After unadvertedly hopping into a DeLorean, you travel back in time a number of years equal to the sum of the digits of the hour currently being shown in your closest time-keeping device (most likely your computer's clock).
Where did you end up?
11:02 here, so I travel back in time to... 910 AD.
According to Wikipedia, the year started on a Monday. That can't be good.
10:07. 1005 AD. Also started on a Monday.
Got a violent coup of the Scottish crown, a Chinese treaty, the birth of Macbeth, and a few more overthrowings and revolutions to look forward to, presuming I'm dropped at the beginning of the year rather than the end of September.
Pff, all I got on mine was some vikings fighting in England and a city being founded in Tunisia.
A.D. 1091. Welcome to the Eleventh Century, where, from the looks of Wikipedia, not a damn interesting thing happened.
Ah, well. I'm in the Midwest of North America. I'm going bison hunting.
AD 380. Lots of religious scuffling in Rome.
I live in Sweden. Well... I suspect nothing much happened.
Yeah not a lot happened in my neck of the woods either, at least that's recorded. Probably plenty of native tribes still running around the Tennessee area.
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10:17 ... so 955 AD ...
Battle of the Lechfeld which ends the Magyar raids into western Europe.
King of England died with no direct successor, his 16 year old nephew assumed the throne. The nephew ticks off the Abbot of Glastonbury, drags the kid king Eadwig out of the bed he was in with a young woman and forces him to denounce her as a "strumpet". Eadwig exiled him the following year and married the young woman.
Pope Agapetus II died and his replacement, 19 year old John XII, apparently got into all sorts of mischief, as he was "accused of sleeping with his father's mistress, castrating a deacon, and committing incest with a niece, but the charges will not be substantiated."
those crazy 10th century kids ...
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1886 heck I could watch the one and only season of the Kansas City Cowboys. If I stopped on my way in Topeka Bud Fowler was playing on the Leavenworth Soldiers team before they made a "color line" preventing him from doing so.
It would be four years before Wichita would be a city though, of course if I stuck around a few I could kick young Billy the Kid in the nads for growing up insane and killing folks for snoring. I could meet Wyatt Earp if I could keep him from pistol whipping me.
But man the smell of cows that would have been around then would have been rank.
Edit: Pope Leo XIII, Ended Kulturkampf, brought the church up to what was then modern times, made Thomas Aquinas required reading. Not bad.First Pope to have his voice recorded.
Tesla Just formed his own company and became an American citizen. Could you imagine going back in time with a lap top and basic information to give to the man about the future? What he could do if he had more precise information?
Heck Mark Twain was around then, just taking a few minutes to listen to him talk would be fracking awesome.
speaking of which Hailey's comet in 1910 is just around the corner.
Although just shy of 20 years after the war, some bad dudes ran these parts. Doolin gang being one of them. Must bring a bullet proof vest.
What you're doing looks like fun, but I don't get it.
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I hate math! What are you doing?!?
It's 3:10 here. Someone please tell me what year I'm going to.
Do you want that in standard or military time?
If the former you're in 1702. If the latter, 502 AD.
Why? What are you doing?
(I hope Grand Magus doesn't come through here.)
Never mind! I finally read it close enough to figure it out!
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In 1702, I would most likely be working on a gang cutting down New Hampshire's primeval forests for His Majesty's Royal Navy.
I would also, of course, be agitating my fellow lumberjacks for international proletarian anti-mercantilist revolution.
It's 1523. I'm going to London to meet Henry VIII!
Ah, cool... I'm in 105 BC, and I have 10 days to travel 900 miles to witness...:
The Battle of Arausio (Oct. 6), where the Cimbri destroy two Roman armies on the Rhône, is the most severe defeat of Roman forces since the Battle of Cannae.
Never heard of that before...
After finding the DeLorean again, seems I've ended up in 278 A.D.
Some local lads in toga tell me it's actually 1,031 AUC, but all I know is that there is a guy proclaiming himself as the Gothicus Maximus.
I suspect he wears enough eyeliner to draw a map on a 1:1 scale.
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In 1702, I would most likely be working on a gang cutting down New Hampshire's primeval forests for His Majesty's Royal Navy.
I would also, of course, be agitating my fellow lumberjacks for international proletarian anti-mercantilist revolution.
