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• webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Fools as i carry with me all of human knowledge, right here in this fragile tiny black slab. I can tell you all once you tell me what your wifi password is.

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  • the_beber@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    As a side-note: You can download Wikipedia.

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    • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I know but i

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    • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I know but i

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    • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I know but i

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    • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I know but i

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    • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I know but i

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    • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Next they just need to find a way to charge their phone.

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    • Sotuanduso@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      86 GB? Yike.

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  • ivanafterall@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Then you realize that, back then, the only thing they had were Xfinity hot spots.

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  • FunkyMonk@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Worst Isekai. I didn't finish it though so no I don't really know I just didn't enjoy episode 1 with my smartphone.

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• Squeezer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This book Tells you how to handle this, along with everything else you need to know to rebuild all systems in society from scratch should there be some sort of time machine based accident. It’s a good read!

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This book tells you that it’s really, really fucking hard.

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    • Squeezer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That looks fascinating! Pricey on the second hand market it seems. I’ll have to shop around. Thanks, great counterpoint.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The fact that neither of these is the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy makes me weep for mankind. Where’s my overpass!?

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  • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There’s also [The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch](!wiki The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch) by Lewis Dartnel. Great book

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  • dutchkimble@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is good stuff!

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    • dutchkimble@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Edit - now i need a big ass tattoo and a time machine

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  • orphiebaby@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I read this recently. It’s great, though I think it could give clearer instructions with more diagrams, and cover some subjects a lot better

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• CADmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Let’s see… electricity in a preindustrial environment. You’ll get into Factorio levels of invent a tool to make a tool to make a tool…

  Copper wire existed at the time, (depending on the time period) but drawing it involved a person on a swing pulling it through a hole in a metal plate. So we need a metal plate. Surely there is a town blacksmith? We will need a few plates with gradually decreasing hole diameter. Enough wire for a demonstration would be difficult and expensive, but not impossible. Could also use copper busbars instead of wire.

  Now that we have conductors, we have to figure out what method of generation we want. Rather than trying to make bearings, balanced shafts, and stacks of thin metal plates all identical and radially symmetrical so we can make a generator, we should first attempt a battery. For this we can get away with stacks of two dissimilar metals in a glass or ceramic jar, bathed in some sulfuric acid. Aqua Regia was a mixture of nitric acid and sulfuric acid, but it might dissolve copper and zinc plates. Could also use lead plates, those are easier to hammer out flat. With this we could get an output around 2v per cell, put a half dozen of them together in series and one could build a simple arc lamp.

  After the proof of concept demonstration, hopefully you’d interest more smiths in the project, increasing your talent pool. With some mercury and wire you could build a version of Faraday’s homopolar motor.

  After that I’d probably be burned at the stake.

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  • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I just know a guy who sell copper.

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    • PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Your guy wouldn’t happen to be named “Ea-nasir,” would he?

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    • bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No, that won’t do. Unless you want to travel through enemy territory all for some shitty copper.

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  • lapommedeterre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We need some sorta optimal pathing tech tree.

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• Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It isn’t so hard really, to make electricity even in the olden days.

  A dynamo is just a copper wire with a magnet spinning inside.

  Making a copper wire you can accomplish by having a hole at the bottom of a kiln that drops directly into a big vat of water. Or even just drawing a line in the sand and pouring it in there.

  Getting your hands on a natural magnet might pose more problems, but ultimately those are found in nature. So they should have already been dug up by someone.

  Using the electricity usefully is harder. Since creating a light bulb needs access to gasses. What could we even use the electricity for?

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  • Marcbmann@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If you can make a dynamo, you can make a motor. Now, you aren’t about to create Tesla. But there’s plenty of things back in the day that could benefit from being motorized.

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    • Comment105@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Could you also do ac/dc conversion ti make the electricity useful elsewhere? I’m guessing charging and transporting primitive batteries won’t be able to fulfill any useful purpose at all.

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    • Rubanski@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Also making carbon Zink batteries should be possible, so a handheld fan would definitely be a possibility and would already be mind blowing

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  • dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You can create light with electricity with two carbon rods to make an arc light. It was literally the first electric light source and in widespread use for a long while, along with incandescent bulbs.

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    • Comment105@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You just invented cumbersome fire. Ugh ugh. No good.

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  • NOPper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You use it to charge your phone, duh.

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  • HardlightCereal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You should watch Dr Stone

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    • Destraight@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is exhilarating

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  • CADmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You can run a carbon arc lamp without glass bulbs, and without a huge voltage.

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  • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Electrocuting elephants?

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There was a short story I read ages ago in some collection somewhere I’ve been dying to find. I think it was from the 60s or 70s, but a scientist brings a man from the future and the man is just a normal guy, so he can’t explain anything to the scientist’s satisfaction and the scientist gets more and more exasperated.

  The dialogue was like:

  “What is the dominant mode of transport in the future?”

  “Oh, we fleem.”

  “Fleem? What’s fleem?”

  “It’s a kind of garbol but with more slimp.”

  “Okay, never mind. How do you do it?”

  “Oh, that’s easy, you simply merfingle the blem and you’re fleeming away!”

  “WHAT IS THE BLEM?!?”

