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Re: Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers

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Post by elboru »

darrhiggs wrote: post #136
elboru wrote: post #123

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Because of Columbus I and most of Latin Americans are born, most of us are a mix of European and Native Americans. If all of that population was really killed, there would be just white people in the spanish and portuguese territories.

Ignoring the rest of your comment… how would this kill you all?

My point was that the population was not exterminated in this side of America, the proof is us (Latin Americans), for example Mexico with 90% of its population being "mestizo" (european/native american) with variations of 70%/30% 50%/50% 30%/70%

Re: Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers

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Post by DonGateley »

arethuza wrote: post #68
swombat wrote: post #63

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7000 personally executed over 28 consecutive nights, through a shot in the base of the skull while wearing a leather apron, gloves and hood, 300 a night for 10 hours each night, one every 3 minutes? That's some character... It takes a certain kind of monster to order the execution of 7000 officer prisoners of war. It takes another kind to carry it out personally with a collection of pistols brought in especially for…

I can recommend (if that is the correct term) the book "Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar" for a chilling description of the leadership of the Soviet Union from the early 30s until Stalin's death: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stalin-The-Court-Red-Tsar/dp/0753817...

Agreed! It is next to impossible to understand soviet Russia without knowing what is covered in that book. It completely changed my view of the whole Bolshevik experiment, especially Stalin's role. What had been a mystery to me became much clearer.

Re: Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers

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Post by Houshalter »

tinco wrote: post #82
arethuza wrote: post #34

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Why just Hitler? Stalin and Mao were arguably equally as bad: http://necrometrics.com/tyrants.htm And there are monsters like Leopold II of Belgium (possible victims in the range 2-15 million) who hardly anyone remembers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_II_of_Belgium#Exploitat... Actually, as hardly anyone remembers Leopold II maybe he is the ideal target.... :-| [NB I eventually remembered that I'm against the…

Would it not be a much better idea to kill Columbus, and prevent the 'discovery' of the Americas, thereby saving the population of nearly two whole continents? Can't be much more efficient with your time travel than that I reckon. edit: Just read the interesting link you posted to 20th centuries bloodiest tyrants. I wonder why Johnson and Nixon are not in the third list, bloody tyrants who killed over 400.000 innocen…

If you don't mind changing history, it might be better just to go back in time and give the natives small pox vaccine. Contact was inevitable.

Hell if you are going to do that there are probably countless other things you can do to improve history.

Re: Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers

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Post by Houshalter »

rwmj wrote: post #75
DanBC wrote: post #26

There's a relevant Mitchell and Web scetch. Someone travels back in time and meets Faraday. Faraday asks a bunch of questions, none of which can be answered because the traveller is just an everyday person who has little clue about how things work.

There's a slightly silly-but-entertaining film in which an aircraft carrier goes back in time. The spoiler of the film is that one man who is left behind in time becomes absurdly rich by becoming a pioneering "inventor". So we should look for absurdly rich people who have made dozens of inventions. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080736/

You could also just invest in companies that you know will succeed rather than inventing anything. That's harder to look for.

Re: Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers

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Post by samstave »

arethuza wrote: post #34
andyjohnson0 wrote: post #14

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"...say to kill Hitler." Everybody kills Hitler on their first trip. http://www.abyssapexzine.com/wikihistory/

Why just Hitler? Stalin and Mao were arguably equally as bad: http://necrometrics.com/tyrants.htm And there are monsters like Leopold II of Belgium (possible victims in the range 2-15 million) who hardly anyone remembers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_II_of_Belgium#Exploitat... Actually, as hardly anyone remembers Leopold II maybe he is the ideal target.... :-| [NB I eventually remembered that I'm against the…

Jesus Christ! After reading that wiki on Leopoldo I am personally signed up to be the traveller to go back and murder that SOB with impunity!

Re: Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers

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Post by snowwrestler »

njharman wrote: post #59
arethuza wrote: post #34

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Why just Hitler? Stalin and Mao were arguably equally as bad: http://necrometrics.com/tyrants.htm And there are monsters like Leopold II of Belgium (possible victims in the range 2-15 million) who hardly anyone remembers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_II_of_Belgium#Exploitat... Actually, as hardly anyone remembers Leopold II maybe he is the ideal target.... :-| [NB I eventually remembered that I'm against the…

Actually, the H man and those guys don't make the cut. The ones deserving of time-travel assassination have already been dealt with. Hence we don't know of them.

http://mark.laabs.net/alternate-theory-for-obamas-nobel-priz...

Re: Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers

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Post by kamaal »

njharman wrote: post #59
arethuza wrote: post #34

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Why just Hitler? Stalin and Mao were arguably equally as bad: http://necrometrics.com/tyrants.htm And there are monsters like Leopold II of Belgium (possible victims in the range 2-15 million) who hardly anyone remembers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_II_of_Belgium#Exploitat... Actually, as hardly anyone remembers Leopold II maybe he is the ideal target.... :-| [NB I eventually remembered that I'm against the…

Actually, the H man and those guys don't make the cut. The ones deserving of time-travel assassination have already been dealt with. Hence we don't know of them.

I am wondering, that things like killing someone historically significant won't be done unless there is extinction level threat from that individual.

Other wise the people in the future would decide to just let it play.

Re: Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers

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Post by TrainedMonkey »

Houshalter wrote: post #153
tinco wrote: post #82

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Would it not be a much better idea to kill Columbus, and prevent the 'discovery' of the Americas, thereby saving the population of nearly two whole continents? Can't be much more efficient with your time travel than that I reckon. edit: Just read the interesting link you posted to 20th centuries bloodiest tyrants. I wonder why Johnson and Nixon are not in the third list, bloody tyrants who killed over 400.000 innocen…

If you don't mind changing history, it might be better just to go back in time and give the natives small pox vaccine. Contact was inevitable. Hell if you are going to do that there are probably countless other things you can do to improve history.

If done even slightly wrong this would be easily detected.
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