Comments on: Time Travel Survival Tips

By: Mark N.

Mark N. — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:48:01 +0000

Two words: transparent aluminum. :-)

By: Kristen J

Kristen J — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 01:54:59 +0000

That is true about the song thing although I’d havet to hum the tune and have someone do the actual work.

I really like the obstetrics idea. I could have been the real live person that Dr Quinn was based on.

Maybe I could have been in one of the first Olympics that women were in and won a lot of gold medals because I could run a 10 minute mile.

By: Jacob J

Jacob J — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:27:10 +0000

Juanita,

I like that idea. Think about how much music you could “write” if they dumped you back in the 1800s. You would be the most prolific song writer ever.

By: Adam Greenwood

Adam Greenwood — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:53:54 +0000

Obstetrics. If you go back far enough, you can do significantly better at delivering babies because you wash your hands.

By: Juanita

Juanita — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:36:37 +0000

When asked what he’d do differently if he could relive his life, knowing what he now knows, my husband replied: “I’d write ‘Hey Jude.’”

By: Kristen J

Kristen J — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:12:02 +0000

Oh my gosh! I didn’t even think about that. Yikes!

I too was thinking about great minds. If I got shot back to the 70s I’d probably look up Bill Gates and become his BFF for sure.

By: TStevens

TStevens — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:05:04 +0000

I would like to think I would seek out some great minds beofre they became famous, but I would probably become a traveling psychic making some hopefully accurate predictions and taking money for it.

Make sure you work out before going as we know from the Terminator movies you will be naked upon arriving.

By: Zen

Zen — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:27:16 +0000

What about some solid understanding of science? While I might be hopeless at living in any given time period, I know I could advance them by several hundred years, easily. Even just the introduction of a printing press would have an incredible effect on history.

That is, if I could get any of them to bother listening to a crazy old wimp who could barely slaughter his own livestock.

By: Kristen J

Kristen J — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:42:48 +0000

That is a good idea about heading to the library for books and you’re right, we’ve all become kind of spoiled from the internet’s info.

By: Steve G.

Steve G. — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:36:11 +0000

I think about this quite often, but I also think about how we would all cope if we were forced to live without our technology due to a cataclysmic event. Could we develop the skills quickly enough to survive. In such an event I think I’d raid the local library for any books I could find on surviving or basic old-time skills. Depending on the event, it would be nice to find a book on butchering animals, gardening/farming, natural medicine etc. Life without the internet’s collective knowledge would be very hard.