Have you ever read Ray Bradbury's 'A Sound of Thunder'?

[ck4829]

People go back in time to hunt a dinosaur, hunter gets scared and steps off the path, and when they go back to the present, the world is a lot dumber and a fascist won the election and it's proven with this quote...

"You joking? You know very well. Deutscher (the fascist), of course! Who else? Not that fool weakling Keith. We got an iron man now, a man with guts!"

All because the hunter stepped on a butterfly when he got scared.

You can read the story here if you are interested.
http://www.lasalle.edu/~didio/courses/hon462/hon462_assets/sound_of_thunder.htm

Now, how is it that we have gone to the Moon and eradicated smallpox, and THIS is one of the latest chain emails making the rounds?

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/pending/oklahoma.asp

If you can't see the similarity between the quote above and this email, then you aren't paying attention.

So it has to be asked, who went back to what time and stepped on what creature?

[RebelOne]

1. Read it years ago. I have read all of Bradbury's stories and novels. n/t

[Fumesucker]

2. Yes, and here it is on Ray Bradbury Theater in the late 80's..

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[IcyPeas]

6. OMG I never knew about these....

Ray Bradbury Theater shows. You have made my day Fumesucker. I've read all his stories years ago and this one in particular always stuck with me.

Thank you, thank you.

[surrealAmerican]

3. According to snopes ...

... that chain email is three years old. It's just weird the way the writer makes a point of denigrating the constitution.


The parallels to the Bradbury story really just show us that we've been here before. There are always people who feel that "strength" is their only value, and the way to prove your strength is to hurt others.

[ck4829]

4. That's what makes it really scary, three years old, saw a copy of it posted today

[longship]

5. It was also a radio drama in the early 50's

Either X Minus 1 or one of the other weekly scifi drama programs. These are actually pretty damned good. If you ever get a chance to listen to one, do it.

A Sound of Thunder was one of the better ones.

[Egalitarian Thug]

7. Way more years ago that I care to recall. K&R.

And apparently it was Homer Simpson that stepped on the butterfly. There was this toaster, you see...

[thelordofhell]

8. They also made a shitty movie about it

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318081/