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Part 5, John Teeter. February 14th, 2001. My motive. I've been in your time a bit
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longer than I had expected. My next opportunity to go home comes in the
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spring. For most of my adult life, I have read about, wondered about, and debated
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over this time. I value this opportunity to share experiences. If you absolutely
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believed I was a time traveler with no skepticism whatsoever, then we would be
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unable to communicate. The focus of our attention would then always be on the
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machine. The experiences, opinions, and reasons you do things are just as valid
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as mine and just as different. I hope to return home with a better understanding
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of why you think and believe the way you do. Although, I do understand the reasons
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for asking. I would not gain from any communication with you by spouting
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physics formulas and pop culture predictions. Please do not assume I am
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purposely avoiding questions. I am human. I get tired, and I forget things. Please
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just remind me if I've missed a question, and I will get to it. I do have
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one tip though. If you want me to go over your post in detail, put, hey John,
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you're a big jerk at the end of the insightful and logical part, not the
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beginning. In fact, maybe you could just abbreviate it and put a number ratings
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from 1 to 100 next to it so I know how strong you feel. Something like,
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It would save space.
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Acceleration equals time dilation. As pointed out earlier, acceleration will
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produce time dilation. This can be observed by the twin's paradox. As one
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twin stays on Earth, the other twin and his accelerating spaceship experiences a
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slower passing of time. When he returns to Earth, he is noticeably younger than
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his twin who age normally in Earth time. This type of time travel should have
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been proven already on this world line with atomic clock experiments. With
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sufficient power, this type of time travel will only provide practical
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displacement in a future direction. This type of time travel is also isolated to
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a single world line. You will not meet yourself. Gravity equals acceleration.
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As Einstein pointed out with his STR, the effects of gravity and acceleration
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are the same. Therefore, you will experience the same time travel effects
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in the twin paradox by being close to a large gravity source. In the atomic
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clock experiment mentioned above, the reason there was a difference in time
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was not because the clock in the plane was moving. It was because the clock in
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the wall was closer to the center of the Earth. Constant speed is not
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acceleration. Large gravity equals static black hole. The next step is to
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find a large gravity source to use in your time machine. Static black holes
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provide this type of power. As one twin approaches the event horizon or edge of
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the black hole, the other twin will watch him as he appears to slow down. He will
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notice his twin's watch run slower until it stops at the event horizon. The twin
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moving toward the horizon will notice none of this and see his watch running
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just fine. Although possible, a trip into a static black hole will not take you to
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another world line and it's one way. The force of gravity will crush you.
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Rotating black hole equals donut-shaped singularity. Fortunately, most black
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holes are not static. They spin. Spinning black holes are often referred to as a
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Kerr black hole. A Kerr black hole has two interesting properties. One, they have
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two event horizons and two, the singularity is not a point. It looks more
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like a donut. These odd properties also have a pronounced effect on the black
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hole's gravity. There are vectors where you can approach the singularity without
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being crushed by gravity. Donut-shaped singularity equals passage into
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alternate world line. Another more interesting result of passing through a
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donut singularity is that you travel through time by passing into another
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universe or world line. Please see Penrose diagram for Kerr black holes or
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you can examine the calculations of famous physicist. So now the problem
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becomes where do you find a donut-shaped singularity? Microsingularity. The
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existence of microsingularities, many black holes, that were created in the
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Big Bang was proposed on this world line in the last decade or so. They were
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probably about the size of a proton and disappeared over the years due to an
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effect of radiation evaporation. Yes, black holes do emit energy. High energy
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physics equals artificial microsingularities. When I first started
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pointing online a few months ago, posting online a few months ago, I said
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that major breakthroughs in particle physics were around your corner. Soon,
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CERN will bring their big machine online and they will be smashing very
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fast and high energy particles together. One of the more odd and potentially
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dangerous items produced from this increase in energy will be
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microsingularities, a fraction of the size of an electron. Artificial
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microsingularity equals localized Kerr field. Through trial and error and
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although they are quite heavy, hot, and capable of putting out a great deal of
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energy, 300 to 500 megawatts, it's discovered that these microsingularities
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can be electrified and captured. It is also interesting to note at this point
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that electrified singularities also have two event horizons. By spinning these
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various microsingularities, a localized Kerr field is created. Localized Kerr
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field equals Tipler sinusoid. By using two microsingularities in close
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proximity to each other, it is possible to create, manipulate, and alter the Kerr
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field to create a Tipler gravity sinusoid. This field can be adjusted,
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rotated, and moved in order to stimulate the movement of mass through a donut
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shaped singularity and into an alternative world line. Thus, you have
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safe time travel. February 15th, 2001. Q. Do you feel some pleasure in breathing
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clean air? Yes, I do. However, there is a fear about being here that I can only
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define as uncertainty. When I walk around in 2001, the air smells clean, but I
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wonder if it really is. In 2036, there is no gray. The air is either clean or it
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will kill you. That feeling is very overwhelming when I eat here. Q. Are
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there people here who accept you as a time traveler? I have a very few precious
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relationships with people online who accept me as real or crazy and don't ask
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any questions. Much of my email flows through them. My parents are the only
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ones that have access to everything I could use to prove who I am. Q. How are
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you financing things? I have taken very clever and reliable measures to go
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undetected. My expenses are not that large. I spend a great deal of time now
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archiving. Q. I spotted very few typing errors in John's comments, so I
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assume that he has an average education. You must be energized and anxious to
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improve your education system then. Please tell me what you plan to do. Q.