Hey! No mucking about with the time line! Keep your introduction to socialism in the 19th century where it belongs! ;)
Otherwise, you know, you may not end up a goblin, but a soulless corporate drone ... just sayin' ...
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Damnit I did not factor in Military time.
Lets see my previous time would have been 686 AD. man if I was stuck in the plains of the midwest I would see lots of American Bison and Passenger Pigeon in flocks of millions. Plus I would be a tad bit pale compared to the natives. However even in Europe it would not be a nice place to visit with Charles Martel making war a national pass-time by finally passing away himself.
Current time would put me 471 AD would be interesting time in the world but not a fun one. Patrick was kidnapped and sold into slavery.With the Goths and ostrogoths bearing down on Rome. Not a nice place or time to live.
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In 1702, I would most likely be working on a gang cutting down New Hampshire's primeval forests for His Majesty's Royal Navy.
I would also, of course, be agitating my fellow lumberjacks for international proletarian anti-mercantilist revolution.
Hey! No mucking about with the time line! Keep your introduction to socialism in the 19th century where it belongs! ;)
Otherwise, you know, you may not end up a goblin, but a soulless corporate drone ... just sayin' ...
"Yeah...if you could just rouse up the rabble on Saturday, that'd be greeeeeat. Oh, and I'm gonna have to ask you to come out and rouse the rabble on Sunday too..."
362 BC. Phillip II of Macedon is on the warpath.
1555, the Oxford Martyrs were killed around the time of my birthday.
RPG Superstar 2015 Top 16, RPG Superstar 2013 Top 16
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Civilian time, I wind up in 1555 AD. Ah, the height of the Reformation. Unfortunately, also the height of Bloody Mary's persections. Great time to be Protestant in Germany... England, not so much.
Military time, it's 355 AD. Romans, Franks, and Catholics were infighting, the Huns were conquering, and the provinces were agitating. Business as usual in the ancient world.
It's 5:23 so...1489.
Not much happened, other than Typhus sweeping Spain.
Hmmm 1744...
January–June
January 24 – The Dagohoy Rebellion begins with the killing of Father Giuseppe Lamberti.
February 22–February 23 – Battle of Toulon: The British fleet is defeated by a Franco-Spanish fleet.
March 1 (approximately) – The Great Comet of 1744, one of the brightest ever seen, reaches perihelion
March 15 – France declares war on Great Britain.
April 20 – Battle of Villafranca (1744): A joint French and Spanish force defeats Britain and Sardinia.
June 28 – Catherine the Great is received into the Russian Orthodox Church.
July–December
July 19 – Battle of Casteldelfino: France defeats the Kingdom of Sardinia.
September 30 – Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo: France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia.
[edit] Date unknown
The third French and Indian War, known as King George's War, breaks out at Port Royal, Nova Scotia.
The First Saudi State is founded by Mohammed Ibn Saud.
Prague is occupied by Prussian armies.
1754. Gonna mess up so much stuff in the colonies...
1179 AD - Chichen Itza sacked (stupid vampires!), France and Portugal get new kings, William the Lion founds a city, Portugal goes to war with Muslims, and the Catholics change their voting rules for Popes.
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Oh, come on. I got to sleep and the DeLorean still takes me for a stroll? Bastard.
9:33 here, so I guess I end up in 1,079 A.D. This is the year when they murdered Saint Stanislaus Szczepanowski! Apparently, they drowned him in consonants.
PD: My respects to Saint Stanislaus the Martyr.
15;12 here so I end up in the year 500
Year 500 (D) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Patricius and Hypatius (or, less frequently, year 1253 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 500 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Possible date for the Battle of Mons Badonicus: Romano-British and Celts defeat an Anglo-Saxon army that may have been led by the bretwalda Aelle of Sussex or possibly Cerdic of Wessex (approximate date; suggested dates range from 490 to 517). This battle may have influenced the legend of King Arthur.
Possible date at which Fergus Mór begins his reign – the historicity of Mór is doubtful.
Approximate beginning of the Heptarchy period in the history of England.
Approximate year of the founding of the Kingdom of Essex.
Battle of Dijon: A coalition of Franks and Burgundians crush the forces under Gundobad. King Clovis I pursues him to Avignon where he surrenders and promised to pay a yearly tribute.[1]
The Frankish Kingdom is formed (approximate date).
