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From: bulko@ut-sally.UUCP (William C. Bulko)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Somewhere in Time
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Date: Fri, 8-Feb-85 12:15:07 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb  8 12:15:07 1985
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Reply-To: bulko@ut-sally.UUCP (William C. Bulko)
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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Summary: 

[ oh, here she comes. . .she's a bug-eater ]

This discussion about time travel reminds me of something I came up with
many years ago, while discussing the subject with some friends;  it's a
"simple proof" that time travel will not be possible (or at least, not
available to me) within my lifetime.

     I hereby decide that, should time travel ever be possible, that I
plan to travel back to this time, date, and place, and appear to my
"younger" self.  Do I see my older self appearing?  No. . .

Of course, you could say that, in a few years, I'll have forgotten about
this incident, and therefore not remember that I wanted to come back to
1985 to prove the existence of time travel, but if you're REALLY serious
about this. . .

     An interesting related thought would be to make the effort known
worldwide, so that the "hysteria" would be recorded in the history books.
Then, X number of years from now, when time travel (supposedly) becomes
possible, someone would say, "Hey, remember back in 1985, when the world kept
inviting someone from the future to visit?  Wanna make history?"  If this
were possible, then the people from the future could theoretically come back
here and teach us the technology needed for time travel.  This would
cause the ability to travel through time to exist much earlier than the
the people from the future stated it to be, and. . .oh, never mind.
You flame it out yourselves.
-- 
Bill Bulko
Department of Computer Sciences
The University of Texas
{ihnp4,harvard,gatech,ctvax,seismo}!ut-sally!bulko

"Trust is a must or your game is a bust."
(Can anyone identify the author of that quote?)