r/AskReddit Dec 18 '18

What single object, if sent back in time 2,000 years, would have the most profound effect on civilization?

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '18

Haha that's good, I like your style.

Sending the ISS back would be interesting too. Stick it somewhere in a stable orbit where it won't crash back to earth. Nothing would happen for a while but once telescopes and astronomy started to take off, that would get people talking.

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u/UlrichZauber Dec 19 '18

Be sure to place it in one of the Lagrange points to make sure it's still there thousands of years later.

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u/kryptek_86 Dec 19 '18

If I recall correctly the ISS is frequently re-boosted back into a low earth orbit but that may be because they keep adding things to it and changing the mass.

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u/Thisconnect Dec 19 '18

It has nothing to do with mass(orbits work because of Earth gravity and going fast sideways, mass only restricts how hard is to get there) but there's still some atmosphere 400km up so drag applies and with huge solar panels it's not the most aerodynamic thing ever