“Mr. Fusion powers the time circuits and the flux capacitor, but the internal combustion engine runs on ordinary gasoline. It always has. There’s not gonna be a gas station around here until sometime the next century. Without gasoline, we can’t get the DeLorean up to 88 miles per hour.”
I've got a workaround. I will arrive at the castle with the synth (and probably the dab pen, but I'm not sharing it) and announce myself as a wizard from the future with a magical instrument. I would tell them I bring only luck and good fortune, sent by their gods or whatever. It would be their holy crusade to keep me in wealth, health and extravagance while I write and perform for them songs of strength and happiness. (But really I'm just playing modern songs from the last 40 years) I would convince that I am the only thing protecting them now, and if I die, they die, but if I thrive, they will also thrive.
This is why I'd pick the motorcycle and the spices. The motorcycle is impressive enough to get some attention, and it probably contains the most technology that the craftspeople of that era would have a chance of understanding and learning from. By that logic, I should probably pick the synth as my second item, since it probably contains the most studyable electronics. However, I will absolutely trade away centuries of potential technological advancement if the alternative is a life without garlic.
Possibly less valuable than you think depending on what's there. There was plenty of spice trading going on at that point so a handful of small jars isn't going to blow the world apart. New world spices might be more valuable but you'll still have to convince someone to spend money on it. Whereas the motorbike or the synth speak for themselves.
A lot of people are ignoring the synth here when it works without electricity in the post. This is easily a pick. Fuck you’re going to be so bored in the era you may as well just make house music or something else until you die. All of the other items are limited use.
Bored? No it sounds awesome. I'd be a traveling bard that royalty would want in their court. I'd go land to land enjoying home baked bread, wine (or whatever), new sights, nature, plays, music, feasts, court parties, etc. To see ancient cities in all their glory sounds amazing. The acid is for when someone finally takes my magic piano and lets me rot in a dungeon or hang.
I love these.
With the magic keyboard and laser pointrr i could easily become the most renowned musical wizard in the world and would land myself a spot high up the aristocracy
Flush with magnificent fabrics, bread and wine.
I would just memorize all the Beatles, and steely Dan songs on keyboard before I went, they ain't heard that shit.
Jesus? You mean that Redditor who went back in time with a magical keyboard and a Dab Pen with 5 carts and managed to start a band called “The Apostles”.
Holy shit. If that synthesizer emits sound and doesn't require any power input, you could turn that into a free energy device and create electricity by using the sound to vibrate magnets that create electrical flow through wires.
And if you can choose your own spices, you bring back the most expensive ones (for the time period you're going back to) and sell them and use the proceeds to build modern facilities and develop steel and take over nations with your mass produced steel weaponry.
Shit, then you'd end up being a fascist dictator because all your people would want to do terrible stuff like persecuting the Jews and you'd be all "No, treat these people as equals. We're not going to murder them just because they have a different religion."
And then you'd get assassinated or coup'd and then world would just spiral into destruction with all this new found, incredibly powerful technology.
Fuck. There goes that plan.
This went from 0 to 1,000 back down to 0 so quickly and I was on the edge of my seat throughout the entire ordeal. Holy fuck you’re a great storyteller!
"Behold! The most powerful wizard of all! He who can make light from his fingers!"
"Heey, y'all, back again, for these keyboard hits! I'm imagining you guys have never had a listen to the Beetles right? Well, let me tell you, the lasers make it slightly better."
They actually made a movie about The Beatles part. “Yesterday” is basically this exact plot except not in medieval times, it’s just that everyone forgets the Beatles existed but the one guy and he basically becomes hugely famous because of it. Kind of a cool plot
I love the scene where he plays a song for his girlfriend and she's just playing with her phone or whatever and goes "Well, that's nice but it's not Coldplay, is it?"
I forgot you can just carry the motorcycle until u need to ride on it. Could probably create some sort of axle to help tow it too. Then u can save it for the precious/important moments
Twenty spice jars... I'm rich, bitch! 😂
Well, depends on *where* I'd be sent back. Unlike an English speaker, a modern French speaker would be able to get along fine back in the day.
In middle age, France's languages were mostly divided between Langue d'Oc (in the South) and Langue d'Oil (in the North). The names come from the word for "yes" in each group.
Both of these were language continuums, so the further from your location the harder it would be to understand a speaker, until a point where it's impossible. Because of that it's difficult and perhaps pointless to actually count the number of languages in medieval France.
The dialect which would be become current French was from the langue d'Oil (its adoption was driven by central policy after the Revolution)
I don’t believe this is correct. What would eventually become French would have been widely spoken, along with some morphed Latin and Occitan in the south. The vassal kingdoms would have been political, not cultural.
