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Re: What's the most valuable thing a modern thief could steal in the past?
« Reply #15 on: November 04, 2021, 11:05:03 pm »

If we talk about value in terms of monetary reward, am I the only one who feel like stealing a breeding pair of an extinct animal would be the most profitable? I mean, rich assholes would pay a ridiculous amount of money to snort rhino horns. They'd cream themselves over dodo steaks. You also don't have to worry about proving the provenance when they can see for themselves that it is a dodo. Also, "properly guarded" dodos are just wild dodos.

If we talk about in term of cultural value or utility, I'd say that 'stealing' any artefacts which didn't survive to the modern day like, say, some theoretical book that would give us enough context to decipher the Sindhu Valley writings, or just you simply 'stealing' the idea by just going there and pantomiming at people until you learned their language, would be one of the most valuable things you can steal from the past.

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Re: What's the most valuable thing a modern thief could steal in the past?
« Reply #16 on: November 04, 2021, 11:18:55 pm »

You kinda' bring up a good point with the book thing: Go on a spree and kidnap every holy figure in history, as well as any original transcripts of holy texts and/or their originators. Go down in time travel history as the THIEF OF ALL GODS. It'd be a hella' metal moniker, yo'.
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Re: What's the most valuable thing a modern thief could steal in the past?
« Reply #17 on: November 05, 2021, 01:04:49 am »

What if we went all the way back to the beginning of time and steal the Earth from God while he was still making it?
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Re: What's the most valuable thing a modern thief could steal in the past?
« Reply #18 on: November 05, 2021, 01:19:47 am »

Steal the skeleton of the first creature to walk on land.

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« Reply #19 on: November 05, 2021, 06:50:12 am »

Some equivalent of the Rosetta stone for a lost language, is my gut-reaction.
Oh!  Steal a native storyteller (wouldn't be the first time) who can reveal an older version of some of the stories.  You won't get everything from one person, but it might go a long way to un-erasing some culture.  Which continent?  Surprise me.
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Re: What's the most valuable thing a modern thief could steal in the past?
« Reply #20 on: November 07, 2021, 12:41:05 am »

Some of those bananas the artificial flavoring is based off of from before the blight that wiped them out. That would be a hugely profitable venture for them.

Other examples of lost/destroyed crops/livestock would be equally valuable.

Definitely what Hops said about extinct species too.
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« Reply #21 on: November 07, 2021, 04:25:12 am »

I thought that that bannana was the Gros Michel, which still totally exists I thought? Just isn't as largely cultivated anymore because Panama disease become too widespread and wiped out a lot of the commercial plantations so they switched to modern Bananas on a large scale, but it's still grown in places where Panama disease didn't manage to spread too.
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« Reply #22 on: November 07, 2021, 05:23:45 am »

Confirmed i happen to read up on this mere weeks ago.
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« Reply #23 on: November 07, 2021, 08:33:05 am »

Steal the first Panama disease cell, before it multiplies.

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« Reply #24 on: November 12, 2021, 06:43:20 pm »

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« Reply #25 on: November 12, 2021, 08:04:40 pm »

the most valuable thing a modern thief could steal in the past is the past itself!
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Re: What's the most valuable thing a modern thief could steal in the past?
« Reply #26 on: November 13, 2021, 10:05:52 pm »

That's what I said!!  To capture a first-hand report of the past would be priceless.

Although footage has no trustworthiness anymore now that any footage can be trivially faked.   :(
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« Reply #27 on: November 14, 2021, 09:17:11 am »

You just have to leave it in the past so it can be found and carbon printed in the future
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Re: What's the most valuable thing a modern thief could steal in the past?
« Reply #28 on: November 15, 2021, 03:20:00 am »

Just be sure to fill the place you've hidden it with traps to keep someone that isn't you from stealing it.
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« Reply #29 on: November 16, 2021, 11:50:19 am »

Naaah I thought about this: traps mean there is something to be got. Digging isn't perfect either with magnet scanners, erosion, construction sites etc....


BUT

You should be able to find great documentation about churches, when they were built, when the roof was remade, if they burned in WW2 etc. Small things could be hidden in the woodworks of church roofs, nobody os going up there unless they're renovating the roof in which case you move the stuff a bit forwards in time.
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