The monument of Ale's Stones is built in Sweden (approximate date).
Roman catacomb burials end (approximate date).
Thrasamund, king of the Vandals, marries Amalafrida (widowed sister of Theodoric the Great). She brings with her a large dowry and an elite Gothic force of 5,000 soldiers.[2]
Traders from southern Arabia settle in northern Ethiopia.
Xuan Wu Di becomes sovereign of the Northern Wei Dynasty (approximate date).
Uxmal is founded (approximate date).
The Arian Baptistry is erected by Theodoric the Great, at the same time as the Basilica of Sant' Apollinare Nuovo (Ravenna).
The Codex Argenteus, Gothic manuscript of bishop Ulfilas's translation of the Bible, is written (approximate date).
Bhavyaviveka, Indian Madhyamaka scholar (approximate date)
Clotilde, daughter of Clovis I (approximate date)
Erzhu Shilong, high-official of Northern Wei (d. 532)
Nonnosus, abbot and saint (approximate date)
Octa, king of Kent (approximate date)
Procopius, Byzantine historian (approximate date)
Theodora, Byzantine Empress (approximate date)
Theudebert I, king of Austrasia (approximate date, could also have been 495)
Tribonian, Byzantine jurist (approximate date)
Xie He, Chinese writer and art historian (approximate date)
Zu Chongzhi, Chinese mathematician (b. 429)
So it looks like I might get to prove the Arthur Myth once and for all.. great year to end up in if you are a Dark ages buff like me (providing the Saxons dont steal the DeLorean)
You're all doing it wrong!
... you travel back in time a number of years equal to the sum of the digits of the hour currently being shown in your closest time-keeping device (most likely your computer's clock).
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It's 10:15. The sum of the digits of the hour is 1+0=1. I'm going back 1 year. ANd last year was not a good one for me personally.
I knew I wasn't stupid!
I like the incorrect (but obviously intended) method better, you get more interesting results that way.
You're all doing it wrong!
It's 10:15. The sum of the digits of the hour is 1+0=1. I'm going back 1 year. ANd last year was not a good one for me personally.... you travel back in time a number of years equal to the sum of the digits of the hour currently being shown in your closest time-keeping device (most likely your computer's clock).
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That's a good point.
But the consuetudinary practice so far has set the system on "Years Travelled Back in Time = Current Hour Counter + Current Minute Counter", though I'm not sure whether everyone is using a 24-hour or 12-hour clock.
Don't look at me. I didn't program the DeLorean!
you travel back in time a number of years equal to the sum of the digits of the hour currently being shown in your closest time-keeping device (most likely your computer's clock).
Where did you end up?
11:02 here, so I travel back in time to... 910 AD.
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Hurray for Public School !
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you travel back in time a number of years equal to the sum of the digits of the hour currently being shown in your closest time-keeping device (most likely your computer's clock).
Where did you end up?
11:02 here, so I travel back in time to... 910 AD.
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Hurray for Public School !
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Expensive Private Catholic School, to be precise.
That doesn't mean I paid attention in class, though.
Okay... 2007. It had some good parts. Reliving it? I dunno. I would make sure to bring a sports almanac and sell my Goldman Sachs stock.
OK-- heading for 1146 AD. I think my PC fighter from my Pathfinder game would be well-equipped for that destination, if the machine could also travel to Europe!
If I couldn't change location, then I'm somewhere in the forests of central New York that are under the control of the Haudenosaunee people. I hope they would take me in-- I doubt they could help me generate 1.21 Gigawatts of electricity to get the DeLorean back to the future!
OK-- heading for 1146 AD. I think my PC fighter from my Pathfinder game would be well-equipped for that destination, if the machine could also travel to Europe!
If I couldn't change location, then I'm somewhere in the forests of central New York that are under the control of the Haudenosaunee people. I hope they would take me in-- I doubt they could help me generate 1.21 Gigawatts of electricity to get the DeLorean back to the future!
Well, you do have a whole pristine native forest to use as fuel.
Think of the turbines!
13:11 - 701 AD
New king of the Visigoths, and THREE new kings for the Lombards - one crowned, one by coup, then he dies and his son comes up.
New Pope.
Wars in the Middle East, nothing new there.
Two Chinese poets and a Japanese Emperor were born. A Korean general dies.