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Marooned in time
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I'm going to send you back in time - a one way ticket, at least 100 years
To make life a little easier you can take a gold ingot with you 400 troy ounces
What year would you like to go to?
Don't answer too quickly - you'll want to balance the value of gold at that time with the standard of living that it'll give you and what you can do with the knowledge you bring - So you might not want to say 400 AD unless you speak latin!
To make life a little easier you can take a gold ingot with you 400 troy ounces
What year would you like to go to?
Don't answer too quickly - you'll want to balance the value of gold at that time with the standard of living that it'll give you and what you can do with the knowledge you bring - So you might not want to say 400 AD unless you speak latin!
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Perhaps - did they let people walk in off the street and short sell then? Stock markets were rather different 100 years ago!
Incidently don't forget things don't always play out the same.
A big new investor on the stock markets will have consequences and those will amplify with time.
Sports events may be influenced by random fluctuations - general trends based on skill are likely to be the same but the lottery balls won't be the same
Titanic was 1912 - given that there's two years between your latest date and that there's a good chance the Titanic might not go down the second time around
Incidently don't forget things don't always play out the same.
A big new investor on the stock markets will have consequences and those will amplify with time.
Sports events may be influenced by random fluctuations - general trends based on skill are likely to be the same but the lottery balls won't be the same
Titanic was 1912 - given that there's two years between your latest date and that there's a good chance the Titanic might not go down the second time around
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Well it's not so much that as simple non-linear dynamics (chaos theory) the smallest changes to starting conditions can be amplified in lots of different systems from the weather to a double pendulum - and as there is a sea of background radiation providing random input it won't take long for many things to turn out differently.
So take steve's 1913 Derby - would that happen again 3 years later the same way - I doubt it.
When would I go back to?
Possibly the late medieval period, probably set up a commercial still and introduce the country to the joys of hard liquour and plough those procedes into kicking off the industrial revolution a few years early.
I should be able to rustle up the odd iron furnace and steam engine I reckon
So take steve's 1913 Derby - would that happen again 3 years later the same way - I doubt it.
When would I go back to?
Possibly the late medieval period, probably set up a commercial still and introduce the country to the joys of hard liquour and plough those procedes into kicking off the industrial revolution a few years early.
I should be able to rustle up the odd iron furnace and steam engine I reckon
Since the focus of the conundrum is actually the gold (and supposed value), then the simple answer would be to return to the summer of 1968 when gold was selling for under $50 U.S., per ounce and immediately went into a vertical climb in value, peaking at just over $600 per ounce in about 1979. If one held onto the investment in some intervening ups and downs, it would be worth over $1100 U.S. today. Even factoring in inflation, the increase would be astounding for your 400 Troy ounces. By limiting the amount of years one traveled back the problem of drastically changing history would be only somewhat alleviated... the old "I killed my grandfather" enigma...
You must have a lot of time on your hands, jake!
You must have a lot of time on your hands, jake!
//Possibly the late medieval period, probably set up a commercial still and introduce the country to the joys of hard liquour and plough those procedes into kicking off the industrial revolution a few years early.
I should be able to rustle up the odd iron furnace and steam engine I reckon //
You're kidding right? All your concern about man-made global warming and you want to kick start the process about 500 years earlier?
Good question though Jake, I like it.
I should be able to rustle up the odd iron furnace and steam engine I reckon //
You're kidding right? All your concern about man-made global warming and you want to kick start the process about 500 years earlier?
Good question though Jake, I like it.
Good question!
I don't think I want to go back to the golden age of Rome, even though linguam latinam parlo.
And I don't think I'd fancy the Dark Ages. Nor the industrial revolution.
No, I'd go back precisely 100 years to 12 February 1910. By the time 1914 came round, I'd be too old for the front line, so I'd miss the Somme etc, and thirty years later I'd be able to see Edith Piaf live in Paris.
Problem is, how difficult would it be to resist the urge to find and kill Hitler in his mid twenties? Or Stalin in his mid thirties?
I don't think I want to go back to the golden age of Rome, even though linguam latinam parlo.
And I don't think I'd fancy the Dark Ages. Nor the industrial revolution.
No, I'd go back precisely 100 years to 12 February 1910. By the time 1914 came round, I'd be too old for the front line, so I'd miss the Somme etc, and thirty years later I'd be able to see Edith Piaf live in Paris.
Problem is, how difficult would it be to resist the urge to find and kill Hitler in his mid twenties? Or Stalin in his mid thirties?
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