i got an email about this yesterday from larry and then i saw that martie posted about it. i now feel obligated as a blogger to post about our first time traveler. i read the announcement a few times and a few things that i noticed that were interesting:

  • yahoo placed this announcement in their “entertainment news & gossip” section.
  • did you notice how reuters and the associated press missed this news?
  • if someone really had the cure for aids do you really think they would use that as a bargaining chip? come one, what human who had that knowledge wouldn’t share that with their fellow humans knowing all of the devastating that it has caused to mankind?

do i think this person is a time traveler, no. do i really care or give it much thought, no. do i think that authorities should give him the opportunity to prove it, why not? what do we really have to lose? yea, it might be giving the crazy a bit of press but come on, the potential upside far outweighs the downside. in then end though, this news item reads like a new article from the onion.