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| rdfs:comment | - Time Travel is here and it's time to go to the Cretaceous at last and observe some dinosaurs! But we gotta Race Against the Clock, because by the end of the day the asteroid is going to hit! But wait, wasn't the Cretaceous period 79 million years long? Wouldn't it be better to go visit it any other day but the one guaranteed to kill you? Related to Contrived Coincidence and In the Past Everyone Will Be Famous. May be part of a Phlebotinum Killed the Dinosaurs plot. Examples involving the K-T extinction:
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| abstract | - Time Travel is here and it's time to go to the Cretaceous at last and observe some dinosaurs! But we gotta Race Against the Clock, because by the end of the day the asteroid is going to hit! But wait, wasn't the Cretaceous period 79 million years long? Wouldn't it be better to go visit it any other day but the one guaranteed to kill you? This is when The Theme Park Version of prehistory reveals its dark side for time travelers. No matter how sophisticated the method of time travel used, the arrivers will always have to complete their tasks before the asteroid arrives. There is no way around it, sometimes even if you're observing Jurassic or Triassic dinosaurs. This need not apply only to the K-T extinction. Fiction loves to flanderize history into simple compact events and travelers headed to other periods may find themselves in the midst of other disasters, like arriving in Manassas only to find a civil war is breaking out, or visiting Roman Italy only for a volcano to erupt. Such a visitor is not looking to change history or see said famous event, they just want to take a stroll and breathe in the surroundings when... HOLY COW! This 20th century ship I'm on is called Titanic! Related to Contrived Coincidence and In the Past Everyone Will Be Famous. May be part of a Phlebotinum Killed the Dinosaurs plot. Examples involving the K-T extinction:
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