My assumption was that the service is set to dial back to the number that calls it, so it would be the same phone line whoever was or wasn't there to pick it up. You can only talk to your past self when the call comes from the past.. Still kind of boggling on higher-order consequences, though. As for generating paradoxes, assume a sturdy Tonka-built universe, not a Star Trek dance on the monoknife's edge. Causing a paradox gives you a headache bad enough to make you not want to do it again, like if your little brother (form yesterday) beat you over the head with said Tonka, but that's it. There's no reason Yesterdayphone couldn't work too, though of course you can only call starting the day after Tomorrowphone service starts being offered, so you can try to call yourself before you called yourself and set up a paradox by not calling yourself to tell yourself not to do that becasue all it does is give you a migraine, but you'd probably just get a busy signal or be diverted to call waiting. Isn't that always the way?
- CD, "Tonka," that's the sound your head makes when a paradox slams into it, right? Or when you slam it into the top of your desk. Coincidence? I think not.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
- CD, "Tonka," that's the sound your head makes when a paradox slams into it, right? Or when you slam it into the top of your desk. Coincidence? I think not.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows