@Phen@lemmy.eco.br to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • 8 months agowhat fact about our current world would freak people out if it were a newspaper headline a century ago?message-square140fedilinkarrow-up1176arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1172arrow-down1message-squarewhat fact about our current world would freak people out if it were a newspaper headline a century ago?@Phen@lemmy.eco.br to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • 8 months agomessage-square140fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareMudManlinkfedilink108•edit-28 months agoSo in this scenario you’re back in 1923? I’m pretty sure it’d be anything including the words “World War II”. Bonus points if it also includes a date.
minus-squareCarighan Maconarlinkfedilink16•8 months agoYeah, like in that Doctor Who special where they tell the WW1 soldier “Now let’s get you back to your first world war” and he goes “FIRST world war?!”.
minus-square@littlewonder@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink5•8 months agoWasn’t it known as the Great War until after WW2? And yes, I am fun at parties.
minus-squareMudManlinkfedilink7•8 months agoI am assuming they’d put two and two together. On account of the number 2, and how all their male relatives have been dead for less than ten years, that stuff is probably pretty top of mind.
minus-squareChaoticNeutralCzechlinkfedilink1•8 months agoEspecially if they have boys aged below 10 in the family
minus-square@CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilink3•edit-28 months agoFew people would be surprised by it happening. They hoped it wouldn’t be for many decades but it was just known as the way future wars would go.
minus-square@TimewornTraveler@lemm.eelinkfedilink2•8 months agofuture telling is kind of a lame answer
So in this scenario you’re back in 1923?
I’m pretty sure it’d be anything including the words “World War II”.
Bonus points if it also includes a date.
Yeah, like in that Doctor Who special where they tell the WW1 soldier “Now let’s get you back to your first world war” and he goes “FIRST world war?!”.
Wasn’t it known as the Great War until after WW2?
And yes, I am fun at parties.
I am assuming they’d put two and two together.
On account of the number 2, and how all their male relatives have been dead for less than ten years, that stuff is probably pretty top of mind.
Especially if they have boys aged below 10 in the family
Few people would be surprised by it happening. They hoped it wouldn’t be for many decades but it was just known as the way future wars would go.
future telling is kind of a lame answer