'87-'12 = 25Scarim Coral said:
'58-'12 = 54
25 + 54 = 79
OT: I don't think I'd be able to handle living back then, considering how much time I spend per day listening to modern music, playing modern video games, watching modern movies, and surfing the modern internet.
EDIT: Besides, it's ridiculous to think that one singular person would be able to invent anything from today back in the late 50's. Everybody else would think you're crazy, and even the best world-class scientists wouldn't have a clue about what you're showing them, say nothing about the fact that I doubt the average user of these forums has intricate knowledge behind the development things like computers, cell phones, televisions, etc. have gone through over the years. How many people have literally built their own computer processor completely from scratch?
EDIT the Second: All right, I've thought of something.
Assuming I'm the richest man on the planet back in 1958, here's what I would do:
Buy out some massive mega-corporation, preferably located in New York City or Chicago, and make sure they're stable enough to make massive returns per year for years to come. I would make sure a Research & Development Department was established and funded, and would invest heavily in it for the following things: Research into light-weight, sturdy Kevlar armor; A light-weight cloth that can stiffen to immovable rigidity when flexed; Hydraulic dampers that are able to be placed in armored boots; A spring-loaded, high-tensile wire/cord with a hook on the end wrapped in a compact launcher; An armored vehicle with an on-board computer, a boost engine, and a large-caliber mounted gun; A computer chip that remotely connects to a predetermined database and displays data I want to view accordingly, preferably mounted in a pair of heavy-duty, armored gauntlets and/or cowl.
After assuring that the department will not run out of funding and will have the ability to create all of that, I would then vanish from public view. I would travel the world, visiting various martial arts masters and learning from them until I have the physical conditioning and ability to defeat each of them in hand-to-hand combat. Years later, I would return to the prying eyes of the world, to my company, and see how they've progressed. Hopefully the development of at least prototypes would be completed, and I would be able to reap the benefits.
What benefits, you ask?
I would create the 70's equivalent of the Christopher Nolan Batman films so that the Joel Schumacher films would never need to see the light of day and fifteen years later fanboys wouldn't still be complaining about them.
[sub][sub][sub][sub][sub]I'd just say I would be Batman, but I know plenty of people on this website would go "Oh, that's so stupid, there's no way you'd actually be able to fight crime and not die!"[/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub]
