timeline SS

maa32 · 21 Feb 2003, 06:23 · from urth-v0302.mbox · original

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From: maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: (urth) timeline SS
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 23:23:08 -0700
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Of course I agree that a lot of time had to pass in order for all of the=20
changes to occur ... but if Blue is not Urth, then the double limbed=20
inhabitants of Blue could have been evolving or engineered when the first=20
colonizers approached the planet - and the ruins of the vanished people on=20
Green could indeed be the ruins of the vanished people of Urth - not double=20
limbed people, just dead people.  I think that not as much time would HAVE =
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pass if we allow that animals can change so completely in one generation, i=
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we unquestionably accept an offhand statement by a character to be a steadf=
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hold on the timeline.  I am not prepared to believe that the quote Roy=20
provided is a definitive limit to the time that passed - but it could be a=20
reasonable approximation of a very long time.  Just trying to work with=20
information as it is presented.
Marc Aramini

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