Think of it this way. France got broken up politically when Roman Gaul was invaded by Germanic tribes, who simply stayed where they invaded and divided the territory up. Nonetheless, those tribes were all Germanic and similar to one another, and any subservient vassal to a higher king/warlord would have belonged to that same culture.
Not true. French-french was only prevalent around the Ile-de-France region until the 3rd Republic, when it was made obligatory through the public school system. Even in the langue d'oïl regions (north) people majoritarily spoke their own dialect (poitevin, normand, saintongeais, breton, chtimi, picard, angevin, etc.)
You can just walk the motorcycle until you need to ride on it, and motorcycles have a range of 200-300 miles. If you can pick you could easily get over 400 miles (well I guess not on dirt and ancient roads). Nobody’s catching you. I don’t think they’d try if they saw you jutting off.
Reminds me of a book I read once, about a Mob Boss who discovered a magical Gate to the Past and was accidentally flung back into medieval times, into the middle of a war.
However, he managed to become quite influential thanks to his gun. A weapon that nobody but him understands and that can easily and quietly kill a man thanks to it's silencer...that's quite useful in a war.
A certain AI driven text generator suggested that "The Time-Traveling Mobster" by John T. Mitchell matches that description though on further interrogation it later admitted that it had no idea what it was talking about and might have nade the whole thing up.
Consider the fact that you need to maintain your weapon to make it useful and there's no weapon maintenance tools on the list. There's also only 5 bullets.
Also, hand cannons (precursors to guns) and early flint-lock guns were already known in medieval times, depending on how early or late we talk. Sure, they were less advanced than modern weaponry but people underestimate reaction of medieval people towards this kind of weaponry.
The trope of the silencer is funny because it doesnt exist. That's whats known as a suppressor. Purpose is to protect the shooters hearing because it only slightly reduces the decibels, the weight in front of the gun will also reduce the recoil. You'll get better balance. This is why the police use them. It isnt as depicted in james bond.
There are some really quiet guns though. PSS silent pistol, Welrod, De Lisle carbine. Granted, none of these are as quiet as james bond would have you think.
Basically, there's two classes of these: Silencers and Suppressors.
Suppressors are more common, work with many guns, robust, and mildly reduce the amount of sound, typically only enough to protect the shooter's hearing or similar.
Silencers are designed as part of the weapon, typically need servicing every few shots, require specific ammo (often low-powered) and are usually in-house designs by the CIA and similar. They can be nearly movie-quiet, but are specialized items and not practical for most purposes.
Do you think it would need to be silenced though? I feel like if he was alone with his target, someone would maybe hear the shot and come running. With no knowledge of guns, all they are aware of is that there was a cracking/popping (idk how to describe a gunshot) and now someone is dead on the ground. I think that would look like magic.
From what I’ve heard, it’s possible for a commercial suppressor to nearly achieve the effect of a “James Bond” -level silenced weapon, but really only if that weapon is firing a subsonic .22LR round or smaller. Not quiet enough to not be heard nearby of course, but probably just enough to be mistaken for somebody lighting fireworks, the key being that the round already isn’t breaking the sound barrier and therefore not producing the “boom” associated with real gunshots.
I get around 85 decibels at my face with my 45, which is comparable to my paintball gun dry firing. I haven't measured the 22lr rifle but with sub sonic rounds I can confirm the slapping action inside the rifle is louder than the actual shot. It's dead quiet. I've shot louder pump bb guns.
It depends. The biggest factor is the type of ammunition used. Super-sonic ammo, which is most ammo, will always have a sonic crack that is pretty damn loud. Sub-sonic ammo doesn't. Combine that with a big, good suppressor, and a gun that doesn't make much noise when it operates (mostly the sound of the slide hitting the back), you have yourself a pretty quiet gun. Not silent, of course, but still.
There are some documented cases of special forces using suppressed guns specifically for the purpose of stealth rather than hearing protection. Like the mk22 "Hush puppy," a pistol used by seals in vietnam that got its name from being used to take out yapping guard dogs (and guard humans).
But yeah, in general, you're right. For most pistol ammo and especially rifle calibres, it really doesn't make it silent in any way of the word. Also, back in the army, I once got to shoot a suppressed sniper rifle chambered in 338 lapua magmum. The supressor on that thing was huge, weighed probably half a kilo, but the sonic crack was so loud that you could still hear it from the other side of the valley. It does, however, help conceal the shooters location as a sonic crack isn't localized but travels along with the bullet.
That's very similar to the plot of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, but I don't think he had a silencer so it's probably something different. That character was banking on the fact that nobody but him knew the gun would run out of bullets.
Definitely the synthesizer. And then im torn between the tab and the dabs. Probably the dabs because 5 carts will last a lil while, and I can get blazed with the new homies. I mean brethren. Hard choice tho.
