What I didn't get with the whole thing is related to the whole time paradox thing.
Obviously, we can't look too seriously at it. But....
These guys in the future...the Phoenix Group....why would they want to despoil the earth 90 million years in the past or whatever? Obviously, 90 million years is a long time for it to recover. But if they wipe out a continent, and most of the living creatures on that continent, that's the equivalent of a major extinction event....essentially resetting the clock for evolution. Now, there have been major extinction events in the past before.....but their timing allowed for humans to evolve. Mess with that timing, and in 2149, anything could happen....you could have dinosaurs still running around, humans could still be at the stage of australopithecus, etc. etc.
Now, the people living in the past.....I suspect once they're cut off, they really don't need to worry about the future anymore. They effectively have no connection to it. So, if they take the knowledge of what happened in the future, and use it to govern their behaviour in the past, yes, the future could end up very different.....but they might not wreck the earth like what happened the first time around. Maybe they live back there for 3 million years, evolve into little grey men, develop flying saucers, and fly off to populate Pluto or something....then come back in the "future" as alien greys. Or, from a paradox standpoint, if they change the storyline of the future it might mean they never needed to be sent back, thus they can't be there and cease to exist etc. It hurts to think about
I don't think having people 90 million years back would *necessitate* that paleontologists in 2011 are finding fossils of people from a colony 90 million years back, that were sent there from 140 years in the future. There's a TV show about earth after man, and it makes pretty clear that even 200 years after people, not much sign of our presence would remain.....and 90 million years on, unless someone got trapped in a tar pit or drowned in a river, if the colony died out, it may very well not leave any traces to be found later on.
And there was the whole thing with those bomb things they were planting. They claimed that only 10 of them could clearcut the entire continent, so they could start strip mining. Well, back then, it's what....Pangea? The super continent? So, it's one massive continent, with a whole whack of ocean around. 10 bombs clearing the whole continent mean those would be *big* bombs....far bigger than any nuke. Yet, they only need what....15 minutes to drive out of the blast radius? How fast are those jeeps going, anyways?
Interesting show. I don't like it as much as Earth 2, but it's got dinosaurs, and sci-fi, and, even if stretches of it don't make sense, at least it's not yet another reality TV show Hopefully they can learn from this season, and improve, if they're given a season 2.
Banshee
Obviously, we can't look too seriously at it. But....
These guys in the future...the Phoenix Group....why would they want to despoil the earth 90 million years in the past or whatever? Obviously, 90 million years is a long time for it to recover. But if they wipe out a continent, and most of the living creatures on that continent, that's the equivalent of a major extinction event....essentially resetting the clock for evolution. Now, there have been major extinction events in the past before.....but their timing allowed for humans to evolve. Mess with that timing, and in 2149, anything could happen....you could have dinosaurs still running around, humans could still be at the stage of australopithecus, etc. etc.
Now, the people living in the past.....I suspect once they're cut off, they really don't need to worry about the future anymore. They effectively have no connection to it. So, if they take the knowledge of what happened in the future, and use it to govern their behaviour in the past, yes, the future could end up very different.....but they might not wreck the earth like what happened the first time around. Maybe they live back there for 3 million years, evolve into little grey men, develop flying saucers, and fly off to populate Pluto or something....then come back in the "future" as alien greys. Or, from a paradox standpoint, if they change the storyline of the future it might mean they never needed to be sent back, thus they can't be there and cease to exist etc. It hurts to think about
I don't think having people 90 million years back would *necessitate* that paleontologists in 2011 are finding fossils of people from a colony 90 million years back, that were sent there from 140 years in the future. There's a TV show about earth after man, and it makes pretty clear that even 200 years after people, not much sign of our presence would remain.....and 90 million years on, unless someone got trapped in a tar pit or drowned in a river, if the colony died out, it may very well not leave any traces to be found later on.
And there was the whole thing with those bomb things they were planting. They claimed that only 10 of them could clearcut the entire continent, so they could start strip mining. Well, back then, it's what....Pangea? The super continent? So, it's one massive continent, with a whole whack of ocean around. 10 bombs clearing the whole continent mean those would be *big* bombs....far bigger than any nuke. Yet, they only need what....15 minutes to drive out of the blast radius? How fast are those jeeps going, anyways?
Interesting show. I don't like it as much as Earth 2, but it's got dinosaurs, and sci-fi, and, even if stretches of it don't make sense, at least it's not yet another reality TV show Hopefully they can learn from this season, and improve, if they're given a season 2.
Banshee