I think that would somewhat depend on how convinced people were by your ‘godlike’ powers. That’s where modern day weaponry would prove quite effective I’d imagine. A taser would probably be useful as a bullet wound would be recognizable physical damage whereas the effect of a taser would probably seem like the power of the gods. If I was on my own I’d probably want body armor, motion sensors and other defensive equipment as well to be on the safe side.
Mixing healing powers in would be just as valuable in self-preservation as demonstrating offensive capability. You would probably want to obfuscate the nature of your ‘healing magic’ so that people would not easily be able to replicate it if they managed to steal some of your stock of medical supplies. Special pills that had to be given in combination to be effective would be useful.
True, but at least initially personal survival and not getting all your stuff nicked would probably require some compromises on teaching science. Once you had an established power base and some loyal local followers you could start to focus on the teaching.
A hunting or sniper rifle, a pistol, a remote controlled helicopter with wireless video, broad spectrum antibiotics, powerful painkillers, explosives.
A better list than mine. Do you think you’d need to go back with a group just to not have your stuff stolen?
If you want to bring back something useful for the educational project rather than just being impressive, a batch of slide rules would be good.
Could ancient Greeks make printing presses if they had designs for them? I’m sure they could at least do wood block printing.
I think that would somewhat depend on how convinced people were by your ‘godlike’ powers. That’s where modern day weaponry would prove quite effective I’d imagine. A taser would probably be useful as a bullet wound would be recognizable physical damage whereas the effect of a taser would probably seem like the power of the gods. If I was on my own I’d probably want body armor, motion sensors and other defensive equipment as well to be on the safe side.
Mixing healing powers in would be just as valuable in self-preservation as demonstrating offensive capability. You would probably want to obfuscate the nature of your ‘healing magic’ so that people would not easily be able to replicate it if they managed to steal some of your stock of medical supplies. Special pills that had to be given in combination to be effective would be useful.
If you’re planning to teach a scientific worldview, it might be well to not be too godlike.
True, but at least initially personal survival and not getting all your stuff nicked would probably require some compromises on teaching science. Once you had an established power base and some loyal local followers you could start to focus on the teaching.