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OK, we all know the story or some version thereof: travel
to the past, squash the butterfly, come back, and the
Axis
Powers won WWII.
Simultaneously (to the extent that's possible), we have a
clearly unprecedented, in modern times, fucked up state
of affairs world wide.
Now, we don't
quite have a time machine that we know
of.
But what we do have is a fairly reliable supply of
butterflies.
Assembling a statistically significant sample of said
beauties, and choosing a corresponding number of
locations where these butterflies would have no business
of
being in the first place, deliver them to said locations,
and
release them to flap their wings at will.
Proceed to observe history being changed in front of our
eyes.
Or Not.
Papilio tempestae
https://wiki.lspace...weather_butterflies
Quantum weather butterflies [8th of 7, Apr 15 2018]
A Sound of Thunder
http://web1.nbed.nb...-Ray%20Bradbury.pdf
Ray Bradbury wrote what might be the seminal story on this topic. [Vernon, Apr 15 2018]
Made to order Quantum Weather Butterflies
Advertising_20butterflies
Now with added fractal edges. [Skewed, Apr 16 2018]
[link]
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// the Axis Powers won WWII // |
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That would be where Germany ends up as an economic superpower dominating Europe with only the plucky Brits remaining to stand up to their plans for a federal Europe with a single currency ... ? |
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This is all very well, but you don't just need any butterflies; you need Quantum Weather Butterflies, with fractal wing edges and the Mandelbrot set in place of "eye-spots" ... |
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Actually the butterflies have been having a rather
hard time of it, lately. Not enough milkweed. |
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//observe history being changed// Right. And how would
you tell? |
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So you mean, some butterflies are more butterflysh? Maybe
yes, let's see for those sensitivities to conditions? Doing that
all the time. |
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So you mean, some butterflies are more butterflysh? Maybe
yes, let's see for those sensitivities to conditions? Doing that
all the time. |
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You couldn't tell, [MB], but you'd feel you're doing something
about it |
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Like voting in an election, then ? |
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kinda, but something to achieve different results. |
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Difficult : it's doubtful the placement map has anything to do with anything else, sort of by definition. |
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According to the many worlds interpretation of physics you would get many a preferred result. |
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You could amplify your result with words and computer programs. |
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Just make a two hashtag tweet: |
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#butterfly and #psuedorandomhashtag |
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You would have an autoposter to twitter then spam twitter with millions of butterflies, each with a hashtag next to them from your list of of pseudorandom hashtags |
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#butterfly #dontinvaderussia
#butterfly #moreeugenicslesskilling
#butterfly #mellow out |
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Also, this is nicer to live butterflies and works at a more robust level. Think of the F=MA of all those keypresses of the responding tweeters, as well as influencing macroscopic change agents (people) |
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Macroscopic change agent should be one of those
nebulous job titles, like consultant. |
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//you need Quantum Weather Butterflies, with fractal wing
edges and the Mandelbrot set in place of "eye-spots"// |
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No problem with [MB]'s printed butterflies [link],
if we add a cookie cutter
widget thingy
to the printer we can do your fractal
edges too. |
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Hey, we're up to laser engraving now. We can even
iridiscize while we fractalize. |
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If you run short of butterflies you could even use moths, no
one could tell the difference once you'd trimmed & printed
them. |
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"I can't believe it's not butterflies" |
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Moths are easier to trim and print, because when not flying they tend to have their wings open flat, whereas butterflies fold them together. |
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This is how you tell the difference, as any fule kno. |
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Clearly I am no fule, because I didn't kno (or if I ever did I'd
forgotten). |
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Maybe there's a ligament or something somewhere we could
snip to encourage the wings to close while resting, then the
disguise will be perfect. |
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A large mallet is very effective for encouraging pigeons to spread their wings while "at rest" (i.e. dead). |
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It would probably work for moths, too. |
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