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Name any near future event that makes history. You mean other than the mad cow
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epidemic, the breakthroughs in high energy physics, and the unknown
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functions of the 5100? Q. There should be two of you here now. You would both have
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the same fingerprints and DNA. If you want to prove your case, then meet with
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your younger self and get some evidence. I am with my younger self. I don't have
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a case to prove and I wonder how many needles I would be on the receiving end
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for that one. With your superior education, I assume you already figured
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out that pretty soon someone might try that with a clone. Be careful what you
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take for definitive proof. Q. How long will you be here? My first opportunity
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to go home is this spring. Q. What are you taking with you? A lot of hard drives
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filled with books, archived websites, pictures, and audio files. I'm also
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taking back family items that were lost in the war. Q. Is propane still used in
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the future? Yes, but not very much of it comes from natural gas. Hydrogen is
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converted into propane because it's easier to handle. Q. I would hope the
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Hawaiian islands would be spared from the war. My parents went to Hawaii on
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their honeymoon. My dad told me a quick story about going to a fast food store
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and paying six or seven dollars for a hamburger. I got an image in my head of a
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huge tanker filled with frozen hamburgers headed into the Pacific. Hawaii
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is very dependent on the mainland for food, isn't it? Thank you for your kind
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words. Q. Logically, he could easily question people of this time and get all
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the information he needs without revealing himself. Mediums like the
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internet offer unique opportunities for communication. When I return, I will be
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debriefed on my opinions about how people in 2001 will accept time
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travelers. Q. Why would he reveal himself if he has no agenda? I'm not sure I
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exactly said that. Q. Did John come here to help somebody invent the time machine?
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I find this one the most interesting. What do you think would happen if the
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United States, China, or Russia suddenly developed a time machine and the rest of the world
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found out about it? Q. John makes a verbal maneuver that turns a question back on
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the one who asked it so they think he actually answered the question, which he
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just avoided answering. He does this all the time and I wanted to point that out
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before it happens again. I am forced to admit I must rethink what I know about
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Mobius loops. Q. Does the forum personal name have any historical importance? You
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may leave a message to yourself if you wish. Q. What happened to Australia? I
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believe I wrote about Australia a bit earlier. Q. What colloquial language is
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used in the future? Many people use the internet for communication and
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entertainment. I would say that affects our speech. We type very fast. Q. What
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happens to the water? Radiation affected the water, but that can always be
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distilled. There are biological hazards that cannot. In addition, fresh water is
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hard to come by without talking to someone with a gun first. Q. Have you
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met your parents on this world line? What do they think of you? Yes, I am with
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them now. I would say it's a combination of fear and relief. Q. Does time have
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ends? Yes. It is believed that all world lines end. It is also thought that
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parallel world lines that appear to be the same end at different times. Q.
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If you were a time traveler, you'd be dead. The Earth, the solar system, and the
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galaxy are all moving. If you did travel back through time, you'd materialize in
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1970 where the Earth will be in 2036, which is the vacuum of space. This is an
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excellent point and one I thought I went over a bit earlier. There is a gravity
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lock system that compensates for the local gravity outside of the Tipler
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sinusoid. This is the reason the unit is only accurate to about 60 years. Q. You
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are inconsistent about not knowing anything about physics, but you're willing
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to discuss the operation of your machine. I suppose I am thinking about the
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physics and the engineering as separate subjects. I apologize for the confusion
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and I will be happy to answer your questions more directly. Q. My questions
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were ignored. When I asked others, you skirted them. Perhaps we could just start
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over again. Q. You stated that Australia repulses a Chinese invasion. Does this
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mean Australian government sides with your enemy? There were deep divisions in
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Australia also. I would associate more with a powder keg than a civil war. Q.
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Does intercontinental transportation still exist? Have you visited other
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countries? Yes, but the market is much smaller. No, I have not been overseas. Q.
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You have said you will not help anyone avoid death by probability, yet many
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things you have said could have caused an individual to do or not do something
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that will now result dying or escaping death. It would help if you could give
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an example. If you are referring to the conflict and war in your future, I'm not
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sure I'm specific enough to help any individual avoid anything. Suggesting
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there is a war coming is a bit different than saying avoid Washington DC at 3 45
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a.m. on March 12, 2015. Q. Have you considered a future world leader could
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read this and might believe you? I think you can have just as much impact as any
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future leader. Q. I don't believe you when you say you're not trying to prove to
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us you're a real-time traveler. I submit there is no way for me to prove anything
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on the Internet. Therefore, it makes no sense to desire it. What exactly do you
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think I could do to prove it to anyone? I am confused by your term. Do you feel
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my only goal here is to entertain? Again, I am not unable to make you do anything
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nor would I want that. I learn a great deal about your culture from the words
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you write like right now. What do you think my goals are? Q. This thread has
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been all about you developing your story. I'm not sure I understand. How would my
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story differ if it was developed? Q. I find it hard to believe that a software
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tweak done into a 1975 machine would be enough to justify a time travel mission.
