>As history progresses both forward and backward from 1991, it changes
>in gradual but irresistible ways. Atlantis, for example, is told of by
>a survivor who crashes in Greece and befriends Plato. The 'War of the
>Worlds' broadcast is inspired by the crash-landing of a Zardon scout
>craft. Etc. etc. etc. In the future, those fictional sources from
>which characters, equipment, etc. are derived fall out of the general
>mass consciousness, and eventually any linkage between, say, the 3WA
>trouble consultants Kei and Yuri and an animation dated back to 1981
>is regarded by the vast majority as tinfoil-hat territory.

>Redneck

Android could give you a three-hour lecture of the Quantum Discordance of this, how the universe is indeed changing due to the interactions of fnordons and tachyfnordons.

But I'm suspecting he won't.

--rR