Author Topic: Brainstorm: Taking over the world (Read 683 times)

Thrawn · « **Reply #15 on:** September 09, 2004, 04:01:58 PM »

I would go back to the 50's and blow General Pearkes away. Canada buys the Arrow and stays the leader in world aviation...that should do it.

NEVAR FORGIT TEH AROW!!

Arlo · « **Reply #16 on:** September 09, 2004, 04:05:15 PM »

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Originally posted by Flyboy
i was wondering how WW2 would end if nazi germany wasnt nazi but fascist, meaning- without all the racism crap. just imagine what would happen if the germans where to treat jews right... einstein and a few thousand jews would be fighting for the "fatherland"

i bet on the axis, germany would obtein the A bomb. and then, who knows.

The driving force behind the Third Reich was hate. And not just hate of Jews. It's momentum .... it's excuse for gearing for war ... for getting the people to accept such and make sacrifices .... was hate.

It's easy to get away with that tactic when the people are already embittered from the losses and starvation incurred from a previous war and the ongoing sanctions involved. It's what gave Hitler a springboard via Hindenburg.

Had the hate not existed .... chances are the reason for it would have had to not exist, as well. A embittered nation is a despirate nation.

jEEZY · « **Reply #17 on:** September 09, 2004, 04:10:45 PM »

I think that this relies on a faulty premise--that modern knowledge would actually be an asset in earlier times. I think the argument could be made in the last 200 years or so, but after that modern knowledge would probably be a severe disadvantage.

Case in point, hygene. We are used to it here to protect us form disease and well discomfort. However, back then the lack of hygene would not only be distatasteful, but potentially deadly (read bacteria, etc). Notice as well that past about 100 years the food would probably kill you.

Notice as well that basic concepts of human interaction have changed dramtically. Just showing up at a particular time in a particular place speaking a strage dialect would probably get you killed PDQ.

Also one would be quite unprepared to do the basic chores of life. Think making ones own clothes, butchering meat, procuring clean water, etc...and even if you could manage, the time it took would leave little time to take over the world.

vorticon · « **Reply #18 on:** September 09, 2004, 04:27:01 PM »

couldent go back beyond the early parts of the industrial revolution anyway. co2 concentrations would be to low to sustain us, we'd die.

however, if you could take back some weapons, you could take over medieval europe in a week, almost single handedly.

Gh0stFT · « **Reply #19 on:** September 09, 2004, 05:34:06 PM »

i dont need 10 years, i would instant go back to where Bill Gates
was prior to start his company... and today we would all run "Ghost-OS" and i would rule the world LOL

GRUNHERZ · « **Reply #20 on:** September 09, 2004, 05:43:09 PM »

If the UK was knocked out of WW2 in 1940 Germany and Japan rule 3/4 of the world - simple as that. Japan would probably take hold of the British colonies in asia and would thus be freed from their materials shortages, so no Pearl Harbor. As a result of this and loss of UK base the USA remains isolationst. The Russians could not hold out aginst a full attention of Germany and Japan without support and distraction from UK and US.

And if it wasnt for Churchill and some German blunders this could well have happened. Thank god for Churchill - he was the greatest man of the 20th Century..

B17Skull12 · « **Reply #21 on:** September 09, 2004, 05:56:18 PM »

in reallity you could take over the world. but you would have to extraordinaryly smart to do it. Blacksmith and swordsmiths skills could be useful in hunter gather times. a engineer could easily become king of the world forthe simple fact that he can do almost anything from desgin guns to advance calculations.

Flyboy · « **Reply #22 on:** September 09, 2004, 07:31:20 PM »

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Originally posted by Arlo
The driving force behind the Third Reich was hate. And not just hate of Jews. It's momentum .... it's excuse for gearing for war ... for getting the people to accept such and make sacrifices .... was hate.

It's easy to get away with that tactic when the people are already embittered from the losses and starvation incurred from a previous war and the ongoing sanctions involved. It's what gave Hitler a springboard via Hindenburg.

Had the hate not existed .... chances are the reason for it would have had to not exist, as well. A embittered nation is a despirate nation.

i agree with you that hatred brought hitler to pwer, but it wasnt the driving force of the germans in the war.

german, like japan- had a blind belive in their leaders, that allmost machine like menthality (sp?) was their power source.

Arlo · « **Reply #23 on:** September 09, 2004, 07:38:13 PM »

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Originally posted by Flyboy
i agree with you that hatred brought hitler to pwer, but it wasnt the driving force of the germans in the war.

german, like japan- had a blind belive in their leaders, that allmost machine like menthality (sp?) was their power source.

Not so much "blind" as "scared to death of." Japan is another story completely which deals with thousands of years of cultural conditioning.

I'll amend to say hatred started the ball rolling and fear kept it going until the world had to step in and take the ball away.

Hate and fear have always shared a close relationship.

RTStuka · « **Reply #24 on:** September 09, 2004, 07:42:19 PM »

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Yes, you keep all your knowledge. I see three strategies:

-Go back to ancient/feudal times so that your increased knowledge gives an extreme advantage over everyone else in the world.

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Not a bad Idea but im thinking they would burn you at the stake real quick like.

Arlo · « **Reply #25 on:** September 09, 2004, 07:45:20 PM »

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Not a bad Idea but im thinking they would burn you at the stake real quick like.

They've done it to every time-traveler so far.

I keep tellin' the dimensional time patrol ...... don't go to Salem! But ... noooooooooo. One went to France and held onto her liberated philosophy ..... wrong answer.

RTStuka · « **Reply #26 on:** September 09, 2004, 07:49:06 PM »

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They've done it to every time-traveler so far.

I keep tellin' the dimensional time patrol ...... don't go to Salem! But ... noooooooooo. One went to France and held onto her liberated philosophy ..... wrong answer.

LMAO

I know you would think they would understand, when you go back in time and cant take anything with you, you are so fluffied. Your just gonna be the naked crazy man who gets his head cut off. If we could at least figure out a way to bring back a gun to defend ourselves things would be all butter.

AKIron · « **Reply #27 on:** September 09, 2004, 11:59:05 PM »

I'd go back to September of 2004 and tell everyone that if elected president, John Kerry will destroy America.

Oooops, my secret's out.

Drunky · « **Reply #28 on:** September 10, 2004, 12:11:34 AM »

Who want's to go BACK in time. Sure, you might rule the world, but a world of what???

Black and white t.v.? No computers? Girls who don't shave their privates correctly? What kinda world is that?

Sandman · « **Reply #29 on:** September 10, 2004, 12:18:03 AM »

Who would want to rule the world when you can go back 65-70 years and fly fighter planes?