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To: Koblenz
I have a theory about that. What if we have had time travellers from the future. And I don't mean an alien civilization. Take for a minute that all folklore and tall tales have in them a tiny grain of truth someplace within the story. Then think for a minute about mythology... A specific example (this came from a story I read once and would like to give credit to the author, so If any of you know who wrote it please let me know) A person well versed in the mythos of a certain culture could feasibly call themselves, for example, Thor...He carries a pistol, or as he refers to it a "hammer" knowing that this would likely be accepted. OK, throw in a few events where said hammer is fired BANG (flash) and its "returned" to his hand. and enemy drops dead before the warrior....legend of mjolnir is born and our time traveller has just created the very legend he is using as a cover.

Ok Im done with the sci-fi thing. Its far too late for this stuff.

Oh and as an added note, if a time traveller altered something in the past I believe we in the present would never know, It would be our known history. To us it never existed any other way
67 posted on 12/25/2003 11:55:11 PM PST by BudgieRamone (Unapologetically Male: I eat, sleep, shoot, drink, use power tools, and water my herbs & orchids :))
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To: BudgieRamone
Oh and as an added note, if a time traveller altered something in the past I believe we in the present would never know, It would be our known history. To us it
never existed any other way



Hmm.... that is the crux of the issue. Can the ALTERED past
being ALREADY PAST relative to our local space-time dimension, have any effect whatsoever on us in the present?
Would there be any effect on our present time domain, if someone went into the past and changed something?

It is ALREADY past...... is it not?
Or does the EXPIRED past STILL have the capability of influencing the ongoing present linked to the future???

70 posted on 12/26/2003 12:37:44 AM PST by birg
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To: BudgieRamone
You're driving me crazy! I remember that story but I can't remember the author or title.

Arrrghhhhhhhhh!

73 posted on 12/26/2003 7:35:02 AM PST by balrog666 (Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.)
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