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reallifelore33 okay so if you're
watching this there's been a big problem
you've touched something that you didn't
realize was a time machine and you've
inadvertently been transported back
through time and you have no idea where
or when you are
understandably this is a highly
stressful situation for you but have no
fear
through this quick and simple tutorial
you'll be able to quickly and hopefully
safely be able to figure out what year
you're actually trapped in and from that
you'll hopefully be able to survive
alright so first things first let's
start from the very beginning
has the big bang happened yet if not
that's a
pretty weird and you're stuck sometime
before 13.8 billion years ago i can't
really help you very much with that so
hopefully the answer to that question
was yes it has happened so if so the
next important question to ask is
is there a planet where the earth is
supposed to be if there isn't
well you're trapped sometime between
13.8
and 4.54 billion years ago and you're
probably pretty screwed unless you have
a spacesuit
if earth does exist proceed to question
three are you
immediately being consumed by molten
lava if yes
then it's very important for you to look
up and see if the earth has a moon or
not yet before you die
if there is no moon well it means you're
on a very narrow window of 40 million
years between 4.54
and 4.5 billion years ago unfortunately
for you
a proto-planet is going to collide with
earth during this time eventually so
you're gonna violently die no matter
what on the other hand
if you do see a moon it means that
you're still drowning in lava but
at least you get to watch the moon
rotating around between 4.5 and 3.8
billion years ago
on to question 4 now if you're not
immediately melting are you
immediately suffocating and unable to
breathe because if you are
you're unfortunately between 3.8 billion
and 850 million years ago
when the earth was full of carbon
dioxide and it didn't have enough oxygen
yet for you to breathe
so basically if you aren't immediately
dying you're sometime after
850 million years ago which is great so
question five
do you see any animals wandering around
on the land if you don't
you're gonna be extremely lonely and
you're between 850 million and 530
million years ago
if you do though do you see any plants
along with them because if you only see
animals and not any plants
it means you're stuck somewhere between
530 million
and 450 million years ago it won't be
necessarily
pretty but at least you've got some
pretty quirky little animals to hang out
with
okay next up do you see any dinosaurs if
yes
it still kinda sucks but you're
somewhere between 232 million
and 65 million years ago the other
question that ties into this one though
is do you see any mammals mammals and
dinosaurs evolved alongside one another
so if you don't see any mammals you
probably don't see any dinosaurs either
and you're probably stuck
sometime before 232 million years ago
with the amphibians
if you only see mammals and no dinosaurs
it means that you're sometime after
65 million years ago which probably
leads us into the most
important question do you see any humans
or creatures that look like humans
lurking around because if you don't well
we already know that you're sometime
after 65 million years ago if you only
see
other mammals so do you happen to know
what continent you're standing on
that's important because humans arrived
in different parts of the world at
different times
there weren't any modern humans in the
americas prior to around 16 000 years
ago or in europe before 40 000 years ago
australia before 46 000 years ago asia
before 80 000 years ago or africa before
250 000 years ago
if you've somehow found yourself time
traveling to antarctica is it warm
outside
if it is you're sometime before 15
million years ago and if it's not
and you don't see any other humans you
might be some time before 1947
the year when the first permanent human
base was set up on the continent
and if you're on an island this could
get a little trickier humans didn't
arrive on madagascar until around 500 ce
iceland didn't have humans before the
late 9th century hawaii didn't have
anybody until around 900
and new zealand was uninhabited until
after 1200 so if you don't see people
you're between
65 million years ago and any of these
times depending on where in the world
you are
next up if you do see other humans do
you only see
homo sapiens neanderthals or a mix of
various human species
because if you only see neanderthals and
no homo sapiens you're between 250 000
and 200 000 bce and you're stuck with
them so
have fun if you see humans and
neanderthals together or other human
species on the other hand
it means that you're somewhere between
200 000 and 25 000 bce
which is the upper end for our estimates
when neanderthals went extinct
if you happen to be in papua new guinea
though you might be up until
15 000 years ago because the denisovan
human population
may have survived there up until then
alright
so if you only see humans that look like
modern humans
the next big question is this are they
acting relatively normal
like do you see evidence of culture
burials or language
because if not you're still probably
trapped between 200 000 and 50 000 bce
and you just haven't met the
