SHORT SIGHTED

“Look, it is simple. We are running out of petroleum deposits. Where does petroleum come from?”

“The ground.”

“Sigh. Yes. But back, away back, there was bunch organic matter in the oceans. We're talking prehistoric zooplankton and algae. It sank to the bottom of the seas, mixed with the mud, and over the eons, due to high pressure and heat, eventually became petroleum. I am over simplifying of course.”

“Okay...”

“So, to get more petroleum now, we just need more organic matter back then.”

“I don't know. This sounds dangerous.”

“No no. We just go back in time, way back, and make sure there is more organic stuff. Throw in some genetically modified algae and zooplankton that is designed to grow and breed quicker, and die quicker, and POW! More petroleum! World's problems solved!”

“But the consequences of using the time machine for that... I mean, you can't really predict what will happen.”

“Come on, it is so far back. Plenty of time of evolution to follow its normal course.”



“Look, it is simple. The wars between the Algae People and the Zooplankton People have been raging for eons. There are just too many of both of us