Timeline for Could a time traveler prevent the Black Plague?
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| Sep 23, 2016 at 21:56 | answer | added | jorfus | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 9, 2016 at 17:46 | comment | added | Carl Witthoft | @TrEs-2b I wouldn't worry about someone who thinks the plague was "born" in the "air" . | |
| Jun 9, 2016 at 17:32 | comment | added | TrEs-2b | @user5434678 Citation? | |
| Jun 9, 2016 at 17:07 | comment | added | user5434678 | The Black plague was air born. Fleas had noting to do with the outbreak. | |
| Jun 9, 2016 at 14:17 | comment | added | Carl Witthoft | Go back a few years before the putative start of the Plague, manufacture and distribute some high-quality toxins. Most people die. Plague can't propagate. Problem solved :-) | |
| Jun 9, 2016 at 13:30 | comment | added | user21495 | What plague? In my time there is no such thing | |
| Jun 9, 2016 at 10:42 | comment | added | user16107 | This seems to imply that Todd can't bring anything back in time with him, except knowledge? If so, it would be useful to explicitly state this. | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 23:40 | comment | added | 2012rcampion | If he can get some professional help, it could be possible to genetically engineer fleas (the carriers of the plauge) that do not transmit the disease, then use a gene drive to propagate that trait to the entire population of fleas by releasing them some years before the plague would have spread. | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 21:12 | answer | added | Fiksdal | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 16:01 | answer | added | lilHar | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 15:47 | comment | added | lilHar | @Luaan That's a good point. Bubonic plague is only one hypothesis for what the Black death was. There's another line of research that's been presenting a more interesting idea. The reason it's being investigated is the old medical journals of what doctors saw doesn't match Bubonic. It's believed that Ebola may have been the true black death, and Bubonic may have then just made inroads afterwards due to the unsanitary conditions that followed. At which point, our time-traveller Todd may end up infected with Ebola, coming back to the future, and inadvertently causing a modern day outbreak. | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 15:03 | answer | added | Martine Votvik | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 14:53 | answer | added | Richard Hendricks | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 14:08 | answer | added | Jason K | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 12:22 | comment | added | TafT | "the Black Plague" was not a single event. There were several occurrences of plague throughout regions of europe over the course of several hundread years. Many, but not all of these, were attributed to "The Black Death" as this was one of the more obvious ones to diagnose and caused the greatest number of deaths in a way which triggered social reform in europe. Without it we might have continues with guilds, indentured surfs and all that fun stuff indefinitely. Which problems will you fix and which will be left? | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 11:42 | answer | added | Bulrush | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 9:34 | comment | added | Luaan | One of the tricky parts is that we don't really know what the plague really was and how it spread. The "fleas and rats" picture is well stuck in "common knowledge", but has been contested quite wildly - the disease spread readily in areas where fleas don't survive, it spread much faster than contemporary bubonic plague despite the tiny transportation compared to today, and quite importantly, the disease killed rats, making them unable to spread the disease very far. | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 6:46 | answer | added | Dan V | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 6:25 | vote | accept | TrEs-2b | ||
| Jun 8, 2016 at 2:21 | comment | added | Eric Johnson | Time traveler stops black plague, world develops differently, time traveler is never born, and time travel is never even invented | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 21:48 | comment | added | ErikE | Related: worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/38084/… | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 19:38 | comment | added | Aarthew III | I know there's another question like this somewhere... | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 19:36 | answer | added | A. I. Breveleri | timeline score: 55 | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 19:24 | comment | added | TrEs-2b | @Kys your first assumption is correct and when I say prevent, I mean that casualties must be so minute that it is not considered a plague | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 19:19 | answer | added | BlueBuddy | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 19:18 | answer | added | DaaaahWhoosh | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 19:17 | answer | added | Michael Richardson | timeline score: 24 | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 19:12 | comment | added | Kys | Additionally, what do you qualify as "preventing" the plague? No one dies? Only spreads to the Near East? Only x% of the population dies? | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 19:10 | comment | added | Kys | Just some clarifications: you say, "he can only go back in time once a year". Does this mean once a year in his "present" time (home time or whatever you want to call it) Or does it mean he can only ever travel to one historic year once? As in he already traveled to 1346 so now he never can again. | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 19:07 | answer | added | WhatRoughBeast | timeline score: 10 | |
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