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>You can take any text available today back to any point in human history and give it to anyone in a translation they will understand.

What text and who do you give it to?

>> No.3819490
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'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich'

Give it to Hitler in 1939.

>> No.3819510

"What is mathematics"
Thales maybe.

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The recent CERN study.

Give it Einstein in 1945.

>> No.3819549

>implying /sci/ reads anything besides textbooks

>> No.3819554

>The Hobbit
Give it to the Israelites.

>> No.3819563

what: lottery numbers and stock trends
who: me

problem?

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Newton's Principia to Thales. 2011: human kind already settled on 4 exoplanets.

>> No.3819612

Green eggs and ham
Marlyn Monroe
Totally fuckng serious.

>> No.3819618

>>3819563
>lottery numbers

What are you going to do, ask the lottery office for those specific tickets?

>> No.3819623

>>3819598
>yfw Tales can't read Latin

>> No.3819634

>>3819482
lifshitz' course of theoretical physics
the whole set of books stapled together so I get away with using them as one book

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I would bring this image back to the earliest civilization and boost human technology thousands and thousands of years before it existed in our time.

Seriously, with this kind of knowledge we'd probably have transhumans living in 4000 BC or something. Man would walk on the moon before Socrates existed.

By 2011 AD I'm sure humanity would be existing in multiple star systems.

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>>3819623
>You can take any text available today back to any point in human history and give it to anyone in a translation they will understand.
>in a translation they will understand.
>they will understand.
>understand.

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I take "The God Delusion" back in time and give it to Jesus Christ.

Fucking trolled.

>> No.3819652

>>3819646
Take the bible, that would probably piss him off worse.

>> No.3819657

>>3819646
>Atheist
>thinks Jesus Christ lived

Pick one

>> No.3819659

>>3819646
>Jesus
Good luck finding him, Meanwhile i'll go look for 119 year old Moses and tell him he's going to die when he turns 120.

>> No.3819672

>>3819657

Well, there is no direct evidence he lived, but the same is true of many spiritually important people from the era and before. Zarathustra for example. There's not any direct evidence that he was a real person either.

My hunch is that Jesus was a real person, but was a sort of sock puppet for later writers, kind of like Plato's literary Socrates.