A sound of Thunder, you Zombies, and Into the Universe

A Sound Of Thunder: This story focuses on the idea of the butterfly effect. When a man goes back to the far past, he steps on a butterfly on completely wrecks the future. This is an extreme example of the butterfly effect, as it is unlikely that something that small would have that large on an effect. However, it does provide a good example as to what the main idea of the butterfly effect is.

All You Zombies: This was just a strange story. To think about him being his own mother, father, and bartender, causes a large headache. He is an example of Paradox, as there is no beginning or end to him. I did enjoy the addition of the oruoborous ring, but that was because I am fascinated by the early studies of alchemy and know the backgrounds behind it.

Into the universe: Wasnt in class that day, but from what I know about Steven Hawking, I imagine that he gave a detailed hypothesis onto how time travel into the future is possible, but not the pat.

Blog 19

Carl Sagan, a noted author, talks about the theory of time travel. Behind all of his long statements, he is basically saying the same thing as everyone else.
Time Travel into the future is possible
The past is another story
Nature could possibly stop all paradox's from occurring
There could be alternate universes, but maybe not
Yes, all he does is sum up what we have been talking about this entire unit. And in the end, he really doesn't give his opinion on anything, saying that there is no point when we have such a lack of knowledge on the matter.

I, Borg

In  this star trek episode, a Borg is captured/ rescued by the crew. They decide to use this Borg in order to destroy his race by implanting a virus in his system. However, as they experiment of him, they find that without the Collective, he functions similarly to a normal human. Realizing that he is a man, they decide to not infect him. He then chooses to go back to the Borg in order to allow his new friends to escape.

The version of the Frankenstein complex portrayed in this episode is different from what we have seen before. In this case, a species has made themselves into a collective of robots and travels the universe searching for species to assimilate. Man kind is fearful of these creatures because they have no free will, and are thus the ultimate form of punishment for a human.

Blog #13

In the episode of the X-Files Post Modern Prometheus, a creature is created by scientific means and is born a monster. It is a disgusting sight and it terrorizes the town, leading to the formation of a mob and the attempted killing of the creature. Of course it cannot have a realistic ending so the creature proves that it is not as evil as everyone thinks and is let go. It seems that the people forgot that two women had been raped by the monster, but hey, he said he was sorry so everything is good. It was the classic Frankenstein story, and should tie in nicely with our study of the Frankenstein Complex.