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1 If you are in need of help, you need but ask....
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2 ************************* REMOVED 8 FEB 84 *****************
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3 Welcome to BWMS (BackWater Message System) Mike Day System operator
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4 ************************************************************
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5 GENERAL DISCLAIMER: BWMS IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY INFORMATION
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6 PLACED ON THIS SYSTEM.
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7 BWMS was created as an electronic bill board. BWMS is a privatly owned
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8 and operated system which is currently open for use by the general public.
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9 No restrictions are placed on the use of the system. As the system is
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10 privatly owned, I retain the right to remove any and all messages which
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11 I may find offensive. Because of the limited size of the system, it will be
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12 periodically purged of messages. (only 629 lines of data can be saved)
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13 To leave a message, type 'ENTER' and use ctrl/C or break to get out of the
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14 ENTER mode. The message is automatically stored. If after entering the
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15 message you find you made a mistake, use the replace command to replace
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16 the line. To exit from the system, type 'OFF' then hang up.
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17 Type 'HELP' to see other commands that are available on the system.
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18 ************************************************************
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19
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20 ppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
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21 Smiling ruefully at his friend the bard, the piper agrees:
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22 "Yes, I too need to spend more time blowing these pipes than oiling the piper.
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23 I'll have these things going again soon and be able to give my attention o
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24 some of the other happenings here."
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25 With a deft twist the piper slid the slim conical chanter of the pipes out
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26 of the wooden stock. Placing it to his mouth, he ran a few scales up and down.
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27 Shaking his head slowly, he twisted the reed out of the chanter, and slid the
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28 skean dhu from under the flash on his left hose top. The razor sharp blade
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29 spat glints of light as he carefully shaved off a tiny sliver of the reed.
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30 He placed the bare reed in his mouth with just the opening protruding, and
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31 blew a short "kaaaaw kaaaw". Sliding the sheathed knife back into his hose
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32 top, the piper placed the reed into the chanter. Another quick scale, a minute
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33 adjustment of the seating of the reed and he reassembled the pipes.
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34 At that moment, someone (daver was the name?) finished telling a long involved
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35 story, and at the punch line, shaggy dog hair cascaded out from his table.
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36 "omigod!" the piper exclamed. "telling a shaggy dog story in a
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37 trans-dimensional tavern is a dangerous business!"
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38 Swinging his pipes to his shoulder, the piper inflates the bag. A soft moan
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39 comes out of the pipes as the bag reaches its capacity, then stops. With a
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40 deft hand, the piper presses the inflated bag, starting the drones, then
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41 squeezes the bag with his elbow. The high, thin voice of the chanter cuts
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42 in forming a primitive harmony with the fixed drones. Fingers flitting like
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43 hummingbirds darting from flower to flower, the piper feels out the notes of
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44 a song. Satisfied with the tone of his pipes, the piper swings into a set
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45 of dance tunes: pert and lively strathspeys -- the keel row, munlochy bridge,
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46 rose amongst the heather, then the sean trubhais. His eyes nearly closed as
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47 he listens to his tunes the piper does not see the pile of dog hair disappear
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48 from the table near him.
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49 ppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
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50 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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51 Ok, you've discussed what might happen if you were to travel back
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52 into time, but what about going forward. This would eliminate
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53 most of the paradoxes at this end, but what about the other end?
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54 Would someone be able to use time travel to predict the future,
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55 or by such predicting would he alter some factor that would
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56 also change the future he had visited? Or is time not only
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57 relative but sort of random as well, so that any future we
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58 visit has about as much chance and a coin flip of becoming
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59 reality?
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60 Consider also, what if only one way travel is possible?
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61 What if once you got to your destination (either in the past or
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62 the future) you could only go further?
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63 Bo
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64 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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65 This is a story from the book, Destiny, that I promised. For the sake of saving space I will use 126 wide columns.
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66
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67 THE RESCUE OF MARY ELLEN CONNOLLY
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68
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69 In the New York City of a century past, Etta Wheeler was a nurse and a church worker. She made rounds through the tenement
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70 houses, helping out when and wherever she could.
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71 It was in 1873 that Mrs. Wheeler began hearing the stories. Neighbors in one tenement house were certain something terrible
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72 was going on in the Connolly apartment. Every night they heard the screams of asmall child. Would Mrs. Wheeler please look
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73 into it, the neighbors asked?
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74 The reports were too disturbing to be ignored, and so one day Mrs. Wheeler knocked on the apartment door of Mr. Francis
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75 Connolly and his wife Mary.
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76 Yes, they had a child, they said. A nine-year old foster daughter named Mary Ellen. What of it?
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77 Mrs. Wheeler talked herself inside and caught a glimpse of the unimaginable truth. The Connollys had chained their little
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78 girl to her bedpost. Her body was covered with wounds and welts and bruises in various stages of healing. She was emaciated
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79 from what could not have been more than a bread-and-water diet.
