If you could send a object back into time, to which person/place and time would yeh send it?

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[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I'd send a charged cell phone with a back-up generator and solar panel to about the year 1600 to some scientists. Their minds would be blown at the mini-computer, and if they could even partially reverse-engineer it, it'd set technology ahead hundreds of years. Plus then there'd be proof of time travel.

[–]happysmash27 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I would put lots of articles about building computers from scratch on it; that would make creating computers much easier. To make it a bit more doable, I would also include books like Computer Architecture and Design: RISC-V edition and a bunch of RISC-V architecture tools to help with designing and compiling for it.

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh that's a really good idea. Every button on the home screen could be a new book about how to build modern technology.

I almost want to send them a discrete-component computer like an old mac rather than an integrated circuit computer, so they'd have a better chance at repairing it and replicating the discrete components. But then you have to transport a power supply and way to generate power along with a desktop computer and monitor and keyboard, and then we're really pushing the limit of what "an object" is haha

Also sending a car back in time, tank full of gas, would be cool