What became of what was left of Earth-that-was?
POSTED BY: Caitlyn
UPDATED: Thursday, May 20, 2004 04:13
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Originally posted by Caitlyn:
FWIW, I think if we have another generation or two of goverments with as much concern for the environment as the current ones in the U.S. and China (the roots of the Alliance) the dead rock theory could well become the living (or dead) truth.
Don't want to turn this into politicin'. I surely don't.
"Okay, we're not killing folk today,
on account of our very tight
schedule."
RE: The Dead Rock theory.* If Alliance technology is capable of terraforming 70 - 100 worlds into approximate earthlike environments in less than 500 years, then why can't they terraform terra? Surely the same technology could be used to repair whatever damage H. Sapiens has done to Old Home Earth.
Unless the problem is something that can't be cleaned up, like the fallout from a major thermonuclear exchange. Terraformation Tech might not be useful for reducing ambient strontium-90 levels.
*Footquote: "Rock is dead. Long live paper and scissors!" -- Homer J. Simpson
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Well, I recently read an article about how long it takes for an Ice Age to happen, and it's 1-3 years.
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17711
And when the North goes into an Ice Age, the South goes into a dust bowl. So there's that for how long it could take.
I saw the same PBS show about the magnetic poles swapping - isn't it interesting that we're learning just how fragile this rock is? Processes that have always been considered to take forever, are now proving to be more-or-less instant. Go science!
Here's my question - who paid for everyone to leave etw? I know we've seen indentured servitude shown - Jaynestown for instance - but 500 years later? If it took that long to pay back the trip, wouldn't most everyone still be paying? And yet there was no evidence of widespread indenturement in any of the shows.
And maybe I'm just a sceptic, but I don't see our current govm'ts being able to get together and save the human race.
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^Not all of them would need to. Only the Americans and Chinese......
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Well, the Cockneys got in to the Black, it's safe to say.
I've gotta say, the idea that the Reavers control ETW sounds gorram good to me!
But the Blue Sun theory sounds good too...
Mebbe the Blue Sun created and control the Reavers... 
"BADGER: You think you're better than other people.
MAL: Just the ones I'm better than."
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My theory, completely unsubstantiated, of course, is that the ETW was somehow destroyed/ rendered inert/ etc. and everyone left ... THEN a bunch of folks came in, broke it all up into little bits, and sold them as souveniers.
(Just like they did when the Berlin Wall came down).
Cheers,
Annik
... my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.
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