I have recently installed the latest update to Fornortiner 2007 V2.51 and discovered that by searching this address http://www.straightdope.com/boards/timemachine/ you can search the SDMB not only past, but future posts. Try your luck and see what you can find.
I saw these posts:
In Great Debates:
Dec 18, 2119 12:45pm
OP by Shrub HWWH GWB 18:
And this in Cafe Society:
June 19, 1991
OP by MChesnutt
MPSIMS:
Jan 24,1958
OP by CAFugate; -)
So, Dopers, what posts can you find?
Sgt Schwartz
In General Questions
August 4, 2098, 3:25 pm
OP by WSF995802399433
My craft won’t start.
The living unit partner and I were going to visit the local nutrition stop then go to the spaceport to visit her parental figures on Space Station #5. Yes, I am fully aware of that SP5 is not fit for earthing habitation but it’s all they can afford. Till The Supreme Commandor allows earthlings under the age of 40 to resume life on the home planet, it’s all they have.
Back to my craft. It is an 89 Chevrolet Novette. I just had the 1 million kilometer check done a few months ago. It has plenty of ionic fusion gas and the power cell has a full charge. I can hear the rotational gearing spinning. I hope it’s not the variable pressure jet again, it cost me 234,000 Bush’s to fix the last time.
in General Questions,
september 4 , 2609
When were death rays invented?
We all know that the battles in the Martian-Venusian territories back in the 22rd century were still using weapons that fired metal bullets. It was only settled 100 years later by the superior technology of modern ray weapons.
But --while doing research for my Phd in ancient computer technology, I have come upon references to death rays from as early as 1920!.
What puzzles me is not the early date, ( some 2 centuries before the currently accepted chronology)–because some historians believe that there was indeed some primitive research in ray weapons conducted during that era.
But what astounded me was the huge number of references to 1920. And from an ancient, but apparently reliable, source. If this is true, it would change our entire understanding of how physicists conducted research in primitive times.
(mods–move this thread to GD if necessary. I realize that this debate could get bitter,since it suggests that humans in 1920 had intelligence equal to ours, despite the fact that back then they had no genetic engineering, and even thought that cultural diversity was legitimate.)
In In My Humble Opinion
December 11, 2027
GQ
July 1, 1982
IMHO
March 12, 1981
From the same 1982 GQ thread:
IMHO - 21 November 1963
There’s an archived one from the 19th century, in Cafe Society on April 7 1864: