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A story by
Ray Bradbury
about
time travellers
who travel to prehistoric days and accidentally change the course of future events. A sort of
butterfly effect
that ripples through time and ruins the future. This story has since been rehashed many times, such as by
Star Trek
The Next Generation or
The Simpsons
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The
butterfly effect
in this story literally involves a butterfly: A
travel agency
takes
hunt
ers into the past to kill
dinosaur
s. Tremendous care is taken that nothing in the target location be disturbed, other than the
dinosaur
s, which, it has been determined, were about to die anyway). A special walkway is even suspended so that the
time travel
ers do not even step on the ground. But one of them slips off of this and...steps on a butterfly. When the hunters return to their own time they find that the
English
language has a much more marked
German
ic bent and an important election has just gone to a candidate they deem
fascist
.
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Butterfly effect
Something everyone has done but nobody knows what to call it
Ray Bradbury
Kimmy's angels
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Chaos theory
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I want to hear you slap your thighs together
Sound between thunder and lightning
The dream is always the same...
There is no time paradox
Fascist
dinosaur
hunt
Thunder
Inherent impossibility in science fiction time travel
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