OFF: SETI, ETs

Carl E. Anderson cea20 at CUS.CAM.AC.UK
Thu Jul 11 04:39:53 EDT 1996


> obQuestion: Would the 1970s Dave Brock tell his contemporary to "play
> more guitar," or would he fail to meet him entirely, due to the latter's
> complete seclusion, hidden behind a bank of synthesisers (thereby averting
> any possible time paradox)?

        Maybe that's it?  Brock is hiding from his past self suddenly
springing into space and causing a sudden explosion by violating the
occasional Newtonian Law?
        Might be an _interesting_ explosion though, especially if it took
out a few sequencers on the way ;)

Cheers,
Carl

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