[Tanada]

How well do you score on the technology base you depend on for daily life?

QUIZ

[Grifter]

hrmph

I only got 5

Thought I'd done much better. Apparently I could advance civilization to the 15th century. Still, I suppose that is quite heroic.

[pawn]

I got 7/10. Chemistry is not my strong point.

[lawnchair]

9 of 10, under weak protest of the one that I missed.

[Bas]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pawn', 'I') got 7/10. Chemistry is not my strong point.

[DavidFolks]

8 out of 10.

Guess it's time to get off my high horse and hit the books a little harder.

Thought I had a better grasp than this!:oops:

[Battle_Scarred_Galactico]

Apparently I could advance to the 17th or 18th century.

I'm quite happy with that.

[emersonbiggins]

7/10. Sign me up for the knowledge brigade.

[I_Like_Plants]

7/10 duh.

Not that these things would be tops on your list of things to do if you were suddenly back 2000 years.....

I'm assuming at least most have read A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain. Really kind of a haunting book - essentially the technology doesn't improve anything, in fact it makes things worse and does not cure the homesickness of the protagonist.

[mekrob]

Pathetic. I got a 6, but they were almost all educated guesses. Nothing I've learned in school could've helped.

[jboogy]

6 out of 10,sucky thing is i thought i had aced it till the last question!

[jasonraymondson]

7/10

[dbruning]

6/10....

[TheDude]

8/10.

The one about light bulbs I thought was poorly worded, although the answer is pretty obvious. Right?

[savethehumans]

4/10. Just reinforces my conviction that I'm doomed.

[Tanada]

Ladies and gentlemen, I scored 10/10 but only because I am a huge fan of The Day The Universe Changed and Connections both of which help tremendously on this type of quiz. Being able to identify how a technology works is a bare baby step on a long road to making it work.

I think I could get one or two of those technologies to work, if I had the support of whatever community I was in, other than that? Doubtful in a primitive world. For instance the steam engine...sure I know the general principles, so what? I don't know the metalurgy needed to build one, nor how to go from blacksmith forged wrought iron to said chemically complex steel device. How do you make a pressure blowoff valve that will reliably keep the thing from exploding while also maintaining a high enough working pressure to be relatively efficient?

Same kind on problems for making light bulbs, aluminum, or most of the other technologies. Knowing what needs to be done tells you where you need to go, not how to get there!

[Grifter]

I could make a light bulb out of a jam jar and some wire taken from an old video player or something. Have to be manually powered like, but still.

[jasonraymondson]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Grifter', 'I') could make a light bulb out of a jam jar and some wire taken from an old video player or something. Have to be manually powered like, but still.

[jasonraymondson]

All of this stuff is well in good. But, if I am going back to the year 0

The only thing I really care about, is indoor plumbing.

This I know how to do, I ain't shitting in a an outhouse and wiping my ass with corn cobs.


The rest of this crap can go the way of the dodo bird for all I care

[lawnchair]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', 'A')ll of this stuff is well in good. But, if I am going back to the year 0

The only thing I really care about, is indoor plumbing.

This I know how to do, I ain't shitting in a an outhouse and wiping my ass with corn cobs.