A) Nothing, just totally naked
B) What you’re wearing and anything you carry with you (even if you’re not carrying it right now) like a bag
C) What you’re wearing, what you carry with you, and the contents of your home (it will be teleported within a few hundred metres on the surface in an accessible location, but obviously won’t be connected to any services like electricity or water)
A) Completely fucked. Likely dead within days.
B) Less fucked than most I imagine. I do a lot of hiking (multiple times a week) and carry the 10 essentials in my bag, including a water filter. Food would be the biggest issue as I typically only have one meal and some snacks in my bag. I think it’s doable though.
C) I think I’d be fine. I have enough food to last for months if I ration it and the knowledge, seeds and tools to grow a pretty robust heirloom garden. I also have water filtration and backups, as well as tents for shelter, solar rechargeable batteries for light at least until the panels and batteries degrade, and hand tools to build a more robust shelter. If the contents of my whole house came though the difficulty would be feeding my dog and cat, so we’d have to quickly start working on figuring out how to get meat regularly. I’d have about 2 months of food for them, but that would go quick. I am not readily equipped for hunting so I’d have to cobble together some snares. I have Wikipedia downloaded to an old Kindle and that would probably help in that department. I think in this scenario I’d be fine until disease got me. I have emergency antibiotics in my house though so I could at least survive a couple rounds of bacterial diseases.
Dead you introduce diseases and they introduce diseases from each other and you can’t give them immunity. Almost like time travel is just 1/4 of time travel
A) Probably dead of heat or dead as I couldn’t communicate with anyone B) I would have a translator and some clothes, books ,pen but nothing that useful C) I have a way to charge my devices and have the resources to become a magician.
A) Probably okay-ish? I was in the scouts and I’m not completely incompetent at being outdoorsy.
B) Overnight bag probably isn’t much help. At least my breath will be minty.
C) Enjoy the new timeline bitches, because I now have hardware.
A) Depends entirely on how long the locals put up with my uselessness. I might just die of diarrhea too, considering I have nil immunity to local germs and there’s no sanitation.
B) My clothes are now the finest textiles on earth, and I carry a multitool. In some ways, it might actually be better if I was naked and pitiful. Maybe they’ll take me seriously long enough that I can build something for them, or find a kind of type clerical work that they actually need. Or, maybe they immediately rob me, kill me and dispose of the body before the other pale giants show up.
C) Hmm, more interesting in a sense, although in many ways it’s just a bigger version of the clothes problem. I couldn’t really defend my house if they decide not to respect my ownership (and why would they? it was feudal times). And a whole building appearing from thing air is pretty much proof magic is afoot, which can go multiple ways.
If they decide to humour me, I could do serious work for them pretty much immediately. These are people who still do a lot of things with stone tools. I can also introduce them to some new crops.
The diarrhea is going to be one of the biggest challenges. The differences is food, parasite/microbiota challenges… dehydration and acclimating to the local food supply are going to present problems.
You’ll probably be killed for washing your hands before eating or something.
Eh. Some traditional cultures do that anyway. I highly doubt they’d freak out over it, let alone to the point of violence.
They might think you’re weird, and you’re probably going to have to gather your own washing water, though. And if they’re doing clean hand/dirty hand you should also respect it.
A) I’m very resourceful and have formal wilderness training, but naked and completely foreign environs… Probably not going to do so well, especially if the weather is harsh.
B) Pretty well. My backpack is my bag of tricks and my daily loadout includes my multitool, an IFAK, some clothing layers, and two water bottles. But it’s still going to be a challenge because of completely foreign environs.
C) Perfectly awesome, living my best life. My home is my sailboat with solar, 40000Wh battery storage, water makers, extensive first aid, dried food and spices, and more books, movies, and video games than I could possibly finish in my remaining years.
You win.
C)
If something you can’t fix breaks ?
Sure, I’m not going to be replacing any modern consumables or modern tech. And the LiFePO4 cells are ultimately going to wear out. The solar cells will lose generation capacity. But I’ll probably be long dead before that capacity becomes a concern. Hopefully the hardcopy books don’t get wet, because that’s where I keep the stuff I don’t keep in my head.
