RamscoopRaider
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What is the Earliest possible date that LSD can be discovered and synthesized with a post 1900 divergence point?
What is the Earliest possible date that LSD can be discovered and synthesized with a post 1900 divergence point?
Interesting, I posited this question because I might want to write an ASB TL someday where Einstein gets a hit of Acid early on and comes up with an FTL theory as a result, and wanted to know how early this could beThere's actually a fine TL about LSD being synthesized in 1913, leading to a very different 1920's...
There's actually a fine TL about LSD being synthesized in 1913, leading to a very different 1920's...
Well, if it's an ASB TL then you don't need to worry about how early LSD can be synthesized (or about how & why Einstein would come into contact w/it), you just have to "make it happen" - time travel, alien life form bearing a gift, you name it. Perhaps you could write the story and have the final twist be that the whole thing was in reality just a 1960s teenager's acid trip.Interesting, I posited this question because I might want to write an ASB TL someday where Einstein gets a hit of Acid early on and comes up with an FTL theory as a result, and wanted to know how early this could be
No don't want a mind screw endingWell, if it's an ASB TL then you don't need to worry about how early LSD can be synthesized (or about how & why Einstein would come into contact w/it), you just have to "make it happen" - time travel, alien life form bearing a gift, you name it. Perhaps you could write the story and have the final twist be that the whole thing was in reality just a 1960s teenager's acid trip.
Why LSD, why not magic mushrooms or something? There LOTS of natural mind altering drugs. (although not so many that go in the direction you want)Well, if it's an ASB TL then you don't need to worry about how early LSD can be synthesized (or about how & why Einstein would come into contact w/it), you just have to "make it happen" - time travel, alien life form bearing a gift, you name it. Perhaps you could write the story and have the final twist be that the whole thing was in reality just a 1960s teenager's acid trip.
I don't know, wasn't thinking straightr still ain't (#@*!ing HIS 200 class)Why LSD, why not magic mushrooms or something? There LOTS of natural mind altering drugs. (although not so many that go in the direction you want)