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Post by spanishspy on Feb 6, 2016 20:19:45 GMT
If that's the case, I think I understand, although how they'd get American weaponry would be a little tough. They did it during Operation Greif during the Battle of the Bulge, it would be not hard to do it again, would be cool to see Waffen-SS commando Otto Skorzeny leading that attack against a Soviet unit who thinks they are encountering a American unit but instead come under attack by them. It would make an interesting novel, certainly. |
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Post by lordroel on Feb 6, 2016 20:23:23 GMT
They did it during Operation Greif during the Battle of the Bulge, it would be not hard to do it again, would be cool to see Waffen-SS commando Otto Skorzeny leading that attack against a Soviet unit who thinks they are encountering a American unit but instead come under attack by them. It would make an interesting novel, certainly. It would but that why i would kill Hitler on the last day of his life, it gives me the satisfaction of killing him but not the worry that i would create a timeline more darker than ours. |
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Post by spanishspy on Feb 6, 2016 20:31:08 GMT
It would make an interesting novel, certainly. It would but that why i would kill Hitler on the last day of his life, it gives me the satisfaction of killing him but not the worry that i would create a timeline more darker than ours. I can understand the sentiment. |
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Post by lordroel on Feb 6, 2016 20:36:58 GMT
It would but that why i would kill Hitler on the last day of his life, it gives me the satisfaction of killing him but not the worry that i would create a timeline more darker than ours. I can understand the sentiment. Thats why time travel is so tricky, you never now what happens after you kill somebody like Hitler when he was a baby or in his last days of his life. |
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Post by spanishspy on Feb 6, 2016 20:50:33 GMT
I can understand the sentiment. Thats why time travel is so tricky, you never now what happens after you kill somebody like Hitler when he was a baby or in his last days of his life. It could very well lead to something unexpected. |
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Post by lordroel on Feb 6, 2016 20:54:26 GMT
Thats why time travel is so tricky, you never now what happens after you kill somebody like Hitler when he was a baby or in his last days of his life. It could very well lead to something unexpected. Well Jeb Bush once told he had no problem to kill a baby who everybody knows still had no blood on his hands despite the fact we now what he will become in later life, that why if you have to kill him, kill him when he is in his last day of his life, no problem with changing the future. |
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Post by stevep on Feb 12, 2016 10:36:52 GMT
It could very well lead to something unexpected. Well Jeb Bush once told he had no problem to kill a baby who everybody knows still had no blood on his hands despite the fact we now what he will become in later life, that why if you have to kill him, kill him when he is in his last day of his life, no problem with changing the future. Guys I think the point is how attached are you to OTL? Experienced AHers would have concerns about how unexpected butterflies might mean something, like killing Hitler in 1932 say, before he came to power, might result in a very dark world. Many other people give the chance to kill a young Hitler/Stalin/Mao/Lenin/whoever, especially if they suffered from that person's actions and saw family/friends killed might be a lot more willing to gamble that such a chance would lead to a better world. Also we know that, outside of the universes inside our own minds, we can't change the past. If you were given the chance to actually do so, at a time/place of your doing, how many would be able to resist it? I know I would be tempted by numerous scenarios. Steve |
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Post by lordroel on Feb 12, 2016 11:47:02 GMT
Well Jeb Bush once told he had no problem to kill a baby who everybody knows still had no blood on his hands despite the fact we now what he will become in later life, that why if you have to kill him, kill him when he is in his last day of his life, no problem with changing the future. Guys I think the point is how attached are you to OTL? Experienced AHers would have concerns about how unexpected butterflies might mean something, like killing Hitler in 1932 say, before he came to power, might result in a very dark world. Many other people give the chance to kill a young Hitler/Stalin/Mao/Lenin/whoever, especially if they suffered from that person's actions and saw family/friends killed might be a lot more willing to gamble that such a chance would lead to a better world. Also we know that, outside of the universes inside our own minds, we can't change the past. If you were given the chance to actually do so, at a time/place of your doing, how many would be able to resist it? I know I would be tempted by numerous scenarios. Steve So if a guy from the future comes at the momment Hitler has a gun put at his head and before Hitler menages to shoot, the guy shoot him instead, does the guy who has disapeard have alternate history or not. |
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Post by Rematog on May 12, 2016 17:57:54 GMT
No change, unless you step on a butterfly while walking in the Bunker.
Read, The Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury
So he goes in to commit the perfect crime, but is suprised by a secretary and shoots her. He returns to find Neo-Nazi's have won the 2080 election......
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