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From: purtill@petrus.UUCP (Mark Purtill)
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Subject: Re: A Sane Man Proposes A Time Travel Experiment
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Date: Thu, 31-Jul-86 16:59:25 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 31 16:59:25 1986
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In article <289@axiom.UUCP>? Alex <...!mcnc!unc!melnick> writes:
> In article <7489@tekecs.UUCP> mikes@tekecs.UUCP (Michael Sellers) writes:
> >  As a collateral question (and possibly too speculative for these august
> >groups :-), if you were the one capable of sending something back, what (or
> >who) would it be?
> >
> >		Mike Sellers
> 
> Another question is:  If you were in the future, knew about the experiment,
> and had the equipment to send some material or information back to the
> experimenters, WHY WOULD YOU SEND ANYTHING?

Consider a slightly different scenario.  You know about the experiment and
have a time machine, but *you know the experiment failed* (nothing showed up
at the appropriate time).  Now, are you willing send soemthing back?  I
doubt I would....

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