Hello Andy,

>AA>All  he  wants  is  to be allowed to return to the future in his "time
>AA>craft."

>LL>His wife and kids must be wondering what is taking him so long to get
>LL>back home.

AA>That should not be a problem as long as he returns to the same point of
AA>time in the future of that he left.

On the other hand, if he changed the future by traveling back in time,
he may not have a future.

AA>Unless he is jailed for 20 years; would be hard to hide the aging
AA>from his wife. On the plus side, I'd wager that 20 years of aging
AA>would be easily fixed by the technology from that era.

Who says that those in the future age at all?  It may be that
scientists of the future have designed a fountain of youth, so
that nobody ever ages.

AA>Do you think the people of the future read fidonet for it's ancient
AA>historical value?

Of course they do.  Fans of Star Trek know that money does not exist
in the future, as well as there being no requirement to work.  So what
else are folks to do with their idle time, except read archives of fido
messages?

AA>Wow, that would mean anything we haven't even posted yet has, in some
AA>way, already been read by someone from the future.

With time travel, there is no future and there is no past, with the
present being whatever future or past one wants to make it to be.

AA>... "There doesn't seem to be a Klingon word for jolly." - Troi

Quch - happy, be happy (v)

QuchHa' - be unhappy (v)

[from The Klingon Dictionary, by Marc Okrand]

--Lee


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