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From: gds@mit-eddie.UUCP (Greg Skinner)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: How to Get Rich with a Time Machine
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Date: Wed, 16-May-84 00:44:05 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 16 00:44:05 1984
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	>2)  My second thought concerns mankind's tendency to make war.
	>At those times men [...] black marketeering without affecting
	>his own future.
	>As an example, take Patton near the end of the European conflict
	>in WWII.  His push northward into Germany was halted due to a
	>lack of fuel.  Since, in an historical sense, the Allies were
	>destined to win anyway, it may not have made a great deal of
	>difference who reached Berlin first.  Patton would have liked
	>to do it himself and I'm sure, if offered the fuel from somewhere,
	>he would have paid enough for it to make it worth one's while.

    >The problem here is twofold. (1) George Patton was not an extreamly
    >wealthy man. and (2) Do you have any idea how much fuel Patton's IIIrd
    >Army used? It tookfornia 92152

The major point here is, does changing the time when the Americans
reached Berlin first have a bearing on future events?  I do not remember
when the Berlin Wall was built, but it most probably was a consequence
of Russia's occupation of Poland and East Germany.  Had we reached there
first, we could have avoided the building of the wall, and possibly the
Cold War might not have come to pass.  But the ramifcations of that are
unknowable.  It may be that war might have broken out between Russia and
the U.S. for influence of Poland and East Germany.  (This is outside of
net.sf-lovers, so I think I'll quit here.  Flame away!!)
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					Be ye moby,
					for I am moby.

Greg Skinner (gregbo)
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