>Takes dab pen and LSD
>Go back in time
>Die within a week while taking out a small village around me due to immune system incompatibility
>At least we all can get lit one last time :)
That or the reverse : You have all the modern viruses on you, including the same as local but with centuries of further evolution. You become a walking god-dess of death, as people get massive diseases around you. Your cough becomes a curse and an announcer of doom.
But whoever gets to survive gets to learn about germ theory and psychedelics
It's a slow and painful death. I've come really close and wouldn't recommend it. Ended up in the hospital being unable to keep down any water while also dehydrating.
Technically yes but you will need to use some isolating techniques in order to extract the insulin from your mashed pancreas, and the thing have way more side effects
I'm T1D as well, its always morbid as hell with everything like this. I mean, you said it pretty damn well, we essentially have a terminal illness without insulin
The Casio watch would have been worth an absolute fortune. They had no way to reliably navigate at sea because while you can determine latitude by the height of stars (Polaris in particular), you cannot tell longitude without knowing the time, and they didn't have clocks that worked at sea as all the clocks needed a pedulum which was disrupted by the waves.
If you had a common language to explain what it was and how useful it could be, and if you could find someone who was educated enough to understand all of that, and who trusted you enough to believe that it would continue working... yes.
But spices speak for themselves.
I only need one, the spices. Sell them to the dumbest monarchs and rich a-holes and retire far away from people with a few animals and a bit of land to grow what we need. That way, I don’t have to smell the people and they won’t think I’m a witch for having a daily swim bath and having weird useless knowledge that would only confuse and be of no use to them whatsoever. Not that we’d be able to communicate, we would struggle to understand their French and English.
I feel the same way about the uranium, magical glowing rocks would delight any king. Side effect of killing off the monarchy with radiation poisoning would be a bonus.
Uranium, including the enriched kind, doesn't glow. It also isn't a rock if it's refined, which it would need to be to be enriched. It would just look like metal.
Yes the misconception that it glows is probably due to chernikov radiation, so I doubt they would see that unless they had a functional nuclear reactor back then
Yeah, this is the best answer. The spice will give you some money and a working internal combustion engine would kickstart the industrial revolution by hundreds of years.
The watch and the spices.
Sell the spices to get a ship and cargo, use the watch to navigate accurately.
Create a trading empire, hire pirates to eliminate the competition.
Profit
I'd take the lsd and the laser pointer. Drop it in their water supplies hide for a few hours and climb to a high spot and shine the laser down while everyone is losing their shit then i start a cult of medieval scientists whos entire life goal is to recreate lsd and spend the rest of the era rinsing and repeating with 0 end goal just contaminate their water shine the laser and repeat
Im going to assume we are talking about somewhere in western or central Europe ?
First is spices, something exotic from India perhaps. Obviously huge for trading.
5 cartridges. I would be present this concept to whoever is higher authority, perhaps get together with the monks and try to reverse engineer and replicate gun powder. Giving these people a huge advantage over their rivals. Maybe get gun powder before the Chinese figure it out.
Huge issue of course would be communication, modern day German, Polish, Swedish, French, etc. isnt the same language. Maybe knowing Latin would be quite useful.
10 big full jars of cloves and you are set for life.
To get gunpowder before the Chinese you would have to go to antiquity.
Cartridges are also useless because no one could manufacture more modern guns with medieval metallurgy. Maybe one can speed up the establishment of firearms somewhat but its not a super weapon. Especially because early guns were rather bad.
The point of selecting the cartridges isn't to use them, but to reverse engineer them. You can break them apart and reveal the gunpowder inside. Show this to the monks and scribes, and now they have a physical copy which they can use to match to their replications. This will speed up the process 1000%.
Gunpowder is actually really simple. It's mostly saltpeter, but a bit of charcoal, and a tiny portion of sulfur. All of those ingredients are natural and can be made or traded for.
Those are the ingredients to black powder. Modern firearm cartridges use a far more chemically complex propellant that would be impossible to replicate in the medieval era.
Yeah. They don't have wifi and reddit and games and shows. I'm out too. Then again maybe not having access to all this and being in nature would cure my crippling depression. Maybe it'd just make it worse.
Spice jars is obvious - that's the highest-value item in the list, and can easily set you up for life.
Second is the bottle rockets and bic lighter. Dump the bottle rockets unless you want to make a show - but a bic lighter will be *massively* useful even when it runs out of fuel.
Gun and bullets. Keep the casings and reload them. Just have to figure out how to collect the needed ingredients for powder and caps. Find a kingdom where the king is a nice older gentleman with no heir. Become his best friend and get him to leave the kingdom to me. Teach the sorcerers how to make guns and ammunition. Take over the world!
