“Now or when I get back?”
I took another long look at her, but she didn’t really have anything appealing about her, and the few pennies she was clutching in her palm I don’t think I could have gotten enough for a martini at one of the bars I normally frequent. Once the competitor reaches the limit in the past, he pulls out his pistol and fires the radioactive marker into the famous Yorkshire granite cliff that has remained unchanged for tens of millions of years. Most agreed, and although the trip into the past lasted no more than a few seconds, it seemed to impress them forever. If you make time, we’ll study the race charts later.”
I agreed enthusiastically. She was a biology student, and had just learned in a class about the emergence of angiosperms, so she wanted to see for herself when flowering plants first appeared.
