You can ask one question from a person from the year 3024. What are you asking?

hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 64 points –
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Probably the best answer in this thread, still a bit if a gamble. I certainly would have a hard time answering that for a person from 1024.

"wash your hands"

Don't forget to specify with soap and to do it after bathroom visits and before meals, otherwise they'll just wash their hands once per month and use dirt to wash with.

And specifically before they try any "surgery"

did they have soap back then?

According to Wikipedia

Humans have used soap for millennia; evidence exists for the production of soap-like materials in ancient Babylon around 2800 BC.

So I think they did.

Don't let anyone explore overseas to the west (if talking to a white person).

Don't trust white people (if talking to just about anyone else).

Telling them how a steam engine works. That would start the industrial revolution earlier and it would end up speeding us up to a more advanced and better future... or to an early extinction by global warming... hmmmm

Maybe explaining an electricity generator would be a better gamble, but it may be very hard to make one back then...

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