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80 Seeing this, Mrs. Wheeler demanded that the child be turned over to her. The Connollys told the nurse to mind her own
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81 business and be on her way. For months thereafter Mrs. Wheeler returned to the Connolly apartment, hoping to rescue little
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82 Mary Ellen, and yet each time the door was slammed in her face.
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83 Everywhere the nurse sought assistance in the matter, she was refused. Charitable organizations insisted they were helpless
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84 unless the youngster could be brought to them legally. The police and the district attorney could do nothing until evidence
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85 was furnished that a crime had been committed. And in 1873 there were no laws against child abuse---only and unwritten law
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86 that parents could rear their children in whatever way they saw fit, even if that way were unspeakably brutal.
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87 The "meddling" Mrs. Wheeler had one last hope: a gentlemen named Henry Bergh. Mr. Bergh and the men serving under him
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88 comprised a law enforcement agency. They were granted police power in New York City.
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89 Early in 1874, Mrs. Wheeler visited this same Henry Bergh, described the ordeal of little Mary Ellen Connolly, and begged
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90 Bergh to intervene. Moved by what he had heard, Bergh immediately assigned two of his best officers to the case. They
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91 invaded the Connolly apartment and, armed with a writ of habeas corpus, took the cowering child into their protective custody.
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92
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93 Weak and hurting, whiplashed and scissor-slashed, the little girl had to be brought into the courtroom on a stretcher.
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94 Spectators, men and women alike, wept aloud. The judge himself had to turn away, so pitiful was Mary Ellen's appearance.
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95 There, in the middle of it all, was Henry Bergh, his voice filled with emotion as he recited the law which would save Mary
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96 Ellen and send her abusing mother to the penitentiary for one year.
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97 A warm, loving home was found for the wretched little girl. It sounds like a fairy tale, but she really did live happily
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98 ever after.
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99 And so did many others like her. For it was the case of Mary Ellen Connolly which inspired this nations movement to protect
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100 defenseless children.
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101 Even more specifically, that movement owes Henry Bergh. For when he rescued that battered child from a New York tenement, he
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102 did so by the authority of the only extant law that applied.
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103 Henry Bergh was the founder and president of the ASPCA.
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104 To save Mary Ellen's life, he had to state in court, 'Your Honor, the child is an animal."
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105
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106 Now you know THE REST OF THE STORY.
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107
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108 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ P. V. Jeltz++++++++++++
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109 ####################################################"#############!#####!
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110 He relaxed in his chair, enjoying the atmosphere of the Inn for another
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111 evening. Most of the tomatoes and popcorn tossed at him from the last tale
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112 had been cleared away, and some of his listeners had even returned to the
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113 table. "Time, travel, eh?" Daver mused, "well, how about this one..."
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114
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115 It was one of those hot, lazy California afternoons when it's so quiet
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116 that even the insects don't seem to move, and you can watch the lizards
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117 sweat. I was tossing stones into the crater, seeing if I could get one out to
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118 the shadowed center of the cone, out to where she lay under the boiling stone.
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119 If she was sleeping peacefully there in Hell's tomb, I wanted to wake her up.
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120 I was scuffing up my new shoes breaking loose another rock when the
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121 Commissioner's airfoil sighed to a stop at the base of the slope next to
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122 my new speeder, showering it with dust. I'd left the top down. I waited
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123 patiently, staring down at the cracked and broken earth at my feet, feeling
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124 the heat soak through my suit while he waved his guard to stay with the car
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125 and started up to meet me. The old geezer was puffing when he finally made
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126 the lip of the crater. I leaned against a convenient boulder and contemplated
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127 the best use of my current stone, waiting for him to make the first move, and
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128 wishing I'd brought my pills. Elected officials give me gas.
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129 "Good afternoon, Connors. How's the investigation going?" he started
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130 in, loosening his tie.
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131 His name was Dinny Cookston, and by the grace of the people of Los
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132 Angeles, god love'm, he was my boss. I amused myself by trying to toss a rock
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133 on the ground just under where the sweat dripping off of his jowls would land.
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134 "I'm afraid we're going to have to call this one a wash, Commissioner. I've
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135 closed the case."
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136 "Now, Jim," he temporized, "We've been getting a lot of heat down at
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137 headquarters from some very important people to find Doctor Jaffee's killer.
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138 You were even an eye witness to the crime. Now what could be so difficult?"
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139 he showed his teeth.
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140 I hate it when he calls me Jim. "You've read my reports." Actually I
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141 hadn't filed any reports in the whole two weeks since Doc Jaffee bit the big
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142 one. I just wanted to know if he did anything in that big office...
