The Fool wrote:
>
>> .. and look at year 500 BC: "Last Record about Earth in the Library".
>                         ^^^^^
>
Oops...

>
>But is this so-called message that I have never seen directly related to
>the uplift universe or to science in general?  I do not get from reading
>this snippet that this was related to the uplift universe.  If it's not
>related to the uplift universe then it is irrelevant.
>
It's *not* related to the uplift universe, however, considering that there
*are* ETs in the uplift universe *and* that there are records about Earth
dating from *exactly* that time, I think the correlation is obvious.

>
>This is just theoretical.  Perhaps that was so, but 500 million years? 
>According to the time line ~1/5 of the time since the progenitors?  That
>is hard to buy.  How can you miss something as big as a star for 500
>million years?  Surely there was at least _some_ ET's who were in the
>milky way during these time periods?  
>
But the Sun was *not* missed. Neither the Earth, probably. What
happened was that there were no re-surveys of Earth during these
periods.

>
>Computers never forget.
> 
???

Have you ever heard about The Blue Screen of Death? :-)

>> If you add time-travel to the Uplift Universe, then you open a can
>> of worms...
>
>Don't go knocking time travel.  I love time travel.
>
Me too, but it's a totally different *kind* of story with
time-travel and without time-travel.

Alberto Monteiro


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