keannu
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Does the underlined mean "worrying about 180 seconds ago is same as trying to change dinosaur tracks"? Can "not ~ any more" in there be contracted to "no more" to mean A is same as B?
39mo
ex)As I write this, I can look out of my window and see some dinosaur tracks in my garden - dinosaur tracks embedded in stone. I purchased those dinosaur tracks fromo the Peabody Museum of Yale University; and I have a letter from the curator of the museum, saying that those tracks were made 180 million years ago. Even an idiot wouldn't dream of trying to go back to 180 million years ago to change those tracks. Yet that would not be any more foolish than worrying about the past because we can't go back and change what happened 180 seconds ago - and a lot of us are doing just that. To be sure, we may do something to modify the effects of what happened 180 seconds ago; but we can't possibly change the event that occurred then.
39mo
ex)As I write this, I can look out of my window and see some dinosaur tracks in my garden - dinosaur tracks embedded in stone. I purchased those dinosaur tracks fromo the Peabody Museum of Yale University; and I have a letter from the curator of the museum, saying that those tracks were made 180 million years ago. Even an idiot wouldn't dream of trying to go back to 180 million years ago to change those tracks. Yet that would not be any more foolish than worrying about the past because we can't go back and change what happened 180 seconds ago - and a lot of us are doing just that. To be sure, we may do something to modify the effects of what happened 180 seconds ago; but we can't possibly change the event that occurred then.