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From: root@trwatf.UUCP (Lord Frith)
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Subject: Re: Re: BACK TO THE FUTURE  (Question, but spoiler)
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Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 16:34:05 EDT
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In article <697@daemen.UUCP> boyce@daemen.UUCP (Doug Boyce) writes:
>> 
>> Now the question is: "How did Chuck Berry learn Johnny B. Goode
>> before time became out of joint?"
>
> Maybe Chuck Berry never got the inspiration for Johny B. Goode.  He might
> have learned it from Marty before it ever became a hit and Chuck waited for
>
> the right time to release.
> Maybe it was predestined that Chuck would learn it from Marty who had in turn
> learned from Chuck. (confusing?)

That's a time paradox.  How could they cyclically learn from each other?
It might have been that Chuck learned the style and "sound" from Marty...
but that also can get paradoxical.

>Don't forget he ends up saving Doc in the end.  Although Marty
>tries so hard to warn Doc of his distant death Doc refuses to take it.
>He rips up a message Marty puts in his pocket.  But the message ends up old but
>intact in the future. Why?

I've wondered about this too.  Remember he stuffed the letter back in his
pocket after he tore it up so I assume he just pasted it back together later.

>Also when Doc was first riddled with bullets from
>the Libyans I don't remember any blood. Could it have been that Doc
>was already forwarned and had the bullet proof vest on already.

Irk.. you don't have much of a conception of time.  "Already" had already
happened the "first time."  Thus he DID have the bullet-proof vest on
because he already had the letter.

>To all you time travel experts, I have heard various premises about but
>wouldn't it be kind of distructive if you met future/past version of yourself.
>Also wouldn't Marty coming back to the future before he had/will go back
>to the past do as much damage to the time stream as his interaction with
>his parents?

Yeh ... just his very presence might well have changed things.  But who would
know?  Only Marty in his frame of reference.
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