Re: OT: Wildepad

Luke Campbell opined


>So the time traveler spends a few weeks hobnobbing with important
>officials and heads of high tech companies, does a few interviews with
>high profile media warning people of their impending doom (and giving
>a list of things that should be done to prevent that doom to the
>media), and then gets back in his tardis and vanishes.

>Of course, the time travelers will eventually find out that what
>caused the disasters was that their agents were carriers of the
>equivalent of smallpox/tuberculosis/measles/whooping cough to which
>they were immune but the local population was not, thus precipitating
>the very thing they wished to avoid.

That's a lot like /Flight from Tomorrow/ by Beam Piper.

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