• Pika@rekabu.ru
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    1 day ago

    Just about everyone will be successful at some things.

    Everyone knows how to make:

    • Fire
    • Lever
    • Wheel
    • Clay blocks
    • Penicillium molds (antibiotics!)
    • Wine
    • Flatbread
    • Can work out a very basic steam turbine (pot+wheel)

    Quite a few also know how to make:

    • Bellows and basic forgery tools
    • Various simple fabrics
    • Simple water pumps
    • Simple carts, bicycles
    • Galvanic cells, or maybe even alternating current sources (+wheel=hydro/steam power!), incandescent light bulbs
    • Cheese and regular bread
    • Beer, cider, moonshine
    • Soap

    You can also teach them the basics of proper hygienic procedures to keep their food safe, their hands free of pathogens, etc.

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      22 hours ago

      Oh man, have you met an everyone? I might be pessimistic, but I think you might be overestimating by quite a bit. A lot of people know how those things work, but knowing enough to replicate even basics feels kinda rare. Even fire, most don’t know beyond ‘rub two sticks together’.

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      24 hours ago

      However, if you end up in a Christian land, you’ll be seen as a heretic or sorcerer and burned at the stake before you get the chance to try any of these.

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      1 day ago

      I feel like unless you can make everything yourself, logistics would be a problem:

      -Bring me Potassium Nitrate

      • He is speaking in tongues, kill him!
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        I think showing just a few simple tricks that you can do yourself would advance you quite high in ancient academia, and then you’ll have some patient helping hands.