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143 #############################daver##"####################################
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144 & & &
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145 BO: There really is such a thing as time travel. It is strictly one-way,
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146 forward, and we are all doing it all of the (pardon me) time.
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147 && The Mad Actor &&
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148 *:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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150 SO MUCH FOR THE CALMITIES OF THE FORMER BACKWATER INN THAT I SO MUCH ADORED
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151 IN THE DAYS GONE PAST. AIE IT IS A SAD SIGHT TO SEE IT DIWNDLE SO.
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152
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153 OBVIOUSLY THE ONLY ANSWER TO MY PROBLEMS IS SUICIDE. HA!
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154 SUICIDE IS NOT A SOLUTION. ONLY A WAY OUT.
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155
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156 A WISE MAN WONCE TOLD ME ASK NOT WHY OR HOW. JUST UNDERSTAND THAT IT
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157 IS. AND CAN ONLY BE CHANGED BY YOU AS IT IS YOU THAT WRITES THE STORY THAT
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158 BELONGS TO THE WORLD.
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159
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161 MY, MY, MY. HOW PROFOUND I CAN BE IN TIMES OF DISTRESS. CAN ANYONE
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162 TELL ME WHERE I CAN FIND MY FRIENDS???
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163 THEY WERE HERE A MINUTE O!!!!!!!!!!!
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168 TA DA! IT HAS ARRIVED
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169
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170 *:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*: DRAMBOUIE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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171
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172 ===================================================================
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173 VAL:
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174 THE SQUARE ROOT OF -5 IS EASILY FOUND USING IMAGINARY NUMBERS,
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175 INDEED, EVERY 'UNSOLVABLE' IN MATHEMETICS HAS AN ANSWER, YOU MIGHT NEED
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176 TO INVENT A NEW NUMBER SYSTEM TO FIND IT, BUT ISN'T THAT ALL MATHEMETICS
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177 IS, AN INVENTION WITH WHICH WE CAN USE TO EXPLAIN REALITY.
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178
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179 DOES THE PROBLEM OF TIME TRAVEL FIT IN HERE SOMEHOW?
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180
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181 SQR(-5)=(SQR(5))I <== THAT SHOULD BE A SMALL 'I'
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182 EVAN
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183
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184 ====================================================================
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185
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186 MESSAGE TO SYSOP...
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187 THERE WAS A SERIES OF ARTICLES IN "COMPUTE" WRITTEN BY A MICHAEL DAY. ARE
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188 YOU THAT PERSON?
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189 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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190 The Mad Actor:
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191 My apologies for missing the obvious. Now if we could only figure
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192 out how to control direction.
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193 Bo
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194 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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195 & & &
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196 Does anyone out there have a large, four-dimensional, steering wheel?
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197 The problem is not only direction, but location/area. A singularity of
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198 sorts. What is needed is a way to localize the effect, for if everything is
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199 going the same direction it all looks normal. For all we know time may
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200 actually turn back and forth, we wouldn't be able to percieve the difference
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201 from where we stand.
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202 This, of course, is impossible.
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203 && The Mad Actor &&
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204 *********************************************************
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205 TO PERSON ABOVE ASKING ABOUT THE COMPUTE! ARTICLES,
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206 YES, I AM THE SAME PERSON WHO WROTE THEM. I HAVE
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207 NOT WRITTEN ANY OF LATE AS I NO LONGER HAVE THE TIME
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208 AVAILABLE TO DO SO.
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209 ***************** CISTOP MIKEY ***************************
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210
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211 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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212 Standing at the side of the road as the cold east wind
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213 billows his cloak behind him. Tarn looks once more at Emer who
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214 stands there quietly in front of him. "Will you not speak at
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215 all? Why do you torture me thus? Have I offended thee?"
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216 Frustration, concern, and sorrow pass through his mind, though
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217 worry is above them all. Why does she not speak? Has his dark
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218 manner caused him to lose a dear friend? Will he never hear that
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219 sparkling voice and gentle tones leave those lips again? Even
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220 greater is the worry that she may have returned to ways of old
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221 and lost her voice. Looking again, her image before him begins
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222 to fade. With fear that she may be lost, Tarn quickly snatches
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223 the twig from the Rowan bush from his lapel and holds it out to
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224 her in offering.
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225 * Tarn *
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226 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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227 ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
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228 MODEM AND SYSTEM OF MIG GOING bOWN RERY FAST,BACK WHEN I`CAN
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229 MAN IN GRAY
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230 ??????????/?????/???/?/??/???????????????????????????????????????????????1~~3~[]
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231 &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
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232 LETS GET SOME MORE CONCEPTS INTO THIS TOPIC. FIRST OF ALL THE CONCEPT OF
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233 TACHYONS AND TARDYONS. THE TARDYONS ARE ALL MATTER AS WE KNOW IT. THEY ALWAYS
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234 TRAVEL AT LESS THAN OR EQUAL TO THE SPEED OF LIGHT. TACHYONS ARE PARTICLES
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235 THAT TRAVEL ABOVE THE SPEED OF LIGHT. IF WE BELIEVE DOC EINSTIEN, THESE
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236 F-T-L PARTICLES MOVE BACKWARD IN TIME.
