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Post details: Probability that Times Travel will ever be invented

22/02/07

Permalink 12:40:33 am, by RayTomes Email , 139 words, 1523 views   English (NZ)
Categories: miscellaneous

Probability that Times Travel will ever be invented

In 1994 I came across a web site where you could make bets on various things ever happening and as a result wrote the following to the owner of the site:

"I enjoyed your little column on the odds of various events happening.

I am prepared to give 1000 to 1 odds against time travel.
My condition is simply that whoever wants to claim from me must turn
up tomorrow to claim the prize. They can do this by demonstrating
their time machine. No excuses accepted, as if they are running late
they can try again the next day."

No one turned up the next day to make a claim, so this is evidence that a time machine will never be invented, or that my offer got lost. So by posting it again, we know that google will store it for ever.

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Just Thinking

From time to time I have a rave about something. I write letters to the NZ Listener and the NZ Herald but they never publish them. Does that make me a subversive? Probably not, but it seems to me that people with very dim thoughts get given lots of free air while useful thoughts often get ignored. OK, you can ignore the rest of this now ...

Well, these thoughts are about social, political, economic and environmental issues that affect us all, even though most people don't pay much attention to them.

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