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Position:Home>History> If you could send one thing 500 years back, what would it be?Question: If you could send one thing 500 years back, what would it be!? I've been thinking about this since I was a kid, and a lot of things came to and went from my mind!.
But I think I have come up with a great one now: an entire set of a currently updated, correct and complete 21st century encyclopedia!. Thinking of the repercussions it would make sends shivers down to the tip of my tailbone!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: It's the classic Twilight Zone question!. If you could kill Hitler, would or should you!? Because killing Hitler could have resulted in a worse world with more casualties and suffering then the world with Hitler!. Then you have the paradox of if you send back books which change the world, which will inevitably shift the roughly 100,000 or so ancestors of yours from that time, would you even exist to send the books back in the first place!? So, firm in my belief that the world is better than many possible alternates, I'd send nothing!. Unless of course your method would allow me to somehow select the receivers of the item, which is why I always preferred the man-travels-in-back-in-time-and-becomes-!.!.!. king stories!.Www@QuestionHome@Com a couple of anesthesiologists with some halothane,enflurane,isoflurane desflurane etc!.(yeah i know its more than one thing,but its what id send),the thought of them barbarians back then hacking off limbs while doing so called 'surgery' with the patient held down and conscious appalls me!.no way you'd get me into a time- machine!,them where dark days man!.mind you, them heathens back then would no doubt accuse the anesthesiologists we sent of witchcraft or devil -worship and burn them at the stake!.and that encyclopedia you sent would be a work of the devil and get banned by the Vatican,and any schmuck found reading it would get toasted at the stake!.Www@QuestionHome@Com A terminator to destroy Alfred Nobel!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I would send Montezuma a 9mm Glock!.Www@QuestionHome@Com peace and resources :)Www@QuestionHome@Com Liberals!. I'd like to see other things happen to them, but I feel this would be fair!.Www@QuestionHome@Com me!Www@QuestionHome@Com Solar power! Then maybe we wouldn't be facing this global warming!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |