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From: jmc@riccb.UUCP (Jeff McQuinn )
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Subject: Re: A Sane Man Proposes A Time Travel Experiment
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> Comments?

This is very clever and well thought out.  One thing though.  The conclusion
that time travel will one day be invented can be drawn if you get an answer.
The converse is not true however.  If you DON'T get an answer there are a
number of possible explanations including: Time travel will not be invented;
we don't have the right instrumentation to receive time transmissions (i.e.-
special technology is associated with the receiver as opposed to the sender);
future societies have the technology to talk to us, but chose not to for
social or moral reasons.  In fact the old Star Trek reasoning of not contacting
the past must be valid if you assume that future generations must invent time 
travel and we have never received a time traveler or message.

Clearly time travel is possible.  Why just yesterday I heard on the news that
the Post Office was delivering letters that were mailed in 1940.  (Least you
think this funny, it is a time transmission, it's just going the easy way)(-8

                                           Jeff McQuinn just VAXing around