April 6, 2009

Time travel: the great question debated

You'll remember that in the premiere episode of Lost's Season 5, Dr. Pierre Chang is called to a construction emergency at the burgeoning Orchid Station and tells the foreman to be careful, because that the site may enable them to control time and space.

The foreman asks skeptically, "So you mean like, we can go back and kill Hitler?" Chang snaps back: "Don't be ridiculous! There are rules!"

A story on the speculative-fiction site Abyss & Apex discusses that very scenario and all the rules about why you can't kill Hitler, in hilarious style. The piece is called "Wikihistory." And oh yes, the author is named... Desmond!

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