[[Guy steps out of rift. Benjamin Franklin is sitting at his desk with quill and parchment.]]
Guy: Benjamin Franklin?
Franklin: Yes?
Guy: I bring a message from the future! I don't have much time.
Franklin: What is it?
Guy: The convention you're setting for electric charge is backward. The one left on glass by silk should be the negative charge.
{{Caption: We were going to use the time machine to prevent the robot apocalypse, but the guy who built it was an electrical engineer.}}
{{Mouseover: Sure, we could stop dictators and pandemics, but we could also make the signs on every damn diagram make sense.}}
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