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Title:	Arcana Caelestia
Notice:	Directory listings are in topic 2
Moderator:	NETRIX::thomas

Created:	Thu Dec 08 1983
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1300
Total number of notes:	18728

365.0. "Once upon a time (Or twice, or thrice...)" by LEIA::SWONGER () Mon Aug 04 1986 10:14

    	I hope this doesn't duplicate a topic...
    
    	   I've always liked thinking and talking about time travel.
	Writers  come  up  with  some really bizarre and interesting
	possibilities,   a  la  Heinlein's  "All  you  Zombies"  and
	"Brooklyn Project" by some author whose name escapes me. 

	   My favorite  is  a  variation on the "Undo your mistakes"
	theme.  I  can't  remember the title or author, but the plot
	went something like: 

	   Two scientists  discover  a  way  to go back in time, and
	decide  to  try an experiment. They take ants (I think) back
	to  the  time  of  the dinosaurs or earlier, to see how they
	would  evolve,  given  enough  time.  They  go  "back to the
	present"  (sic)  and  find the world run by giant ants, with
	humans  as slaves, etc. They decide to go back and undo what
	they  did,  but the ants have also developed time travel and
	are waiting for them...well, so much for the human race.

	Any other good ones?

	Roy

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
365.1	See Note 331	PROSE::WAJENBERG		`Mon Aug 04 1986 10:24`	3
	So far, it does seem to duplicate a topic. Sorry. ESW
365.2	nit-pick alert	CACHE::MARSHALL	beware the fractal dragon	`Mon Aug 04 1986 19:10`	8
	re ants: ants are much older than dinosaurs. better possibility would be deflecting the thing that slammed into the earth to extinct the dinosaurs. Then see what happens. sm
365.3	I thought ants only lived a year or so...	TROLL::RUDMAN		`Tue Aug 05 1986 13:40`	4
	Since there is already a Time Travel note, tell me some more about the Dinosaur Extinction Theory. I've been away. Don
365.4	dinosaurs on ice	CACHE::MARSHALL	beware the fractal dragon	`Tue Aug 05 1986 14:31`	12
	re .3: the current theory is that some extra-terrestrial object (comet, asteroid, adric{Dr. Who reference}) slammed into the earth, creating major upheavals, massive cloud cover, etc. Starting an ice age and mass extinctions including the dinosaurs. ants: I believe there is a piece of amber with an ant (or termite or fly or wasp, etc) embedded in it. the amber has been dated to be very old, older than the dinosaurs. sm
365.5		STUBBI::REINKE		`Tue Aug 05 1986 15:11`	1
	amber = termite
365.6	SEE SF NOTE 344!	EDEN::KLAES	It's only a model!	`Tue Aug 05 1986 18:23`	5
	The Dinosaur Extinction theory has already been discussed too in SF Notes - see Note #344 entitled "Harrison's WEST OF EDEN". Larry
365.7	"Nine Termites in Amber"?	TROLL::RUDMAN		`Fri Aug 08 1986 09:54`	4
	Thanks, Larry. I'd thought it appeared in here somewhere, but was too [something] to look. Don