On 11/6/06, Jamie Stearns <stearns5@cox.net> wrote:
> HI:
> Why do people with time machines usually go BACK in time, why not
> FORWARD? I can see a great way to fund science: Go forward in time just
> enough to find out the winning lottery numbers for the next drawing,
then
> travel back in time to get a winning lottery ticket and bingo (no
> pun here) NO MORE GRANT WRITING NEEDED!
Well, something like this did happen in Back to the Future II, only it
involved a sports almanac from 2015 or so and betting on horse races.
"Machine. Unexpectdly, I'd invented a time" - Alan Moore 6-word
sci-fi VERY short story.
http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/sixwords.html
It's about a FORWARD time travel.