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Ah, something we have in common. Yes, I felt that way too. However, my job was to go and get it
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and not debate why they wanted it. I am not a computer expert. A great deal of the computer
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infrastructure you depend upon is based on very old systems and code. One of the reasons I was
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sent to 1975 was because of the person I met there, not the technology. Q. There are more
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efficient ways to accomplish what you claim. Perhaps you would share them with me. You might
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be right and I could make your suggestions when I return. Q. If you support the model that all
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possibilities occur in different universes, then I cannot accept you. I am not sure I understand
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what you mean. If you believe in multiple world theory, Hawking's was not the one who first thought
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of that. If you do, then I must be real since all possibilities exist. As I recall, Hawking's felt
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that it was possible to build a machine, but some sort of vacuum fluctuations would destroy it right
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before you tried to use it. Q. You claim you have no desire to prove your story, yet everything you
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have done has flown in the face of that. I'm not sure that's true. In fact, I've tried to point out
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on at least two occasions that anything I do, at the request of someone else, to support my claim
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can be found someplace else on your world line right now. Q. You will tell us no names, no locations,
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or any specifics as a result of your supposed ethics. If those were indeed the ethics you were
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committed to, you would not be here now. I am curious about this also. Do you think I should
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not interact with you for your safety or mine? Q. Answer this and I will believe you until the
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ends of the earth. Again, you should not offer this to anyone for any reason. Q. How would someone
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that came here with no money all of a sudden have plenty of money? The reason I don't have 2036
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money is because it takes up weight, space, and can be faked, and I can't use it for anything.
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What type of expenses do you think a time traveler would have that I would need so much money for?
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Q. Simply archive your knowledge of any large-scale events over the next six months
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and give it to a custodian. The only problem is, now you have to trust the person who brings the
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information forward. Do you believe that faith alone will get you to God? Do you believe in an
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organized force of evil that works against men's souls? Q. Yes, I believe that faith and good
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works will get me to God. I believe there is an organized force of evil that works against God's
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plan for men's souls. Please don't think me so cynical. I would never insult or degrade someone's
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religious views. My next question would be, what about knowledge? I am a firm believer that faith
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and good works is not enough to get to God. There is a mystery we must solve first.
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Q. I remember you mentioning being religious. How would you answer your own questions?
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Yes, I believe in organized evil. It would sure be easier to carry out an evil plan if no one
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believed you existed. Just curious, can anyone tell me what Satan really means? Had to answer
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those quickly. I have nothing but open-mindedness for religious conversation,
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and I look forward to more. I'll get to the other questions soon. Thanks.
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Q. Artificial microsingularity equals localized cur field. Is this a prediction?
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If you can take that paragraph and find a way to make a dollar from it, then more power to you.
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Q. I never said you're an idiot. I said you are aggravating, which is not really a personal problem.
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Point taken. I apologize.
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Q. You only discuss things that you care about. Seems rather one-sided to me.
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I was hoping it wouldn't be so confrontational. I didn't see how words can harm either one of us.
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You must believe that we both have interesting things to say to each other.
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Isn't that worth it all by itself? Q. What state do you live in now? I am in Florida.
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Q. Is John Teeter your real name? Yes, John Teeter is a real name.
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Q. What is your agenda? If I tell you, I'm sure it will be much less interesting than the mystery of what it is.
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Q. Is this dialogue part of your agenda? If I had a secret agenda, talking to people would not be part of it.
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Q. Does your younger self realize what you are? Yes, he is aware that I exist, but he is not aware of me.
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But he doesn't know who I am. Q. Are you married? No, but I did have a chance to convince myself otherwise.
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Q. What rank are you in the army? It is equivalent of a major.
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Q. Where did you go to basic training? I wasn't fortunate enough to go to basic. We were fighting a war at the time.
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Q. What company were you with and what year did you graduate?
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The organization of the fighting unit I was in fell under the militia. We fought against the organized army.
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Q. Do you have any fears? I fear people who want others to take action based on their own emotions and irrational fears.
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Q. What are the rules for interacting with people who aren't from your time? Do you make friends easily?
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Have common sense and get your job done. Yes, I have friends.
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Q. What would our government do if they found you? I'm sure I would end up in one of their nice little padded cells
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while they poked at my machine with a screwdriver. What do you think they would do?
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Q. What would you do if someone investigated you? Aren't you worried that it's only a matter of time before you are found?
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I don't worry about that very much. No one believes me anyway, right?
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Q. And you said, I very much want to discuss our cultures, but please help me understand
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how you won't be able to change something I tell you that happened on my world line.
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Suppose I told you the space shuttle would have a problem landing at Kennedy tomorrow because
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something goes wrong with the runway. If someone with the authority to do so hears that and makes
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the decision to land at Edwards, then bingo, your future has changed from my past.
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Q. I appreciate you answering these questions, John, and thank you for calling me your friend.
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I'd really like to believe that.
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Q. Rest assured, if I went to the authorities and said, I know a time traveler, I get laughed at.
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The skeptics will always overrule the believers. If that were not the case, I would not be posting
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at all. Q. The U.S. government, Russia, or anyone else would be in the same boat. They would grab
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and hold any time travelers. Yes, that's what I think, too. The irony is, I'm not sure the
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machine will really do anything for them, and all I can give them is stock quotes and sports news.
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Q. John, please don't take my comments about being a fraud personally. I only wanted the honest
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truth. I don't. Truth is something we all want, like opportunity. It's something you have to be
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ready for to recognize it. Q. John, what would it take to get you to stay after spring and leave
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later? My parents are much better at cards than I am. I fear they may not let me leave in such debt.
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If I had all the time I needed, I would spend much more time downloading and archiving.
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Q. I fear that another month or two may not be enough time. I will continue to answer the posts
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as long as I can. Q. Do you have things like Sasquatch, the Loch Ness Monster, and other
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reported unusual animals in the future? We have our swamp monsters, too. In fact, I think it's
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interesting that we all respond to the unknown the same way, regardless of our cultural experience.
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Q. Is remote viewing used? I am only aware of it from this world line. I don't know otherwise.
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Q. Are psychics still in the future? Yes, psychics exist, but I don't have any knowledge of their
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use by the military. Q. Is there a police force in the future? Have any of your leaders been
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jailed or impeached? Yes, we have police, but they are organized in smaller groups. Yes,
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we still have political and religious leaders who find it difficult to obey the law.
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I would submit to you that the law is only as good as the people's willingness
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to apply it evenly and swiftly. Q. Will you post more pictures of the manual?
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Yes, I am pondering posting more of the manual. I am also considering having my departure videotaped,
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and yes, it will be free. My only concern is how it might affect the me on this world line.
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Q. Is there a global superpower? Being a superpower only makes you a target. There is an uneasy
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balance in the world now that everyone probably has nukes, chems, or bios. We don't just bomb
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people for the hell of it anymore. Military power is based on the number of autonomous fighting men
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who are actually willing to fight. Q. You must be accountable for changes that occur in your time
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period. You are correct, but nothing I do here will affect my home. I hold myself accountable
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for any damage I do. In my opinion, people now take clean water, electricity, and their feeling
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of safety for granted. If they leave the city in search of fresh water, they first have to make
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the realization that fresh water is a problem. It's much easier to demand someone else owes you
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fresh water than it is to leave the lifestyle that made it bad in the first place.
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Q. If I were transposed to the 1920s or 30s, you would have a hard time keeping me off the streets.
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I agree with you. The first time I walked into a superstore, I cried. I've never seen so much
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excess in one place at one time. Q. It's interesting that the photos were posted by an anonymous
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time traveler. Those are mine. They were posted by another person whom I'm sure is reading this also
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and would be happy to confirm that. Q. I see a hand control unit with a screen on it. I assume
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this is the computer interface. What does the display show you? It's a display that shows you
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the device. Yes, that is a remote unit. The unit itself gets hot and unapproachable during
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long travel and you're usually subjected to about two Gs. It gets a little difficult to move around
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and the handheld unit sits next to you. The unit displays many things, but time in transit, time
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to destination, VGL variance, and unit temperature are the most common during travel.
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Q. There are 16 buttons. I have to assume that these are multifunction keys. Yes,
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the menus are screen driven. Q. What weapons did you use to protect yourself? Do you have a weapon
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now? I use a shotgun in the war. Yes, I think it's prudent to be prepared for anything.
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Q. What is your favorite food? Oranges. I love them. Q. Your enemy was in the cities.
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Was the president in 2005 also on the enemy side? How did you feel personally about the president
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then? The president or leader in 2005, I believe, tried desperately to be the next Lincoln and hold
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the country together, but many of their policies drove a larger wedge into the Bill of Rights.
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The president in 2009 was interested only in keeping his or her power base. February 21, 2001.
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Q. Would you be able to travel by flying a plane and then go to the future from the air?
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You can only travel in time from a static position, at least with the unit I have. In order to do this,
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you must have knowledge of the local terrain and building structures. That's one of the basic
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protocols we do in any time period for possible future travelers. Q. If each world line is
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separate from the other, then wouldn't the consequences of your actions no effect on your
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original world line? Yes, that's correct. Q. If this is the case, why won't you tell us things
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that will give us knowledge? I am not qualified to judge if you deserve it or not, and I have
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no idea if you may be the next, for lack of a better reference, Hitler. However, if I were able
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to physically help you from a situation because I was there and I knew it was coming, I would help
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you. Q. My guess is that you are not a time traveler and don't want to make anyone do something
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stupid. Yes, I am aware that is the obvious first answer, but I would hope my moral and logical
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arguments are at least make a dent in your thinking. If you were a time traveler, would you be
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comfortable giving out all the information after considering the possible consequences,
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provided you knew it? If I were you, I would be worried about what the next time traveler might
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do, even by mistake. Q. How can I leave a message for myself in the future if the things I do in
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this world line do not affect any other? Just post it here. All this information will probably
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end up on the web in 2036. If you are alive, and you think ahead for some reason to do a search
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on yourself, you might see it. Of course, the you there would have no memory of doing it.
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Q. Your prediction of pending political disintegration beginning in three short years
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is impossible. Have you seen the documentary on Waco? Just for argument's sake, what do you
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think would happen if information were discovered that confirmed the worst accusations made against
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the law enforcement officers there? Would you hope nothing? Q. The idea of a farmer general leaving
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his field to leave his country's troops to victory is an old one. Yes, I often think about that when
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I see pictures of my farmer general in Omaha. It's a large bronze depiction holding a shotgun in one
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hand and a copy of the Constitution in the other. He is looking up at the sky in defiance of God
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after his father was killed. Q. There are only a few stories and all of them are just
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retelling of the same ones in different settings. Just like life, if you take a look, I am answering
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every question in order unless I see something quick that I think needs a response. Thanks.
