Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!mit-eddie!gds From: gds@mit-eddie.UUCP (Greg Skinner) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: How to get rich with a time machine - (nf) Message-ID: <1884@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Sat, 19-May-84 19:06:36 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.1884 Posted: Sat May 19 19:06:36 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 21-May-84 03:16:12 EDT References: <12509@sri-arpa.UUCP> <7600008@uok.UUCP> <680@pyuxn.UUCP> Organization: MIT Lusers and Hosers Inc., Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 16 > What about buying the newspaper from the day after the $20,000,000 > lottery numbers are drawn by leaping into the future and leaping back > to buy the ticket? How do we know this hasn't been done? Won't work unless you can jump to the exact spot where the winning ticket is. That requires clairvoyance. Time machines don't give away all the answers ... -- Be ye moby, for I am moby. Greg Skinner (gregbo) {decvax!genrad, eagle!mit-vax, ihnp4}!mit-eddie!gds Joy is in the ears that hear.