> From: Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 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.
Perhaps, again, but not untill he writes it into cannon. > > > >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? :-) I run windows NT. The only that has caused me to get BSOD errors is hardware failure, specifically CPU overheating errors. I installed a fan and havn't crashed since. Presumablbly, computer technology 2.8x billion years in advance of our own will utilize much better software and more error resistant hardware. > >> 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. Depends on whether or not the universe will 'fight against' time travel paradox's or not. Used cautiously it can be a great asset in a universe. Another strange point, made in _Heaven's Reach_ was that it was in this galaxy cluster alone that ET's were able to detect intellegent life. So where did these mystical beings who look roughly like humans and are older than all heck come from?
