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Absurd Alhazred posted:
SM Stirling wrote a series where Nantucket gets transported back to the Stone Age, and there was a subplot about how they accidentally-on-purpose killed off 90% of the natives on the Eastern seaboard. Sadly it was not a very good series.
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May 5, 2018 23:54
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The only thing I can think of of the top of my head is Doomsday Book by Connie Willis, and it's not really like that, although it is a plot point. She does a fine line in time travel stories, though.
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May 6, 2018 00:35
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wheatpuppy posted:SM Stirling wrote a series where Nantucket gets transported back to the Stone Age, and there was a subplot about how they accidentally-on-purpose killed off 90% of the natives on the Eastern seaboard. Sadly it was not a very good series. Going back and infecting the amerindian population with smallpox and other assorted diseases a few hundred years before Europeans turn up would be pretty sweet. That assumes they can rebuild their population so instead of a decimated continent with a few shattered tribes whitey would encounter a millions of mostly healthy and disease resistant locals who could if not push their poo poo in at least resist invasion a little better. On second reading I think I just promoted eugenics and genocide. Oops, tried to do the right thing and became Chronohitler. 
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May 6, 2018 00:39
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I literally came here to recommend Doomsday Book, which you should all loving read immediately, it’s so good. Maybe bring tissues. It’s one of those books that reads like a ripping adventure and then when you get to the end you realize that it’s actually a literary masterpiece of the human condition throughout history and the triumph of etc etc just read it
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May 6, 2018 00:40
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Outrail posted:Going back and infecting the amerindian population with smallpox and other assorted diseases a few hundred years before Europeans turn up would be pretty sweet. That assumes they can rebuild their population so instead of a decimated continent with a few shattered tribes whitey would encounter a millions of mostly healthy and disease resistant locals who could if not push their poo poo in at least resist invasion a little better. Can't be worse than the official Chronotrigger remaster.
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May 6, 2018 00:42
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Absurd Alhazred posted:No, I'm serious. I feel like a complete idiot (what's new right?), but I either hadn't thought of it or had thought of it and forgot, and I can't off the top of my head think of a story where that featured, and I read one or two time-travel ones recently. Not time travel but that was the spoiler ending of the war of the worlds.
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May 6, 2018 00:44
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Spanish Manlove posted:Not time travel but that was the spoiler ending of the war of the worlds. Poor Ga'blax'eh, thought of influenza and died.
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May 6, 2018 00:49
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Booger Presley posted:I think it's funny that these goons think they'll go back in time and hang out with famous people. You'll go back to a historic time and still get wedgied then shoved into a locker. im great at touching butts so gently caress U
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May 6, 2018 00:50
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Anyone remember the guy who had a disturbing knowledge of pedophile symbols? I think it was an auspol thread and started with him offhand mentioning that the pauls symbol was a pedo symbol when reversed. May have been deleted, honestly.
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May 6, 2018 00:53
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Outrail posted:Going back and infecting the amerindian population with smallpox and other assorted diseases a few hundred years before Europeans turn up would be pretty sweet. That assumes they can rebuild their population so instead of a decimated continent with a few shattered tribes whitey would encounter a millions of mostly healthy and disease resistant locals who could if not push their poo poo in at least resist invasion a little better. go back and infect them all with cowpox instead
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May 6, 2018 01:08
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Torchlighter posted:Anyone remember the guy who had a disturbing knowledge of pedophile symbols? I think it was an auspol thread and started with him offhand mentioning that the pauls symbol was a pedo symbol when reversed. May have been deleted, honestly. Are pedo symbols like hobo sign or something
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May 6, 2018 01:33
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bad day posted:gently caress that ima go back to the 50’s and invent rap music. Ice Ice Baby, Can’t Touch This, One Mic - I wrote those and performed those songs. “Puffy? Puffy! It’s your cousin Marvin! Marvin Combs!”
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May 6, 2018 01:36
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Sagebrush posted:go back and infect them all with cowpox instead Go back further and teach the first peoples entering the Americas to domesticate animals. Then contact between American and European civilizations will likely cause civilization-ending plagues on both sides. 
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May 6, 2018 01:41
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Spanish Manlove posted:Not time travel but that was the spoiler ending of the war of the worlds. Yeah, exactly. And yet that didn't feature at all in H. G. Wells` Time Machine.
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May 6, 2018 02:11
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Outrail posted:Going back and infecting the amerindian population with smallpox and other assorted diseases a few hundred years before Europeans turn up would be pretty sweet. That assumes they can rebuild their population so instead of a decimated continent with a few shattered tribes whitey would encounter a millions of mostly healthy and disease resistant locals who could if not push their poo poo in at least resist invasion a little better. As a native american, that first sentence sure put me in a bad mood. Also it already happened. http://www.slate.com/articles/healt..._off_by_an.html "It’s estimated as many as nine out of 10 coastal Indians were killed in the epidemic between 1616 and 1619."
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May 6, 2018 03:14
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cumshitter posted:"Are you trying to buy your way back into our lives?" Is a pretty valid question but,
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May 6, 2018 03:16
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Olaf The Stout posted:As a native american, that first sentence sure put me in a bad mood. That’s post-Columbian.
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May 6, 2018 03:17
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It's not time travel, but I was reading the Doomsday Book synopsis and it reminded me of two books I read. The first was The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson. Basically the Black Death kills 99% of the European population and history changes a whooole lot. I'm still not sure if I like the reincarnation scenes, but they do fit the book. There's also this kickass sci-fi book called Eifelheim by Michael Flynn where a modern historian is trying to figure out why a small town in Germany was wiped out by the Black Death and never resettled, unlike the other areas around it. It kinda bounces back and forth from the present and the past and is very good.
