We’ll
allow the recipient of this week’s email to set the scene. Send your own
bizarre email to inbox@rochester-citynews.com.
—
Michael Neault
Mike,
As
you probably know, I work doing research with virtual reality technologies. In
the past, I also wrote a paper on computational complexity and have worked on
writing libraries to enable programmers to distribute the compute cycles of
their programs over multiple computers. People who do web searches sometimes
turn up my name, and I get odd requests from time to time on whether I have any
expertise in A or have I ever used B and can I help them out. I usually am able
to point them to somebody that actually knows how to help them, but I was
stumped when I read:
Subject:
Time Travelers PLEASE HELP!!
Date:
Thu, 15 Nov 2001 03:34:32
From:
western@—.com
To:
Keith P.
Subject:
Time Travelers PLEASE HELP!! ..
If
you are a time traveler or alien disguised as human and/or have the technology
to travel physically through time I need your help!
Also
if you are from any of the following planets and can help me as mentioned
please reply: Vadikar, Nefarious, Tralfamadore, Valnator, Travers, Edenad
I
come to you for help, and need a way of doing this in the following way exactly
in such a way that there will be little or no danger. I come to you in peace.
Trust and honesty is an absolutely must!! My life has been severely tampered
with and cursed.
I
have suffered tremendously and am now dying!
I
need to be able to:
Travel
physically back in time.
Rewind
my life (including my age).
Be
able to (remember what I know now) so that I can prevent my life from being
tampered with again after I go back.
I
am in great danger and need this immediately!
Only
if you are a time traveler or nice alien and have this technology please send
me a (separate) email to:
Robby0809@—.com
Thanks
This article appears in Jun 29 – Jul 5, 2005.
