Re: [OT] Time Travellers' Convention

Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it.

This was already done in the 1960s, at MIT.

If you missed it, go back.

"Kenneth Downs" <knode.wants.this_at_see.sigblock> wrote in message news:ieakk2-9a2.ln1_at_pluto.downsfam.net...
> A student at MIT is hosting the worlds ONLY time travellers' convention
this
> Saturday.
>
> Naturally there only needs to be one, because of course if you like it you
> can just go back.
>
> They are somewhat afraid of parking issues, because there is only one
> convention, if people like it, they'll tell their friends, and so on and
so
> on, and things will get hairy fast. This suggests that the more
> civic-minded time travellers who have attended the convention already many
> times may have had the courtesy to come back last week and give them an
> idea of what they'd need, but since none have done so, there is some
> suggestion that the convention has already flopped.
>
> If you are thinking of showing up and claiming to be a time traveller, the
> organizers warn they do have some ways to detect fraudulant time
> travellers, though they are being tight-lipped about it.
>
> In the event that the event is snubbed by the world's time travellers,
they
> also have music and games and some talks by Physicists on time travel.
>
> We now return you to your regularly scheduled database theory.
> --
> Kenneth Downs
> Secure Data Software, Inc.
> (Ken)nneth@(Sec)ure(Dat)a(.com)
Received on Sat May 07 2005 - 14:57:12 CDT