Sujet : Re: xkcd: Time Traveler Causes of Death
De : john.w.kennedy (at) *nospam* gmail.com (John W Kennedy)
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On 8/30/24 9:11 PM, 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/
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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 ?
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https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/whats-hottest-earths-ever-been
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Explained at:
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https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2976:_Time_Traveler_Causes_of_Death
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Lynn
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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? ;-)
It can't be that simple. Insects are orthostomes; humans are deuterostomes.
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