Dispensary Corner 08 Jan 14
January 8, 2014
TWITTER pill to swallow.
Well, it’s official - time travelling
pharmacists don’t use Twitter.
Michigan Technological
University astrophysicist Robert
Nemiroff and his team predicted
that if humans could time
travel, they might leave clues
on websites like Twitter by
accidentally mentioning events
which had not yet happened, the
Telegraph reported.
A “whimsical little discussion”
after a card game last summer
prompted the project (conducted
without grant funding), which
searched for references to two
recent news topics, Pope Francis
and Comet ISON, on Google, Bing,
Twitter and Facebook before
the topics were known to exist
but found only one reference to
Pope Francis which seemed more
accidental than prophetic, the
publication said.
“The internet is essentially a
vast database, and I thought
that if time travellers were here,
their existence would have
already come out in some other
way, maybe by posting winning
lottery numbers before they were
selected.”
The team also created a post
in September 2013 asking
readers to email or tweet
either #ICanChangeThePast2 or
#ICantChangeThePast2 on or
before August 2013.
No one responded to the query,
but all is not lost - commenters
theorised that time travelers had
read the article in the future and
covered their tracks.
SEE a doctor.
Austrian hazardous materials
specialists were called to an
incinerator after noting high
radiation readings for a dump
truck.
Firefighters from the hazmat
unit in Linz found 24 diapers
contaminated with radioactive
iodine, use for some medical
and diagnostic procedures, the
Associated Press reported.
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