neanderthals yet however if the humans
are acting normal to what you would
expect then you know you're after 50 000
bce so narrow it down even further
you probably need a quick astronomy
lesson depending on which hemisphere you
time travel to
the brightest constellations that are
easiest to spot are the big dipper in
the north and the southern cross
in the south these constellations are
the brightest because the stars that
make them up
are located closer to earth than most
which means that their movements over
time
are observable so out of these three
choices which
one is the closest to what you're
currently seeing in the night sky
option 1 means you're indeed somewhere
around 50 000 bce
option 2 means you're sometime around 25
000 bce
and option 3 means you're sometime
around the modern era so if you see
option 3
do you see any evidence of these humans
lurking about farming or is it only
hunter-gatherers still
if it's still just hunting and gathering
you're probably between 25 000
and 10 500 bce or alternatively it could
be yesterday on north sentinel island
where uncontacted hunter-gatherers still
exist but if you do see farming the
answer of where you are
can get complicated different parts of
the world came up with farming at
different points in time you see
if you're in the middle east for example
and see it you're post 10
500 bce if you see domestic sheep you're
post 9000 bce and cattle would be post 8
500 bce
if you're in china farming is post 8 000
bce india is after 7000 bce
mesoamerica is after 6 700 bce and
europe isn't until around 4 500 bce or
so
so if you do see farming do you also see
people riding around on horses
because if you don't you're before 4000
bce and if you do
you're after it next question do you see
people using wheels
if you do you're sometime after 3500 bce
arguably even more important though do
you see any evidence of people writing
because writing was first developed in
the middle east and egypt around 3 100
bce
in china around 2000 bce and mesoamerica
by 650 bce
so if you do see writing you're sometime
after these dates based on where you're
at
it's also important that you pay
attention to the alphabets people are
using
because they came into existence at
different times this for example is
ancient phoenician which came into being
around 1200 bce
it gave birth to the aramaic alphabet
that looks like this around 600 bce
which further gave birth to the arabic
script around 100 ce
here is the greek alphabet which
initially came into being around 700 bce
which inspired the latin script we're
all familiar with
after about 600 bce if you're in britain
the anglo-saxons didn't start using the
latin script until the 6th century so if
you don't see any latin here's some time
before then
finally the cyrillic alphabet didn't
come into existence until the 9th
century in bulgaria so if you don't see
any cyrillic in eastern europe you're
probably before then
so if you see all of these alphabets do
you also see people writing them on
paper
paper wasn't invented until around 100
bce in china so if you see no paper you
might be located before then
how about any evidence of gunpowder
weapons gunpowder wasn't invented until
the 9th century in china and it wasn't
used in warfare anytime prior to the
year 900.
so if you see guns or cannons being used
you're definitely some time after this
in regards to our previous discussion on
alphabets in writing
do you only see scrolls or books that
are handwritten or do you also see
printed books
the printing press and mass-produced
books weren't invented until 1439 in
germany so if you see a book or a script
that looks like it's printed
the odds are pretty good that you're
sometime post 14 39
and that means you're getting pretty
close enough at this point to simply
being able to ask someone what year
you're in
if you're an average english speaker any
year post 1500 would probably be
possible for you to vaguely
understand what people are saying in
england but it's fairly
complicated to say for certain modern
english as it's spoken today
wouldn't be fully in place in england
until the end of the 17th century
you can see this painfully clear by
analyzing the history of the famous
lord's prayer
in modern english from 1690 to today it
reads as follows and it's completely
understandable to our modern tongues
in early modern english however between
1450 and 1690
it read like this which is still mostly
understandable but a little bit
different
this is why you'd probably be capable of
asking someone what year it is and
finding out an
answer anytime post 1500 so long as
you're in england and can speak
english but in english anytime prior to
1450 is just
unintelligible gibberish to most modern
english speakers
for example this is the same lord's
prayer in middle
english between 1066 and 1450
and this is the same prayer in old
english prior to 1066.
english was a completely different
language back in those days
so effectively if you can't understand
what anybody is saying in england you're
probably sometime before the year 1500
and if you can understand people then
just ask them what year it is and you'll
hopefully figure it all out from there
fortunately you probably won't end up
alone in an ice age or stranded with
dinosaurs anytime
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