RE: Prehistoric Park

[John Scanlon <riversleigh@outbackatisa.com.au>]

Jamie Stearns suggests
> Anyhow, there's a lot of potential for fatally altering the time-space
> continuum here. Suppose you accidentally kill some kind of little
> Purgatorius-like early primate that happens to be the direct ancestor of
> all
> modern primates, including the entire human race...

Of course it's been done in fiction countless times, one example being a
book called 'Dinosaur Nexus' that I read the other day. But why is it that
in nearly every 'time travel & dinosaurs' story the intrepid TT'ers go to
Hell Creek?  T-rex and Purgatorius have been done to death.
 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jamie Stearns [mailto:stearns5@cox.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 12:57 AM
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: Re: Prehistoric Park
> 
> > HI:
> > Why do people with time machines usually go BACK in time, why not
> > FORWARD? I can see a great way to fund science: Go forward in time just
> > enough to find out the winning lottery numbers for the next drawing,
> then
> > travel back in time to get a winning lottery ticket and bingo (no
> > pun here) NO MORE GRANT WRITING NEEDED!
> Well, something like this did happen in Back to the Future  II, only it
> involved a sports almanac from 2015 or so and betting on horse races.
> 
> Anyhow, there's a lot of potential for fatally altering the time-space
> continuum here. Suppose you accidentally kill some kind of little
> Purgatorius-like early primate that happens to be the direct ancestor of
> all
> modern primates, including the entire human race...