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Tsukiyumi wrote:Just look for the guy cursing in English as he runs from a war party.

hay, the Crow were some of the most deadly NA tribes so yes, I'll be running and cursing...though if I run out of words, I may start using french too.

Lt. Staplic wrote:

Tsukiyumi wrote:Just look for the guy cursing in English as he runs from a war party.

hay, the Crow were some of the most deadly NA tribes so yes, I'll be running and cursing...though if I run out of words, I may start using french too.

Cursing in French can still sound like love poetry. You might sound angrier reciting actual love poetry in German.

Captain Picard's Hair wrote:Cursing in French can still sound like love poetry. You might sound angrier reciting actual love poetry in German.

Anything sounds angry in German. Or Mandarin Chinese.

Lt. Staplic wrote:

Tsukiyumi wrote:I'd be just fine with the outdoor survival bit; my big problem would be the fact that in 1300, the Comanche had yet to split off from the Shoshone way over in Colorado. I'm not even sure what tribe occupied this area at that time.

lucky you...I live in Crow territory, meaning that unless I move fast and don't encounter any I'll be dead within days.

though with my proximity, I might just hike on up to the Great Lakes, meet up with Striker and Kendall.

Along the way you could stop by NW Missouri and pick me up!

Well considering back in that time period my country had a population in the low 1000's and my specific island had a few hundred, Said locals are rather... fierce, so I'm guessing I'd die pretty quickly.

Be cool to see a Moa is real life though.

I'd look back in the history books, see what horses won the Derbys in 1301 and get ready to place some bets.

Or really I'd propose Newton's/Galileos/Einstein's/Heisenberg's ideas and take the credit. After a few minutes I'd be executed for being a heretic but some time in the future they'd see I was quite correct. If I had enough contacts after making some simpler rudementary inventions to get the resources I needed, I'd probably try and get electricity going and maybe invent a radio, and probably try and have a go at making a semi-automatic for some defence against Mel Gibson and his cronnies (AKA the Scots), I'm not far from York after all. Definitely have a go at making a car too, or at least a hydrocarbon powered engine.

Here's a question along similar lines; what would happen if every DITL member with more than ten posts all ended up teleported to the same place (say, somewhere in the south-west of the USA) at that time period?

Rochey wrote:Here's a question along similar lines; what would happen if every DITL member with more than ten posts all ended up teleported to the same place (say, somewhere in the south-west of the USA) at that time period?

I don't see much difference really. What would be able to do with the existing infrastructure beyond merely living, assuming we can get clean water and don't die of disease do any of us have the skills required to make a forge and craft metal tools (for example)?

Yeah like 80% of us would die within 2 years I'd imagine.
Now if we were all teleported to say England or southern France we might have a chance.

Hmmm... some of the southwestern First Nations weren't as fierce or warlike as depicted, so we might do OK with them. The questions is, could we survive with so much knowledge of theory about everything, but none of practice?

(Yeah, I went and made a nerd joke, and included myself too... what of it?)

I could see us finding some Anasazi ruins and hunkering down for a while until someone emerged as a leader and came up with some sort of plan. They would probably come up with the idea of strippers way before its time too...

Mikey wrote:Hmmm... some of the southwestern First Nations weren't as fierce or warlike as depicted, so we might do OK with them. The questions is, could we survive with so much knowledge of theory about everything, but none of practice?

(Yeah, I went and made a nerd joke, and included myself too... what of it?)

Problem is the lack of writing in the New World at this time means we know very very little about any culture.

USSEnterprise wrote:I could see us finding some Anasazi ruins and hunkering down for a while until someone emerged as a leader and came up with some sort of plan. They would probably come up with the idea of strippers way before its time too...

Strip what? Girls in these parts rarely wore more than a loincloth. It's just too damn hot.

I'd invent the air conditioner.

Okay, you would found Vegas early then

Las Vegas. You'll never find a more wretched hive of scum and... well, scum.

Gambling, prostitution, and excessive substance abuse all in one government-taxed cesspool! Yay!

Seriously, I hate Vegas.