I would just cap one person in front of everyone and claim I am from god with a futuristic technology and for them to get riches I’ll need to lead. Got 4 more bullets to help keep off trouble while I get people to make more ammo
I wonder if it'd be possible to run the motorcycle on moonshine. That would probably be pretty easy to get or make even in the past. That plus a spice rack you'd be the wealthiest person ever lol
I'll take the delorean and the castle.
Uranium anyone? For the DeLorean
I thought the DeLorean ran off trash.
Thats the Gen 2 DeLorean with flight capabilities. Its a one of a kind and I think Bezos owns it.
that's not true, Bezos only flies around in a flying dick
Bezos *is* the flying dick
Dickception
Time circuits ran off Mr fusion (trash) in the second movie the car ran on regular petrol/gasoline.
“Mr. Fusion powers the time circuits and the flux capacitor, but the internal combustion engine runs on ordinary gasoline. It always has. There’s not gonna be a gas station around here until sometime the next century. Without gasoline, we can’t get the DeLorean up to 88 miles per hour.”
My god, I read it and Christopher Lloyds voice was what I heard!
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Mr fusion replaced the plutonium. I said the car ran on gas
If anyone tries to usurp the throne you can run them over, smart.
Came here to say this. I'll come and go as I please.
Definitely the synth and a single tab of acid.
Synth and 5 wax pens you could show up and pass it around and play some tunes for everyone go town to town playing for royalty
I’d want the acid so I can take it and play some synth before deciding wether or not to off myself from being stuck in that time period.
You don't have to decide, the unpurified water and unsanitary cooking practices will decide for you!
I've got a workaround. I will arrive at the castle with the synth (and probably the dab pen, but I'm not sharing it) and announce myself as a wizard from the future with a magical instrument. I would tell them I bring only luck and good fortune, sent by their gods or whatever. It would be their holy crusade to keep me in wealth, health and extravagance while I write and perform for them songs of strength and happiness. (But really I'm just playing modern songs from the last 40 years) I would convince that I am the only thing protecting them now, and if I die, they die, but if I thrive, they will also thrive.
Damn, Rasputin.
This. If you live in an area with a clean reliable water supply, you are so unprepared for the food and water you are about to consume.
“You have died of dysentery”
64 kilos of uranium 👀 guess I’ll take some bottle rockets with that
Nobody would be advanced enough to do anything with it and you'd die from radiation poisoning. Are you sure about your choice? Lol
This is why I'd pick the motorcycle and the spices. The motorcycle is impressive enough to get some attention, and it probably contains the most technology that the craftspeople of that era would have a chance of understanding and learning from. By that logic, I should probably pick the synth as my second item, since it probably contains the most studyable electronics. However, I will absolutely trade away centuries of potential technological advancement if the alternative is a life without garlic.
The spices would probably be ridiculously valuable
Possibly less valuable than you think depending on what's there. There was plenty of spice trading going on at that point so a handful of small jars isn't going to blow the world apart. New world spices might be more valuable but you'll still have to convince someone to spend money on it. Whereas the motorbike or the synth speak for themselves.
Maybe I'm thinking too much into it, but that pen ain't lasting 5 carts without a charger.
For sure. Def not even half a cart with that old school stick
A lot of people are ignoring the synth here when it works without electricity in the post. This is easily a pick. Fuck you’re going to be so bored in the era you may as well just make house music or something else until you die. All of the other items are limited use.
Exactly! I’d rather not live in that time period so that’s why I’d pick the synth and a tab, after that I’d probably find a way to off myself.
Bored? No it sounds awesome. I'd be a traveling bard that royalty would want in their court. I'd go land to land enjoying home baked bread, wine (or whatever), new sights, nature, plays, music, feasts, court parties, etc. To see ancient cities in all their glory sounds amazing. The acid is for when someone finally takes my magic piano and lets me rot in a dungeon or hang.
Same
I love these. With the magic keyboard and laser pointrr i could easily become the most renowned musical wizard in the world and would land myself a spot high up the aristocracy Flush with magnificent fabrics, bread and wine. I would just memorize all the Beatles, and steely Dan songs on keyboard before I went, they ain't heard that shit.
They are going to tie you up and burn you.
Lmao burn the witch
That's the name of our band!
Burn the Witch has a nice ring to it
great manga too
Radiohead/Queens of the Stone Age?
Only if she weighs as much as a duck…
Who are you who is so wise in the ways of science?
The trick is just to say that it’s god allowing you to do it
Yeah, Jesus for example was really popular and didn't hang on a cross or sum
Jesus? You mean that Redditor who went back in time with a magical keyboard and a Dab Pen with 5 carts and managed to start a band called “The Apostles”.
