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- From: chad@aquarius.as.arizona.edu (Chad Engelbracht)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.astro
- Subject: Re: Fossil Paradox (was: Structure of Time)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.214044.13076@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 21:40:44 GMT
- References: <1992Aug17.105608.421@ecc.tased.edu.au> <1992Aug18.120108.2401@aoa.aoa.utc.com> <roelle.714249583@uars_mag>
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- In article <roelle.714249583@uars_mag> roelle@uars_mag.jhuapl.edu (Curtis Roelle) writes:
- >carl@aoa.aoa.utc.com (Carl Witthoft) writes:
- >
- >>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 :=) )
- >
- >Not to mention the impact of constructing the walkway used in the first place.
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- The story is "A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury
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