hik%cascade.carleton.cdn%ubc.CSNET@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA (warren hik) (01/30/86)
Date: 30 Jan 86 0 46 EST From: warren hik <hik@cascade.carleton.cdn> To: <HACKERS@cascade.carleton.cdn> Message-ID: <167:hik@cascade.carleton.cdn> Subject: Don't gamble on the Shuttle Sorry to be morbid, or lacking of human emotions, but I just heard a news story worth repeating. It seems that those inclined to invest heavily in lotteries in the hopes of winning the 'big one', employ certain numerical analysis and current events motifs as 'winning numbers'. For the record: "Wednesday, January 29, 1986, one day following the final journey of the Space Shuttle Challenger, New York State Lottery Officials have suspended the use of any combination of the four digits representing the time of the Space Shuttle disaster, namely 11:39. The suspension follows an abundance of lottery buyers utilizing the aformentioned numerals." Now, just to make you scratch your head about this whole business, the winning Cross-Canadian Lotto 649 numbers are: 11-3-9- and some others. The draw was Wednesday evening. Explain this one to your Apollo Workstation.