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Re: Prehistoric Park

To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: Re: Prehistoric Park
From: Jamie Stearns <stearns5@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 09:57:22 -0500
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HI:
Why do people with time machines usually go BACK in time, why not
FORWARD? I can see a great way to fund science: Go forward in time just
enough to find out the winning lottery numbers for the next drawing, then
travel back in time to get a winning lottery ticket and bingo (no
pun here) NO MORE GRANT WRITING NEEDED!

Well, something like this did happen in Back to the Future II, only it involved a sports almanac from 2015 or so and betting on horse races.

Anyhow, there's a lot of potential for fatally altering the time-space continuum here. Suppose you accidentally kill some kind of little Purgatorius-like early primate that happens to be the direct ancestor of all modern primates, including the entire human race...

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