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  "thread": {
    "id": 3367,
    "subject": "1000 blooming timelines -- starter kit",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2002-07-17T20:59:41+00:00",
    "last": "2002-07-17T20:59:41+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0207-1429@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi",
        "address": "mantis at siriusfiction.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-07-17T20:59:41+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) 1000 blooming timelines -- starter kit",
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          "text": "Stella timeline: 5 billion years in the future (Sol's lifespan).\n\nGabriel timeline (from Talos's play): 50 million years\n(geological/evolutionary scale).\n\nWolfe timeline: 1 million years in Earth's future (plays hell with\nconstellations). _Plan[e]t Engineering_ clip: \"Imagine then what the\nsituation will be in Severian's time for the scholar-heirs of a sequence of\ncivilizations that may be over a million years old\" (6). (Difficulty in\ndating our own civilization's geneology: 6000 years?  Beyond that, it\nbecomes arbitrary -- in some pre-literary sense, we are already heirs of a\nsequence over a million years old.  Starting with Homo erectus.)\n\nMAD timeline: around 100,000 years in Earth's future (factoring in\nprecession of equinoxes while largely ignoring constellations themselves).\n\nJeff Wilson timeline: much less than 100,000 years in future (factoring\nstellar movement/constellations).\n\nAgia timeline: 30,000 years in our future (I, XIX; technically she is\ntalking about the span of time between the first appearance of the\nConciliator and the next).\n\nJordan/Duggan timeline: deep in the past, a previous iteration of universe\n(so toss out Armstrong, Apu Punchau, South America, stars, planets, etc.;\nit is all analogy, not direct)."
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