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237 NOW CONSIDER THE BLACK HOLE. NO PARTICLES MOVING THE SPEED OF LIGHT OR
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238 LESS CAN ESCAPE INSIDE THE EVENT HORIZON. HOW ABOUT TACHYONS? CAN THEY GET OUT?
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239 IF THEY CAN, IS IT NOT FEASIBLE THAT ALL MATTER ENTERING A BLACK HOLE IS
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240 CONVERTED TO IT'S TACHYON EQUIVALENT? GOING BY THE ABOVE, WE NOW MOVE BACK
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241 IN TIME. THUS WE CAN USE BLACK HOLES TO TRAVEL BACK IN TIME. WHEN WE REACH THE
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242 PROPER TIME, WE GO THROUGH A WHITE HOLE(QUASARS OR PULSARS?) AND CONVERT TO
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243 NORMAL MATTER. TWO PROBLEMS OCCURR, THOUGH. WE CAN'T MOVE FOWARD AT FASTER
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244 THAN NORMAL RATE. TO RETURN TO YOUR TIME YOU MUST TRAVEL BACK THROUGH THE
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245 BIRTH OF THE UNIVERSE, OVER TO THE END, AND BACK TO YOUR OWN TIME. THIS ASSUMES
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246 THAT TIME IS CYCLIC, OF COURSE. IF IT IS NOT, WE HAVE A SERIOUS PROBLEM.
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247 THE SECOND PROBLEM IS THAT WE CAN'T GET THORUGHT THE EVENT HORIZON OF A BLACK
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248 HOLE WITHOUT BEING PULVERIZED BY THE TIDAL FORCES. THIS HOWEVER IS A MINOR
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249 PROBLEM CONSIDERING THE ORIGIONAL THEORY.
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250
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251 THIS BRINGS SOME PSEUDO-SCIENTIFIC FACTS INTO THE AREA, SO LET'S KEEP
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252 THE COMMENTS COMING!!!!
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253
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255 P.S. TO M.I.G. TARGET DID NOT SHOW UP, SO I NEED SOME HELP TO ACCOMPLISH
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256 THE MISSION ONE DAY AT LUNCH. YOU DIDN'T MISS MUCH. THE NEXT ONE WILL BE TO GO
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257 TO R.H.P.S. AND YOU ARE INVITED TO THAT ONE. ROBBIE HAS NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE.
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258
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259 JONATHAN CHANCE
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260 &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
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261 pppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
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262 The piper swung the pipes from his shoulder and turned to the group deep in
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263 scientific and pseudo-scientific speculation.
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264 "Gentlemen. Should you be silly enough to actually want to experiment with
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265 non-subjective time travel, the basic mechanism is much simpler than a black
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266 hole. I believe that Hawking's work is responsible for the calculation --
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267 at any rate all you need is 1/4 solar mass formed into a rod longer than it
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268 is wide rotating at ten thousand rpm. I don't have access to the information
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269 at this moment, but under enough duress could probably find it. Oh-- I think
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270 the dimensions are important, too. You will probably have to use some form
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271 of degenerate matter to get the mass small enough. You navigate by the vector
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272 of your approach.
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273 Another thing -- you needen't worry too much about paradoxes--
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274 they presuppose a cause-effect relationship. Hawking also showed that in the
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275 presence of an event horizon such as surrounds a black hole, causation is
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276 void -- anything can happen. Philosophically, the mass of the universe is
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277 close to sufficient to cause it to close. If indeed it does close, we are
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278 within an event horizon..."
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279
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280 Smiling the piper winded his pipes and began a traditional set .. a march
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281 strathspey and reel .. the pibroch of donald dbhu, the salmon leap, and sleepy
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282 maggie.
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283 ppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
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284 Jonathan:I'm afraid that you have it wrong. Einstein never said anything
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285 about what might happen at FTL speeds. By extending his work some workers
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286 postulated the existence of Tachyons. Also, Tardyons do not EVER travel at c.
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287 Only particles with zero REST mass can travel at c. Tardyons have real, non-zero
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288 rest masses. Tachyons have "imaginary" non-zero rest masses. As for going
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289 backwards in time, ANTI-matter can be considered to be matter going backwards in
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290 time. This shows the real problem. You'd better do your travelling in a vacuum,
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291 or else BOOM! one less time traveller.
