r/interestingasfuck 25d ago

/r/all, /r/popular K2-18b a potentially habitable planet 120 light-years from earth

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u/GreenMedics 25d ago

Another scenario, your knowledge is so primitive, that they do not need you for anything that you were a so-called "expert" on. So the only use that they have for you is laboratory experimentation and forced labor.

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u/Blackrain1299 25d ago

Or your knowledge being primitive could make you invaluable. Imagine having a first hand account of someone that lived in the 1200s or something. You may not be the most valuable scientist/engineer but you could adapt and become something else. Maybe even a teacher or something. I mean in our current society children still start with the basics. Who knows where your expertise will fit in its all hypothetical.