Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site trwatf.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!trwatf!root From: root@trwatf.UUCP (Lord Frith) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Re: BACK TO THE FUTURE (Question, but spoiler) Message-ID: <1042@trwatf.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 16:34:05 EDT Article-I.D.: trwatf.1042 Posted: Fri Jul 12 16:34:05 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 09:21:38 EDT References: <790@vax2.fluke.UUCP> <768@umcp-cs.UUCP> <1786@aecom.UUCP> <697@daemen.UUCP> Reply-To: root@trwatf.UUCP (Lord Frith) Distribution: na Organization: TRW Advanced Technology Facility, Merrifield VA. Lines: 46 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. -- UUCP: ...{decvax,ihnp4,allegra}!seismo!trwatf!root - Lord Frith ARPA: trwatf!root@SEISMO "There are none so blind as those that will not see"