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Suppose you had a time machine which could transport you to any time and any location and permitted you to be there and move about normally for three hours before you were automatically returned to the present.
And suppose that it could be used three times and then never again.
Then suppose that someone offered you a billion dollars to go back in time and get the autographs of:
Mel Ott..ML Hall of Famer
John Maynard Keynes...economist
Marlene Dietrich...actress
Ho Chi Minh..Vietnamese freedom fighter
Dwight Eisenhower...president and general
Theodore Geisel ...Dr. Seuss
Jim Thorpe...native American athlete and Olympic champion
T.E. Lawrence...of Arabia
You have three trips and three hours on each trip. How would you go about it?
Last edited by Grandstander; 09-02-2013 at 08:14 PM..
It sounds impossible to get all of them. Were any of these people ever in the same place together? Getting Ike's signature seems the most difficult, unless you tracked him down in childhood.
I'd just be happy with the three trips back in time and I wouldn't worry about the billion dollars! I'd come back, write a book, sell the movie rights, and make enough money to take some real time trips!
It sounds impossible to get all of them. Were any of these people ever in the same place together? Getting Ike's signature seems the most difficult, unless you tracked him down in childhood.
They do not all need to be together in the same place, you get three trips to gather eight autographs, so you just need 2.6 of them together at a given time and place.
Suppose you had a time machine which could transport you to any time and any location and permitted you to be there and move about normally for three hours before you were automatically returned to the present.
Then suppose that someone offered you a billion dollars to go back in time and get the autographs of:
Are these two separate deals? Meaning, the three trips back and forth and then the trip back?
Is the trip back for the autographs back and forth? If so, what's the need for the $1B incentive?
Eisenhower played against Jim Thorpe in 1912 at the Carlisle-Army game. Nov 9. So, in theory, if I showed up at the at the game I could get both autographs.
Are these two separate deals? Meaning, the three trips back and forth and then the trip back?
Is the trip back for the autographs back and forth? If so, what's the need for the $1B incentive?
Three round trips.
And don't concern yourself with the hypothetical elements, obviously the purpose is to get people to try and figure out when and where these people would have been in close physical proximity to some of the others.
Eisenhower played against Jim Thorpe in 1912 at the Carlisle-Army game. Nov 9. So, in theory, if I showed up at the at the game I could get both autographs.
Eisenhower played against Jim Thorpe in 1912 at the Carlisle-Army game. Nov 9. So, in theory, if I showed up at the at the game I could get both autographs.
That's one.
Ho Chi Minh was in New York from 1912-1913 so he would have been pretty close to West Point.
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