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This is so far-fetched I'm not even going to try to concoct the sci-fi scenario that would enable you to actually do it. But, if you'll consent to suspend your scientific knowledge and logic for a minute, let me ask you this:
Somehow, someway, you have the opportunity to go back in time to the 15th century (the 1400s, for those of you still half-asleep). The deal is, you and up to ten of your buddies will be dropped off, in the year 1425, on the coast of North Carolina. You can take as many weapons and as much ammo as you want or as you can carry (you will be on foot, with no transportation such as horses, etc.), but all your weapons have to be those which are legal for U.S. civilans to own now (no M1A1 tanks, etc.).
You and your friends will have to make it across the North American continent any way you can, and, in exactly one year, you will be picked up (and "flown" back to present day) at the edge of what is now San Francisco Bay.
It would be a grand adventure -- you'd get to see and hunt game animals in unbelievable abundance, see totally unspoiled lands, and be totally free for one year -- no job, no TV, no telephone, no nothing except nature. But it would also be amazingly dangerous -- wild animals, Indians, disease, etc.
So, if this were possible, would you do it?
I think I just might.
What say you?
Somehow, someway, you have the opportunity to go back in time to the 15th century (the 1400s, for those of you still half-asleep). The deal is, you and up to ten of your buddies will be dropped off, in the year 1425, on the coast of North Carolina. You can take as many weapons and as much ammo as you want or as you can carry (you will be on foot, with no transportation such as horses, etc.), but all your weapons have to be those which are legal for U.S. civilans to own now (no M1A1 tanks, etc.).
You and your friends will have to make it across the North American continent any way you can, and, in exactly one year, you will be picked up (and "flown" back to present day) at the edge of what is now San Francisco Bay.
It would be a grand adventure -- you'd get to see and hunt game animals in unbelievable abundance, see totally unspoiled lands, and be totally free for one year -- no job, no TV, no telephone, no nothing except nature. But it would also be amazingly dangerous -- wild animals, Indians, disease, etc.
So, if this were possible, would you do it?
I think I just might.
What say you?