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19. When you say 'teleportation', I assume you mean public
transportation. Yes, we have a basic high-speed system.
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20. I don't know if the government created AIDS. I tend to think
yes but controlling it escaped them as it mutated. You can't
have conspiracy to limit the population with a disease without
the cure.
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21. Yes, homosexuals are in the army. You tend to look past the
individual differences of people when their job is to protect
your life.
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22. Yes, there are 'gay' people in 2036.
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24. Yes, there is an entertainment industry. Again, it is very
decentralized. The technology to express yourself with video is
so readily available that many people do it all by themselves or
in small groups. Much of the distribution is over the web. I
would compare it theater here.
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26. The average lifespan is about 60 but I expect that will
improve as we get things cleaned up.
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27. Yes, paper money is still widely used.
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28. The 21st century has awhile to go but the most significant
person in my opinion is the farmer-general who led us to
victory.
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29. Even for you Tesla technology can be found in appliances,
motors and generators. I would have to say we have come a long
way on Tesla's foundation but we don't have electricity rays
that cause earthquakes.
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30. Getting back to my exact worldline of origin is impossible
but it depends on how you define the correct worldline. I can
get close enough so neither I nor anyone there would know the
difference. It relates to the classic example of cutting a
distance in half to reach it. You can always get closer but
never there. It also has a lot do with neighboring universes on
Penrose diagrams but that requires more math.
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31. Yes, we have the death penalty. We also have public
punishment.
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32. The most common crime is theft.
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34. Cloning is not common. However, altering the sperm and egg
cell are common. It is very difficult to have children in 2036
for environmental reasons.
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35. It's hard to say what the exact racial make up of the U.S.
is. I would say it's probably the same minus 130 million people
or so.
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36. No, there is no segregation.
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37. The education system is very similar to yours but the
organization and implementation is controlled on a community and
county level. Various communities also specialize in certain
disciplines.
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38, 39. My comments on equal rights and 'women's roles' could be
quite lengthy and controversial. I wish to discuss that
separately. However, women do fight in the military just as the
men do but their role on the community level is very
conservative.
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40. Having children is such a serious issue in 2036 that birth
control is almost unheard of. It is very difficult and precious
to have and raise children. Again, this is an issue I will be
happy to go into later.
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41. Yes, there are same sex marriages but it's not very common.
Again, people have lived through so much hardship that if what
someone else is doing does not affect them or harm the
community, it's not a big issue.
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42. South America went relatively unharmed. However, there is
still a great deal of internal conflict with conventional arms.
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43. Yes, people use drugs that alter consciousness but they are
not very common.
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45. There is another Pope but I do not know his name.
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I do believe that 'you're' UNIX will also have a problem in
2038. I don't think that's a secret but maybe someone should put
a 5100 aside for thirty years or so.
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I believe the 5100 is unique in its ability to run assembler
language on the 360-machine platform and still be portable. I'm
not sure if that fact was ever made public so it's the best
'proof' I have. I would like to examine the software you
mentioned; perhaps I can further justify my side-trip.
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((As a programmer, the UNIX issue you refer to is a bit of a
problem. I write code in APL, PLI, Lisp, C, C++, VB, Fortran ,
Cobol, small-talk, Java, Python, and a slew of less known
languages. The 2038 "bug" is about as dangerous as the Y2K bug.
I can "with a little tweaking" do anything with a computer that
can be done with a computer. I assume there are programmers in
2036, that being the case, a "good programmer" can fix your
Y2K38 date inconsistency. As for the undocumented IBM design
modification in the 5100, I know nothing so I can't comment
there. The new .net platform from Microsoft has the capability
to integrate all the languages you mentioned + all the ones I
mentioned. Would it not be easier to write in the original
language instead of having a machine translation'))
I will examine the web site you mentioned. I believe the 5100 is
unique in its ability to run assembler language on the
360-machine platform and still be portable. I'm not sure if that
fact was ever made public so it's the best 'proof' I have. I
would like to examine the software you mentioned; perhaps I can
further justify my side-trip.
