Re: I have built a Time Machine

From: Alfred Einstead (whopkins_at_csd.uwm.edu)
Date: 06/14/04 

Date: 14 Jun 2004 12:29:29 -0700

Uncle Al <UncleAl0@hate.spam.net> wrote:
> Kirk Gregory Czuhai wrote:
> > I have built a time machine believe it or not and...
> > I have seen better days ahead for the world
> What are the wining state lottery numbers for next week?
> Pistons or Lakers?
> At what number will the Dow-Jones Industiral average close next
> Friday?
> Who will be US President on 05 November 2004?

It will rain on the celebration in Detroit, and both the
Republican and Democrat candidates in 2008 will be women,
after Bush's 2nd term expires.

No, the *real* trick is, if he builds a time machine, to prove
it by going back into the past and planting messages on the USENET
in out-of-the-way places making reference to things that postdate
the message, but predate the present.

It has to be in out-of-the-way places, and preferrably close to
the time in reference, so that it can't affect the outcome.

For instance, that research first announced early on June 10 about
the dog who has a 200 word English vocabulary... one might plant a
hidden reference to it somewhere unrelated on June 9; for instance,
doing a Google search on the phrase:

"the animal has about 100-200 word English vocabulary"

(referring to a dog) limited to June 9, 2004 would reveal a hit
(as it actually does).

Or, it might be to a memorable event, such as the toppling of
the statue of Saddam, which took place on April 9, 2003. One
might then plant the phrases "towering Statue of Saddam" and
"collapsing to the ground" at some point prior to April 9, 2003;
and then do a Google search on the phrases limiting the
search to April 8, 2003, to see if a hit is revealed predating
the event (indeed, there is: on March 24, 2003).

It has to be a huge archive, like Google's USENET archive. That
way there's enough "I don't know about it" wiggle room, not to
run into a causality wall, that you can slip in a forward reference
to the future in a few places here and there.

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