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Feedback competition: The winners

17 December 2008

Feedback competition results 2008: gifts from future time-travellers

“HELLO, I’m from the future,” the creature announced as it jumped out of the Large Hadron Collider. “After the Bad Thing happened, life was pretty bad, but we’ve invented this thing called Fire and now life is pretty good. So I’ve brought you some Fire.”

The second time traveller, as David Malarkey tells it, announced that “after the Bad Thing and Fire we were very happy except for carrying heavy things. So we invented the wheel and now life is almost perfect. So here’s a Wheel.”

And the third declared that “life…

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