The significance of Apu Punchau

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 30 Dec 2008, 16:21 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 08:21:57 -0800
Subject: (urth) The significance of Apu Punchau
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On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Pedro Pereira
<domus_artemis at hotmail.com> wrote:
> ... that would imply that
> every time a new universe pops up we get the same planets, same Earth, same
> continents, same human race, etc. Doesn't make any sense to me.

It wouldn't make any sense -- except that the human race's successors from the
previous version of the universe and their servants and so on (the Heiro* group)
guide evolution on an Earth-like planet to produce the new human race.

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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes, writer, trainer, bon vivant
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