That said, there’s very little I can’t fix on my boat. I did all of the work in my complete refit. If you know any open ocean sailors or sailboat delivery captains, we are a ridiculously resourceful bunch. Prepared AF. Kinda like the Eagle Scouts of the sea. Also, our gear is robust, resilient, and fault tolerant.
We sit around and practice this shit. There’s not much else to do out in the ocean. :D “Oh, your refrigerator compressor died.” I’ve got a brand new, spare compressor and a second refrigerator; move the most critical foods accordingly. “The second fridge died.” Immediately switch to non-refrigeration food preservation techniques. “You’re running critically low on salt.” Use the brine rejection from the watermaker. And so on. Because of all the interlocking dependencies on sailboats, we have failover modes all the way down to tarring the hull and weaving hemp lines. Okay, not that far, but you get the idea.
This lifestyle looks very interesting. Thanks for sharing !
Are there any ressources on the internet to look a bit more into it ?
Depends on which context in which you’re interested. Internet? Hm… For the refit part and thinking through/designing for all of these factors, maybe The Duracell Project (https://www.youtube.com/@TheDuracellProject/videos). Most of the people I know actually doing this stuff are… actually doing it. There’s not a lot of time and bandwidth to create an accessible internet resource. And the seriously salty folk, most of them barely have email. Among my sailing peers, I’m the most technologically capable, and that’s not saying much. :D We tend to eschew the high tech that invariably will let us down when we most need it. Much of seafaring knowledge and skills are born from hard experience and sitting around getting drunk with old salts, which is its own kind of hard experience. :D
You start small, push the limits, break shit, find fixes in order get back to port, and find what works for you with what you have at hand. Anything you couldn’t fix, you go to your marina neighbors or the internet to find jury-rigs for that specific failure mode. In your day-to-day life, learning some basic knots, how to make whoopie slings and soft shackles with Dyneema, wilderness first aid, wilderness first responder training, even basic disaster preparedness all help change your perspective on how you approach your day. For example, drilling for natural disaster response, at least for me, shifts my mindset into a “what could go wrong,” “what are the failure modes of [this critical component]” way of thinking. These are aspects you can explore without a boat or having wilderness nearby.
I haven’t watched a lot of her stuff, but Wind Hippie Sailing (https://www.youtube.com/@WindHippieSailing/videos) is a seriously badass solo dirtbagger (not a pejorative; it’s technical term cribbed from rock climbing). Solo sailors are a breed apart and a few steps above the rest of us salty dogs who have crew.
Downloaded to my Kiwix app or installed on phone/tablet and mirrored across a bunch of backup devices:
- 100 Rabbits
- Ready.gov
- Animated Knots
- U.S. Army Ranger Handbook (hard to ignore 200 years of military refinement)
- Survival Manual (sadly no longer available)
Now if you’re okay with books, lots of great resources there.
- “Sailing Alone Around the World” by Joshua Slocum
- “Sailing a Serious Ocean” by John Kretschmer
- “Cruising in Serrafyn,” “The Self Sufficient Sailor,” “The Capable Cruiser” by Larry and Lyn Pardey; hell, almost all of their books are great reads; they sailed the world for decades with almost no electric and no engine
- "Where There Is No Doctor and “Where There Is No Dentist,” Hesperian Health Guides
- “Annapolis Book of Seamanship” by John Rousmaniere
- Just about anything by Fatty Goodlander, funny stories on the dirtbagging lifestyle
Let me know if you any additional questions. Happy to share.
Edit to add: Practical Sailor (https://www.practical-sailor.com/), a great internet resource . JFC, how did I forget that?!
Thank you for the long and detailed answer ! I’ll sure go check those out
Take this Lemmy Silver 🥈
Instant death
I’ve played enough RimWorld to know I wouldn’t be totally ok in any of these scenarios.
All it takes is a random bug bite or infection and home meds just won’t be enough.
Lucky me I’ve actually got two different antibiotics my house right now lol Won’t keep me alive forever but will at least get me through a couple of bad ones most likely, which drastically increases my odds. Plus all the various things around my house I can use to clean and wrap wounds, emergency sealed water…
Yeah it’s all limited, but I could survive a few nasty situations with some of the stuff at my house right now.
