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Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bobbie Sellers <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: xkcd: Time Traveler Causes of Death Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 23:14:06 -0700 Organization: none at all Lines: 45 Message-ID: <vaucbf$tehi$1@dont-email.me> References: <vag29q$1jtf8$1@dont-email.me> <vatqjr$n8ua$1@dont-email.me> Reply-To: blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2024 08:14:07 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="4057e7ddcbad6d713fe9ab7d4094089e"; logging-data="965170"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+OEKM6J/5x37m83fGFeaNH" User-Agent: Betterbird (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:rG7xlCKAEX38uapERgF74V5mnxo= In-Reply-To: <vatqjr$n8ua$1@dont-email.me> Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2875 On 8/30/24 18:11, Your Name wrote: > On 2024-08-25 19:56:42 +0000, BCFD 36 said: >> On 8/23/24 12:49, Lynn McGuire wrote: >>> xkcd: Time Traveler Causes of Death >>> https://www.xkcd.com/2976/ >>> >>> So no time travelers died of the extreme heat at 250 million years >>> ago when the average temperature of the Earth was over 90 F ? >>> >>> https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/whats-hottest-earths-ever-been >>> >>> Explained at: >>> >>> https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2976:_Time_Traveler_Causes_of_Death >>> >>> Lynn >> >> What about the earth no longer being where it was when transport was >> initiated? I think that may be fatal. > > What about accidentally squashing an insect in the distant past and > wiping out the entire evolutionary chain for humans? ;-) > Insects and mankind are separate paths. Mammals appeared about the same time as the saurians were in charge definitely with the dinosaurians. It was not until the extinction of the dinosaurians that mammals had the chance to rule the planet. They did this by taking over all sorts of niches in the ecology of the Earth following the big extinction and some became primates which evolved into a fair sized family and one branch or maybe more than one but quite closely related began to grow larger brains and eventually frontal cortexes and we had homo sapiens sapiens. Really only half sapient unless specially trained. But if you go back to the age of the Saurians avoid injury to mouse-sized animals. But i think you can slap that mosquito. Better to stay in this time line where all the people you care about are rather than risk ending up in a very strange timeline. bliss -- b l i s s - S F 4 e v e r at D S L E x t r e m e dot com