At 04:56 PM 10/24/2001 -0700, Sandy Sandfort wrote:
>Lucky wrote:
>
> > It would have been more impressive had
> > Copperfield revealed the numbers he
> > predicted an hour /before/ the drawing...
>
>Yes, but that would have required REAL magic (or time travel).
Or rigging the lottery drawing, but surely *that's* never been done :-)
You can also simulate time travel through delayed transmission;
cf: The Sting
for examples of that. Probably wasn't done here, but it could have been,
and putting out a broadcast story of "Earlier today, The Amazing Bogomeister
successfully predicted the Powerball Lottery", showing Himself with
the clock in the background *clearly* indicating the time as
an hour before the real lottery drawing took place would reinforce it.
