Thursday, September 22, 2011

Time Travel

Terra Nova is set to premiere soon. The premise makes the logical side of me wonder.

So a way has been found to send people and machines back in time 85 million years. Dinosaurs are still around and interacting with people. They were there first of course.

So... Wouldn't the discovery of modern human skulls that are 85 million years fuck up science just in general? Or rather, if the people sent back in time actually survived, wouldn't that fuck up the future they are from? Not that modern man who has only been around for about 10-15,000 years would be able to survive 85 million years to actually screw up the timeline they came from. And the meteor which wiped out the dinosaurs happened 65 million years ago. So you go back in time to save humanity, and then face extinction again. Ok, in 20 million years, but you see what I'm saying? The logic of all this is kind of crazy.

I need to see the show, but the premise is a bit nutty. I wonder how they deal with these and the other logic problems. This may be a moot point since it is a chance to have dinosaurs chase humans in the jungle. It's all just good fun. Unless you are eaten.

2 comments:

shelly blaisdell said...

Oh yeah . . . its all about dinosaurs ripping out people guts.

Ever since the first time travel sci fi books we read in middle school, the "hey, this doesn't work" vs "Just go with it" debate has been raging.

I'm one of those who really cant just go with it . . . I suspect you as well can try all you like to just enjoy the dinosaur carnage, but the characters are supposed to be these really smart people . . . and I already want to smack them for NOT saying the obvious.

and today's verification word is . . . . ferstes!

spartacus said...

Well, I watched the show. The reason they don't fuck up the time line, apparently, is because they are on a different time stream so none of the things that happened on Earth would be contaminated by what they did 85 million years ago.

It's crap to keep people like me from going, "Wait..." But it's kind of fun.

Verification word, demallo.