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292 As far as I can tell from the equations, if you got a REAL mass going ftl, it
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293 would have an "imaginary" time-rate. I suspect that it would be traveling
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294 "sideways" in time. (see an story dealing with "parallel universe" or
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295 "cross-time travel").
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296 Since many researchers in quantum mechanics seem to feel that the equations
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297 imply the "real" existence of parallel universes (ie ALL possible outcomes of
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298 any action at the quantum level, WILL occur at in at least one univers.) I think
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299 that this concept may have some bearing on the paradox question. If you change
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300 anything, you just follow a different branch (and thus will return to a
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301 "different" future). If you travel to "the future" you will be going to (most
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302 likely) the most probable future. Thus you can't be certain that that IS the way
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303 things will happen. Now if you bring info back and start CHANGING things......
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304
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305 As for the "spinning cylinder" time machine, to avoid lethal levels
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306 of tidal force, you need an EXTREMELY massive cylinder (several solar masses)
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307 spinning at a fair fraction of the speed of light. (You also need a way to keep
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308 it from flying apart under the stresses!) Other than that, I agree with the
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309 comments regarding it.
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310 And yes, if black holes exist, causuality is inoperative!
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311 _______________________________Leonard__________________________________________
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312 The apprentice walked over to the inkeeper. "Milord? I believe that something
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313 needs to be done about the use of weapons in the inn. May I offer my small
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314 services?"
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315 ..................
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316 To the gentles who patronize the Backwater Inn: Greetings and Felicitations!
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317 I feel that we have a slight problem with the few patrons who seem
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318 to insist on the use of weapons which violate The Compact. Use of any weapon
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319 which is effective beyond the arm's reach of the wielder or which does not put
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320 the user's life at the same risk as that of those he attacks, can only be called
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321 cowardly.
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322 Finally, since most of these patrons seem to be poor shots, they are
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323 not just endangering their targets, but they are also endangering "innocent"
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324 bystanders.
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325 If they do not start exercising more self-control, it may be necessary to
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326 impose external controls. I find this prospect most distasteful.
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327 thank you,
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328 ................................the apprentice..................................
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329 #######################################################################
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330 ..."You've been asking an awful lot of questions of some interesting
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331 people in the two weeks since the doctor was murdered, then you disappeared
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332 somewhere all last week, and now we follow you up here. I need to know
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333 what's going on, Jim. You saw the killer and I want to know who he was!"
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334 All I could do was shake my head. I give in too easy. Besides, the
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335 obnoxious twit really did deserve the truth, just this once. "All right,
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336 Dinny, pull up a rock." I started. As he settled himself, making an almost
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337 inhuman effort to place at least some portion of his bulk in the shade, I
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338 laid back against a boulder at the rim of the crater and pulled out my
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339 notebook. I caught the glint of "evidence" in his eye. "You're right.
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340 I did see the person who plugged Doctor Jaffee that night in the club,
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341 but there was a slight problem with identifying him. You see, I knew he
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342 had an airtight alibi."
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343 "There's no such thing as an airtight alibi." he growled. "I could prove
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344 you shot Lincoln given the right jury. Who was the killer?"
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345 "I looked him right in the eye so's to show hm I wasn't kidding around.
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346 "The person who shot Jaffee was Doctor Diane Gould."
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347 "Hold it! Gould was..."
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348 "That's right. Gould was sitting next to me having dinner with Jaffee.
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349 What's more, about a hundred people including myself will swear that Diane
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350 was sitting next to me across from the good doctor when he was shot in the
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351 back."
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352 He looked thoughtful for almost a second, the longest I had ever
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353 witnessed the phenomenon. "So she has a twin, or an imposter, there are
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354 a dozen possible explanations. That's no reason to let a murderer escape."
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355 "No, it was Gould, all right." I insisted. "That's why we'll have to drop
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356 the case."
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357 The Chief sat back and relaxed a little more, and began the lengthy
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358 process of lighting his pipe. "You were one of the best men we had on the
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359 force once, Connors." he grudgingly admitted, then he looked up and smiled.
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360 "OK, explain." and he sat back to listen...
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361 #################################daver###################################
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362
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363 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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364 Dear most Noble Patrons: Please Do Not Be Alarmed. Although we have
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365 endeavored to keep any Violence as far from the Inn as possible, a few
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366 wayward shots by the Krishners seem to have upset you unduly. Please
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367 be assured that these are merely manifestations of you Imagination, and
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368 are not Real. They cannot Harm you. Only those who Believe may be
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369 altered by these Wraiths. Only one thing however: If you see a bright
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370 flash, get under cover!
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371
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372 Contremon
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373 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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374 And who the hell gave the Albanians those Nukes, anyway?
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375 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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376
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378 ----------------------------------------------------------
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379 I have finally caught up to Tarn, and I stand out of breath and
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380 tongue-tied. My appearance must certainly be disheveled from the run,
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381 and Tarn eyes me with a mixture of emotion in his face.
