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Parasomnium
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Message 1 of 90 (247228)
09-29-2005 9:26 AM


Message from the future (updated)
Here is an interesting little story I found yesterday.
{Added by edit: Apparently the site no longer exists, but I was able to retrieve the text from cache, so I cut and pasted it here. The only strange thing is that I could have sworn that the year 2010 was mentioned in the original on the site, not 2005. In my cache, it's 2005. I must be mistaken.}
{Added by edit: The message has disappeared. Is this what was meant with the message being "lost soon after its appearance"?}
This message has been edited by Parasomnium, 29-Sep-2005 02:39 PM
This message has been edited by [omitted], 30-Sep-2005 05:38 PM
This message has been edited by Parasomnium, 30-Sep-2005 10:32 PM

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Yaro
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Message 2 of 90 (247229)
09-29-2005 9:31 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Parasomnium
09-29-2005 9:26 AM


deadlink

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Parasomnium
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Message 3 of 90 (247231)
09-29-2005 9:32 AM
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09-29-2005 9:31 AM


Sorry...
I'm sorry, I'll check it.
Thanks.

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Parasomnium
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Message 4 of 90 (247234)
09-29-2005 9:39 AM
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09-29-2005 9:31 AM


Updated
I've updated it.

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Omnivorous
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Message 5 of 90 (247235)
09-29-2005 9:40 AM
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09-29-2005 9:32 AM


Re: Sorry...
I guess we can't go back to the future after all.
Unless "dead link" is the message from the future...
Edit: I guess it is.
This message has been edited by Omnivorous, 09-29-2005 09:42 AM

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Annafan
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Message 6 of 90 (247249)
09-29-2005 10:25 AM


Nice joke, Parasomnium.
Now let's see who's falling for it

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Parasomnium
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Message 7 of 90 (247250)
09-29-2005 10:31 AM
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09-29-2005 10:25 AM


Joke?
Nice joke, Parasomnium.
quote:
It took a while before the message was taken seriously...

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gene90
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Message 8 of 90 (247256)
09-29-2005 10:50 AM
Reply to: Message 7 by Parasomnium
09-29-2005 10:31 AM


Re: Joke?
At what point is the message lost?
If it survived from 2005 intact until the outbreak of the viral plague, then people would see the similarity and not make the same mistakes.

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Brad
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Message 9 of 90 (247259)
09-29-2005 10:53 AM
Reply to: Message 7 by Parasomnium
09-29-2005 10:31 AM


Re: Joke?
It could be convincing...but I find it hard to believe that there are no new words. It's all in plain modern english, despite the fact that it was written more then 100 years in the future(?) I would think that words would be used that we would have no idea what they mean. Maybe the aliens translated it for us. Either way...I don't plan on being alive then
Brad

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Parasomnium
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Message 10 of 90 (247264)
09-29-2005 11:06 AM
Reply to: Message 8 by gene90
09-29-2005 10:50 AM


Re: Joke?
gene90 writes:
At what point is the message lost?
I don't know, it doesn't say, does it? It says "very soon after it appeared on the internet". I've googled it and not found it. Maybe EvC is now the only place where the text is preserved, who knows?
gene90 writes:
If it survived from 2005 intact until the outbreak of the viral plague, then people would see the similarity and not make the same mistakes.
First, from what I read in the message, I gather that after it was lost, it was transmitted as a sort of folklore, an urban legend if you will. Some details may have been lost to them.
Second, they would have to know what mistakes were made. If they did everything the same, then history might repeat itself, so something would have to be done differently.
But what exactly? Apparently they died before they could think of anything and let us know in their message.
It's up to us, I'm afraid.

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Parasomnium
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Message 11 of 90 (247269)
09-29-2005 11:10 AM
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09-29-2005 10:53 AM


Re: Joke?
Brad writes:
Maybe the aliens translated it for us.
Probably. They wouldn't want to rely on only one person who could read the language of the future, would they?

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Message 12 of 90 (247277)
09-29-2005 11:19 AM
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09-29-2005 11:10 AM


Re: Joke?
Sounds like a clever way to plug a new movie to me...

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Parasomnium
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Message 13 of 90 (247280)
09-29-2005 11:27 AM
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09-29-2005 11:19 AM


Re: Joke?
Creavolution writes:
Sounds like a clever way to plug a new movie to me...
Could well be, Crea. But then, a movie might also be a very effective way of making the message heard...

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Message 14 of 90 (247291)
09-29-2005 11:52 AM
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09-29-2005 11:27 AM


Re: Joke?
*twilight zone noise*

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Message 15 of 90 (247294)
09-29-2005 12:06 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Parasomnium
09-29-2005 9:26 AM


Re: Message from the future (updated)
Is that all of it?

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