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Uff@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 9 hours ago

You are born 250,000 years ago, one of the very first modern humans to roam the earth. What's on your to-do list?

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You are born 250,000 years ago, one of the very first modern humans to roam the earth. What's on your to-do list?

Uff@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 9 hours ago
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  • DeadMartyr@lemmy.zip
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    Not sure how accurate my memory of the modern world map would be for that far back but depending on “where I spawned in” I would try and migrate to like ideal farmland or somewhere I know is good to build up.

    If I was near Iberia I’d probably try for Cordoba… Western America, I’d go for San Francisco or anywhere near Lake Tulare… I’m sure there’s more than I am remembering right now.

    I wouldn’t have to worry about organized religion having immense crusades and could carve out a little kingdom.

    Try to make a modest “fortress” out of ashlar blocks or anything I can make primitively. Try to find a way to record as much “hints” towards technological progress for my descendants to follow.

    Fertilizer, Germs, Animal Husbandry, Public Works (Dams), Canning, Gunpowder (not idea of gun just explosives, but they’ll probably weaponize it), steam power, oil, electricity, refrigeratation, concept of computers.

    It’ll probably just have to be drawings but if I can find a cool gal and learn her language enough to roll with it then it’ll just have to be that, No point in writing it in English.

    If I can actually get to the point of building a steam/wobbler engine that would probably be my life goal.

    Throw in ancient technologies that are cool like Yakchals(?) and what not to actually survive to that point.

  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.org
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    Cry, poop, or do other newborn stuff. But what else do babies actually do? 😆

  • Jeena@piefed.jeena.net
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    As a new born I guess:

    1. Find my moms breast
    2. Drink milk
    3. Sleep
    4. Pee and poop
    5. GOTO 1
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    • JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      I suppose next would be die because of the infant mortality rate

  • Tronn4@lemmy.world
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    Jerk it

  • JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Enjoy the fact that capitalism won’t exist for another couple hundred millenia

    • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
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      Feudalism was worse, and despotism was even worse than that.

      • ragingHungryPanda@lemmy.zip
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        We got like 220k years to spare. We’re good.

  • notsosure@sh.itjust.works
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    Drill, drill, drill!

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    Obvious first question, are we friends with dogs yet?

    • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
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      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestication_of_the_dog

      Nope

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        ok I am gonna get in on that shit wayyy ahead of the curve/maybe probably be eaten by dire wolves

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          Do horses too.

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            Horse 2

            Now has extra integrated saddle

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              A human can ride horse 1 without a saddle.

              • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
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                saddle is dlc on horse 1 tho lol you can’t even find horse 1 saddle in dungeon chests

    • Uff@lemmy.worldOP
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      With benefits. One drought and they’re a kebab.

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    Find other humans and try to kill them all. Then kill self. Earth breathes a sigh of relief!

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      Wait no ! once you’ve killed everybody else you can live out the rest of your life knowing you cannot reproduce.

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    Survive, get that weird fruit and have sex.

    And to go to “there”, it seems nice “there”, why shouldn’t we go “there”? It doesn’t have other people “there”.

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      People long ago are not that different from us, like people from the middle ages, they acted like us now because they ARE like us now.

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        There’s no real evidence that people are smarter today than they were 5000 years or so ago. We just have more knowledge/technology.

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    Find a nice waterfall and build a hut by it

  • oni ᓚᘏᗢ@lemmy.world
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    do some weird ass draws on walls stuff

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    confused unga bunga

  • FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website
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    • invent the wheel
    • peteyestee@feddit.org
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      Cool because I was going to say murder the inventer of the wheel and steel the idea.

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      That would require some knowledge that they couldn’t get (people can’t think things that they don’t know the basics of, like a different colour). Rolling rocks and fire would be on that age.

      • folaht@lemmy.ml
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        No, it would require usefullness compared to cost.
        How are you going to use the wheel when there are no combustion engines, no roads or even domesticated horses?

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          I’d think a wheelbarrow or hand-drawn cart would still be useful, but I see your point

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    Food, water, shelter, sleep?

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    End the human race before it gets out of hand. Like humans do animals animals or non-western people. today.

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      You couldn’t because… and this is just a guess here… there were so few humans that you wouldn’t meet anyone outside of family

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        KMS then.

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