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From: daver@felix.UUCP (Dave Richards)
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Subject: Re: A Sane Man Proposes A Time Travel Experiment
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Date: Mon, 28-Jul-86 16:42:13 EDT
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In article <289@axiom.UUCP> gts@axiom.UUCP (Guy Schafer) writes:
>If a message comes in, we know that sometime in the future, the stored info
>was retrieved and used to send info back in time using technology now
>unknown.

Or the message is from the present and is a hoax or a joke.  How do you verify
the source of the message?

>If nothing comes in, we know that during the next x years (where x is the
>probable durability of the stored information) technology to send info
>back in time will not have been invented.

Or, we know that with that knowlege comes apathy about what has already trans-
pired, such that even if someone has the capability to send a message back, they
don't.

It seems to me that no matter what the outcome, this experiment would tell you
nothing.

Long ago I theorized that UFO's could be time travelers from our own people in
the future.  I can think of no benefit to them of making this known to us, how-
ever.  In fact, contact (and exchange of information) between future people and
the present could be very risky to that future.  The paradox inherent in this
has been debated before, I'm sure.

Dave