They could host a second wikipedia site, edu.wikipedia.org or some such, using all the same software started with an empty database. In order to get an editors account you'd have to provide credentials from an upstanding college or university. Then see if it ever gets used.
Yes, that was Nupedia. It created 38 (thirty-eight) articles in 18 months...
For meaningful time travel it has to be possible for information to move backwards in time and not just matter.
Actually, if just information could move backwards and forwards in time, it would be enough to be meaningful. No need for matter.
Request to you in the future to send you back the winning lottery numbers, and everything is fine.
India and China may have large populations but only a tiny fraction of those people have computers and are educated enough to decently contribute to Wikipedia.
This is at best plain racist. And according to me, many Indians and Chineses are smarter than the average American. But you may not be able to know it.;o)
It is not exceptional any more. The Finance Departement of the State of Geneva distributes a CD with OpenOffice, Mozilla and some other open source goodies.
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Bin Laden: Strange, there is a lot more dust nowadays...
NSA: Great, I can hear them!
They could host a second wikipedia site, edu.wikipedia.org or some such, using all the same software started with an empty database. In order to get an editors account you'd have to provide credentials from an upstanding college or university. Then see if it ever gets used.
Yes, that was Nupedia. It created 38 (thirty-eight) articles in 18 months...
For meaningful time travel it has to be possible for information to move backwards in time and not just matter.
Actually, if just information could move backwards and forwards in time, it would be enough to be meaningful. No need for matter. Request to you in the future to send you back the winning lottery numbers, and everything is fine.
- Did I hear "No such things can fail."?
[Safety mechanisms]. You have to override such systems...
- My God, it seems I have already heard such things...
- No, you are day dreaming!...
Drowning the US with some mega-tsunami would be fun, for a change...
Rhaeto-Romansche (spoken, I think, in the Basque regions around the French-Spanish border)
Lost. Rhaeto-Romansche is a language spoken in Switzerland.
India and China may have large populations but only a tiny fraction of those people have computers and are educated enough to decently contribute to Wikipedia.
;o)
This is at best plain racist. And according to me, many Indians and Chineses are smarter than the average American. But you may not be able to know it.
Actually not, they sent back what was left of the Beagle.
It is not exceptional any more. The Finance Departement of the State of Geneva distributes a CD with OpenOffice, Mozilla and some other open source goodies.
I even made an assembler for 6502 in Basic.
Yeah, but that was looooong ago on a PET Commodore !