XPost: comp.os.linux.misc   
   From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On 19/12/2025 10:41 pm, Daniel70 wrote:   
   > On 19/12/2025 8:56 am, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >> On 2025-12-17 01:42, Charlie Gibbs wrote:   
   >   
   >    
   >   
   >>> Certainly not.  Otherwise, if they wanted you they would just make your   
   >>> self-driving car lock the doors and take you to a secure police   
   >>> compound.   
   >>>   
   >>> "If you haven't done anything wrong, you have nothing to fear."   
   >>> Even if the definition of "wrong" can change retroactively?   
   >>   
   >> On one Asimov tale, a character goes back in time several times, to   
   >> change life, but not his enemy, till a moment in the future where what   
   >> his enemy did sometime that was was praiseworthy becomes very bad   
   >> (because of his tiny changes of the timeline) and he is arrested.   
   >   
   > But doesn't the "Back to the Future" trilogy of films prove that false??   
   >   
   > He goes back to 1955 or so, changes things comes back to "present day"   
   > but things are different.   
      
   I seem to recall the Batty Professor in the film explaining it like time   
   would continue as it (historically) had .... until the 'Change point'   
   when time would continue off on a new timeline!!   
   --   
   Daniel70   
      
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