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Q. How far from a city is the safest place to be? A 10 kiloton nuclear weapon will vaporize metal
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for about half a mile and have a heat effect for about three miles. A 100 megaton nuclear weapon
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will vaporize metal to 35 miles and have a heat effect to about 250 miles. I believe the largest
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nuclear weapon ever built and tested was about 60 megatons. As I recall, the popular strategy today
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is to strike targets with multiple numbers of smaller warheads. The 100 KT to 1 MT are the most
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popular. I believe there are about 150 to 200 major cities in the U.S. and half as many military
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targets. Please correct me, someone, if I am grossly incorrect. Q. You suggest a bicycle. What
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about a horse? Yes, horses are good if you can feed and water them. Also, it's very hard to eat a bicycle.
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Q. Should we be stockpiling guns? The answer to this is no. You will draw a great deal of negative
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attention to yourself. I recommend becoming familiar with firearms. This means taking a safety
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course and learning to shoot and clean many different types. There will be plenty of guns
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around when you need them. Q. What kind of people will be the least trustworthy? The people with the
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most to lose when the world changes are the least trustworthy. Camel through the eye of a needle, anyone?
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Q. Is the conflict racial? No. In fact, I would say it goes a long way towards erasing racial problems.
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Q. Does the war start in such a way that those willing will have time to remove themselves to
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safer locations? Yes. You will be forced to ask yourself how many civil rights you will give up
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to feel safe. Q. Will we be able to identify the enemy? They will be the ones arresting and holding
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people without due process. Q. Does living near a river solve water problems? There is an old saying
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that might be appropriate here. Safe is anywhere a hungry person can walk in three days. Water is
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important, but you must consider that when people need it, they will know where to get it. I would
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not plan on planting myself permanently next to a water source. Yes, distillation does make water
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safe, but the residue is highly dangerous. Please remember that distillation is not boiling.
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Q. How are the five people within the hundred miles contacted?
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The goal is to have a place to go other than your house and to be able to trust someone with your
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life. Foster those relationships now. Q. Do communications stay intact during the war?
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Main communication systems do not stay intact. CB, sideband, and non-repeating shortwave
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are quite useful in the future. But be mobile. Set aside the things you absolutely would need
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and can carry on your back. You will not be able to stay anywhere indefinitely, even with provisions
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and firearms. Q. Will soldiers be ordered to kill their countrymen? I'm not positive, but don't they
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sign a small piece of paper now asking them if they would have a problem with that? Q. In my
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experiment, the time traveler goes 30 seconds into the past. 30 seconds before his experiment
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started, he saw himself appear in the lab. There are now two travelers and two time machines. It
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would appear as a time loop and an infinite number of duplicates set at duplicate self appear in the
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lab 30 seconds prior to the start of the trip. Yes, that's possible. Q. What is the mass of the
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new time travelers and where did the mass come from? The other mass comes from other world lines.
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I like to think of it as standing in a room with mirrors on the walls and the apparent me in the
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room next to mine steps into the room from his. Q. What is the result of the duplicates arriving
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at the same time? Psychological confusion and a few fist fights. Q. How long would it take for the
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loop to end? The chances of hitting the precise world line where all the other duplicates are
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arriving is almost zero. It's possible, but increasingly less probable with each arriving
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duplicate. The divergence decays and the world line is less available for new use to arrive on.
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Q. What happens if the experimenter decides not to continue the experiment?
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He can always leave the room on his own world line or put a desk full of his books in the
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position where the time machine is arriving every 30 seconds. That will probably trip the VGL system
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and stop the time machine from arriving. Q. Do you remember any poetry from your past?
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A soldier's winter, the day before it wasn't snowing, the trees are strangers, leering,
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disapproving in the ash of winter, my world, my life, my wandering path. I pray God's eyes may
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once again gaze upon me and remind me that I am still his child. I only remember the first and
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the last lines. It has been quite a few more. It is rumored that this was written first as a
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letter by a soldier. After he died, it was added to and edited by others. In my opinion,
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it has become a symbol for the collective guilt my parents' generations feel for what became of
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the world. Q. Is there a market for new books in the future? Are most of the books available
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in the future? Are most of the books available old or new? Yes, but there are no large commercial
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printing or distribution companies. Books and other forms of hard media are distributed on the
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web and printed or put on other media from local hubs. Q. As a judge of character, have you read
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J.R.R. Tolkien? Did you enjoy his work? My father read The Hobbit to me as a child.
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I was always afraid of the dark writers, but perhaps I admired them too.
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February 22, 2001. I will get to all the questions. I'm trying to comment on them in
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order. I'm posting the names before all the questions, so if you feel I missed something,
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just bring it up again. I saw something last night that I wanted everyone's opinion on.
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It concerns two television commercial advertisements that same cellular phone product.
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The first commercial I didn't understand right away, but the second was obvious. In the first
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commercial, a man dressed in cold weather gear appears to be in a snowstorm. He's on his cellular
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phone saying goodbye to his family as if he was going to die in the storm. We then see he is
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standing in front of a snow machine at a ski resort area. In the second commercial, another
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man dressed in cold weather gear is talking on his cellular phone. We see a young woman inviting
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him to a romantic evening. He seems a bit stunned and excited, hangs up the phone and runs off.
