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Time Traveling Cheat Sheet (Best Poster of All Time)

By Victor Pineiro

April 14, 2009 News 2 Comments

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I know this occupies your brainspace too.  

I can’t count how many times this crosses my mind.  If I were to travel back in time, how useful would I be in sharing the secrets of our modern civilization with the lords and lasses of yestermillenium?  Would I be able to explain important concepts to rush along modernity, like Keynesian Economics, vaccines and the early works of Prince?  Or would I just struggle for a few days, then throw up my hands and live like a king until the Black Plague came a’knocking?

Thank the brilliant folks at Topatoco for the best poster to grace our walls in forever.  Now that I have the cheat sheet, I can blow the dust off that time machine I have in the basement and get back to tinkering.  The poster/t-shirt is HERE.

[Thanks Ian Schafer, your Facebook updates are an inspiration to us all.]

Currently there are "2 comments" on this Article:

  1. Hawkes Klein says:

    if you’re in 1714 the British have a 20,000 pound prize for the best way to calculate longitude!

    hilarious!

    omg they’re making:
    “I Am Not a Demon: How to Avoid Being Executed for Heresy” as a follow up

  2. Shaun Davis says:

    Hey just a heads up, I wanted to let everyone know that Xio Dibin speaks English. I hope I posted in the right location?

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