This is for something else.
This is for something else.
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Yes, but....
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fuck the butterfly effect, do what you want. you've thrived in chaos once already.
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I just want you to know this is one of the most beautiful comments I've ever read, and it came from a random comment section from an ok comic strip. So much so that I upvoted it once I saw it and came back hours later just to save it.
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I forget where I heard it from, but somebody said that it's strange how we believe that if we go back in time and make a small change, it will have a huge effect on the future, but we also believe that making small changes today won't make any difference in the future.
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This is so inspiring.
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in the Pratchett novels he talks about a sort of 'rubber-band history' that tends to be self-healing. It's the entire plot of one of the novels, a political leader escapes an assassination that was 'meant' to happen, and it ends up in reality having some sort of weird split where the world gets torn between an attraction point where she lives and another where she dies.
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What if you scare our common ancestor to run across the ground to safety and end up getting eaten by a predator that sees it running?
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Then I would have created the grandfather paradox and destroyed the entire universe. Cool, right?
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I don't believe that kind of time travel is possible. But, if it were possible, the odds of finding that exact individual (who probably didn't actually exist) at that exact time are so minuscule that for all practical purposes, it may as well be impossible. But, if that were also possible, it did happen, and that was the only thing that happened differently, then I'm thinking the most likely outcome is that evolution would pretty much continue on the same course, probably even with humans eventually evolving.
It's common to think of the evolutionary process in a more or less linear fashion that could theoretically be traced back to a figurative Adam and Eve, but the reality is, it's so much more messy and convoluted than that. Evolution is a culmination of many factors such as the environmental conditions and populations that exist during a given time frame. So even if there was one specific common ancestral individual who happened to live at the exact time the dinosaurs were alive, which that individual is not a thing that existed, there would almost certainly still be a population of others of the same species living in the same conditions -- so theoretically would still ultimately lead to the same evolutionary outcomes in most instances.
So, I think it's very possible people would still exist. But, it wouldn't be the exact same people, living the exact same lives, at the exact same time as now.
On the other hand, who is to say that the common ancestor hadn't already produced the offspring that specifically lead to you and I being born before it was eaten? Who's to say that individual getting scared and eaten wouldn't have happened anyway, regardless of whether you were there or not? Who's to say that wasn't actually the defining moment that ultimately resulted in the evolution of people (and you and I specifically)?
I dunno, this is all getting a little too timey-wimey for me.
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Take chances. Change doesn't mean worse only different. What's the point of time travel if you can't ride a damn dinosaur!?
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"I'm gonna assume this will just create an alternate timeline and do whatever!"
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send a nuke to blast the asteroid extinction event
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If you ride a dinosaur in the past then it already happened.
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That person has time-travelled in the future. How's your handwriting? ;)
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Like going to Bangkok. For a thing.
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Yes,it's really about going to Bangkok, even if it doesn't seem like it at first
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They are going to "ride" the dinosaur, aren't they?
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If heroin is "the dragon" which drug is "the dinosaur?"
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Weed!
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I mean, technically displacing the air with that time machine on such a massive time scale is just as likely to result in returning to a civilization of dolphin people as riding a dinosaur would.
Or you shedding some of your microbiome's bacteria and fungi into the environment and whoops: they outcompeted something "local" and now whole species change.
I honestly don't think there'd be any way to avoid doing something that could possibly change the future in a dramatic way, because that far back incredibly minute changes could possibly lead to huge differences (because chaos theory), to the level of "a butterfly didn't flap its wings because I accidentally squashed it with my time machine, and now humanity never happened. Oops." But any change that means you didn't ever go on your trip means you have some sort of paradox on your hands, and then it becomes a question of how timelines work
I think you could drastically minimize any impact by doing the time travel in space and merely observing from high orbit, assuming your time machine has no form of exhaust, which if you have a time machine seems like a relatively small engineering challenge by comparison.
You might displace a few atoms in the void, but it's the safest way one could go about it.
The only safe method of time travel is via Christmas ghost.
Luckily, as far as we understand things, there's no way to go back in time (only less fast to the future, which isn't the same). For one thing, because there's no backup mechanism for reality to jump back to.
Timelines are fiction. They hurt some fundamental principles of how the universe works. Time isn't like a river or a line at all; better start thinking of time like the air around you: it's just there, can be formed, affects things but there can't be less than none.
So your saying we can ride the dinosaur?
You know what?
WHAT THE HELL! 🦕🤠