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From: ags@pucc-h (Dave Seaman)
Newsgroups: net.physics,net.puzzle,net.sci
Subject: Re: A Sane Man Proposes A Time Travel Experiment
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Date: Fri, 1-Aug-86 14:58:02 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  1 14:58:02 1986
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References: <289@axiom.UUCP> <1992@sequent.UUCP>
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Keywords: "I gotta take this idea into the 80's."
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In article <1992@sequent.UUCP> brian@sequent.UUCP (Brian Godfrey) writes:
>>Get a bunch of detectors of all sorts--electromagnetic (video cameras,
>>...
>>Then pick a spot that is durable (won't move very far over the course
>>of many years) and is PRECISELY known--note it's longitude, lattitude,
>>measure it from the poles (magnetic and actual) from geosyncronous
>>sattilites, even from other planets and the sun.
>>Then pick a time that is also precisely known--use several methods if
>>possible.
>>...
>>Then widely publicize and permanently store this information (time, place,
>>...
>>At the time chosen, just listen for messages coming in from the future.
>
>   Maybe that's what the pyramids are all about. Or stonehenge....

The experiment would be no less valid if you pick a time and place on the
spur of the moment and do the listening first, then widely publicize the 
time and place and store the information after the fact.  Of course you 
must carry through, even if you don't detect anything.  Somehow this seems 
doomed to failure.
-- 
Dave Seaman	  					pur-ee!pucc-h!ags

	"I wish I had time to explain Dimensional Transcendentalism!"