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A UQ student has shown that paradox free time travel is technically possible. Dr Fabio Costa and Germain Tobar have published a paper showing how the universe will reprogram itself to account for a time traveller's actions. In other words, whatever action you take, the universe will find a way of making sure that in the end, the same results occur. So much for killing Hitler, then.You've heard about simulator racing leagues, but get ready for the Farming Simulator league. Real world equipment manufacturers are sponsoring teams to compete in the GIANTS software Farming Simulator League. This league started a few years ago but is already spreading around the world. But if you want to compete, you'd better make hay while the sun shines and start training now.The creator of the Punisher comics has gone to war against mass produced super hero stories. Wiping out a beloved franchise isn't as popular as killing bad guys, but Gerry Conway thinks this is the best way to save the industry. Is there a point to saving the industry though? DJ thinks so.Join us next week for more news from the kind of people who want more weird gaming leagues.Time travel. Now with 100% fewer paradoxes - https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2020/09/young-physicist-squares-numbers%E2%80%99-time-travel- https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/aba4bcThe Farming Simulator League - https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-09-08-farming-simulator-league-bringing-agriculture-and-gaming-togetherHow to save comics…..nuke em all - https://comicbook.com/comics/news/punisher-creator-cancelling-every-superhero-book-save-industry/Games PlayedDJ– Among Us - https://store.steampowered.com/app/945360/Among_Us/Rating: 4/5Professor- Mario 35 - https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/super-mario-bros-35-switch/Rating: 4/5Other topics discussedDonald Trump rejects calls for rule changes in next presidential debate with Joe Biden- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-02/donald-trump-rejects-calls-for-debate-rule-changes/12724482US President Donald Trump says he and Melania Trump have tested positive for COVID-19- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-02/donald-trump-positive-to-coronavirus-melania-hope-hicks-covid19/12725310Causal Loop (a theoretical proposition in which, by means of either retrocausality or time travel, a sequence of events (actions, information, objects, people) is among the causes of another event, which is in turn among the causes of the first-mentioned event.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_loopSmart by Design - The Bootstrap Paradox- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp5VjZ3uhMcAvengers: Endgame (2019 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the direct sequel to Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and the 22nd film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_EndgameBack to the Future (The franchise follows the adventures of a high school student, Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox), and an eccentric scientist, Doctor Emmett L. Brown (Christopher Lloyd), as they use a DeLorean time machine to time travel to different periods in the history of Hill Valley, California.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_Future_(franchise)Roswell That Ends Well (19th episode in the third season of the American animated television series Futurama. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on December 9, 2001. The plot centers on an accidental time travel event that results in the main characters participating in the Roswell UFO Incident in 1947.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_That_Ends_WellCausality ((also referred to as causation, or cause and effect) is influence by which one event, process or state (a cause) contributes to the production of another event, process or state (an effect) where the c...