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Date: 2001-09-02 00:25:46

Comment:

The fact that the apes worship Seamus throws off  your theory.  And  the movie explicitly explained that Seamus led the revolt and that Thade is a descendent of Seamus.

Here is what happened. Thade managed to remove  the pod from the pond with the aid of humans who can swim.

He remembered his father's words about human technology and innovation was superior to ape brute strength. Furthermore, he was powerless in his own time due the revolutionn that united  ape and human.

Therefore, he went back in time using a pod. He studied aboard the crashed space stations to learn how to fly  the ship. He used genetic engineering to mutate apes and eventually take over the earth from the past.

He also  rewrote history to avoid future insurrections of sympathetic apes and humans.