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[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ackchyually.. what you invented is not pasteurization, since the guy it would go on to be named after hadn't been born yet. Name it after yourself or your cat or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

Mewie Catsteur

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I wouldn't be taking any credit for most of this. This poster would be better served if I could find Leonardo Da Vinci or something and give it to him.

"Putting electricity through quartz changes it's shapes, that's clocks" 😮 what?

"Make aerofoil go fast and you can fly, here's a vague picture of a wing." Excuse me?

I think I can pull off finding mouldy food and hot milk so I've got that, I guess.

Saying that, if I made a time machine, I imagine I would understand the things in this poster.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"Spin a large magnet near some copper coils, you've invented an electrocution device!" I think having a vague idea about some of these things is more dangerous than not knowing anything. Lots of stuff about electricity and nothing about grounding and insulation.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

"you can get insulin from dogs and pigs by tying the pancreatic duct!"

Get rid of the wing and show me where to find this bit inside a pig and I can save lives, we can just wait for the wright brothers to figure out flying again.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

For me it'd go

go back in time invent calculus or something similar be burned at the stake for being a woman who writes weird symbols

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Aren't you a pessimist! I'm sure they would just steal it and never mention your name again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah they probably just burned Joan of Arc because too many people saw her face.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago

Without the associated math, this is practically useless.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago

Saving this for sooner.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That diagram of a wing does not deserve the amount of space required. That could totally be used for something more valuable

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You say that now, but just you wait until you see a B17 in the dark ages bombing the shit out those darn castles all over Europe.

Then it all comes together.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Isn't that the plot of GATE?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Take the credit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Nah, I'm not him. I'm still taking the credit though.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Polaris is absolutely NOT the brightest star in the sky. Not even close.

How to actually find it: Find the big dipper (I know you know what it looks like). Take the two stars at the front end of the "cup" part. Draw a line through them "up" and out of the cup until you hit a star. That's it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I always thought Jupiter was the brightest star. Well, technically, not a star, but still, where I am (Turkey), it always shows up first, and it's insanely bright.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean "technically" not a star? Jupiter has absolutely nothing to do with being a star, it's a planet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It fucking shines in the sky like a big bright twinkle star, motherfucker ✨️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

You're correct that Jupiter is the brightest object in the night sky besides (obviously) the sun and the moon.

The brightest star is Sirius, near the constellation Orion.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Reminds me of How to invent everything by Ryan North a must have for every wary time traveler

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Ryan literally made the poster in OP.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

well he took the credit for it...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I should've guessed

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A lot of this I couldn't do but... a lot of it I probably could. I've designed and built quite a few weird machines for people who were paying me, but probably the simplest thing for me to make in preindustrial times would be a battery and an electric motor.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Congratulations, you’ve just earned a stoning by the town mob.

Unless you can make an electric motor that goes with your electric generator, you’ll just be killed as a witch for making a device that hurts people with invisible energy.

Also, good luck not just getting brutally murdered for being a weird person that doesn’t speak the language and is dressed funny. For like half of human history, even describing a magnet would be nearly impossible, let alone finding enough magnets of similar size and strength, and having enough money to purchase those rare items and thinly drawn copper.

If a guy came up to you today, dressed funny and talking in broken Spanglish or something asked you for a small loan so he could buy some deuterium and promethium to make a fusion-tap-quark drive so he can advance humanity, you’d probably run away. A thousand years ago you’d probably just have been stabbed on general principles.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

A motor and a generator are essentially the same thing just the direction of electricity determines whether they turn mechanical to physical energy or the reverse. Making two generators is equal to two motors or 1 of each depending on installation.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

The biggest problem with this is understanding modern English

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I'm gonna tattoo this on my body just in case

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This is giving me /internetfuneral vibes

(kbin link)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Anyone have higher resolution of this image?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Okay this is a great jumping off point if you can convince a king to make you his personal scientist with all the resources they implies. Like, i could get the electricity going without killing myself with time, but I'm gonna need subjects to test out the health and safety stuff.