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Suppose you met a person who time travelled here from the year 1750.. what is the niftiest modern thing you'd like to show him/her?

..and how do you think the person might react?

Posted - November 22, 2019
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  • 11166
    My power tools like chainsaw and post hole auger then show them how I can easily do a job in 5 minutes that took them hours and a lot of hard work back in the 1700s they would probably be amazed. Cheers and happy weekend! This post was edited by Nanoose at November 22, 2019 9:27 PM MST
      November 22, 2019 8:08 PM MST
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  • 5391
    Think how showing them a nail gun would blow their mind This post was edited by Don Barzini at November 23, 2019 10:11 AM MST
      November 23, 2019 4:59 AM MST
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  • 11166
    Ya I think even some of my hand tools would blow their mind  - like my wood splitting maul the way it's designed probably makes splitting firewood 10X easier then splitting firewood in the 1700s. Cheers and happy weekend! 
      November 23, 2019 9:23 AM MST
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  • 5391

    Imax. Showing the BBC series “Planet Earth”, in 4k. 

    Within 1 hr (assuming they haven’t fainted) the traveler would know more about the world than any of his 18th century contemporaries. 

      November 22, 2019 8:30 PM MST
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  • LSD.   
      November 22, 2019 8:33 PM MST
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  • 53531
    1. First of all, I’d show him or her that you’re lacking a hyphen: time-traveled.
     
    2.  Then that a comma is the correct punctuation that you should have used after the number 1750.

    ~
      November 22, 2019 9:04 PM MST
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  • 44660
    He/she would immediately want to go back.
      November 22, 2019 9:08 PM MST
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  • 53531

      I know, right?  That poor grammar is whack, Jack. 

    (I know that you meant because of me, not because of the grammar.)
      November 22, 2019 9:18 PM MST
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  • 44660
    An aircraft taking flight.
      November 22, 2019 9:09 PM MST
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  • 13277
    Somebody once said that people of that era lived in a "three-mile-per-hour world." Every form of transportation over land was dependent on walking, usually by horses. Thus, anything to show him how much faster the world moves today, which can be traced to the steam and internal combustion engines. Railroads, motor vehicles, airplanes, etc.
      November 22, 2019 9:32 PM MST
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  • 13395
    Huge ships that can glide through the water without sails..
      November 22, 2019 10:01 PM MST
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  • 10664
    Indoor plumbing. (ta-da!)
      November 22, 2019 10:33 PM MST
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  • 4624
    Modern plumbing, clean, safe hot and cold water on demand, and toilets that flush.
      November 23, 2019 8:14 PM MST
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  • 14795
    Electricity and fresh clean water and indoor toilets would be the things that would blow their minds...they are life's essentials and life for humans would be so bad without them...medication and abundance of food next...:)
      November 23, 2019 8:25 PM MST
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