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May 6, 2018 03:22
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empty sea posted:There's also this kickass sci-fi book called Eifelheim by Michael Flynn where a modern historian is trying to figure out why a small town in Germany was wiped out by the Black Death and never resettled, unlike the other areas around it. It kinda bounces back and forth from the present and the past and is very good. He'll probably have a lot of time to write a sequel in prison.  Yeah, I know, wrong Michael Flynn; I actually read a few of his recent works in Analog and wasn't impressed, but maybe I'll get my hands on Eifelheim and give it a go.
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May 6, 2018 03:50
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bad day posted:gently caress that ima go back to the 50’s and invent rap music. Ice Ice Baby, Can’t Touch This, One Mic - I wrote those and performed those songs. I read a fantasy book where some guys went back to the time of Cuchulain and one of them was ordered to start singing and he busts out a wobbly off key version of "When Irish eyes are smiling" and is hailed as the greatest musician ever
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May 6, 2018 06:23
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Hjalmar posted:2014 - horny on private
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May 6, 2018 18:39
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Outrail posted:Going back and infecting the amerindian population with smallpox and other assorted diseases a few hundred years before Europeans turn up would be pretty sweet. That assumes they can rebuild their population so instead of a decimated continent with a few shattered tribes whitey would encounter a millions of mostly healthy and disease resistant locals who could if not push their poo poo in at least resist invasion a little better. Why wouldn't you go back and give them the smallpox vaccine?
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May 6, 2018 18:59
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Dear Prudence posted:Why wouldn't you go back and give them the smallpox vaccine? Why does everyone want to go back and kill baby Hitler rather than teaching him to paint?
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May 6, 2018 19:08
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Facebook Aunt posted:Why does everyone want to go back and kill baby Hitler rather than teaching him to paint? Less work and easier to tell when you're finished.
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May 6, 2018 19:13
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The fair thing to do would be to monitor all human civilizations throughout history and make sure all populations get exposed to the same diseases at roughly the same point at time so that when they do eventually make contact there are no surprises. Only kings get the vaccines though. Papa’s got a nasty opium habit and he needs the patronage.
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May 6, 2018 19:20
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Facebook Aunt posted:Why does everyone want to go back and kill baby Hitler rather than teaching him to paint? Plus it's about the only way to kill a baby without people trying to make you feel all guilty about it.
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May 6, 2018 19:20
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Trig Discipline posted:Plus it's about the only way to kill a baby without people trying to make you feel all guilty about it. loving liberals.
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May 6, 2018 19:24
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Smirking_Serpent posted:Personal Issues: Me [42 M] with my online game commumity, 1 year, read private threads, hurt and embarrassed at how I'm viewed by my peers. dudeness posted:In his comments he says he just enjoys debating topics. La Brea Carpet posted:Yeah he should take the hint that sometimes less is Mormon.
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May 6, 2018 19:38
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Doc Hawkins posted:Less work and easier to tell when you're finished. Art is never finished, only abandoned.
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May 6, 2018 19:45
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Jedit posted:Art is never finished, only abandoned. Hmm, maybe the difference is smaller than I thought.
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May 6, 2018 19:49
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Facebook Aunt posted:Why does everyone want to go back and kill baby Hitler rather than teaching him to paint? There was a lot of stuff he didn't want to learn that's why he was rejected. If anything kidnap baby Hitler, bring him 100 years forward in time , dump him at an orphanage, and he grows up to be another lovely webcomic artist.
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May 6, 2018 20:12
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I'm sure Hitler would love Reddit.
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May 6, 2018 21:23
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Progressively move further back in time and kidnap more and more hitlers as you go. Let them duke it out in a thunderdome and unleash ultrahitler upon the late cretaceous. Baby hitler vs kidnapped nonagenarian hitler aged in fine sherry oak, who would be the best match against the triceratops? Karate Bastard has a new favorite as of 22:02 on May 6, 2018 |
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May 6, 2018 21:59
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Karate Bastard posted:Progressively move further back in time and kidnap more and more hitlers as you go. Let them duke it out in a thunderdome and unleash ultrahitler upon the late cretaceous. Now I really wish I had my tablet here so I could start the paint thread
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May 6, 2018 22:04
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Space Hitler vs Mechahitler
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May 6, 2018 22:08
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Trig Discipline posted:Plus it's about the only way to kill a baby without people trying to make you feel all guilty about it. If you kill a baby just claim to be a time traveler and that baby was future Hitler and the cops will just let you go. True story.
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May 6, 2018 23:03
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Although it’s probably not true, I imagine a baby but with grown up hitlers face, mustache and all. Anyone else do this? Tell me in a PM
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May 6, 2018 23:10
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The whole point of that "would you kill baby Hitler" thought experiment is that it's trying to create a conflict between avoiding something we see as abhorrent (killing babies) with avoiding something else we see as abhorrent (mass murder and genocide). There's no punch to it if you could prevent the second alternative from happening in a way that obviates the first.
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May 6, 2018 23:12
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I'd give baby Hitler the same option I give every baby: call it, heads or tails.
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May 6, 2018 23:16
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oldpainless posted:Although it’s probably not true, I imagine a baby but with grown up hitlers face, mustache and all. Anyone else do this? Tell me in a PM Kids who look like that you just stomp them out. It's for the best.
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