Independents using dinosaurs
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"I mean dinosaurs chased me and my brother around all the time when we were kids.
Really? Did they sing?
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When you think about it, it's rather strange that dinosaurs are talked about at all in the 'Verse.
If you accept that the human explorers haven't found life on any other planets, then the only dinosaurs possible are the ones extinct on Earth-That-Was.
Did the migrants take the trouble to pack up all the dinosaur fossils from Earth's museums and take them with them? Seems unlikely.
So perhaps dinosuars are just so much part of our popular culture that the idea gets carried out into space, with some factual information in available on the cortex, and less factual information available from films etc. (Will they still be watching Jurassic Park and Land before Time 500 years hence? We still read Shakespere....)
But I have another idea that I find interesting. Dinosaurs were part of the development of our Earth.
Perhaps the future terraformers found that the dinosaur stage is a necessary stage for planets to go through before they can become sufficiently earth-like for humans? Of course, it would have to be greatly speeded up, they've only had 500 years...
So that would mean that, on some planets in an earlier stage of terraforming, dinosaurs could be live and well. This would make Wash's dinosaurs no more than models of current aninmals, and River's game no more suprising than a current child suggesting an army could use lions - enough to cause a suprised reaction from her brother and father, but not TOTALLY impossible.
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It seems to me that most of the prophetic/psychic stuff she says is from the ESP she got a the Acadamy. Before, she was just a genius-kid with a vivid imagination.
About the common knowledge of dino existance, they'd probably bring a big database-mainframe thing with most human knowledge on many colony ships.
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Originally posted by LtNOWIS:
It seems to me that most of the prophetic/psychic stuff she says is from the ESP she got a the Acadamy. Before, she was just a genius-kid with a vivid imagination.
About the common knowledge of dino existance, they'd probably bring a big database-mainframe thing with most human knowledge on many colony ships.
Agreed.
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Originally posted by LtNOWIS:
It seems to me that most of the prophetic/psychic stuff she says is from the ESP she got a the Acadamy. Before, she was just a genius-kid with a vivid imagination.
That is what I'm not so sure about. Maybe she already had these abilities, at least to some extend, but also the ability to control it, to ignore it. Maybe the Alliance/Blue Hands didn't want her to ignore what she sees, because they wanted whatever information they could get out of her. so they stripped her... uuuhm whatever it was Simon said in 'Ariel'. After that flashback in 'Safe' right in the next scene, she says something like 'you can't stick needles into my eyes and ask me what I see'. Well maybe those needles or whatever were some sort of stimulant. Or some kind of input about which the Alliance wanted to get information.
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About the common knowledge of dino existance, they'd probably bring a big database-mainframe thing with most human knowledge on many colony ships.
I agree. After all, Simon knows about the ancient egyptians, and I doubt anyone cared to bring a pyramid from Earth-that-was.
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It sounds like that Simon and River regularly played mental games with each other like some people play Dungeons and Dragons.
I would think that the Independant-Alliance conflict has been going on for quite a long time. The Independants have long had a reputation for amazing successes with primitive resourses. Nothing is more primitive than dinosaurs.
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"I mean dinosaurs chased me and my brother around all the time when we were kids.
Really? Did they sing?
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No, no singing. Barney wasn't around when we were kids. He made apperances in the Doom games though.
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