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    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.

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    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

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    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.

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      “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.

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        “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.

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

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      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.

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    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.

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      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.

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

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        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.

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    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.

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    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.