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- From: carl@aoa.aoa.utc.com (Carl Witthoft)
- Subject: Re: Fossil Paradox (was: Structure of Time)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.120108.2401@aoa.aoa.utc.com>
- Organization: Adaptive Optics Associates
- References: <41256@ogicse.ogi.edu> <1992Aug13.160137.1231@advtech.uswest.com> <1992Aug17.105608.421@ecc.tased.edu.au>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 12:01:08 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug17.105608.421@ecc.tased.edu.au> ecc_jim@ecc.tased.edu.au writes:
- >There was a short story like this where a guy trod on a butterfly and totally
- >changed everything. What was it called?
- [about time travel and all that...]
- I know the story but forget its name. The premise was that time travellers
- could shoot prehistoric animals. The guide scoped out the area so
- they only shot animals about to die anyway, and then pulled out the bullet
- and took off. I distrusted then (1970 or so) and still distrust
- the idea that killing a butterfly is bad but killing a Tyrannosaurus
- 3 seconds early, ripping its guts open, etc. is OK (from a time-
- travel causality point of view :=) )
-
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