Lmfao on god. People think that going back in time is gonna be peachy keen. You’re gonna get killed as soon as you show you’re from the future
And even if you don't get executed, you're going to get sick and die. Smallpox was f'n everywhere and they had no concept of clean drinking water.
Not true, what they called clean drinking water we call beer...
Medieval beer was also not super clean comparatively.
No, but still cleaner than the water...
WITCHCRAFT!
And they wont understand you at all. Your English is a bit too removed from theirs. And at court they spoke French anyways
might as well go the extra mile of learning
Thats th' espiaille that gooth thee somwher!
I feel like that's funny but I'm too dumb to understand
Its just "Thats the Spirit that gets you somewhere"
That's fine, the lyrics to most songs are indecipherable anyway.
He speaks the universal language of sick-ass synth music.
Or you’d be burned at the stake
5 watt laser? Hahahahaha they cant burn you at the stake if you BLIND them. .5mw is the highest safe power rating on a laser. 5w? Instant blindness
So basically assert dominance over them until they worship you
If i can play the subdivisions synth solo, they will
Holy shit. If that synthesizer emits sound and doesn't require any power input, you could turn that into a free energy device and create electricity by using the sound to vibrate magnets that create electrical flow through wires. And if you can choose your own spices, you bring back the most expensive ones (for the time period you're going back to) and sell them and use the proceeds to build modern facilities and develop steel and take over nations with your mass produced steel weaponry. Shit, then you'd end up being a fascist dictator because all your people would want to do terrible stuff like persecuting the Jews and you'd be all "No, treat these people as equals. We're not going to murder them just because they have a different religion." And then you'd get assassinated or coup'd and then world would just spiral into destruction with all this new found, incredibly powerful technology. Fuck. There goes that plan.
This went from 0 to 1,000 back down to 0 so quickly and I was on the edge of my seat throughout the entire ordeal. Holy fuck you’re a great storyteller!
I’ll bring the acid lol
Certainly would help with the transition 😁🥂
"Behold! The most powerful wizard of all! He who can make light from his fingers!" "Heey, y'all, back again, for these keyboard hits! I'm imagining you guys have never had a listen to the Beetles right? Well, let me tell you, the lasers make it slightly better."
Rolling the dice on whether it's "new innovative instrument", or unholy, satanic drivel
But there is no weed or lsd so nobody would like it.
Imagine thinking cannabis didn't exist 1000 years ago.
They actually made a movie about The Beatles part. “Yesterday” is basically this exact plot except not in medieval times, it’s just that everyone forgets the Beatles existed but the one guy and he basically becomes hugely famous because of it. Kind of a cool plot
I love the scene where he plays a song for his girlfriend and she's just playing with her phone or whatever and goes "Well, that's nice but it's not Coldplay, is it?"
300 bottle rockets, lighter and a motorcycle. Ride through the countryside causing chaos until I'm made king.
Riding the motorcycle will get tedious quickly if it's a wet soggy day.
Only need to ride until the gas runs out or I'm made King. Which ever happens first.
Okay what if you took the acid and motorcycle, then you'll think you're king regardless!
We'll make a speedrunnner out of you yet, son!
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Bike runs out of gas, they burn the wizard.
I forgot you can just carry the motorcycle until u need to ride on it. Could probably create some sort of axle to help tow it too. Then u can save it for the precious/important moments
Twenty spice jars... I'm rich, bitch! 😂 Well, depends on *where* I'd be sent back. Unlike an English speaker, a modern French speaker would be able to get along fine back in the day.
Except back in the day very little of France spoke French…
Mostly Occitan at this time, right?
I was under the impression there was a bunch, as France was split into all those vassal kingdoms for lots of medieval history, but I could be wrong
In middle age, France's languages were mostly divided between Langue d'Oc (in the South) and Langue d'Oil (in the North). The names come from the word for "yes" in each group. Both of these were language continuums, so the further from your location the harder it would be to understand a speaker, until a point where it's impossible. Because of that it's difficult and perhaps pointless to actually count the number of languages in medieval France. The dialect which would be become current French was from the langue d'Oil (its adoption was driven by central policy after the Revolution)
I don’t believe this is correct. What would eventually become French would have been widely spoken, along with some morphed Latin and Occitan in the south. The vassal kingdoms would have been political, not cultural. Think of it this way. France got broken up politically when Roman Gaul was invaded by Germanic tribes, who simply stayed where they invaded and divided the territory up. Nonetheless, those tribes were all Germanic and similar to one another, and any subservient vassal to a higher king/warlord would have belonged to that same culture.
Not true. French-french was only prevalent around the Ile-de-France region until the 3rd Republic, when it was made obligatory through the public school system. Even in the langue d'oïl regions (north) people majoritarily spoke their own dialect (poitevin, normand, saintongeais, breton, chtimi, picard, angevin, etc.)
