Alas, I can only praise LG for being creative and smart, but not an actual TT. It is simply not believable that in the next 25 years both South America and diseases will not make major headlines. A decade, no, a year, does not go by without some mention of either or both of them.
Moreover, as clever as LG is, without one bit of confirmable evidence then we are talking about a belief system only here. She certainly could have 'boned' up a little on the events of today, or brought her notebook with her with tidbits, like "in two days the 4th word in the 2nd paragraph in the left hand column of the New York Times will be 'whale' "... totally harmless information that is totally convincing... which, as a high powered VIP in DARPA traveling back to 'spread the word', would be a minimum requirement, no?
However, my respect for LG has gone up considerably. She has gone from a fairly ho-hum bureaucrat from the future to a really creative prankster from the present that has caught our imagination.
Moreover, as clever as LG is, without one bit of confirmable evidence then we are talking about a belief system only here. She certainly could have 'boned' up a little on the events of today, or brought her notebook with her with tidbits, like "in two days the 4th word in the 2nd paragraph in the left hand column of the New York Times will be 'whale' "... totally harmless information that is totally convincing... which, as a high powered VIP in DARPA traveling back to 'spread the word', would be a minimum requirement, no?
However, my respect for LG has gone up considerably. She has gone from a fairly ho-hum bureaucrat from the future to a really creative prankster from the present that has caught our imagination.