You have a 50 pound bag that you can fill with anything from the present.

[The Amazing Spider Man]

This bag will have to keep you alive in Medieval Europe. I think I will take a few manuals of how to make gunpowder and guns. I'm stumped at this point.

I'm fairly sure I will not last long.

[Deleted]

An M9 and as many bullets as I can carry. Shoot the current king, wave the gun around, usurp throne, become new king, get poisoned.

[Elegiac]

I don't need 50 pounds.

http://www.joeydevilla.com/wordpress...cheatsheet.jpg

[Catta]

Fill bag with antibiotics.
Find king.
Become divine healer of the court.

[Duronos]

Fill bag with antibiotics.
Find king.
Become divine healer of the court.

This just might work, it's like you've already thought this all through just in case.

Time Traveling device would be my choice.

[Catta]

This just might work, it's like you've already thought this all through just in case.

I already have my 25 kgs of drugs ready just in case.

[The Amazing Spider Man]

Does the time machine that sent me there weigh less than 50lbs?

It's a one way trip unfortunately.

[mercutiouk]

This just might work, it's like you've already thought this all through just in case.

Time Traveling device would be my choice.

I'm with the spinning pony too, that sounds like a plan.

To be honest, a tablet (computer) with a solar charger and a couple of spare batteries with all the info needed on how to generate electricity (and all the sub-set knowledge needed to get that far along with some handy uses + knowledge for them) wouldn't weigh much and would make an interesting side line after you've got in well with the king

I could probably make a REALLY weak dynamo in medieval times without additional knowledge tbh (they have copper and iron, if you can cast enough of a gearing mechanism and have enough horses drive it you could make power. Take copper, build mould to make long thin strips of it. Take iron and spend a while having a horse team pull a couple of lumps past each other repeatedly in one direction until you build a magnet and you have a start)

[Deleted]

It's a one way trip unfortunately.

Can we take the time machine schematic?

[Deleted]

An AKM with about 20 magazines, the rest of the space would be books on metallurgy, biology, chemistry, physics, medicine and mathematics.

[Duronos]

I already have my 25 kgs of drugs ready just in case.

Remember kids drugs not pugs.

It's like you're going to university or something to become a doctor.

[Elegiac]

An AKM with about 20 magazines, the rest of the space would be books on metallurgy, biology, chemistry, physics, medicine and mathematics.

(USE THE CHEAT SHEET)

Or alternatively take a Kindle and a solar powered recharger.

....Unless Amazon's DRM spans the entirety of spacetime. Which it might.

[Greevir]

Materials to make a new bag cause a 50lb bag is awfully heavy! :P

[Deleted]

(USE THE CHEAT SHEET)

Or alternatively take a Kindle and a solar powered recharger.

....Unless Amazon's DRM spans the entirety of spacetime. Which it might.

Batteries, kindles and chargers break too easily, you want something that can take a beating even if it is less sophisticated. This is the reason I took the AKM over any other weapon and the reason paper books are my preferred choice.

[Ghâzh]

Unicorn blood.

[Reeve]

Pistol with 20 or so magazines, photovoltaic panel and battery, extra photovoltaic panel just in case, ipad with charger that can interact with the battery filled with as much knowledge/data/music I can fit in it, antibiotics, toothbrush, fill the rest up with gold.

Gold will get me established with an estate that I can use to start producing inventions which will help bankroll additional inventions. iPad will give me the knowledge I need, as well as translation services. I'd probably copy as much as possible to paper after I got there just in case the iPad or the photovoltaic panels broke.

[Vermicious]

I don't need 50 pounds.

http://www.joeydevilla.com/wordpress...cheatsheet.jpg

I'd take a few books on the subjects mentioned in that cheatsheet... or maybe a e-reader and a solar charger with several thousand books (Simple Nook or similar b/w Kindle, less likely to go FUBAR than more complicated unit) Given the weight limit, you might even take several duplicates for backups.

The rest of the weight limit can be gems/gold/antibiotics, and maybe a few guns and some ammo, and a bullet mold (be sure to have the recipe for the gunpowder needed and how to make bullets).

This list could change a lot depending on how much time you have to prepare

[poser765]

the rest of the space would be books on metallurgy, biology, chemistry, physics, medicine and mathematics.

See this is the problem with me. I don't know shit about any of those topics and doubt I can train myself in any reasonable way to be proficient in them.

David Weber has a series out that I feel deals with this nicely. Someone from an advanced space age society finds herself in what is basically late medieval level society. She has a computer with a whole bunch of texts on various subjects but she really knows dick a bout most of them. So what she does is little nuggets from the computer drop into the hands of certain free thinkers in order to kind of steer THEM in a general direction.

You want to make a modern artiliery piece (yes its a mostly military sci-fi book) then here is a method for producing reliable and much improved gun powder. And here is an idea for spinning projectiles. Now you guys figure out the minutia of making it work.

[Reeve]

Batteries, kindles and chargers break too easily, you want something that can take a beating even if it is less sophisticated. This is the reason I took the AKM over any other weapon and the reason paper books are my preferred choice.

The kindle/ipad only has to last until you can copy the data in it to paper. It's a weight saving feature, not something permanent. Useful for translation too.

[Spraxle]

Some nice warm blankets for trading. ; )