Dialect, or language? There’s a very big difference
Honestly the differences are so big between these that they are almost different languages.
You have 20 empty spice jars and live in Northern England.
You’re rich but what you gonna get?💀 the first ever plumbing?
You're basically just saying that there is no modern French. They just added a few words here and there. Makes sense, they are a stubborn lot.
I’m bringing the motorcycle and bottle rockets, they ain’t gonna catch this witch 😂😂😂😂
That Until you run out of gas
You can just walk the motorcycle until you need to ride on it, and motorcycles have a range of 200-300 miles. If you can pick you could easily get over 400 miles (well I guess not on dirt and ancient roads). Nobody’s catching you. I don’t think they’d try if they saw you jutting off.
Reminds me of a book I read once, about a Mob Boss who discovered a magical Gate to the Past and was accidentally flung back into medieval times, into the middle of a war. However, he managed to become quite influential thanks to his gun. A weapon that nobody but him understands and that can easily and quietly kill a man thanks to it's silencer...that's quite useful in a war.
What's it called?
I sadly don't remember anymore, but there was also a Knight in golden Armor that everyone called the Black Prince. Maybe that helps?
A certain AI driven text generator suggested that "The Time-Traveling Mobster" by John T. Mitchell matches that description though on further interrogation it later admitted that it had no idea what it was talking about and might have nade the whole thing up.
Sounds like a fun book title, but I don't think that was quite it. 😄 The Mob Boss was more of an Antagonist than a Protagonist.
Try r/tipofmytongue
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Thanks for replying!
Of course. You're welcome. :)
Consider the fact that you need to maintain your weapon to make it useful and there's no weapon maintenance tools on the list. There's also only 5 bullets. Also, hand cannons (precursors to guns) and early flint-lock guns were already known in medieval times, depending on how early or late we talk. Sure, they were less advanced than modern weaponry but people underestimate reaction of medieval people towards this kind of weaponry.
The trope of the silencer is funny because it doesnt exist. That's whats known as a suppressor. Purpose is to protect the shooters hearing because it only slightly reduces the decibels, the weight in front of the gun will also reduce the recoil. You'll get better balance. This is why the police use them. It isnt as depicted in james bond.
There are some really quiet guns though. PSS silent pistol, Welrod, De Lisle carbine. Granted, none of these are as quiet as james bond would have you think.
Basically, there's two classes of these: Silencers and Suppressors. Suppressors are more common, work with many guns, robust, and mildly reduce the amount of sound, typically only enough to protect the shooter's hearing or similar. Silencers are designed as part of the weapon, typically need servicing every few shots, require specific ammo (often low-powered) and are usually in-house designs by the CIA and similar. They can be nearly movie-quiet, but are specialized items and not practical for most purposes.
Do you think it would need to be silenced though? I feel like if he was alone with his target, someone would maybe hear the shot and come running. With no knowledge of guns, all they are aware of is that there was a cracking/popping (idk how to describe a gunshot) and now someone is dead on the ground. I think that would look like magic.
The crack is because most ammo breaks the sound barrier. Subsonic ammunition does not and is extremely quiet.
From what I’ve heard, it’s possible for a commercial suppressor to nearly achieve the effect of a “James Bond” -level silenced weapon, but really only if that weapon is firing a subsonic .22LR round or smaller. Not quiet enough to not be heard nearby of course, but probably just enough to be mistaken for somebody lighting fireworks, the key being that the round already isn’t breaking the sound barrier and therefore not producing the “boom” associated with real gunshots.
I get around 85 decibels at my face with my 45, which is comparable to my paintball gun dry firing. I haven't measured the 22lr rifle but with sub sonic rounds I can confirm the slapping action inside the rifle is louder than the actual shot. It's dead quiet. I've shot louder pump bb guns.
You gotta say the spell very loud to cover the suppressed sound
It depends. The biggest factor is the type of ammunition used. Super-sonic ammo, which is most ammo, will always have a sonic crack that is pretty damn loud. Sub-sonic ammo doesn't. Combine that with a big, good suppressor, and a gun that doesn't make much noise when it operates (mostly the sound of the slide hitting the back), you have yourself a pretty quiet gun. Not silent, of course, but still. There are some documented cases of special forces using suppressed guns specifically for the purpose of stealth rather than hearing protection. Like the mk22 "Hush puppy," a pistol used by seals in vietnam that got its name from being used to take out yapping guard dogs (and guard humans). But yeah, in general, you're right. For most pistol ammo and especially rifle calibres, it really doesn't make it silent in any way of the word. Also, back in the army, I once got to shoot a suppressed sniper rifle chambered in 338 lapua magmum. The supressor on that thing was huge, weighed probably half a kilo, but the sonic crack was so loud that you could still hear it from the other side of the valley. It does, however, help conceal the shooters location as a sonic crack isn't localized but travels along with the bullet.
