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posted by qwerty uiop on April 16th, 2008 12:55 PM
a nice gentleman named Larry Hosken has typed up a bunch of the suggestions. You can read them at:
http://lahosken.san-francisco.ca.us/new/2008/04/follow-up-sfzero-suggestion-box.html
posted by qwerty uiop on November 2nd, 2005 1:29 AM
well, so I cheated. this task is very hard. that's why it's worth 1000 points.
posted by qwerty uiop on February 15th, 2007 1:16 PM
nice. perhaps you should give Animated GIF: phase 2 a try...
posted by qwerty uiop on February 13th, 2007 1:41 AM
thanks for all your help!
posted by qwerty uiop on February 12th, 2007 10:58 PM
posted by qwerty uiop on February 12th, 2007 10:53 PM
ps. We never really mentioned this during the event, but you all should know that the suspect featured in the evidence photos is Vicky Darkbloom, author of such esteemed works as: 'Paler Fire', 'Yell, Memory', 'Pninn' and 'Invitation to a Basketball Game'.
posted by qwerty uiop on February 12th, 2007 9:32 PM
yeah. i think i actually might have cried a little when they gave it to me.
posted by qwerty uiop on February 12th, 2007 6:04 PM
1 2 3 4 5 6 Next >> thanks! the photos were taken by me, Ian and Sean (it's hard to say at this point who took what). Some were digital, some with film, and most went through photoshop.
the following note, taken from the theory page of appliedhistory.com went in some of the capsules:
Maybe, even, a time capsule will lead to the most important invention in the history of time, a time machine. Back on December 16th of 1993, I was putting a time capsule together when something occurred to me. What if time travel was sort of like talking on the telephone - where you can't make a call unless there's somebody else with a phone. What if Alexander Graham Bell built only one phone? Who would he call? Himself? If he did that, he would never get through, the line would always be busy! No. For the concept of the phone to work, you need at least two phones. Well maybe the same thing is true for time travel. In order to go from one time zone to another, maybe the sending zone needs a device to send, but at the same time (so to speak), the receiving zone also needs a device to receive. Well, that would mean it is not possible to travel back in time to before the point in time when the first time machine was invented because there couldn't possibly be a receiving time machine. The future could dial the past's phone number, but essentially, there would be nobody in the past who has a phone to answer.
Notice though, that once a time machine existed, I could travel forward in time because I could tell myself, for example, that one year in the future I'll build another receiving time machine so that right now I could set the dial one year ahead and go there. But again, it is traveling backwards that wouldn't work because we have no receiving time machine. This could explain something about time travel that always bothered me. If time travel will one day be possible, why hasn't anyone ever come back to our time to tell us some important things, like how to wipe out disease? Are future time travelers uncaring, or is it exactly like above. -they just have no way of getting here.
But wait. What if there is something that could travel back in time without a receiving time machine. In 1981, at Brookhaven National Laboratory, a physicist captured some slightly unusual particles in the particle accelerator. He watched two electrons collide into one another, and after the collision, they were both gone. His colleagues started to postulate ideas right out of sci-fi books. Maybe one electron was made of matter and the other was made of anti-matter and when they touched, they canceled each other out. Sounds good in a movie script, but there is no basis in the real world. But one day, the physicist came up with a much more inventive theory. What if they were the same electron where one was moving forward in time and one was moving backwards in time. The forward moving electron would be making its way through time and space, and then for some reason, it would switch gears and start to go backwards in time. To the outside observer, this would look like the forward moving electron vanished after some point in time. In fact the scenario would look exactly like what the physicist saw. Two electrons, both making their way through time and space seemingly independently until at some point, they occupy the same time and space, after which there would be nothing. They would both seem to vanish.
So if electrons can travel back in time, how can this help us build a time machine today? This is where the time capsule comes in. What if I put a note in a time capsule explaining my above theory on electrons and time travel. And in the note, which will be discovered at some point in the distant future, I ask the future inventors of time travel to send a burst of electrons back in time to me at exactly the stroke of midnight on December 31, 1998. If I then turn on my radio on this day and at the stroke of midnight I hear a burst of static, then I know this method of communicating with the future works. I could then extrapolate on this idea and bury another time capsule suggesting that the future inventors of time travel send me on the following night by using Morse coded static bursts, the design instructions on how to build a time machine receiver. Once that is in place, then the future time machine inventors would finally be able to travel back in time. Now can I tell you something really scary. When I thought of this idea back on that day in the middle of December of 1993, I was listening to the radio, and at the stroke of midnight, the radio music turned to static. This lasted for 5 seconds and then everything went back to normal. Could it be that the future inventors of Time Travel found these notes and were trying to encourage me with my idea? Why don't you try it and let me know what happens.