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Many a hungry time traveler has Googled ‘trilobites shellfish allergy’ only to find their carrier had no coverage in the Ordovician.

https://explainxkcd.com/2976/

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    4 months ago

    He dies.

    That’s an unusual take on it. That would definitely have been recorded somewhere as a miraculous recovery. Usually it’s written that the time travelling assassin fails in such a way that no-one notices, and if they do have some kind of effect, generally ends up being the cause of the history they were taught rather than the changer of it.

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      4 months ago

      The author did a few stories based on the ‘Change War.’

      In one, a time traveler goes back and takes the bullets out of a gun, hoping to prevent a death. There’s no gunshot, but the victim is hit by a meteor and dies anyway. The idea is that Time is immutable and almost impossible to change with only one set of hands.