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   Col wrote:   
   > "Steve B"  wrote in message   
   > news:t84543h7qgicern0c60gm591cd4g2vj5fo@4ax.com...   
   >> On Sun, 06 May 2007 10:15:29 +0100, Lister    
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On Sat, 5 May 2007 18:09:11 +0100, "Col"    
   >>> wrote:   
   >>    
   >>   
   >>>> A magic door.   
   >>> A /magic/ door?   
   >> We watched Statis Leak just the other night and it was the first time   
   >> I can recall catching on to all of the potential plot holes and/or   
   >> paradoxes that episode introduces.   
   >>   
   >> They find out about the statis leak because Lister reads Rimmer's   
   >> journal in the future that describes the situation where the future   
   >> Rimmer travels has back in time to tell the past Rimmer that they've   
   >> found a stasis leak on floor 16.  So the future Rimmer tells the past   
   >> Rimmer about the stasis leak, but the future Rimmer doesn't find out   
   >> about it until he reads his journal account.   
   >   
   > But didn't the past Rimmer just dismiss the future Rimmer as   
   > another hallucination caused by the Titan mushrooms?   
   > He would have done so (and presumably thought little of it)   
   > until the point in the future where Lister connects the stasis   
   > leak and Rimmer's so-called mushroom experience.   
   > I dunno, is that right it's a while since I've seen it and like   
   > much of RD I don't really it watch it much any more and the little   
   > details are going from my memory.....   
   >   
   >> Also, did the stasis leak just automagically close up?  Why didn't   
   >> they go back and talk to Hollister to convince him not to let Rimmer   
   >> repair the drive plate?   
   >   
   > Or why didn't they simply go back and stay thee?   
   > A perfect opportunity to get back to earth, as Lister always wanted   
   > yet they don't even dicuss staying. OK, LIster/Rimmer would have   
   > to have stayed clear of their doubles but once RD docked somewhere   
   > they could have jumped ship and made new lives for themselves   
   > elsewwhere.   
      
      
   I think the best answer to all those kind of questions is that Lister   
   had to fulfil his destiny, which was to create the Ouroboros loop.   
      
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