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The Time Machine - 2008/08/31 07:00
On ITV last night, the recent remake; nowhere near as good as the original but still fascinating, particularly in the light of the PAST thread here.
Can we change the future?
HG Wells' message was basically "No we can't" and I think he was right. We can never know how our sometimes well meaning efforts (stop global warming) can eventually lead to disaster. And perhaps that's the way it was going anyway.
I am virtually certain in billions of years Earth will be a frozen, barren planet like Mars, or the moon, or Pluto... and Venus will be a healthy living planet like Earth is now, with a young student squeaking "Streets full of people all alone..." never guessing he was soon to star in Vile Pervert: The Musical.
And billions of years after that, when Mercury has become Earth and died, and the sun has gone out, another star in another part of the universe will explode, become a sun and create Earth on a planet far, far away...
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