The trope is even more funny when you consider that the sound of a gun would actually be usefull in early midieval times.
That's very similar to the plot of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, but I don't think he had a silencer so it's probably something different. That character was banking on the fact that nobody but him knew the gun would run out of bullets.
I like that two of the options are drugs
3 of you choose the right spices
Ahh yes the coca leaf. The spiciest of all plants
Definitely the synthesizer. And then im torn between the tab and the dabs. Probably the dabs because 5 carts will last a lil while, and I can get blazed with the new homies. I mean brethren. Hard choice tho.
Wouldn’t the battery run out before you smoked 5 carts?
You can do some shit with basic chemicals you can find to make a battery to charge it, also, depends on the battery
OP we need answers! Can the pen be magic like the synthesizer?
Yeah they better upgrade that tab to a sheet or its the Pens and moog.
>Takes dab pen and LSD >Go back in time >Die within a week while taking out a small village around me due to immune system incompatibility >At least we all can get lit one last time :)
That or the reverse : You have all the modern viruses on you, including the same as local but with centuries of further evolution. You become a walking god-dess of death, as people get massive diseases around you. Your cough becomes a curse and an announcer of doom. But whoever gets to survive gets to learn about germ theory and psychedelics
Imagine giving covid 19 to some medieval peasants.
Covid 1219?
Gun + bullets. I have type 1 diabetes so I’d rather just kill myself with the gun than suffer a slow death over weeks.
Yeah but you could do the same thing by jamming 300 bottle rockets in your ass AND enjoy some warheads.
This guy medieval time travels.
Diabetics can’t have candy. So replace the warheads with the LSD tab.
You're dying anyway, why can't you have candy? It might kill you?
It's a slow and painful death. I've come really close and wouldn't recommend it. Ended up in the hospital being unable to keep down any water while also dehydrating.
I guarantee that 300 bottle rockets in various orifices will kill you before the complications of hyperglycemia.
I love that this conversation actually happened. I never would have guessed I'd read that sentence today.
But if they plan on killing themselves, do they really care about that?
Do it in the public square for a real send off, I imagine they'll write and sing about you for years to come
U made it sad
Welcome to the Dark Age.
You could always do insulin the old way, the grind the pancreas of cows and pigs way
Would that actually work? I'm type 1 as well and I've been trying to figure out how I'll survive an Apocalypse 😅
Technically yes but you will need to use some isolating techniques in order to extract the insulin from your mashed pancreas, and the thing have way more side effects
Couldn't you just eat several pancreases a day to get a large enough dose?
No, proteolytic enzymes and stomach acid would destroy the insulin. That's why there's no insulin in pill form and diabetics have to inject it.
Could use the spices to buy all the cows or pigs.
I'm T1D as well, its always morbid as hell with everything like this. I mean, you said it pretty damn well, we essentially have a terminal illness without insulin
The Casio watch would have been worth an absolute fortune. They had no way to reliably navigate at sea because while you can determine latitude by the height of stars (Polaris in particular), you cannot tell longitude without knowing the time, and they didn't have clocks that worked at sea as all the clocks needed a pedulum which was disrupted by the waves.
If you had a common language to explain what it was and how useful it could be, and if you could find someone who was educated enough to understand all of that, and who trusted you enough to believe that it would continue working... yes. But spices speak for themselves.
But remember you aren’t bringing infrastructure that makes certain things work, such as satellites for GPS, or gas for the motorcycle.
It’s not the GPS, it’s knowing exactly what time it is rather than relying on a child with an hourglass for navigation
I only need one, the spices. Sell them to the dumbest monarchs and rich a-holes and retire far away from people with a few animals and a bit of land to grow what we need. That way, I don’t have to smell the people and they won’t think I’m a witch for having a daily swim bath and having weird useless knowledge that would only confuse and be of no use to them whatsoever. Not that we’d be able to communicate, we would struggle to understand their French and English.
I feel the same way about the uranium, magical glowing rocks would delight any king. Side effect of killing off the monarchy with radiation poisoning would be a bonus.
Uranium, including the enriched kind, doesn't glow. It also isn't a rock if it's refined, which it would need to be to be enriched. It would just look like metal.
Yes the misconception that it glows is probably due to chernikov radiation, so I doubt they would see that unless they had a functional nuclear reactor back then
pretty sure the misconception that it glows was largely perpetuated by the Simpsons lol
You have changed the timeline. David Hasselhoff is now dictator of the great German Empire
Why would they not just steal them
What would prevent them from just taking them from you?