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  • ArianaGrande@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yooo, this sounds funny as frickin heck. Anyone knows this?

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ve been trying to find it again for like 2 years now and asked in a lot of places. No luck.

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  • MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I feel like I definitely read that in middle/high school

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• Ddhuud@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You doin a magnet near a loop of wire

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• jarfil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is this a repost? Hase lemmy already entered the repost phase?

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  • Sami_Uso@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I mean, could you imagine? The horror…

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  • PatFussy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Say no more, ill repost it 1 more time in your honor

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• niktemadur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Watch this Jim Al-Khalili documentary for the BBC, then jump into the time machine.

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  • Roderik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Love this documentary! My professor made my class watch this and I must say that all of it just clicked.

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• x4740N@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Just bring an encyclopedia with you, history of human advancements and history of human equality if you want to improve equality as well

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• OppositeOfOxymoron@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz

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  • Carlo@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Such a good book. Wish it would stop being relevant.

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• PatFussy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If you went back in time and tried this, most civilizations would probably burn you at the stake

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• oo1@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  get this tattoo
  http://www.conorpdempsey.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/time-travel-chart.png

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  • DataDisrupter@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Part of that image is cropped, just below the diagram of the wing. That’s going to be an interesting test flight!

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  • TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    try this instead rebuildingcivilization.com/…/lets-say-youve-gone-…

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• WarmSoda@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  For anyone interested a simple way is to wrap copper wire around a magnet. Static electricity was also one of the first ways people started noticing electricity.

  Parlor tricks might be able to get you far when you time travel to the ancient part.

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  • Pizzasgood@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wrap it in the wire, then spin one of them. That part's important! Won't do anything if you don't spin it.

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    • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      He’ll be fine as long as he has a cat and buttered toast.

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    • WarmSoda@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This man knows the power

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  • drekly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hopefully they have manufactured copper wire for you

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    • WarmSoda@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My slaves will make it

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• TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Did you skip 3rd grade (and all other) science class?

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  • Elivey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I mean, from this thread it shows people kinda remember stuff from those classes, but are missing a lot. Which is understandable, people left school and didn’t use that information, it doesn’t make you stupid.

    But then you think, oh yeah! I remember how to make electricity, I need copper and an iron rock! So you spend all this time trying to manufacture some relatively thin copper wire, iron would probably be a little easier to find, wrap it around and then you’re like… Okay what went wrong? Annnnd you can’t remember you actually needed a magnet and you gotta spin it.

    Then do you remember learning how to store it? Connect it to anything useful? Maybe kinda, but extrapolate the first situation to every topic ever and that’s what you’d get, half baked ideas that you don’t really remember the specifics of. And the specifics really actually matter lol.

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  • atyaz@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Even if you studied it, the answer boils down to “magic”.

    You take these magnets, and move them around these long snakes of metal (because electrons can move easily through metal) and that makes the electrons in the wires move.

    Okay, why does moving around a magnet near metal make something inside it move?

    Well there’s something we call the “Lorentz force” which basically pushes a magnetic thing in a specific way if you move another magnetic thing around it

    But why does that happen?

    Magic

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    • Mchugho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s all attraction between opposite charge and repulsion for the same charge, even magnetism. Magnetism is just charge in another gauge.

      What I mean by this is from our perspective we view a moving charged particle as emitting a magnetic field, but if you were to move along with the particle at the same speed it would be observed as being at rest and emitting an electric field.

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    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not really though. You can say that about anything if so. If I don’t understand why atoms exist, does that make the universe “magic”?

      I mean I get what you’re saying kind of, but understanding the basics of electrical power is not the stuff of sorcerers.

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• Dopeness@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You might want to check out this movie ; Idiocracy.

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  • jaschen@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Welcome to Costco, I love you.

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    • superduperenigma@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Go away, I’m ‘batin’

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  • Comment105@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    People always think about going to the past for their knowledge power-trip, when going to the future could be even dumber.

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• VantaBrandon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “I don’t know, but let me tell you about how 5G activates the vaccines”

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• Sivalente@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If you could find a jeweller and had an understanding of basic electrical systems, you could probably get a rudimentary capacitor and engine going. From there, who knows what you could do. Maybe even lightbulbs.

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• Zeth0s@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Potatoes and lemons I was told

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• Papercrane@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  First of all, no one would understand you, but how someone already pointed out, make a spool with copper and spin it. For bonus points, put a iron slab inside the spool

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• Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Something to do with turbines.

  Water wheels seem to spin a turbine. Maybe it generated current or something. Similar with windmills? Gyroscope or something.

  Solar ? Quite clearly magical and a heretic, likely to burn me at the stake. Steam power pushes steam through A turbine maybe ?

  Lightening sky electricity. Get a bunch of metal and kites. Die.

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• dontcarebear@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Just remember to pack an encyclopedia Britannica and squirrel it away before you Jesus them.

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• Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why is he going back to the middle East? It was just as fucked up then as it is now.

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• OriginalUsername@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You spin the turbine, duh

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• Arcania85@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Watch the docter stone anime, it’s quite amusing. TL.DW super dude get petrified for like 3000 years and wakes up and re-introduces technology.

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• MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’d just be glad to finally return to monke

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You rub cats together Duh

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• uphillbothways@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Pocket Ref

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