I’d give laser pointers to Neanderthals. Even if they did figure out some useful application for them (maybe hunting?) they’d run out of batteries eventually.
Furbies. Just to see if we end up with a furby based religion.
A coke bottle
Drop it from an airplane. Bet they would then say among themselves:
God Must Be Crazy!
Let’s give some ancient peoples a couple books on modern maths and calculus. Really fuck with the development of tech.
Fuck yeah, just give the ancient Greeks hindu-arabic numerals and watch them lose their minds. Teach Zeno calculus and watch him try to prove it wrong.
Pretty sure the greeks knew about the hindu number system, they were neighbours for centuries. They just thought zero was of the devil and geometry was better that algebra and never adopted it.
Antibiotics
Talk about butterfly effect lol. I wonder where we would be today if antibiotics were readily available before plagues became plagues.
Me, too. That’s why I wanna do it!
Those little Roman devices nobody can figure out.
Antikythera mechanism?
That’s Greek and we have a pretty good understanding of them.
I think the person you’re replying to is referring to these odd little dodecahedrons that we keep finding in former Roman provinces, but for which we’ve found no documentation as to what they were for, if anything.
It’s how the Greeks played Minecraft.
No, those little dice things nobody can figure out at all. They’re octagonal with a little ball on each corner.
Imma come out and say it: they’re old timey versions of copper coils or orgonite pyramids. Gnosticism got kinda big for a while and people were buying curses and prayers and stuff from people to write on little bits of broken pottery like little curses you’d write on scraps of paper in middle school. Somebody out there figured out how to weld little metal sacred geometry figurines and people were buying them because they look cool and some of them probably thought they’d resonate with the vibrations of the universe to cure dysentery or whatever.
I figured it was a game
After further consideration, I would also give them a Solar-Powered TV that plays nothing but a Video of Hatsune Miku doing Fortnite Dances
Nuclear bombs
aluminum bars, they won’t be able to work it into things like with iron. even if they do, they can’t make more
Steam engines, clockwork and balloons. Hopefully they turn into a steampunk society.
Sharpies. Think off all the confused scientist that have to explain sharpie marks under acient paintings.
A cube of pure tungsten. So when they pick it up they cant believe how heavy it is.
Cool Ranch Doritos
To fuck with? Contraceptives, obviously!
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Nuclear bombs.
That would fuck with them so hard.
A polaroid camera so they can steal each other’s soul
