Crossover and Crossunder

Walt wrote:
bdubya wrote:

On Fri, 6 May 2005 08:57:29 +1000, "ant" wrote:

Those airbuses are going to crash, they are not trustworthy, and they
are way too big. You mark my words.


If you can name an airliner that's never going to crash, I'd love to
hear about it.


That Howard Hughes plane, the Spruce Goose, is never going to crash.
Course, it'll never fly either, but you didn't specify that.

It flew.

What do I win?

If you had been correct, your prize would have been an all expense paid
four week trip - a week each at Chamonix, Les Trois Valle, Val d'Isere,
and Paris plus first class air fare; as it is your booby prize is a
chance to post to world famous rec.skiing.alpine.

"The Real Bev" wrote in message
...

BTW, I wonder how many of us are at the MIT Time Traveler Convention.

I intend to be there, but only from the future. So I may be there now, but
I think it's best if I don't know.

The Real Bev wrote:

Walt wrote:

bdubya wrote:
On Fri, 6 May 2005 08:57:29 +1000, "ant" wrote:

Those airbuses are going to crash, they are not trustworthy, and they are
way too big. You mark my words.

If you can name an airliner that's never going to crash, I'd love to
hear about it.

That Howard Hughes plane, the Spruce Goose, is never going to crash.
Course, it'll never fly either, but you didn't specify that.

What do I win?

Nothing, unless you add "again" to your statement. Curiously enough, my
parents and I were down at the beach when it happened. I was too little to
remember, which is sad.

BTW, I wonder how many of us are at the MIT Time Traveler Convention.

May 7, 2005, 10:00pm EDT (08 May 2005 02:00:00 UTC)
(events start at 8:00pm)
East Campus Courtyard, MIT
3 Ames St. Cambridge, MA 02142
42:21:36.025?N, 71:05:16.332?W
(42.360007,-071.087870 in decimal degrees)

http://web.mit.edu/adorai/timetraveler/


Geez, I hope all the actual time travelers have RSVP'd

Lisa

On Sat, 7 May 2005 15:07:57 -0700, "Richard Henry"
wrote:


If you can name an airliner that's never going to crash, I'd love to
hear about it.

Isn't that Quantas claim to fame?
("Rainman")


Their claim to fame is two-fold.

1. It's about the only word I can think of that starts with a Q but
it not followed with a U. Queensland And Northern Territory Aerial
Services, or something very close to that.

2. I think the claim with respect to crashing is that they have never
lost any passengers. In the early days when they were a freight and
mail airline, a couple (apparently) fell out of the skies.

Carry on!

Lisa Horton wrote:

The Real Bev wrote:

Walt wrote:

bdubya wrote:
On Fri, 6 May 2005 08:57:29 +1000, "ant" wrote:

Those airbuses are going to crash, they are not trustworthy, and they are
way too big. You mark my words.

If you can name an airliner that's never going to crash, I'd love to
hear about it.

That Howard Hughes plane, the Spruce Goose, is never going to crash.
Course, it'll never fly either, but you didn't specify that.

What do I win?

Nothing, unless you add "again" to your statement. Curiously enough, my
parents and I were down at the beach when it happened. I was too little to
remember, which is sad.

BTW, I wonder how many of us are at the MIT Time Traveler Convention.

May 7, 2005, 10:00pm EDT (08 May 2005 02:00:00 UTC)
(events start at 8:00pm)
East Campus Courtyard, MIT
3 Ames St. Cambridge, MA 02142
42:21:36.025?N, 71:05:16.332?W
(42.360007,-071.087870 in decimal degrees)

http://web.mit.edu/adorai/timetraveler/

Geez, I hope all the actual time travelers have RSVP'd

They don't (didn't? won't?) have to as long as they bring proof of
timetravelerhood -- a cure for cancer or something. Hey, I'd let 'em in,
wouldn't you?

--
Cheers,
Bev
*----------------------------------------------------*
*Are you *sure* there's a hyphen in "anal-retentive?"*

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The Real Bev wrote:

Lisa Horton wrote:

The Real Bev wrote:

Walt wrote:

bdubya wrote:
On Fri, 6 May 2005 08:57:29 +1000, "ant" wrote:

Those airbuses are going to crash, they are not trustworthy, and they
are
way too big. You mark my words.

If you can name an airliner that's never going to crash, I'd love to
hear about it.

That Howard Hughes plane, the Spruce Goose, is never going to crash.
Course, it'll never fly either, but you didn't specify that.

What do I win?

Nothing, unless you add "again" to your statement. Curiously enough, my
parents and I were down at the beach when it happened. I was too little
to
remember, which is sad.

BTW, I wonder how many of us are at the MIT Time Traveler Convention.

May 7, 2005, 10:00pm EDT (08 May 2005 02:00:00 UTC)
(events start at 8:00pm)
East Campus Courtyard, MIT
3 Ames St. Cambridge, MA 02142
42:21:36.025?N, 71:05:16.332?W
(42.360007,-071.087870 in decimal degrees)

http://web.mit.edu/adorai/timetraveler/

Geez, I hope all the actual time travelers have RSVP'd

They don't (didn't? won't?) have to as long as they bring proof of
timetravelerhood -- a cure for cancer or something. Hey, I'd let 'em in,
wouldn't you?

I went to that the first time I heard about it in 2012, but I'm sure not
going again, besides I ate all the snacks the first time so I know there
won't be anything to eat plus I'm a terrible bore at those things and
I'd probably get stuck sitting next to me and the 2012 me was BIG into
that whole retro Pokeman revival and I couldn't stand a whole night
listening to me talk about that crap.

Richard Henry wrote:
"bdubya" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 6 May 2005 08:57:29 +1000, "ant"
wrote:


Those airbuses are going to crash, they are not trustworthy, and
they are way too big. You mark my words.

If you can name an airliner that's never going to crash, I'd love to
hear about it.

Isn't that Quantas claim to fame?
("Rainman")

These giant monsters will fix that. 800 people screaming to their deaths
over the empty Pacific.

I think I might go by boat for the next few years.

ant

Richard Henry wrote:
"The Real Bev" wrote in message
...

BTW, I wonder how many of us are at the MIT Time Traveler Convention.

I intend to be there, but only from the future. So I may be there
now, but I think it's best if I don't know.

I wish they'd hurry up and invent that. Then we could go and ski all the
good seasons. You could be a ski instructor for years and never get old fat
and decrepit. When you'd had enough of it, you could resume getting old!

ant

"Bob Lee" wrote in message
...

I stole this from another group, but...technically, wouldn't you only
need *one* time traveller convention?

According to some theories (OK, according to my science fiction) you can
always travel forward in time. However, you can't travel backward any
further than the first construction of a time machine compatible with some
future version.

So when the first machine is built and activated, expect all kinds of
futurians to come pouring out of it.

Richard Henry wrote:
"Bob Lee" wrote in message
...

I stole this from another group, but...technically, wouldn't you only
need *one* time traveller convention?


Correct. I think that was the plan. One convention. If nobody turned up,
time travel was officially dead.




According to some theories (OK, according to my science fiction) you
can always travel forward in time. However, you can't travel
backward any further than the first construction of a time machine
compatible with some future version.

Oh, ****. You mean we have to worry about, uh, backward compatibility as
well?
We know how well that worked for Microsoft.


So when the first machine is built and activated, expect all kinds of
futurians to come pouring out of it.