After all you have shown them they would consider you a god and you would have to mate with all the women.
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Frank" <frank@...> wrote:
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> Well I took metal & wood shop, and pottery in high-school. Since then ,as hobbies, I have done some glass blowing, leather working, home brewing, and armor forging, mostly in medieval renaissance clubs. As a kid my main hobby was rock collecting, so I know my way around geology fairly well.
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> So here's what I'd do in no particular order:
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> 1. Learn the language
> 2. Scout the entire Island for natural resources
> 3. Introduce simple devices like the Archimedes Screw, lever, water wheel, and other labor saving devices, etc... (too long a list, I'm a history buff)
> 4. Work on creating paper from wood pulp. Make glue from milk as bonding agent.
> 5. Attempt to give them written language and mathematics
> 6. Personal hygiene, and if I was successful in creating glass lenses for magnification, show them bacteria.
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> Depending on natural resources available--Sure they'd have seaweed and sand.
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> 6. Show them how to make potash by burning seaweed and distilling it.
> 7. Create a kiln and get to work showing them how to make glass from silica and potash/ or quartz/potash.
> 8. Increase the yield of their crops by using the potash as a fertilizer.
> 9. If limestone deposits were available I'd show them how to make concrete.
> 10. If clay deposits were around introduce them to pottery.
> 11. If they had indigenous animals, I'd pass on leather working and tanning.
> 12. With metal deposits, show them how to craft metal tools. (pottery has to come first, to forge metal you must first have ceramic).
> 13. Time permitting (I'm probably old and dead by now). I'd continue the progression from bronze age up to industrially revolution giving them electricity, steam-power, etc...
> 14. If if found a wife, I would of course try to be a good father and pass on as much of myself to my children.
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> I would also be extremely careful to make sure their technology didn't exceed their wisdom, and I'd do nothing to remove their reverence of nature. I would not introduce the concept of money. I would not create weapons for them, even though I know how, unless they were in danger from other tribes.
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> What I found interesting for me in this thought experiment, is that of all my gambling skills, only math turned out to be useful and worth passing on.
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> I don't think there can be a wrong answer to the question, "What would you do?" I'm sure that everyone answering this post is the worlds foremost authority on themselves.
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> Please keep in mind this was just supposed to be a light-entertainment and not the spark for serious philosophical discussion. It's important for me to know what interests the minds of gamblers for my show.
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> ~FK
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