Trent Shipley wrote:
>
>> 1.6 BYA: Contact lost with three galaxies [7, 9, 11] Remaining
>> Galaxies renumbered. Eight galaxies remain. The disaster results
>> in cultural upheavals and sparks the first wave of memnetic plagues.
>>
>> But of course this would not allow the Cambrian explosion on Earth O:-)
>
> Eukaryotic cells and sex!
>
> http://www.fossilmall.com/Science/Paleontology/Geological_Time.htm
>
I know the scientific explanation for the Cambrian explosion, but we
are discussing _fiction_, aren't we? Also, another reason might be
that Earth's natural radioactivity had reduced below the threshold
point where multicellular life became killed by it, but still high enough
to produce high levels of mutation.
>> * Some suggest this was one of 3 bits of evidence that
>> the solar system was visited in that time frame. The other
>> two were the Cambrian "explosion" of life ("somebody flushed
>> a toilet"), and the claim that the age-distribution of ore-bodies
>> of certain minerals that might be of interest to advanced
>> civilizations shows a distinct drop for ages >600 million years.
>>
>> So I think it's fair game to add His scientific speculations into
>> His fiction :-)
>
> I don't like it and I ain't puttin' it in my version unless DB gives me
> direct instructions.
>
Ok. But maybe we could come to a compromising solution? What
about writing that "Earth scholars suspect that the Cambrian
explosion was triggered by the Galactics, as the oldest record about
Earth dates from that time"?
> The toilet idea just doesn't work. (Why is all DNA so simmilar? Heck, why
> is everything coded in DNA? Where is the trace of the alien biology?)
>
You are not paying attention to the Canon: _every_ O-2 life in the
Galaxies is based on the same DNA that makes us. Even with the
laterality choice. This is Uplift Dogma.
Otherwise inter-world species would not be mutually edible :-)
> We do not need "magic aliens" to account for the Cambrian.
>
No, we don't. But the Uplift _fiction_ does :-P
> [Of course, Alberto, you keep the semi-official timeline. If you want to
> put it into your version no one will stop you.]
>
I am somehow hindered into updating my semi-official timelines now
that they are becoming even less semi- and more canonical. My
timelines were the basis of parts of CA and GU2.
>
> Though I don't recommend it, I am happy to modify the entry. Just pick a
> date.
>
Ok, I will do it.
>
>> No, as in "2489-May : Streaker flees to Kithrup" :-P
>
> I tell you what. I will put the dates in a dual format. *xY/*CE and
> republish.
>
Ok. I think it makes it more interesting for XXI centurians to read
dates in *CE :-)
>
> Yes we could assume that 251 is almost 250. Of course, our error is even
> smaller when we 2211 is alsmost 2212.
>
> Nope. Not changing it unless DB insists. You can change it in the stuff
> you publish if you want.
>
But it's Him who chose the date 2212! This date is in CA and GU.
>> The lost Galaxies are 7, 9, and 11. Is it purposeful that the _11th_
>> Galaxy was the source of the agressive H-2 breathers, and that
>> it will be reunited latter? This would be _Andromeda_, wouldn't it?
>
> I do not know. Please explain further.
>
Better ask WT. He's the expert in Galaxy counting :-)
>>> c 3000 BxY: Earth's Axial Age begins.
>>
>> Axial Age? wtf?
>
> The Axial Age is a construct used by world historians. They use different
> frames. All start it at c.800 BCE. Depending on who is using the concept
> it then runs to c.400 BCE, c.200 CE, or c.700 CE. Even in its longest form
> it is a relatively brief span of human existence, it is even a reasonably
> modest span of human-kinds agricultural and settled existience. During the
> axial age Indian religions began to take on their modern form, Confucious
> and Lao-Tze taught, as Zoroastrianism arose, Greek and Roman philosophy
> took form and so did recognizible Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
>
Ah, so this would be - according to Danikite belief - the time when the
Rothen [or else] came to Earth to teach us again? Maybe you should
explain it further for non-historians
>>> 280 AxY: [Streaker arrives on Jijo? SS]
>>
>> Streaker should arrive on Jijo in 279 AxY.
>
> Agreed. Please pick one of Q1,2,3,4.
>
I am not creative. I am just destructive.
> I cannot begin to describe how not-interested I am in that degree of
> resolution. (Besides, you need to convert all of those to Earth-local not
> Streaker-local time, and GU2 says you basically can't.)
>
Yes, that is a catch to justify all _small_ inconsistencies in synchronization
Alberto Monteiro
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