You collapse and when you wake up you find yourself teleported back 1-2 thousands years in history. What do you do? [Thanks fan27 for the context which guided me into this question: https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/programmer-interviews.320629/ ]
You immediately pray that you are in a location where you can at least partially understand and speak the language. Next, find some clothes so that you can at least attempt to blend in. This is all in hopes to avoid getting burned at the stake or some other painful death for being a demon sent from the angry gods.
>> You immediately pray that you are in a location where you can at least partially understand and speak the language. Best advice so far. I'd wish they'd speak Latin. >> Next, find some clothes so that you can at least attempt to blend in. This is all in hopes to avoid getting burned at the stake or some other painful death for being a demon sent from the angry gods. It's 2000 years ago so burning at the stake, if you speak some Latin, is 1000 years away. What'd you do next? [Darn, this starts to look like a pre-OpenGL adventure game ]
Good advice even in the 80s!! [Re: https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/old-issues-of-option-traders-magazine.320593/ ] Even more 2000 years ago, if you ignore inflation and attrition!
If I was teleported that far back, the first thing I would do is look for anything that could be used as a weapon for personal defense.
You mean, like a bamboo trunk and some elemental sulpher? "Hey, man! A little twine and saltpeter, throw in those sparkly rocks over there, and you really something!"
>> Hey, man! A little twine and saltpeter, throw in those sparkly rocks over there, and you really something!" Saltpeter is a bit more complicated. You have to piss in the same spot for months. Share it with cows who, bonus points, also shit there. Then by some strange twist of fate be assigned to gather all that shit for being thrown away on the fields, try to make a soup out of it but don't boil it until it brews, then final step, somehow figure out mixing the resulting salt with 33% sulphur (an impossible thing to find in it's natural state where I live) and pure carbon (100,000 years of human evolution) is what does it.