<spike1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Ken from Chicago <kwicker1b_nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> did eloquently scribble:
>> They can check out anytime they like, but they can never leave!
>
>> Well, at least not the city anyway. They city HAS to remain in the
>> Pegasus
>> galaxy, on that planet--or SHEPPARD will not have a place to return to
>> 48,000 years into the future ("In the year forty eight thousand / One
man
>> is
>> still alive / Looking for a brand new day / Ain't letting nothin stand
in
>> his way-" erm, ahem, but I digress).
>
> You're forgetting something...
> We know the stargate universe is based on the quantum divergent timeline
> model. Every action creates at least two universes where each possible
> outcome plays out.
>
> So, no. The future isn't written yet, or rather, we haven't chosen the
> path
> OUR future will take. But all possible futures are already mapped out.
So,
> no, O'Niell doesn't have to go to the stargate in 2010 to send himself a
> message because an alternate version of himself has already done so. In
> that
> reality, the baddies won, but he successfully spawned a new universe in
> which the warning was received and heeded.
>
It's one thing to risk one's life or the life of your friends if you know
once you change history the current timeline will wink out of existence
and
everyone who died will come back to life. It's another thing to risk
one's
life to change history if you don't actually get to experience the
benefits
of that change. I wonder how much effort they would put into changing the
past to prevent a horrible present if they knew they would continue to
live
in that horrible present with the benefits going to (yet to be created)
alternate versions of themselves.
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