Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!decwrl!ucbvax!upstill From: upstill@ucbvax.ARPA (Steve Upstill) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Back to the Future paradoxes Message-ID: <9793@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 11:27:18 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.9793 Posted: Fri Aug 9 11:27:18 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 21:09:06 EDT Reply-To: upstill@ucbvax.UUCP (Steve Upstill) Distribution: net.movies Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 16 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