Randy is in charge, be prepared to die from 1000 cat bites
as long as you’re okay doing a couple hundred warcrimes, you’ll be fine
Hmm.
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Absolutely fucked
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Still absolutely fucked
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Ok for awhile I think. Until I was captured and killed for being some sort of impossible demon, or sacrificed as a prize because of unusual looks. Knives, tools to barter, rope, food. Nothing particularly good for hunting with.
Eh, cut them some slack. When the Spanish showed up sitting on top of wild animals, covered in metal and on an impossibly, comically large boat, the Aztecs toyed with the idea it was something supernatural, but figured out it was just more assholes pretty quickly. In this scenario, you’re merely weird-looking and unintelligible.
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I speak Spanish so I would be fine
The first Spanish speaker to step foot in the area now known as Peru didn’t happen until 1513, 200 years after this hypothetical arrival date for you.
Do you speak Quecha?
Yep, that’s the joke
Lol, /s is your friend I think.
Aléjate de mí con eso
Either I’m whooshed so hard I’m in a new reality or it just simply wasn’t particularly funny
I was mildly amused.
I think the important part for you would be, “In the 1300s…”
Dead Dead Dead
I have a kidney transplant and require medication to live.
Bro, you should have thought of that before you went to Peru in the 1300s. Totally preventable.
A. Dead. It’s freaking Peru and I’m a tubby weakling from the swamps. The elements will strike me down.
B. Fine. I got an alpaca wool poncho so I won’t be that out of place. I’ll bring some survival books and a bug out bag.
C. New World Order. “Ok fellas you see all these funky looking codices on multiple shelves? Some of them have your future and the future of the peoples living on the continent north of you. See these maps, accurate to the finger length. All yours for the price of making friends with the altepeme around Lake Texcoco and killing anyone with my skin color immediately for the rest of time.”
Dj PeachCobbler?
Nah but I’ve seen his videos. I’m a Mesoamerican history nerd (if you click on my profile you’ll see Tezcatlipoca) and I do possess a few books about South America. If I’m going to be fucking up the timeline I’m sure as Hell going to be giving the aboriginals a heads up.
Hell yeah, fuck the Conquistadors.
A) totally fucked B) pretty fucked, but if the wildlife doesn’t get me I might stand a chance C) gonna be a learning curve but should be good to go really
a) “I’ve always relied on the kindness of strangers”
I’m naked right now so all of these options leave me naked.
The world is littered with the unmarked graves of explorers from the Age of Exploration who had: D) every piece of equipment that money could buy and experience could suggest.
The ones who survived being stranded in remote environments did so not by virtue of their possessions or preparations, but by throwing themselves on the mercy of the local inhabitants.
Bit of a mixed bag here: Reading about some of Fridtjof Nansens expeditions is absolutely wild. These are people that wintered in the arctic without support, where no local population exists.
The story I think is the wildest is when two guys got stuck on Franz Joseph’s land for an entire winter, with minimal supplies. The following summer they began travelling towards land using kayaks they built, and were found by a British expedition.
Besides being some awesome stories, I’m pointing this out to emphasise just how extremely resourceful and resilient some people can be. These guys survived for months, with very little resources, in conditions that can literally kill you in hours.
Of course, in general, the best survival tactic is probably to try to find local populations and hope for help.
Yeah—I was basing that claim on Joseph Henrich’s survey of expeditions in The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter.
Sounds like a good read, maybe I’ll check it out :)
If I have the contents of my home, then I probably have enough scientific knowledge in the form of books to start my own scientific revolution provided I can get enough people to listen to me.
BURN THIS NERD!
Do you speak whatever language they spoke in Peru in the year 3000?
Can you learn it before you become the main offering in a ritual sacrifice?
Why would they start sacrificing people out of blue?
Looks like all cultures that lived in territories of modern Peru only sacrificed children, so question stands. 🙃
Maybe time travel makes the traveller look like a children once it arrives.
HERETIC!
LOUD NOISES!!!
SHUN THE NON-BELIEVER! SHUUUUUN! SHUUUUUUUUNNNNAH!