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We then see he has abandoned an unconscious person he was giving emergency medical treatment to.
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Q. What do you think of these commercials?
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February 23, 2001. Q. I assume you do a lot of reading. Do you read fiction?
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I'm a big fan of Conrad, Twain, London, and any type of religious apocrypha. Q. What brought you
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to this forum? When I decided to present or reveal myself as a displacement driver, I had been
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watching similar boards for quite a while. I believe the only way to accept what I have to
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say as being remotely possible requires an open mind able to temporarily suspend major portions
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of the belief in logical systems. Q. What happens to Bill Clinton? I don't really know. Q. What
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happens to Bill Gates? This I do know, but I won't discuss. February 24, 2001. Q. Why are
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orphans a problem? Problems with the environment are still having lasting effects on all people,
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which causes the average lifespan to be lower. In addition, people are more susceptible to accidents.
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Family life and children are very highly valued, and the community takes the responsibility for
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raising children if their parents die. Q. What is the biggest environmental problem in the future?
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Water. You need it for everything, and there's very little left in the world that is positively
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safe to drink. Q. Do people still watch some kind of TV? Yes, but it isn't broadcast anymore.
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Q. Are there women on the travel team? Not that I'm aware of, but I would assume there are women
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who are either trained or are training for the type of work. I don't know why they wouldn't be.
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Q. What is the status of women in the future? I understand the question, but I have nothing
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to relate it to in 2036. The status of women is the same as men. Equality issues disappeared
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during the war. Q. Do women hold public office? Yes. Q. Do women work outside the home? Women
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are not expected to stay home and be barefoot and pregnant, if that's what you mean.
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Q. Do women get equal pay? Yes. Q. Are women safe on the streets at night?
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There is still crime, but people do not attack each other the way they do here.
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Q. What do women wear for the most part? Clothing is more functional. Women wear very similar
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clothing as men when working or training. In our free time or with our family and friends,
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clothing is much more individualized. Long dresses, knitted sweaters, and pants are still quite
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popular. You'll have to forgive me. I'm not very good at describing women's clothing. Q.
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Are the Amish alive and well in the future? Yes, I believe they are. Q. What is the birth rate?
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I don't know the exact figures, but having children is radically lower than it is now.
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It is the one thing I wish we had that you enjoy here. Q. Is there an unusual rate of
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birth defects? Yes, mostly stillborn. Q. You said that your culture was centered around the
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universities. Weren't they wiped out in the war? Not all major universities are in large cities.
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Q. Do you use cell phones in the future? Yes, we use a form of cell phone. Q. Do people eat red meat?
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Yes, but not as much as you do. Q. Do people drive cars in the future? Yes, but they are not
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produced in nearly the same numbers or used in the same way. Q. Are airlines still in operation
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in the future? Yes, but again, not nearly as many. Q. Do airlines travel internationally? Yes,
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but most people don't really want to go overseas. Q. Are people pressured into a Christian doctrine?
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Not at all. Q. Do the police make drug busts? No. Q. Are there jails? What kind of criminals are in
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them? Yes, there are jails. Mostly theft, fraud, rape, and murder. Q. What kind of public punishment
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is there in the future? Hard labor, community service, banishment, you must move to another
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community, and public execution. Q. Your justice system sounds like New England during religious
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persecution and intolerance. How do you define intolerance? We don't really have the energy or
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desire to waste time being intolerant. If you produce and help the community, then you can do
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anything you want within the law. Q. Are there herbal medicines and alternative lifestyles in the
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future? Yes. Q. Is there personal freedom in the future? Yes, the same freedoms you enjoy under
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the Constitution. Q. Is there an IRS? Yes, we pay taxes. Sounds like you don't enjoy keeping
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track of your personal income taxes. I don't think anybody does. Q. Is the same type of money used?
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Will our money be good in 2010 or 2020? Yes, we use money. That's a good question. I don't see
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why you couldn't use your current bills in the future. Q. Other than time travel, how do most
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people get around the country? Do people travel very much? There is a high speed train system,
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horseback, bike, walking. Automobiles are used mostly for sport and some transportation.
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Q. Are people suspicious of strangers, or is everyone just one big happy family? There is
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still conflict and mistrust. Yes, I am suspicious of strangers. I think that's an instinct we all
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are given to help us stay alive. Q. How do most people die during the war? In this order, starvation,
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disease, bullet wounds, radiation. It's been pointed out to me that the links to the pictures
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are all down for some reason. Q. John, do names have anything to do with the future of time travel?
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There are numerous people and organizations that contribute to the practical application
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of physical time travel. I think you would be surprised how much real work is being done right
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now. Q. If you videotape your departure and your family sends the tape to someone,
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would this affect you in the future? It wouldn't affect me on my home world line in the least.
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I would only be concerned how it would affect the me here. Of course, it may be a large part
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of my secret agenda and I have no choice but to do it anyway. Q. I doubt that anyone could determine
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that you actually time traveled, but it would be a good show. I wonder what it would have been
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like to see a plane break the sound barrier before the jet engine was invented. Q. You said that
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there would be a war. Can you at least tell us which cities will be nuked? No, I won't do that.
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However, I submit to you that when the moment comes, it will be absolutely plain as day that
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you are unsafe in the cities. The millions of people that stay will choose to stay.