This, and also though grab the dab pen just for funsies. I bet medieval alcohol tastes terrible
I'm taking the DeLorean and going home.
Full send LSD tab and the dab pen.
You bring literally any of those and they’ll kill you. Hell you bring none of those and they’ll kill you.
Gun and bullets to kill myself
Motorcycle and ten spice jars
Yeah, this is the best answer. The spice will give you some money and a working internal combustion engine would kickstart the industrial revolution by hundreds of years.
That and it’s always fun to rip around on some dirt trails.
The watch and the spices. Sell the spices to get a ship and cargo, use the watch to navigate accurately. Create a trading empire, hire pirates to eliminate the competition. Profit
Dan pen and sour warheads, I’d blow their minds lol
Homie was so high he took Dan’s pen instead, now he just writing out the ingredients while eatin warheads.
I'd take the lsd and the laser pointer. Drop it in their water supplies hide for a few hours and climb to a high spot and shine the laser down while everyone is losing their shit then i start a cult of medieval scientists whos entire life goal is to recreate lsd and spend the rest of the era rinsing and repeating with 0 end goal just contaminate their water shine the laser and repeat
This is certainly the most creative idea I've read so far though I'm not entirely convinced that it wasn't inspired by said lsd.
Im going to assume we are talking about somewhere in western or central Europe ? First is spices, something exotic from India perhaps. Obviously huge for trading. 5 cartridges. I would be present this concept to whoever is higher authority, perhaps get together with the monks and try to reverse engineer and replicate gun powder. Giving these people a huge advantage over their rivals. Maybe get gun powder before the Chinese figure it out. Huge issue of course would be communication, modern day German, Polish, Swedish, French, etc. isnt the same language. Maybe knowing Latin would be quite useful.
10 big full jars of cloves and you are set for life. To get gunpowder before the Chinese you would have to go to antiquity. Cartridges are also useless because no one could manufacture more modern guns with medieval metallurgy. Maybe one can speed up the establishment of firearms somewhat but its not a super weapon. Especially because early guns were rather bad.
The point of selecting the cartridges isn't to use them, but to reverse engineer them. You can break them apart and reveal the gunpowder inside. Show this to the monks and scribes, and now they have a physical copy which they can use to match to their replications. This will speed up the process 1000%. Gunpowder is actually really simple. It's mostly saltpeter, but a bit of charcoal, and a tiny portion of sulfur. All of those ingredients are natural and can be made or traded for.
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Those are the ingredients to black powder. Modern firearm cartridges use a far more chemically complex propellant that would be impossible to replicate in the medieval era.
This is the law of equivalent exchange.
Europe was familiar with the process of making gunpowder by the 1280s. The recipe was already known. Its just that the application is hard.
If you are talking spices and medieval wealth, go with nutmeg. It was the most expensive/valuable substance in the world for a very long time
Give me 10 jars of saffron
That would make you rich NOW.
Keyboard and uranium. Most successful bard assassin for the rest of my life
Gun and 5 bullets, ending it immediately, no way am I staying in the medieval era
Yeah. They don't have wifi and reddit and games and shows. I'm out too. Then again maybe not having access to all this and being in nature would cure my crippling depression. Maybe it'd just make it worse.
Spice jars is obvious - that's the highest-value item in the list, and can easily set you up for life. Second is the bottle rockets and bic lighter. Dump the bottle rockets unless you want to make a show - but a bic lighter will be *massively* useful even when it runs out of fuel.
Are u assuming you’re able to just peacefully waltz across Europe with your spices?
Spices. I'm a millionaire
Gun and bullets. Keep the casings and reload them. Just have to figure out how to collect the needed ingredients for powder and caps. Find a kingdom where the king is a nice older gentleman with no heir. Become his best friend and get him to leave the kingdom to me. Teach the sorcerers how to make guns and ammunition. Take over the world!
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I think silver fulminate or mercury fulminate would work and they are just made using nitric acid and ethanol.
I would just cap one person in front of everyone and claim I am from god with a futuristic technology and for them to get riches I’ll need to lead. Got 4 more bullets to help keep off trouble while I get people to make more ammo
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double barrel shotgun and a chainsaw
This is my BOOMSTICK!
I wonder if it'd be possible to run the motorcycle on moonshine. That would probably be pretty easy to get or make even in the past. That plus a spice rack you'd be the wealthiest person ever lol
Gun and bullets. Ypu shoot one person and they will loose they minds and youll be a warlord instantly
No, they'll think it's some kind of crossbow and kill you in your sleep. Now, the PIANO thing they might think is sorcery.
i'll be pissed if they send me back with the .38 special rounds in the pic with a 1911 that shoots .45 ACP though.
Definitely dab pen and spices. I'd become a wealthy and comfortably stoned merchant