Unwashed Village
General Discussion => Unwashed Village => Topic started by: Doombot on November 21, 2008, 09:33:27 PM
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Why You Can’t Travel Back in Time and Kill Hitler (http://io9.com/5094494/why-you-cant-travel-back-in-time-and-kill-hitler)
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As the article mentions there, the entire timeline of the Red Alert series came about due to Hitler being erased from history. Without him rising to power, Germany joined the Allies but it turned out he was what kept Stalin in check. Without him, the Soviets didn't join the Allies and instead went to war with them.
However Red Alert 3 undoes this again by Einstein being ereased from history. He was gone, Hilter was still gone, but the Allied/Soviet war still happened, albeit differently and the Japanese became another super power.
Reading that back, it wouldn't look out of place as the plot for an episode of Doctor Who.
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There's a TV tropes section that deals with that.
Removing Hitler is impossible or bad.
Either someone worse comes along, humanity never learns the lessons of hatred and repeats it later to a larger degree, it's unavoidable (your gun will jam when you shoot teenage Hitler), or by some cruel twist of fate... you going back is what caused Hitler to become ruler of Germany.
Hitlers Time Travel Exemption Act (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct)
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Time travel is impossible.
Either time is immutable, or time travel is actually alternate dimension travel.
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I'll be quiet now -.-
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Time travel is impossible.
Either time is immutable, or time travel is actually alternate dimension travel.
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I'll be quiet now -.-
Don't bring science into this room, we're talking about Hitler in here.