If you could move through time in only one direction, what would it be?

[Hush]

Originally Posted by uh-oh

i'd want to go to ancient rome

if your rich in ancient rome you could live to like 80.

i feel i learned enough about everything in the world in every category of modern times i could fucking be a genius back then

i can invent a TREBUCHET, hundreds of years before. crossbows. STEEL. steel would be tricky, but at least iron. i understand steel, but i forget where they get the carbon from. i think its just wood tho? but you need a certain amount of wood, too much and it makes the iron soft and too little you make it too brittle

but word. we look back on archimedes like he was a genius

i could drop fucking newtons LAWS ON EM

i would use my intelligence to influence my sway amongst senators and work my way to a senatorial position and eventually a consulship. by 50 i would be in command of legions, and the hours logged in rome total war combined with my knowledge of today i would conquer the world.

i'd draw out blueprints for ships with shiprights until we created good sailing ships with tons of storage for food and be trading with the mayans and aztechs getting tomatoes and gold from them that i raided from scythia

if you go back in time you are basically a wizard just because the shit in your brain from living in modern times.

going into the future would be terrible. best case scenario, you are a retard in a world you don't understand. you are basically a jungle tribesmen. you probably use toilet PAPER. they're gonna be like wtf at this guy.

OR

humanity inevitably ripped itself apart in the time between now and where you jump to, and all the smart people died, and only dumb people made it, and everyone forgot everything, and they just run animals to death and stab them. and you basically went to the past, too far back, by going into the future

that would be my fear, so im gonna go back to a time where i know exactly what im walking into

the main problem is how do you integrate

language barriers would be the biggest problem and probably kill my dream.

i can imagine myself talking to people saying "julius caesar" until finally meeting him and pointing at my head while saying YO IM MAD SMART THO. look at what i can draw in the sand and he would think i was asking him to cut off my head cuz im pointing at my head bowing to write shit in the dirt

You'd be killed as a heretic within 2 weeks

[uh-oh]

Originally Posted by Hush

You'd be killed as a heretic within 2 weeks

probably. more likely someone would think i was a slave because of my variant of anglo speech, my blue eyes and beard. i'd be a slave barbarian

but with any luck my fat DICK will get me sold to some fine roman noble woman. she'll teach me the language post coitus and i can mentor her kids in politics and science

just gotta make sure i don't spill wine on them while pouring it

but rome was dope even if i was enslaved, they had a day off every week where they could work towards buying there own freedom

so sooner or later i could be free.

worst case scenario is they make me a gladiator because im a giant compared to ancient men who were like 5'4''