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382 Tarn, my good friend, you have not given me any offense, and I
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383 hope that my unpredictable schedule has not given such to you. We
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384 spend some of our times in this fair land of Inisfail, from which we
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385 derive much pleasure, but the world outside has called to me much of
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386 late, and has prevented me from coming to the Inn as often as I would
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387 have wished. My absence has not been of my choosing, but one forced
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388 upon me by circumstances totally beyond my control. My life is usually
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389 one of reasonable calm, but of late the shores of my world have been
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390 washed by tides of past times, so much so that I haven't even been able
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391 to indulge in my favorite pass-times. I have lost track of what has
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392 happened in the Inn, lost track of friends, lost track of life itself,
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393 but I hope that I will soon be able to right myself and return to a
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394 more active existance in this world.
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395 Please bear with me, I have no anger or hostile feelings, I
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396 merely am somewhat harried at present. I will return, good friend, and
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397 I hope to spend more time here in this most lovely of worlds.
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398 - Emer -
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399 ----------------------------------------------------------
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400
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401 MIKE,
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402 THIS IS HANNK BANNISTER TRYING OUT THE SYSTME. NEEDLESS TO SAY I'M A LITTLE LOST. HOW DO I GET AN OVERVIEW OF THE MESSAGES ON
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403
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404
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405 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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406 She speaks! Yet in his fog befudled mind he did not hear
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407 her. Instead he must settle his unease with reading the note
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408 Emer has left in his hand. Perhaps he has been to hasty in
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409 reverting to old times and memories though they are so near it is
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410 hard to not do so. With that thought Tarn decides to return to
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411 his customary place at the Inn in the hope that soon Emer will
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412 once more return with her laughing smile to ease his mind. With
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413 that thought he turns and follows the long trail Emer has left
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414 back to the Inn.
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415 * Tarn *
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416 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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417
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418 ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
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419 TIME TRAVELERS: FOR AN INTERESTING TALE OF TIME AND IT'S MANY PARADOXES,
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420 READ "COLLISION COURSE", BY BARRINGTON J. BAILEY. I CONSIDERED IT A
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421 PRETTY FAIR SCI-FI TALE.
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422 WHEN YOU EXAMINE AN ATOM, AND THE ELIPTIC COURSES INVOLVED, AND COMPARE
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423 THESE TO THE ELIPSES(?) FOLLOWED BY PLANETS AND SUNS, THERE IS AN AS-
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424 TONISHING SIMILARITY. FROM THE SMALLEST PARTICLE TO THE LARGEST IN THE
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425 UNIVERSE WE FIND TOTAL HARMONY OF MOVEMENT. PERHAPS THIS IS THE CAUSE
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426 OF TIME. MAYBE WITHIN THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE TIME TRAVEL IS IMPOSSIBLE!!
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427 ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!DEBORAH?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
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428 &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
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429 I APOLOGISE FOR MY INCORRECT FACTS. SHOWS WHAT YOU GET FOR TRYING TO RECALL
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430 PHYSICS FROM TWO YEARS BACK AT 12:00 AT NIGHT. THANKS FOR THE CORRECTIONS.
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431 THIS REMINDS ME OF SOMETHING. THOSE WHO ARE FANS OF HEINLEIN REMEMBER IN
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432 "THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST" HE STATED THAT EVERYTHING IS A FIGMENT OF THE
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433 IMAGINATION OF SOME BEING. OVER LUNCH ONE DAY I MENTIONED THIS, AND ASKED
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434 ANYBODY TO PROVE THEY WERE NOT FIGMENTS OF MY IMAGINATION. THIS WAS STUPID,
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435 AS ALL IT SUCEEDED IN DOING WAS TO GET SEVERAL PEOPLE MAD AT ME.
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436 I NOW POSE THE SAME QUESTION TO YOU PATRONS OF THE INN, IN HOPE OF SOME
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437 INTELLEGENT ARGUEMENT(THE ABOVE MENTIONED INCEDENT OCCURED AT A PUBLIC
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438 HIGH SCHOOL, SO THE INTELLENGCE HERE SHOULD BE A BIT MORE REASONABLE).
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439 BY THE WAY, THIS COMBINATION OF STORIES AND DISCUSSION IS JUST THE RIGHT
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440 BALANCE. KEEP IT UP!!!!
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441
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442 JONATHAN CHANCE
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443 &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
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444 <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
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445 Deborah, you seem to have gained your own portal into this world...how
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446 pleasant! My question is: what is eliptic in an atom?
