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[–] SonnyVabitch@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

Mewie Catsteur

[–] Afghaniscran 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"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.

[–] Afghaniscran 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"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.

[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Aren't you a pessimist! I'm sure they would just steal it and never mention your name again.

[–] doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah they probably just burned Joan of Arc because too many people saw her face.

[–] doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 23 points 1 year ago

Without the associated math, this is practically useless.

[–] Bonsoir@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 year ago

Saving this for sooner.

[–] Fal@yiffit.net 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Redredme@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] pinkwerdo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Isn't that the plot of GATE?

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Take the credit.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Klear@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Nah, I'm not him. I'm still taking the credit though.

[–] manny_stillwagon@mander.xyz 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Pharmacokinetics@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] manny_stillwagon@mander.xyz 1 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] wedeworps@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Pharmacokinetics@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It fucking shines in the sky like a big bright twinkle star, motherfucker ✨️

[–] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reminds me of How to invent everything by Ryan North a must have for every wary time traveler

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ryan literally made the poster in OP.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

well he took the credit for it...

I should've guessed

[–] ninpnin@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

The biggest problem with this is understanding modern English

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Congratulations, you’ve just earned a stoning by the town mob.

Unless you can make an electric motor that goes with your electric generator, you’ll just be killed as a witch for making a device that hurts people with invisible energy.

Also, good luck not just getting brutally murdered for being a weird person that doesn’t speak the language and is dressed funny. For like half of human history, even describing a magnet would be nearly impossible, let alone finding enough magnets of similar size and strength, and having enough money to purchase those rare items and thinly drawn copper.

If a guy came up to you today, dressed funny and talking in broken Spanglish or something asked you for a small loan so he could buy some deuterium and promethium to make a fusion-tap-quark drive so he can advance humanity, you’d probably run away. A thousand years ago you’d probably just have been stabbed on general principles.

A motor and a generator are essentially the same thing just the direction of electricity determines whether they turn mechanical to physical energy or the reverse. Making two generators is equal to two motors or 1 of each depending on installation.

I'm gonna tattoo this on my body just in case

[–] LollerCorleone@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is giving me /internetfuneral vibes

(kbin link)

[–] shani66@lemmy.comfysnug.space 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Anyone have higher resolution of this image?