Timeline for How much trouble would a great depression era rural county have with settling a late cretaceous Montana/Wyoming?
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| Jan 16, 2021 at 20:54 | history | edited | user2352714 |
Changed tags. Question isn't about humans but it is about time travel
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| Jan 15, 2021 at 21:18 | comment | added | Jon Custer | A hundred years later Laramie is now the 4th biggest at about 32,000 folks. | |
| Jan 15, 2021 at 11:41 | vote | accept | Ethan Philpot | ||
| Jan 15, 2021 at 3:13 | comment | added | user2352714 | You may need to address your population. "Small town" in Wyoming is not "small town" in the East or West Coast. For reference the U.S. census says the population of Wyoming's third largest city in 1925, Laramie, was 12,000 | |
| Jan 15, 2021 at 0:40 | comment | added | DWKraus | John makes a good point, one you could take advantage of. Have you ever seen a glitched chunk in Minecraft? Your county could be surrounded by huge, sheer cliffs on all sides as it brings it's radical difference in elevation into the new world. At least in the original county/transported region, the starting conditions give you essentially a huge fortress (gradually collapsing/eroding, but that's a problem for a sequel... | |
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| Jan 14, 2021 at 23:28 | answer | added | user2352714 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 14, 2021 at 22:12 | comment | added | John | keep in mind Montana and Wyoming are several thousand feet higher today. | |
| Jan 14, 2021 at 20:51 | answer | added | John | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jan 14, 2021 at 19:44 | comment | added | user535733 | The minimum skill for a community (as we know it) is how to hitch and use an animal-drawn plow. Hunting is insufficient; the community will degrade to a set of nomadic tribes or subsistence gatherers. | |
| Jan 14, 2021 at 19:19 | answer | added | Dario Quint | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 14, 2021 at 18:13 | comment | added | Ethan Philpot | As difficult as it would be, I'm optimistic about the resilience of humans in an unfamiliar and potentially hostile environment. Even more so when it comes to communities in rural areas as they tend to have a lot of skills that would be relevant for survival. Plus my setting would be pretty short lived if the time change just up and killed everyone soon after the initial impact | |
| Jan 14, 2021 at 17:33 | history | edited | L.Dutch♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 14, 2021 at 17:32 | answer | added | L.Dutch♦ | timeline score: 2 | |
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| Jan 14, 2021 at 15:51 | history | asked | Ethan Philpot | CC BY-SA 4.0 |