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Date: 2001-08-10 21:02:57

Comment:

Scenario A

1. PotA is not Earth.  The multiple moons imply this point.  The horses could have come from the mother ship that crashed.  

2. Pericles enters worm hole, 2500AD, Day X

3. Mark enters worm hole, and arrives in 2500AD, Day X-3

4. Mother Ship enters worm hole, and arrives hundreds to thousands of years earlier.  Oral history usually doesn?t last thousands of years, so I would prefer to think of this as many hundreds of years.  Rapid evolution is an aspect of ?suspension of disblief?, but I am willing to go with it.  

5. Mark goes back in time to 2100AD to find Thade Lincoln

6. Thade goes back to 1900AD with an army, and armed with knowledge obtained from the ship.  Knowledge allows him to capture or kill humans (another point where disbelief needs to be suspended).  Evolution (cultural and otherwise) follows a similar pattern to our own history (yet one more point where a suspension of disbelief is needed).  Thade is a political and cultural hero.  

Scenario B

1. PotA is earth.  Multiple moons may have existed at one time, and splintered due to collisions with large meteors.  Horses are then not difficult to explain.  Gravity, temperature, oxygen levels, etc, also not hard to explain.  

2. Pericles enters worm hole, enters pre-historic earth.  Year is 50000BC, Day X

3. Mark enters worm hole, and also arrives in the past 50000BC, Day X-3.  The chronometer reading is an artifact of the electromagnetic storm, and does not represent the actual year.  

4. Mother ship enters worm hole, and enters 50000BC, minus 500 years.  This allows oral history to be maintained, and for rapid evolution to occur with Semos the ape and progeny.  

5. Mark travels ?forward- in time to 2000AD, and sees Thade Lincoln.  Thade had been left alive, learned from the ship, and had a gun.  Came to take over the PotA.  Once again, a suspension of disbelief is necessary if one is to believe that innovativeness and culture evolved in exactly the same way as it did with humans, allowing a Washington DC analog to exist with black and white squad cars (almost too much to buy).  


Scenario C

1. PotA is earth.  Multiple moons may have existed at one time, and splintered due to collisions with large meteors.  Horses are then not difficult to explain.  Gravity, temperature, oxygen levels, etc, also not hard to explain.  

2. Pericles enters wormhole and lands on earth 2500AD, Day X

3. Mark enters wormhole, and lands on earth 2500AD, Day X-3

4. Mothership enters wormhold, and enters earth 50000BC.  Explains lack of humans and help when they landed.  Allows Apes to evolve for a very significant period.  Still rapid evolution, but more believable than with other scenarios.  Problem is that oral history must last this long.  

5. Mark returns through worm hole to 2000AD, to find Thade Lincoln.  

6. Thade returns through beta or gamma shuttle (or rescued delta shuttle) to workhole, and to earth in 1850AD.  He had learned advanced technology through the ship, and was able to take over the planet (use of poisons, viruses, etc) as a result.  He takes back many of his companions, and eventually populate the planet.  Technolgy and culture had a certain momentum, so it is not terribly unbelievable that the squad cars and DC exist in similar form.  

Not one of the scenarios are perfectly reasonable.  They all have holes, albeit not impossible ones.