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Yes, EMP took out a great number of electronic devices. That's
one of the reasons why we don't have reliable technology laying
around. However, in the opening hours of N Day, the Russians did
not launch any high altitude detonations. They knew we would
most likely clean up after them so they wanted everyone outside
the cities to be able to communicate. Most of the warheads that
hit the cities came in threes and exploded close to the ground.
The heavy EMP damage was isolated to those areas.
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Actually, you will probably be quite impressed with our
internet. It's based on a series of independent, self-powered
nodes that are mobile and can be put up anywhere. It looks a
great deal like your current cell phone system.
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As I'm sure Pamela can tell you, my email system is made up of
quite a few addresses, locations and computers. Some of them
work better than others and for a period of time, I have been
unable (in my own way) to get to this site. It appears I've come
back at just the right moment.
02/12/01 20:54 (about the future) 361
Yes, there are a great many people who think that Revelations
has come to pass. However, the new fear is that Christ has
returned, he's not telling us and he's very angry.
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We do enjoy 'talk programs' but they are distributed over the
web. I don't have additional information about UFOs and I find
the subject quite interesting myself. I have often wondered if
they aren't time travelers with very sophisticated machines.
Based on what I know about the nature of time I find this
difficult to believe but nothing is impossible.
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Yes, handmade items and the skills to make them are quite
prevalent and people take a great deal of pride in their work.
People with the skills to make clothing, work with leather and
wood or cultivate a garden have become quite valuable.
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Fiji' I've noticed that when most Americans think about Canada
in this time, they think about pine trees, chooks and
back-bacon. It may interest you to know that most Canadians in
2036 are some of the most efficient, ruthless and dangerous
people I know. God help Quebec.
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In my experience, evil may be powerful, but they aren't very
bright.
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Current fallout estimates are accurate but a bit exaggerated.
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Once a micro-singularity is produced and placed in static in a
magnetic field, what is the approximate strength of that
magnetic field.
How is the magnetic field produced (I mean - what power source
holds the field in place)'
What would happen to the micro-singularity if that source
FAILED' For instance would the micro-singularity begin to grow'
Or would it cease to exist')
These are excellent questions that I probably won't answer to
your satisfaction but let me make a couple of points first.
Although I am familiar with the general manufacture of the unit,
I am not a physicist or a scientist. My background is in history
and I had the correct profile to accomplish my given task in
1975. I doubt that most jet fighter pilots are aeronautical
engineers and I'll bet most of you couldn't give me the formula
for horsepower, yet you drive a car every day.
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The distortion unit is not magic and no alien technology was
required to make it work. If you could see it, the 'smarts' that
went into designing it will amaze you more than the technology.
Heck, the really interesting technology is in the computer.
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The magnetic field does not require the fantastic energies you
might imagine. The field is 'created' and captures the
singularity inside a very large and powerful specially designed
particle accelerator. If the magnetic system failed (which has
numerous backups including a system that would remove it from
this worldline), the singularity would evaporate. Although it is
smaller than an electron, it would still be quite undesirable.
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((why do you keep telling us about the ww3..etc.. how do you
know that will even -happen- in our worldline' it may have
already been nipped in the bud for all you know... because ours
is a different -worldline- from yours!))
Yes, you are correct! However, I am not confident things are
different enough for you to avoid the conflict. You may also
consider the possibility that a world with no war is far less
desirable in the long run. In response to your other point, your
assumptions about causality are correct but my personal morality
still comes into play. I won't deviate from my three rules
because of the way I would feel about myself.
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The singularities do not create Tipler cylinders they create the
same physical environment without all the mass. The same math
works for both. There are two singularities. Their mass and spin
is altered in order to adjust the size of the ergosphere and
cause the event horizons to interact and create the gravity
sinusoid. I have a basic home schooling education (k-12) and a
bachelor's degree in history.