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That's what comes as a surprise. Q. Are you traveling in space in 2036? Not yet, but they're
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working on it. Q. Has there been contact with an alien race in the future? Not that I'm aware of.
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Q. You say your machine has a 60 year limit. Is it possible to go back 60 years and then another
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60 years? Yes, that is possible, but that divergence grows exponentially as you move farther away from
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your world line of origin. I could make 50 year jumps to go back and see what the world looked
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like 2000 years ago, but there is a strong chance it would look nothing like what I expect. There
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are larger distortion units that are more accurate and have a larger window. Q. Have scientists in
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2036 proved the world line theory? Is there any information you can share with us that proves it?
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The many worlds theory seems to wrap up very nicely into current string theory. Unfortunately,
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we have not solved string theory yet either, but n to negative 10 seems to be the best working
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model we have in 2036. As you are probably aware, the big equation does not need the
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final solution in order to take advantage of the smaller parts that do work in the real world.
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Q. You say you don't want to affect anything by giving information, but you could change this
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world line just by talking about the war. I don't believe that knowing a possible future makes it
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happen. You are capable of changing your world line for the better right now. None of the things
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I have said will be a surprise. They were said in motion 10, 20, even 30 years ago. Are you really
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surprised to find out that Iraq has nukes now or is that just BS to whip everyone up into accepting
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the next war? Q. I would love to come along with you for a ride to the future. I appreciate the
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offer, but I'm not sure you would like the year 2036. Q. Please tell us the next great moment in
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music. I appreciate your frustration and quite a few people have asked me questions like this.
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The expected answer is that I don't want to break my personal code of time travel ethics.
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The real answer is I just don't know. I was not prepared for the year 2001. I was prepared for
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1975. I don't suppose it would be very impressive if I told you disco would be big until 1980.
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Q. Am I getting this? You can take all the people you want to go to the future
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in the back of your Chevy truck. Actually, the question was rhetorical. No one is going back
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with me. Thanks. One thing I do find interesting about time travel tech is the expectation that
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we can pretty much go anywhere at any time. These systems are quite complicated and they
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do have limitations. Are you going to be around in 1975? February 26, 2001. Q. Nuclear warfare
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doesn't seem to be the biggest form of fighting in the future. Nuclear war will be very effective
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at destroying an enemy's economy and the people's will to fight. Q. I don't think nuclear warheads
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are going to be shot from each end of the globe. I would caution you against that. That's exactly
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what they want you to think while they continue to develop smaller and more accurate MIRVs. Have
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you ever seen a neutron bomb the size of a basketball? Q. You say one of the hardest things
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to do in 2036 is buying clean water. You also say you only trust food you've grown. Is any of this
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a result of your experiences with biological warfare? Yes and no. Yes, biological warfare and
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accidents do cause a great deal of problems, but the lack of a working infrastructure also hinders
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the continuation of the food manufacturing you depend on now. Q. Is there any more information
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on your family you can give us? Once I leave, I would not want any attention to come to my family.
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Q. Is the date of your return to the future April 19th? That is the day to remember,
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but I was thinking more along the lines of March 21st.
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Q. The most likely leader of a war movement like the one you describe would be a farmer.
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Throughout history, farmers have often been a target of oppression because they are absolutely
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necessary to civilization, but too busy to defend themselves. If you push a farmer too far,
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they stop growing food and have nothing to do but hide in the woods and shoot back.
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Q. My asking about CERN as a prediction was a genuine question and had nothing to do with
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making money. Is this comment a hint about the future? Please do not be offended by my
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making a buck remark. I say it with a wink to help other people form their questions. Yes,
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some very interesting things will be going on at CERN in the near future.
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Q. What is interesting is the type of questions being asked and the apparent hostility that you
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are being subjected to for no reason. Yes, I find that interesting too. Sometimes I wonder
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what people are really angry about and I have come to the conclusion that frustration is often
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directed at the messenger. But then again, that's history. Q. Is your sense of timing off in new
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environments? No, my timing isn't off. I do however find myself stopping in mid-stride and paying
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extra attention to my environment when I forget when I am. When I was a child, my mother would
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tell me stories about angels. She told me that angels found it hard to communicate with man
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because man could remember his past but couldn't see his future. Angels, acting as the eyes and
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servants of God, had no memory of the past but had infinite knowledge of the future.
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Although I am no angel, I often thought about that story after I left 2036.
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Q. John, you were born about halfway into this cycle. Gen Xers would be about 40 to 50 years old
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in 2036. In my opinion, the Gen Xers ended up in two categories. There were the ones who had
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learned to be independent by breaking away from tradition and society's expectations, and the
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others who had no idea how to take care of themselves and just wanted the trains to run on time.
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The ones in the first group feel very guilty about letting the world go to hell, and the
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ones in the second group are dead. February 27, 2001. Q. You say you were in the militia
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fighting the U.S. Army. I would think civilians would have no chance of successfully fighting the
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military. You must realize that why people are fighting is more important than what they are
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fighting with. The conflict was not about taking and holding ground. It was about order and rights.
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They were betting that people wanted security instead of freedom, and they were wrong. Q.
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Is it a stalemate with the resistance militia hiding out until the cities are wiped out,
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allowing them to surface? The cities were not isolated because of them. They were isolated
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because of us. Q. You give the approximate number of cities and military bases intact before the
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nuclear attack. Are they all hit? Nuclear weapons and guidance systems are less than perfect.
