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From: upstill@ucbvax.ARPA (Steve Upstill)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Back to the Future paradoxes
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Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 11:27:18 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  9 11:27:18 1985
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   I don't know why all you people are spending so much effort trying to
iron out time-travel paradoxes, when it is such a ludicrous idea in the 
first place.  Why do I say this?  Consider the fact that whenever anyone
jumps through time in any time-travel scenario I've ever heard of, they
wind up in the exact same location as they left, IN RELATIVE SPACE.
That is, Marty winds up in the same earthly location he left, when every
nurd worth his keyboard knows that the Earth is spinning at 25000 miles
an hour, flying around the sun, which is spinning around the galaxy, etc.
Marty should be out in space somewhere!
   (sorry, I'm excluding The Time Tunnel, where the heroes always landed
in exactly the spot appropriate for the time they were landing in, i.e.
Philadelphia in 1776)

Steve Upstill