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Assume one morning you wake up, finding yourself transported 300 years ago to the nearest bustling town. How long would it take before you accepted that you had traveled through time, vs. some reality show prank or psychotic episode theory?

Within a few hours
42.8%
A day or two
29.8%
Many days/weeks
18.2%
Months or never
9.2%

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3:31 AM · Apr 13, 2022

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Maybe like 45 minutes? The utter lack of electricity would be a cincher.

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A day or two. There's a huge number of experiments you can run in such a scenario, but it will take time for you to write it all down and execute.

AfroWarriorYourFriendlyNeighborhoodNerfHerder

@chrisdisturbed9

Apr 13, 2022

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@Aella_Girl

Hours. Pranks shows wouldn't the invest the money needed to impersonate a 1700s town just to fool one person. And thankfully my mental health being good, I would doubt the latter

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I woul probably believe that I'm in a coma

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No GPS would make me scratch my head pretty fast

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I'm in Australia, so 300 years ago the nearest bustling town would be somewhere in south east Asia. Probably Indonesia. Culture and time shock all rolled into one. I'd be happy to go back 300 years and meet some local indeginous groups though.

Idan ("eden") Solon ("sew-lin") (

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Prima facie I thought a couple hours. But you’d think sleepwalking, then kidnapping. Even if you were able to see a newspaper, you’d think you were kidnapped to Luddite-ville. I actually think it would take a long time for you to gain conviction about time travel.

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how high does your prior on time travel need to be for updating on 'no internet' to tip you over the edge

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Idk man I would go through so many stages of denial and acceptance of insanity and I would probably get thrown in jail or locked away for hysteria. Not even that confident I wouldn't try killing myself.