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Most target receives more than one warhead, but some of them were more accurate than others.
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I would estimate the overall accuracy was around 60 to 70 percent. Q. You talked about safe places
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before. Three days walk from where? In my experience, a motivated, starving person is
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only capable of walking about three days. The more distance you put between yourself
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and anyone who is likely to be hungry, the better. Does anyone stay neutral during the war?
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Some try to. Q. Does anyone lead a normal life during the Civil War? No. Q. You say the Civil
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War lasts from 2004 to 2008, and then the short, big war in 2015. What do the years from 2008 to
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2015 look like? How long does World War III last? I'm not sure I said that exactly. By 2008,
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I would say the civil conflict is pretty much at everyone's doorstep. Western instability during
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the conflict leads to the attack in 2015. World War III is very short with a longer period of mop-up.
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Q. You mentioned Canadians, but I don't think you mentioned the impact of that country.
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There's not a great deal I know about Canada, except to say they were pretty much in the same
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type of conflict. They did have the do line, you know. Q. You said the position of women is
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controversial and conservative in the future. What does that mean? It certainly isn't
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disrespectful. I apologize if it sounded that way. It's one of those areas I realize will be
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difficult to discuss because we may lack similar experiences. In 2036, there was not a desire
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to have it all. With factors such as the difficulty in conceiving and the decentralization of
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production and industry, there is not an unrealistic scramble to have a career and a family.
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At a necessity and circumstance, family life has become more traditional. However, there are many
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families where the wife or mother is the main breadwinner and the husband, father, remains home
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with his family. The difference is this method of decision making. People do not have children
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if they are able unless they can devote the required resources to maintain them.
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Q. What type of money system do you have on your world line? It's not very different than it is now.
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Yes, we have money and credit cards. However, like everything else, the monetary system is
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decentralized. Banking is based mostly around the community structure. There are no multinational
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banking or computerized economic systems. There are also no income taxes.
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Q. Is there an IRS and a need to keep a lot of receipts and paperwork?
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Yes, we pay taxes. I have considered going into more detail about the tax system,
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but I didn't have a great deal of time. Currently, I am watching my father go over all his taxes
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and he doesn't look like he's having a very good time. My comment referred to the collective
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misery I see around me as the
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time of year. I do enjoy the questions and I appreciate the interest.
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Q. On the 30-second time travel experiment? I suppose there is a difference between a thought
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experiment and the real world. It appears we have our virtual laboratories confused as I'm not sure
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I understand all the rules to your experiment. Then it occurred to me that in your position,
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this is all just a thought experiment anyway. I will try to be more literal in my explanation.
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I'm not positive, but I don't see anything that indicates the time traveler would remain in the
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same spot once he arrives. 30 seconds is almost long enough to get coffee in your thought
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experiment. If that were true, and they all kept moving, then the experiment could go on for quite
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a while until the planet filled with time travelers. You also stated it would appear
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as a time loop. If it only appears that way, then the natural divergence may stop the experiment
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when three or four time travelers arrive and the others end up on different world lines.
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Q. The problem is what happens to the duplicates as they arrive at virtually the exact same
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location at the same time? Again, you use the word virtually, which to me means not exactly
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the same spot. Under the laws of physics, I don't personally know what happens if I were
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on exactly the same spot, but I do know it's possible. Under the operational limits of the
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distortion unit, as soon as the VGL sensors pick up an unexpected mass in the target world line,
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it would shut down and drop off in a world line where your experiment is not occurring.
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Q. Given their masses will occupy the same space, what prevents a naked singularity from forming?
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I see. Now they are in the same space. I suppose that's a possibility. If so, then as soon as the
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experiment started, a singularity would form under the infinite mass and swallow the planet.
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Perhaps they tried this on Cygnus. Q. It's a cute creative answer, but it didn't
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address my question. What is a loop? Will it decay and how long will it take to decay?
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Well, I think it's a nice creative question too. Under your example, the loop would terminate as
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soon as the singularity forms and would be constantly fed by all the arriving time travelers.
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After taking a quick shower and listening to the quiet hum of my archiving hard drives,
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I decided that, foreign member name, and I may have made bad second impressions on each other.
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I find it ironic because it's people like, same name, that will actually solve those physical
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issues and make it possible for people like me to go back in time and argue with them.
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So I hope there are no hard feelings. It also reminds me of a short story between a bicycle
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maker in the 1900s and a man who could fly faster than sound. Bicycle maker. Well, Mr. Mock,
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if your plane can go faster than the speed of sound, how did you solve the compressibility
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problem that would tear your flimsy craft to pieces? Mr. Mock, first off, the aircraft are
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much more stable and made of metal instead of wood and fabric. Second, it is possible to pass
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the sound barrier by designing the wings and body to move the shock wave down the plane as you
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surpass the speed of sound. Bicycle maker. Really? Planes made of metal? Well, if your plane can
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fly faster than sound, then why don't you just fly to the moon? Mr. Mock, doesn't work that way.
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You need air to make the engine function. Bicycle maker. I see. Your plane can go faster than sound,
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but needs air to function. That's convenient, and it all sounds like a penny book fantasy to me.
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Mr. Mock, perhaps, perhaps not.