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Date: 2001-08-14 00:26:03

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OK, here's my explanation.  If you like it, great.  If you don't, fine.  It's all entertainment anyways, but I like to solve the mysteries when they are given to me.  First of all, My theory involves the "self defense of history" theory.  Basically the theory says that time cannot be changed under any circumstances, and that time travelers will always fulfill a destiny, never alter history from what it should be.  I present my theory in the form of a timeline.  "Pota" is of course the Planet of the apes.

Earth, 2024--The chimp (I can't remember his name) flies in the storm, then Leo flies in the storm.

2054 (rough estimate)--Space station goes through storm.

Pota- about a thousand years before Present ("Present being the day leo lands)-Space station lands.  Apes help them at first, then turn on them.  They evolve to become dominant, while humans live in forrest.

Pota Present--Leo Davidson lands, see movie, because I don't want to summarize the whole thing here.

Pota Present plus 3 days--Chimp lands.  Leo takes off and goes back through storm.

Pota--Present plus a few weeks (est) Thade, living off military rations he had on him, manages to learn how to run the remaining pod.  launches and goes into storm.

earth 2058 (or around there.  Basically sometime after the Space station left), Thade lands on earth.  It was hinted in the movie that even normal apes would be capable of sentience if we knew how to teach them.  (This was an important theme in the original book.  Kudos and thanks to the fellow who mentioned it before me.  For all of you who haven't read it, DO.  It's great, and totally different from any of the movies.)  Thade spends some time lying low, pretending to be a normal chimp.  When nobody's looking, he trains the earth apes with the ideals handed down to him from his ancestors.  As he teaches them, he instructs them to teach others, and to listen for his signal, when the worldwide overthrow of the human opressors will start.  He does his overthrow, and the grateful apes remodel the lincoln memorial to his likeness.  They probably remodel some other stuff.  They also learn how to use and repair all the technology the humans have laying around.

Earth, 2192 (random guesstimate) Leo Davison lands on earth, which has now been ruled by apes for quite some time.