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447 Aaron
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448 <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
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449 ############################################################################
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450
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451 If you could possibly travel into the past what
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452 would you find. The people of that time (say 100 years ago) are
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453 all dead by now. The only way anyone could
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454 possibly travel into an exact replica of the
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455 past is if it is repeated
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456 endless amounts of times. Or perhaps it
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457 is like a film. each moment is a single picture.
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458 trTravelling back would place you into one of
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459 these still's and from there you would
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460 proceed forward to the next.
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461 The problem is, getting to the picture of the past.
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462
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463 ########################################################
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464 ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
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465 ARRON: I'M SORRY I WAS'NT CLEAR IN MY PREVIOUS STATEMENT. THE PROTONS
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466 AND NEUTRONS TRAVEL AROUND THE NUCLEUS IN THE SAME ELIPSE AS THE PLANETS
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467 AROUND THE SUN. SAAVY?
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468 ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?DEBORAH?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
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469 XRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRX
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470 JUST SAW AN INTERESTING ITEM ON THE NEWS ABOUT A TOWN
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471 IN SC WHICH IS STRUGGLING WITH A PROBLEM OF MARATHON
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472 SIDEWALK PREACHING. WHILE I AM AS MUCH IN FAVOR OF
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473 RELIGOUS FREEDOM AS THE NEXT MAN, THE PROBLEM THAT
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474 THESE SIDEWALK PULPET POUNDERS IS CAUSEING IS THE
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475 LOSS OF BUSINESS TO THE STORES IN FRONT OF WHICH THEY
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476 PREACH. I FIND THIS TO BE AN INTOLERABLE SITUATION.
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477 FOR THOUGH I AGREE THEY DO HAVE THE RIGHT TO SPEAK
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478 OUT, I DO NOT FEEL THAT THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO
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479 DISRUPT THE BUSINESS OF THESE STORES, NO MORE SO THEN
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480 ANYONE ELSE. THESE BUSINESS PEOPLE HAVE DONE NOTHING
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481 TO DESERVE THIS TREATMENT, AND I DON'T FEEL THAT THEY
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482 HAVE ANY REASON TO BE SUBJECTED TO THIS TREATMENT.
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483 THE PREACHERS WERE OFFERED AN ALTERNATE PLACE TO
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484 DO THEIR POUNDING, BUT THEIR RESPONSE WAS TO SUE THE
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485 CITY FOR INFRINGMENT OF THEIR RIGHTS. WHAT ABOUT THE
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486 RIGHTS OF THE AFFECTED BUSINESS MEN? ANY RESPONSE TO
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487 THIS ONE?
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488 XRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXR REX XRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRRXRXRXRXRX
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489 ########################################
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490
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491 HELLO, I'M AN APPLE II+ OWNER WITH A PRINTER, 64K, AND A MICROMODEM IIE.
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492 IF THERE'S ANYONE ELSE WHO WOULD LIKE TO, URR, BACKUP SOFTWARE WITH ME
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493 THAT WOULD BE GREAT. MY NUMBER IS 635-xxxx. GET BACK TO ME, ANYONE!
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494 - THE WALRUS
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495 ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
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496 jonathan chance,working,but not well,sears diehard and a +5v regulater.no ovp as
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497 yet and regulation leaves somthino to be desired ie. charicters slip up.rhps for
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498 whoops,sorry lost it there.blue should wait untill john c's memory fades.chance
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499 of mesurable apperance up to 86.7% now.
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500 The Walrus,your going to get a lot of heat for that last message.
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501 Aaron,give me a date for joan didion o.k.?
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502 Derborgkjk
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503 bad power supply people,
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504 Deborahldoes your last name begin witx a "D"?
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505 time for a recharge,see yaall later,
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506 The Man in Gray
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507 ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
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508 ____________
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509 ALAN's UNABRIDGED
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510
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511 Now, it's anything goes. Pornography comes directly into your living room through a cable.
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512 Yet once upon a time, you would have had to leave the country to see a pornographic movie or to buy a sexually explicit
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513 publication.
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514 When Alan was living in Europe, he bought and read a dirty book. It was widely available there, and much of the material
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515 raised the young American journalist's eyebrows.
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516 When Alan returned home, he brought the book with him.
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517 And then he noticed that same book was on sale here in the United States.
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518 Almost the same book.
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519 A censored version.
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520 Journalist Alan did not believe in censorship. He felt it was the American public's right to read even the most unsavory
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521 literature.
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522 In this case a Boston publisher, the Houghton Mifflin Company, was printing a laundered version of this dirty European book,
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523 three dollars a copy.
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524 Alan was outraged. He brought the matter to the attention of New York newspaperman Amster Spiro.
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525 Both men agreed that there was no justification for the censorship. Alan proposed that they publish their own version of the
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526 book in the United States---that is, the original version translated into English. While the fumigated Houghton Mifflin
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527 edition was selling for three dollars, Alan and his friend could make their no-holds-barred edition available for ten cents a
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528 copy.
