Question due to a curious dream I had last night.
Scenario: idealists of varying sorts willing to sacrifice their lives for this trip. Not for the betterment of mankind, but for the experience, their own personal knowledge; it's something they've been individually curious about for years. It's a bit Survivor-like.
They have no way of knowing what state the planet will be in. They have no idea what to bring, what to wear. They know that if they don't die immediately upon arrival, they'll have to figure out how to survive. No idea what the atmospheric conditions will be. The only sure thing they know is that the city they're time traveling from, that's the spot on the planet they'll wind up on 10,000 years into the future.
What mishaps, possible dangers await this ragtag, dysfunctional group of suicide-bombing explorers?
Interesting. So, I read that wiki page, then went to this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_human_prehistory By 10,000 years ago, these things had happened: Upper Paleolithic (50,000 to 35,00 years ago) 2) extinction of Homo neanderthalensis 3) cave paintings 4) ritual cremation 5) figurative art 6) domestication of dogs 7) rock art 8) oldest known twisted rope 9) pottery, and fibers used to make clothes, baskets 10) oldest permanent human settlement found by archaeologists Mesolithic (20,000 to 10,000 years ago) 2) extinction of the woolly rhinoceros 3) domestication of the pig 4) Sahara is wet and fertile 5) end of the last glacial period, glaciers recede, temperature warms 6) domestication of sheep, goats, cattle 7) major water body changes, lakes, seas disappearing, emerging 8) Holocene epoch starts 9) emergence of Jericho 10) 8000 b.c.: The Quaternary extinction event, which has been ongoing since the mid-Pleistocene, concludes. Many of the ice age megafauna go extinct, including the megatherium, woolly rhinoceros, Irish elk, cave bear, cave lion, and the last of the sabre-toothed cats. The mammoth goes extinct in Eurasia and North America, but is preserved in small island populations until ~1650 BC and then there was the Neolithic period (10,000 to 5,500 years ago) 2) farming, soup, bear, bread, the plow 3) Sahara region is now a savannah 4) domestication of cats, many cultures developing 5) 8,200 - 8,000 years ago: 8.2 kiloyear event: a sudden decrease of global temperatures, likely caused by the final collapse of the Laurentide ice sheet which leads to drier conditions in East Africa and Mesopotamia. 6) copper smelting, farming settlements 7) invention of the wheel, spread of proto-writing 8) Mastodon goes extinct, domestication of horses, chickens 9) Sahara dry desert phase is started due to major event 10) mass graves, Minoan culture, mummification only then do we get to the Bronze Age 2) 5,200 years ago: (3200 BC): Writing is invented in Sumer, triggering the beginning of history. and then there's all that happened in just the last 5,000 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_ancient_history Definitely puts a new light on just how much things might change 10,000 years from now.1) first signs of deep sea fishing technology
1) oldest pottery storage/cooking vessels from China
1) post glacial sea rise, land masses are submerged
1) 5,300 years ago: (3300 BC): Bronze Age begins in the Near East.
went from ancient era to classical antiquity to, fall of the Roman Empire, going into full medieval, middle ages, eventually leading to Renaissance and then an explosion of technological advancement over several centuries leading to current day...