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I don't believe I ever said the war was between Democrats and
Republicans. If I am incorrect, please point that out. It
doesn't exactly escalate as much as it opens the door for other
aggression. Yes, I think the war would be good for society and I
would be happy to debate that with you.
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((5. John tells us to: buy a gun, find 5 friends, get a bicycle,
yada, yada, yada. ( this conflicts with his above comments: here
he seems to want to save some people, while above he wants to
kill us all off))
If you could point out how this violates the three guidelines I
stated earlier I will give it considerable thought. Perhaps you
are correct and that was a mistake. Again, I don't believe I
said I want to kill you. Personally, I think murder is wrong.
You seem to be pretty good at that yourself.
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((7. John mentions the Big War(2015) was between the Cities of
America (the enemy of John) and Russia, China, etc.(so not only
do we have a civil war but now we have a war between the city
folk and rural folk in the US, AND a world war))
Hmmm'are you familiar with the Russian partisan movement in
WWII'
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((8. John says the civil war which starts in 2004 or 2005
(depending on the post) leads to the world war which starts in
2015. ( So we have a TEN YEAR civil war'''))
It's 2004. I apologize for a missed key (very observant ' we all
need good critics). Perhaps our definition of war is different.
I would define it as a conflict where organized groups engage in
maneuver and armed conflict. The first U.S. civil war lasted 4
years and the English civil war lasted 6. How long is too long'
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Actually, what I said was, ''you may be surprised at how many
people use typewriters.' I don't understand the conflict. What's
wrong with typewriters' At least you don't have to plug them in.
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((1)Have you ever went on any other time traveling missions' If
so, what were they'))
Yes, but they were all training missions. There is a great deal
of psychological profiling and testing and one of the training
missions involved choosing a time in your life (within two
years) where you wish you would have done something different
and then going back to convince yourself to do it. The idea is
to become familiar with the possibility of meeting yourself
which can be rather difficult. It is quite odd to look at
'yourself' and have a conversation. Since any 'you' on another
worldline would not be a mirror image, you get a slightly
distorted feeling while seeing yourself, let alone the concept
of speaking to yourself
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(4)I looked up the name 'Titor' in the state of Flordia on
555-1212.com and couldn't find ANY Titors, is your family not
listed in the phone book'
I guess it depends when you look.
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(6)What is the specific Date that the Nuclear war starts' If you
can't remember the exact date, could you put the month at least'
An estimate!
I remember the exact date. When it comes, it will not be a
surprise.
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(7)What is the speed of the average computer in the future' I am
assuming it is in ghZ, if it is higher, could you post the name
of that hZ measurement and its relation to the ghZ'
Ghz is not a useful measurement. Computers are no longer
measured by their speed as mush as the number of variables (not
calculations) they can handle per second.
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(8)Can you do your own Time Traveling ventures whenever you
want' If so, how much does it cost' Or can you make 'pit stops'
along the way back to 2036'
No, the unit doesn't belong to me. I can't make stops on the way
home as it will throw the gravity measurements off and It would
force me to backtrack along the backtrack. Also, I can't just
leave and arrive at any place and time I want to. There are
physical and technical limits to when and where I can go.
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(9)Have you ever went past your future, like to 2050 or
somewhere around there' If so, what is the world like then'
No, I haven't been to the future of my 2036. My profile
qualified me for a trip to the past.
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The animal Kingdom is alive and well. I'm sure it suffered but
there fewer people infringing on animal's habitats now.
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Nuclear war is a very undesirable thing but it is not the end of
the world. There are areas and cities we can't enter and the
environment did suffer a great deal of damage but we are
recovering. Isn't Hiroshima a thriving city today' The major
physical affects include skin cancer, infertility, infection,
etc. Almost everyone has some sort of physical remnant from the
war.