Unfortunately the grandfather paradox prevents any of this. One cannot kill Emperor Theodosius, Genghis Khan, or Adolf Hitler no matter how much one wants to as the butterflies resulting from the removal of any of those three men will prevent the existence of the time-traveler which in the end means they could never have traveled back in time to start with.
Re: Yes, I pulled the TVT Card. (We're also party poopers.)underlankersSeptember 20 2010, 02:27:01 UTC
True.
Though the truly clever person would note that to prevent the rise of Hitler, one simply has to shoot Vladimir Lenin as a baby. No USSR means no Nazism as we know it.
The true cynic notes that to prevent society as we know it from happening, one would have to shoot the idiot who started the First Punic War.
Re: Yes, I pulled the TVT Card. (We're also party poopers.)underlankersSeptember 20 2010, 02:28:51 UTC
Though killing Hitler once the Germans invade the USSR is hardly going to help the Axis. If the German military gets to fight the war it wants, they tended to neglect that the Soviets were already adapting to their technology and given the way the regulars fought the war were never going to have an easy peace with the Germans.
The result is that Germany is beaten sometime around 1944, primarily by Soviet military power, while the Allies' main contributions are most likely invasions of Italy and bombing round the clock.
1. The Boxer Rebellion 2. The years of Sun Yat Sen 3. The time in which Japan invaded Manchuria and it was all sort of international and stuff (roughly 1920s - 1940s Manchuria) Basically what the first part of "The China Lover" covered.
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...getting us to agree on events is one thing, but I doubt we'd get further than arguments over plausibility.
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Though the truly clever person would note that to prevent the rise of Hitler, one simply has to shoot Vladimir Lenin as a baby. No USSR means no Nazism as we know it.
The true cynic notes that to prevent society as we know it from happening, one would have to shoot the idiot who started the First Punic War.
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The result is that Germany is beaten sometime around 1944, primarily by Soviet military power, while the Allies' main contributions are most likely invasions of Italy and bombing round the clock.
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2. The years of Sun Yat Sen
3. The time in which Japan invaded Manchuria and it was all sort of international and stuff (roughly 1920s - 1940s Manchuria) Basically what the first part of "The China Lover" covered.
That's all I got.
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