> I'm currently reading a book (They Came and Ate Us: Armageddon II: The B-Movie) which
> involves a great big machine powering the Earth, and similar machines powering other planets.
> The theory is that 'Nothing moves unless it's pushed', so the planets have to orbit somehow.
> But anyway. Whenever humanity does something daft and makes itself extinct (or nearly so),
> this machine is pushed back a bit to a moment before it all started going wrong, and hopefully
> it will right itself the second time. Now, if time is rewound whenever we do something bad,
> then we must be constantly on the point of rewind. Think about it for a bit. So, humanity
> is constantly on the point of total annihilation. akes you think, doesn't it?

Yes.

Although, to be truthful, what the Armageddon trilogy mostly made me think was "What on earth possessed me to pay good money for this stuff?"

Paul