If tomorrow you wake up anywhere between 500 and 2000 years in the past, what would you do to get a message across time to inform friends or families of what happened?

I wouldn’t live long enough in North America 500 – 2000 years ago to leave a message.

Ha! Why bother with that when I could invent and profit from the printing press, indoor plumbing, and a whole host of conveniences that are relatively easy to make once you know how they work, but didn’t exist then?

You guys still stuck in the future wouldn’t get any slack from me. I’d muck up your timeline for sure.

You could go to a large natural monument and carve a message in the stone.

You could leave a letter. But be careful – your time machine could fall into the hands of an old coot that uses it to give his younger self a valuable sports almanac, resulting in an alternate, meaner world full of motorcycles and gambling.

@fizzbanger I’m actually counting on this happening at some point because it will mean that the cubs win the world series in 2015!

Knowing where and when my future friends and family are going to be will be vital. I would choose a major event in family history such as a funeral and leave a message near where the funeral takes place.

Men.. watch out.. the women are going to come out.

I could invent stuff and become famous for it, and my name will be preserved in history. Then I could hid a message inside my writings, which would be preserved forever because of my fame.

I would write a book, about love, mercy, forgiveness, etc., and call it the bibbel.

I would write a message, seal it entirely with wax and sneak it into a coffin in the graveyard of a certain church in north-east England where, centuries later, my partner will be involved in an archaeological dig.

I’m with @downtide…or maybe sneak a note into a Pharaoh’s tomb.

nteresting thought experiment. I would hope I would go back to the maximum amount of time yoy allowed, 2000 years. Why? Because I really would had liked to have been there during the time of Jesus for many obvious reasons ranging from both my spiritual beliefs along with surpressing the fuel that ignites dogmatic religious conservatives and their ideologies. Also of course. I would also like to find out why he said he is the only way or whether he even really said that. I would want to know what really happened pertaining to Jesus or whether he even existed or not. Yes I would have alot of questions I would try to seek the answers to from this time period.

I’m not sure how I would go about sharing my messages though. I’m thinking I would have to hide them, also I’m not sure if anybody would believe my story anymore than anybody else’s. A time capsule containing intelligible messages would be my best bet I think.

I’d go to Chichén Itza and carve ’‘Sym wuz here, help me you fuckers’’ on top of the pyramid, and then it would be photographed by adventurers and historians. Hopefully they’d be like dude, the hell’s this? Hmm, that probably wouldn’t work, since people would think it’s vandalism…but when they check things out, they could see how old the carving is…I might have hope.

Although, I’d try to become famous in the past, so my exploits would be told in books, and people would know it’s me. Of course, what could I do…show the Vikings where Canada is! Or no!

I’d ’‘create’’ the zombie. Erm…none of this would work. Defacing historical landmarks it is.

@Symbeline Ha ha ha…“help me you fuckers”. Riot.

Your post reminded of those massive ancient Egyptian pillars(?) inside the NY Met Museum. Walking alongside one of them I was surprised to notice graffiti on it. Feeling indignant I walked closer only to find out it was made by one of Napoleon’s soldiers when his army went to Egypt and that wall or pillar was still there. Lol.

Serious lol? That’s hilarious lol. What was the graffiti of?

I think it was the name of the soldier and the year. Guess they preserved it since it’s part of history too. Ha ha…

That’s neat. :) I wonder if that guy ever figured that like, years and years from now, people would actually talk about him lol.

…whoa. I mean…I knew defacing something was the answer! It worked for that guy! Except like, now he’s dead. XD

@Symbeline You could also write something like: ‘I am the infamous lizard man, and I have carved out this. We lizard aliens actually DID create the pyramids!’

But then, there’d be all these flying spaghetti monster theories about Jim Morrison being a vampire!

Bad Wolf.

If you don’t get that, you have no geek cred :p