Why I [Eddy Pengelly] Investigated Glyph N5

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Is there?

Anyway. Time travel isn’t possible, so all the talk about altering timelines is really just for fun, so, for fun, let’s look at Eddy’s work. He’s been at this for over a decade and no one has ever cited his research, so it’s definitely not for academic purposes. Anyway. This “evidence” appears to claim that someone could take 1980s technology and go back to Biblical times and show it to people who were writing stories at the time. There’s nothing about how it affected those ancient people, other than they drew a picture of it or wrote a cryptic line about it.

What it sounds like to me is, if you were alive in the 1960s and you read those stories or saw those hieroglyphics, you wouldn’t see these references because they hadn’t happened yet. Someone should be able to produce an image from before the time travel happened, showing something different, then when the travelers altered things in the past, those things changed, and we have the images Eddy is looking at. Recall the scene in Back to the Future where McFly is looking at the photo as it alters.

Otherwise, I’m to believe the way time travel works is that it happens, and I’m in a timeline where the changed thing in the past always existed, and everyone else I can investigate has always had that same image and text available to them in the same form that it’s always been, since it was changed. That is, the past can change, but only in this one way that Eddy has found. That might be possible, but then, I need to believe that someone has time traveled, and what they did with it was show Moses and some Egyptians a crappy computer.

If it were me, and I could only do it twice, and only take something I could carry, I wouldn’t bring something so worthless. Eddy doesn’t address the power issue, but I’m assuming they had a big battery pack too, and could only boot up this thing for a few hours at most. I would bring paper, a couple of bank boxes full, in their language, so I could leave it. It would have instructions for how to hybridize wheat, preventing the deaths of millions of people and probably reducing war along with it. Or I’d give the Taino people knowledge of gunpowder so they could tell Columbus exactly who was in charge, or maybe show them how to make a smallpox vaccine.

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Well I viewed them, but superficially, so yes were this a class, I’d have to accept your D. But then I’ve only got a passing interest (with occasional passing bouts of deep fascination) in Egyptology. So I viewed them again, and all I got out of it is: “Okay that’s why he brings thing in front of non-experts.” I found nothing to learn from, and admit I’m in no position insist on anything, as I don’t have actual depth of understanding on this topic.

What you’ve done there hasn’t risen above idle speculation, there is no real data, no real examination. You make some claims about how to reinterpret a certain hieroglyphic . . .
who am I to object to your claims, except they are in-creditable sounding.

Lausten says it much nicer than I could.

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Meh. I’ve read that Book of the Dead out loud only because my son seriously believed something bad would happen if you did. Nothing bad happened.

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In StarTrek there is.

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Yup! Star Trek has time travel, but that’s science fiction. :slight_smile: Love Star Trek, but that only things it brought about was cell phones, tablets, and maybe modern comps.

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And there is also the Prime Directive.

Prime Directive

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[quote] This article is about the guiding principle in the fictional Star Trek universe. For other uses of Prime Directive, see Prime Directive (disambiguation). [/quote] [quote]
In the fictional universe of Star Trek, the Prime Directive (also known as “Starfleet General Order 1”, and the “non-interference directive”) is a guiding principle of Starfleet that prohibits its members from interfering with the natural development of alien civilizations.[1] Its stated aim is to protect unprepared civilizations from the danger of starship crews introducing advanced technology, knowledge, and values before they are ready.[2] Since its introduction in the first season of the original Star Trek series, the directive has featured in many Star Trek episodes as part of a moral question over how best to establish diplomatic relations with new alien worlds.[/quote] Prime Directive - Wikipedia

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Kirk didn’t always abide by it. Picard abided by it most of the time. I don’t think I heard Sisko mention it much and Janeway attempted to stanchly abide by it, rescinding it at least once.

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YouTube is an amazing mind reader.

Look at what met me this morning:

Advice for time traveling to medieval Europe -

Premodernist

Nov 8, 2023

Watch this video before visiting the European Middle Ages.

SUGGESTED READING
• Steven A. Epstein, An Economic and Social History of Later Medieval Europe, 1000–1500 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).
• Urban Tignor Holmes, Jr., Daily Living in the Twelfth Century (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1952).
• Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England (London: The Bodley Head, 2008).
• Paul B. Newman, Daily Life in the Middle Ages (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, 2001). • Jeffrey L. Singman, Daily Life in Medieval Europe (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999).

FAQ •

What about traveling there as a woman? My advice applies to both men and women (except for the bit about clergy, obviously). Men and women will have to give the same amount of attention to constructing their backstory, including their marital status, because people will ask either way. Women went on pilgrimages. While most women (and men) worked on farms, women in towns did engage in economic activities like shopkeeping and weaving. It was rare for a woman to work as a long-distance merchant, but it did happen, typically as a widow whose husband had been a merchant.

• But what about a woman traveling alone? When I said, “Travel in a group, don’t travel alone,” I meant it. Solo travel is not advised, regardless of gender. Even the medieval people themselves traveled in groups.

0:00 Intro
1:52 Health
2:56 Personal safety
7:49 Do not leave personal items unattended
11:35 Money
14:25 Where to sleep
17:01 Where to eat
17:57 Language barrier
22:54 Social class
24:42 Backstory
30:22 Shopping
30:47 What if you’re not white?
40:16 What if you’re not Catholic? 46:32 Witchcraft
48:25 Arriving via time travel
49:31 Time travel discretion
51:49 More on witchcraft
55:25 Medicine
59:45 Good luck!

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