# Another "Seven Days" question **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 4, 2005, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-seven-days-question/288398 "2005-02-04T17:47:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2005, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-seven-days-question/288398/1 "2005-02-04T17:47:43Z")
After watching “Seven Days” reruns for a while now, I just realized something: No one in the control room has ever gone through a successful sphere launch. For all of them, it’s the first time every time, since the backstep then precludes the launch from ever happening. Right? No wonder things go wrong so often. ---
**Author:** ![LibrarySpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f9ae1b/32.png) [@LibrarySpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LibrarySpy)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2005, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-seven-days-question/288398/2 "2005-02-04T19:17:26Z")
I…uh… ow. Ice cream headache. And I guess when crazy-dude shows up and makes his phone call to the control room, he’s always calling for the first time? ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2005, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-seven-days-question/288398/3 "2005-02-04T20:21:14Z")
And they never seem to notice that he’s missing until the phone rings and he says “conundrum”. Of course, if he didn’t backstep, its always “where the hell is frank?” or whatever his name is. I do remember Olga’s name. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2005, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-seven-days-question/288398/4 "2005-02-05T00:31:54Z")
Who cares? Most of us tuned in just to see the guy take his shirt off! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2005, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-seven-days-question/288398/5 "2005-02-05T00:46:16Z")
> [@ouryL](#): > > Who cares? > > Most of us tuned in just to see the guy take his shirt off! :rolleyes: Actually, I was watching in the hopes that Olga would take her shirt off. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2005, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-seven-days-question/288398/6 "2005-02-05T05:20:41Z")
Well, wait. He calls, they stop the assassination (or whatever), and then the assassination doesn’t happen. No reason they wouldn’t remember his call, is there? What I wonder is why the guy doesn’t keep multiplying. He’s sitting around in the secure facility waiting for something to happen, right? Then seven-days-in-future-him calls with news, they avert the train derailment (or whatever) and then there’s two of him sitting around. Or does the second him go back to next week after stopping Marilyn Monroe’s suicide (or whatever)? Admittedly, I’ve never seen a whole episode. ---
**Author:** ![Go\_You\_Big\_Red\_Fire\_Engine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/eada6e/32.png) [@Go\_You\_Big\_Red\_Fire\_Engine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_You_Big_Red_Fire_Engine)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2005, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-seven-days-question/288398/7 "2005-02-05T11:23:02Z")
Maybe it’s because I only saw two episodes, and it was a long time ago. … But I thought that since the launches were more then 14 days apart, they would’ve done a successful launch before? I always thought time passed in between episodes. And I guess I just assumed in my head that the present Frank has to go back in time at the end of 7 days, so as not to cause a time paradox? Either way, IMHO the show sucked. ---
**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2005, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-seven-days-question/288398/8 "2005-02-05T14:26:29Z")
> [@Fiver](#): > > Well, wait. He calls, they stop the assassination (or whatever), and then the assassination doesn’t happen. No reason they wouldn’t remember his call, is there? Right! They would remember lots and lots of “Conundrum” calls, and lots of times when they had to go retrieve the sphere from somewhere. > [@](#): > > What I wonder is why the guy doesn’t keep multiplying. He’s sitting around in the secure facility waiting for something to happen, right? Then seven-days-in-future-him calls with news, they avert the train derailment (or whatever) and then there’s two of him sitting around. I asked this a little while back–apparently no duplicates are created. Each time he backsteps, the existing living-7-days-in-the-past-Frank (and the sphere, and presumably his spacesuit and whatever he’s carrying with him from the future) vanishes from their base and reappears wherever he lands. So they really should just install a lojack on him and the sphere that goes off whenever he leaves the base. Then they wouldn’t have to wait for the call.