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529 Alan spent a week at his friend's home in Connecticut, working painstakingly on the original translation. After his eighth
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530 eighteen-hour day, it was finished.
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531 Alan's edition was published quickly. In days the book was offered at booksellers and magazine stands nationwide. A half-
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532 million copies were sold during the first ten days on the racks.
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533 Then, the predictable legal action. The courts ruled that Alan's publication was to be taken out of the stores and off the
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534 stands.
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535 And it was.
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536 But by then, Alan had made his point: The worst thing you can do to a dirty book---is try to clean it up.
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537 Californians know and respect the man that young journalist became, U.S. Senator Alan Cranston.
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538 Before you evaluate what he did back in 1938, you should know something about the litigation that got his publication pulled
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539 from the shelves.
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540 The AUTHOR of the original book had sued Alan for violation of copyright. It had been the author's INTENTION to publish a
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541 watered-down version of his work in the United States, because he did not want Americans to know THE REST OF THE STORY.
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542 Young Alan Cranston and fellow publisher Amster Spiro wanted us to recognize the long-range plans of author Adolf Hitler:
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543 German military expansion and the liquidation of the Jews. So they, Cranston and Spiro, published the unlaundered version of
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544 world's dirtiest book, Mein Kampf.
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545
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546 ____________________________________________ P. V. Jeltz ____________________
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547 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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548 HEY! Somebody erased my message, I bet it
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549 was the sysop. HEY sysop! What was wrong
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550 with my message? Are you some religious fread
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551 That thinks the good lord will save us all?
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552 Face facts buddy, people like that are ****** in the head.
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553 *666* SATAN RULES *666*
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554
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555 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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556 The Moron
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557 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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558 ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
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559 hay dude,we dont need that kind of crap on the system,satan does not rule,
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560 and niether does god,I did not delete your "message",I do not believe in censorship.
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561 but we do not need the language on the board,if you have an opinion we would all
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562 like to hear it.just keep it clean and your notes will stay up.
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563 The Man in Gray
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564 ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
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565 The poet fell through the doors of the Inn and out into the cool night air.
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566 Making a futile attempt to catch his breath, his eyes came to a momentary focus on a young man about to enter the inn.
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567 "Don't do it! Don't go in there! It's too dangerous!"
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568 "How so, old sot?"
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569 "It was bad enough with the wizard and his magic wand spinning in a vacum at
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570 the speed of light. At least we know they just went up to next week to check
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571 out the stock market and the ponies. But now there's a fellow in there trying
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572 to raise up a pirate crew. What if they tried to take over the inn? Where can an artist drink in peace?"
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573 "Sounds like just my night," the young man said as he pushed past the poet and
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574 through the Inn's doors, his sulphrous after-shave hanging in the cool evening air. The poet decided to sleep at home,
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575 for tonight.
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576 && The Mad Actor &&
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577 ppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
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578 The piper paused after his tune.
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579 Jonathan Chance:
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580 Reality is a consetual decision. The world exists because we jointly agree
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581 that it does indeed exist in the form we percieve. If we change the agreement .............
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582
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583 Deborah:
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584 You appear to have a few basic misconceptions. I don't want to take up too
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585 much space with basic physics (and mine is about 15 years out of date) but--
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586 1. The nucleus of an atom is the mix of protons and neutrons. They contain
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587 the bulk of the atom's mass and a (+) positive electrical charge. The nucleus
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588 is held together by *very* short-range nuclear forces.
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589 2. Electrons surround the nucleus, not in elliptical orbits, but in probability
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590 clouds. The shape of these clouds are quite complex, but in addition to spheres
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591 you will find lobes projecting out from them. Electrons inhabit "orbitals"
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592 and a maximum number can inhabit a given orbital. (the orbital nearest the
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593 nucleus can hold two electrons). If less than the maximum number are in place,
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594 a tendency exists for the orbital to "desire" more electrons. If two atoms,
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595 both containing orbitals desiring an additional electron come into contact,
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596 they can share an electron in a single probability cloud. This is called
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597 covalent bonding and is the basis for the bulk of organic chemistry.
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598
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599 With a wave, the piper walks over to a corner table. His throat was quite
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600 dry with piping and talking.
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601 ppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
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602 ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
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603 MAN IN GREY: YES, MY LAST NAME BEGINS WITH A D. BUT I AM NOT d, IN CASE
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604 YOU THOUGHT SO.
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605 I STAND CORRECTED. IT HAS BEEN ABOUT 10 YEARS SINCE SOME OF MY STUDIES
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606 IN THAT AREA OF SCIENCE. SO IT'S THE ELECTRONS, NOT THE PROTONS AND NUE-
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607 TRONS. INTERESTING.
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608 ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!DEBORAH?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
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