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Show John Wilkes Booth the meaning of honorable conduct (lemmy.world)
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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 52 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Explanation: It's been pointed out before that there's a small window of time in which the fax machine, the Samurai class, and Abraham Lincoln all coexisted, making it theoretically possible for a samurai to send a fax to Abraham Lincoln.

[–] brianorca@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But was there an undersea cable?

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Japan wouldn't be connected by undersea telegraph cables until 1906, so our brave samurai will have to at least get to the Continental USA the old fashioned way.