Hi, I'm the author, here's why none of you know what you're talking about."

lol

Now, THIS was a good read. I've got the paper copys and the ebooks and re-read them every so often.

BTW - There's actually four more after those, but those were by far the best.

@MikeWilliamson

You gonna hurry up and write another one?