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From: "The Doctor (as portrayed by Matt Smith)" <capjackharkn...@gmail.com>
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On Sunday, July 1, 2012 11:43:54 AM UTC-4, Don Del Grande wrote:
> The Doctor (as portrayed by Matt Smith) wrote:
> 
> >Travers uses the time code from "Bender's Big Score" to avert the robot revolution.  When the robot revolution doesn't take place, future Travers blinks out of existence.
> >
> >BUT.......................................
> >
> >Isn't that supposed to be a paradox-correcting time code?
> 
> It did - otherwise, when Nixon was re-elected anyway, the robot
> revolution would have taken place after all, and Travers would have
> gone back in time.
> (Alternative answer: future Travers doesn't really "blink out of
> existance" - he just never went back in time.)
> 
> Also, didn't future Travers hold present Travers when he was born?
> This should have resulted in future Travers' pretty much immediate
> death, right?
> 
> -- Don

But remember, it was a Paradox-Correcting time code.  NOTHING should have happened.  That's why there were 873 zillion Benders at the end of BBS.