08-05-2005 20:21									#91
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Fermented honey or fruit will do the job, or barley.

	08-05-2005 20:24									#92
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EDIT: not very, but concentrated, if you want to cause a precipitation.

	08-05-2005 20:35									#93
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Mead :

http://www.oldwestbrew.com/basic_meadmaking.htm


Mead and sex :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2949742.stm

(Especially for Az)

	08-05-2005 20:42									#94
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Is there any water in it? Is it viscous?

[/geek]

	08-05-2005 20:42									#95
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quote: Originally posted by Lawrence of Arabia tell me im interested, how do you make a radio made out of natural components (besides lighting a fire and making smoke signals - THAT DOESNT COUNT !!!!!)

I don't know, ask the fourth year mechanical engineering and chemistry major across the hall whose room is built of books. I think between them, he could figure it out.


Okay it was late and I was exagerating.... I really don't think I could build a radio.

quote: Originally posted by Qilue Diptheria, scarlet fever, whooping cough, polio.

Were all foreign to the americas .


I left out the details of making saltpeter because I was tired.

	08-05-2005 20:43									#96
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I..I..I don't think Sid was around at the time.

	08-05-2005 20:43									#97
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quote: I don't know, ask the fourth year mechanical engineering and chemistry major across the hall whose room is built of books. I think between them, he could figure it out.

What a weird major.

	08-05-2005 20:45									#98
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quote: Originally posted by Az Is there any water in it? Is it viscous? [/geek]

Ooohh, you say the sexiest things. I'm all a-quiver now.


Go on, say Bund, and Rosa Luxemburg, I'll be on the floor....

	08-05-2005 21:00									#99
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quote: Originally posted by Zulu Elephant Get a boat to Denmark. Hang out with Nordic shipbuilders. Sail round past past Iceland, Greenland and down along the coast to South America. Meet the Atzecs. Claim I was a god. Get loads of gold Sail back to Europe the way I came. Be a rich person in Europe. Use my wealth to become a Roman citizen. Become Roman Emperor. Conquer the World. Hows that for a start?

Slow, very slow. Remember to bring a book or two so you don't get bored in the 6-700 years you have to wait - the oldest known viking ship is from 834 .

	08-05-2005 21:08									#100
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Ask me again in ten years, when I have my 100% infrastructure-independent Kansas home built.

	08-05-2005 22:03									#101
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quote: Originally posted by Starchild Let's see...in the year 100, my current location is at the Eastern fringe of Roman Britain. The city I'm currently in didn't really get started for another few centuries by the Anglo-Saxons so I'd have to hike for miles to find the nearest Roman settlement. I'm an urban person to my very core. I do not know how to survive off the land in any reasonable way. Romans have few uses for undergraduate biochemists. Yeah. I'm dead meat walking.

Well your nearest bet would be Colchester...quite a hike.

I would have to walk to London for any such thing, Watling Street runs remarkably close to here...although at this time I suspect that Canterbury would be a better bet

	08-05-2005 22:04									#102
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I live 100 yards from an old Roman villa.

	08-05-2005 22:07									#103
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quote: Ask me again in ten years, when I have my 100% infrastructure-independent Kansas home built.

Cool!

I plan on having one too, with giant see-through tubes running through the entire house, and piranhas swimming in them. Or maybe goldfish.

	08-05-2005 22:11									#104
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quote: Originally posted by Dauphin I live 100 yards from an old Roman villa.

I'll go there then, closer than London. A chalice of wine or two? 7pm, 100AD at the "Roman Villa near Orpington"? I'll post it in the poly meet thread

	08-05-2005 22:12									#105
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Why on earth would anyone give you wine for free?

