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• Time Traveling UFOs

  Over at his Facebox site, http://en.facebox.com/paulkimball/blog/blogid=9...- ,Paul Kimball speculates that some UFO sightings might be time travelers from the future, our descendants stopping by to see how us primitives are (were) doing.
  
  But when you talk about time travel, you can get into all sorts of paradoxes. If someone from the future changes the past, it could end up also changing the future to the point where the time traveler no longer exists, e.g., he kills his great-grandfather. But if the time traveler no longer exists, then how can he change the past?
  
  Maybe time travelers follow a "prime directive" similar to what Gene Roddenberry envisioned when he created the original "Star Trek" TV series. Don't get involved with the natives -- or in the case of time traveler, don't bother your ancestors. You can look, but don't touch.
  
  But even the sighting of a time probe could change history. A driver spots a time probe, is so startled that he has a fatal car accident. Once again the time traveler kills his great-grandpa and so he doesn't exist.
  
  So how to avoid changing history? Simple. Work with what you already have. Time travelers from the future would check the historical records for UFO sightings. Since a sighting has already occurred and the results are known, morph your time machine to fit the description found in the Blue Book files or whatever sources you have. You wouldn't be changing history, you would be creating history as it already happened.
  
  The important detail is to make sure to check all sources so that you know that the sighting involved only your disguised time probe, not something else. After all, you wouldn't want to travel into the past and bump into a secret military craft, knocking it out of the sky. (Unless it already has happened.)
  
  Of course, the worse case scenario would be that you pop in the same time as an ET craft from another world. The aliens might be pissed and chase you back into the future. After all, these aliens created humankind and they don't want humans from another time period messing up their experiment. So they invade the future earth and take out all time-travel machines. "Now" both the past and future are screwed up.
  
  ( You get the feeling I should be a well-known, published SF writer? )

  • 30 October 2006
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