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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'd actually be able to teach them how to make it if they have copper and magnets, since I know how to make a simple generator. They'd be SOL on how to use it though, because I don't know how to make something entirely from raw materials that would require electricity. Which means they also wouldn't know I am creating it with the generator... 🤔 Uh... Shit.

This is actually kinda wild to think about and I hadn't considered it before. Making electricity is easy! Using it is actually more complicated.

You could give people a mild shock. "Here. Hold these while I crank this thingy." Could be good for some lulz. Or get you burned as a witch.

[-] Blasphemy@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 1 year ago

I mean, the Baghdad Battery's pretty old. We've had electricity for a while, just nobody knew what it was or how to use it. Just like us now.

[-] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I love Minuteman. His series on Graham Hancock's bullshit show earlier this year was terrific.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Making an "ouch" device or basic heater is something I could do.

Even a battery I could make a simple alumium air battery cell. Or lemon battery. But I'd be viewed like a sorcerer asking for foreign ingredients like salt, aluminum, copper and zinc.

[-] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

I swear the Americans remove another letter from the word aluminium every time I look away

Yanks are a sneaky bunch.

[-] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

it's all the uranum from the atomic bomb tests

[-] Zoboomafoo@yiffit.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Aluminum would be nearly impossible to obtain, it's actually my preferred grab in a hypothetical "You're going back in time and can take one thing" situation

[-] Tavarin@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Yep, it was worth more than gold before modern methods made it easy to isolate.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 points 1 year ago

Depends on how far back and where you went. Whoever made the Baghdad Battery probably wouldn't even be impressed.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Joe Rogan had a good line back before he became... whatever he is now. Anyways, the line is "if I dropped you off on a deserted island, how long before you could send me an email?"

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Well you'd need to invent mining, metallurgy, machining, manufacturing, radio waves, computing, computer programming, electricity, and a slew of other technologies that took thousands of years and millions of people to create.

[-] Juvyn00b@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 year ago

You can make a generator.. so then stretch wires to a distance and put a motor on the end of it (similar to the generator). Basically blow their minds in that you could transfer power over distance without a mechanical coupling.

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