	08-05-2005 22:13									#106
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I'll trade them round shiny things for it, precious round shiny things. CDs in fact

	08-05-2005 22:28									#107
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quote: Originally posted by BeBro I'd scare the hell out of the others by crying "OMG!!! YOU ARE TEH PWN3D!!! " to everyone I meet. Then they would think I'm a messiah or whatever and therefore they'd all follow me

I´m sitting in a friends study. Nothing here but a lot of books and a computer (and some porcelain cats). And since there isn´t much to do in Sweden in the year 100 (the vikings won´t show up for another 700 years...) I think I´ll scare the natives to submisson with the books of Leo Trotskij in the bookshelves around me. After I successfully form a communist cadre I´ll rally all the natives/comrades and head for Rome, collecting new comrades as I go. Well in Rome me and my cadre will organize the working masses and overthrow the bourgeouis oppressors and form the Peoples Republic of Rome. And when that´s done I´ll send comrades to other parts of the world reachable and organize the working class there and so on...

	08-05-2005 22:36									#108
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quote: Originally posted by Az quote: Ask me again in ten years, when I have my 100% infrastructure-independent Kansas home built. Cool! I plan on having one too, with giant see-through tubes running through the entire house, and piranhas swimming in them. Or maybe goldfish.

The tricky part will be having enough wind generators within fifty feet.

	08-05-2005 22:38									#109
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Terrific. I'm with stone-aged indians, probably a thousand or more miles away from the nearest civilization.

There's got to be some hallucinogens around. I could get whacked out of my mind and think I've conquered the world.

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	08-05-2005 22:42									#110
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quote: Originally posted by Provost Harrison I'll go there then, closer than London. A chalice of wine or two? 7pm, 100AD at the "Roman Villa near Orpington"? I'll post it in the poly meet thread

Its next to the station, on the wrong side of the tracks to me.

There's a Roman fort and villa at Lullingstone aswell. Plus the Romans had a lot of fun playing spot the Minotaur in Chislehurst.

	09-05-2005 02:08									#111
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quote: Originally posted by Starchild Romans have few uses for undergraduate biochemists.

He's a witch! Burn him! BURN HIM!!!

	09-05-2005 02:11									#112
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aren't you half a planet away, surrounded by wilderness?

shush!

	09-05-2005 02:12									#113
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quote: Originally posted by Az Btw, KH, I've been thinking about it, and where are you going to get alcohol?

Uh...distillation of wine? Pretty simple to make wine, by the way. It's been around for over 7000 years.

	09-05-2005 02:14									#114
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Plus I've got about 4 litres of liquor with me according to the rules of the game.

	09-05-2005 02:23									#115
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quote: Uh...distillation of wine? Pretty simple to make wine, by the way. It's been around for over 7000 years.

a)How are you going to distill it, if you're in the goddamn new world, surrounded by what I suppose are woods, and a chunk of your appartment?

b) you need a very good distillation - the amount of water needs to be very low ( not the Azeotrop, but more to that region than Vodka, I presume - Potassium Nitrate wouldn't precipitate in Vodka, IIRC.

	09-05-2005 02:27									#116
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Distillation to 80% is easily accomplished even with a single distillation.

	09-05-2005 02:30									#117
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The Native Americans have earthenware vessels, by the way. should be easy enough to get a length of clay tubing made.

Anyhow, I don't think that making a cannon is the smartest thing I can do with my time in the new world. Just pointing out that it can be done within a year or so if you put your mind to it...

	09-05-2005 02:30									#118
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If we make it 50AD rather than 100AD, I'd hike my way south to the Iceni and betray Boudicca to the Romans, thus earning me fame and fortune with the Romans. Then if I really wanted to take over the world, I'd kiss ass to as close as I could to Emperorship. Otherwise, I'd just wander back to Rome and write poems.

	09-05-2005 02:32									#119
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I've never actually attempted this, I must admit, but I see a problem with you distilling it in field conditions.

As to the concentration, I just wanted to say that your booze won't do.

	09-05-2005 02:38									#120
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I've distilled alcohol before. It's very easy with a heat source, water supply, tubing and glass vessels. Makeshift ones would be harder in the New World. In Roman Europe or China the rightmaterials would be easy to come by, and you could make a very efficient still.