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Re: Time Travel
« Reply #75 on: August 25, 2008, 11:25:16 PM »
A paradox? No. Why would it? Unless you don't believe in Stephen Hawkins' Multiverse Theory.

Let me put what thinking about time travel and paradoxes and whatnot does to me simply:



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Plus, I know squat about paradoxes and such.
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Re: Time Travel
« Reply #76 on: August 26, 2008, 09:04:38 AM »
No, a paradox would be if they went back in time and called Erek in the past before they even met him. Can't really think why they'd do that, or how since the Chee are very hard to kill.

Interestingly, the Egyptian god Anubis was described as a man with the body of a human and the head of a dog. Call me crazy, but that sounds a little bit like the way the Pemalites/Chee were described! Coincidence?  ???
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Re: Time Travel
« Reply #77 on: August 26, 2008, 09:14:21 AM »
hmm...good catch. but if the chee are involved with that, how?

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Re: Time Travel
« Reply #78 on: August 26, 2008, 08:55:35 PM »
Well it probably is just a coincidence, but I suppose it's possible that some of the ancient Egyptians discovered the Chee and thought they were gods due to their strange appearance and advanced technology (which would appear to them as magical). We know that the Chee assume human lives and eventually "die" before starting a new human life over again. If one of the Egyptians saw a Chee "die" and come back to life, then it may well have started the myth of the Egyptian god Anubis (who was the Egyptian lord of the dead).
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Re: Time Travel
« Reply #79 on: August 26, 2008, 08:58:22 PM »
Well it probably is just a coincidence, but I suppose it's possible that some of the ancient Egyptians discovered the Chee and thought they were gods due to their strange appearance and advanced technology (which would appear to them as magical). We know that the Chee assume human lives and eventually "die" before starting a new human life over again. If one of the Egyptians saw a Chee "die" and come back to life, then it may well have started the myth of the Egyptian god Anubis (who was the Egyptian lord of the dead).

Good point.


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Re: Time Travel
« Reply #80 on: August 26, 2008, 11:16:16 PM »
Meh, ancient Egyptian/Mayan/Aztec lore crosses over way better with Predators than Chee.  :(  Although the Anubis thing makes sense.  I guess.

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Re: Time Travel
« Reply #81 on: August 27, 2008, 05:34:40 AM »
Haha good theory there Mike!
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Re: Time Travel
« Reply #82 on: August 28, 2008, 07:16:04 PM »
Thanks Claire! To be honest I didn't really think of it until people started mentioning Ancient Egypt on the last page. I'm amazed I didn't think of it earlier since we've always known that the Chee (or Erek at least) helped build the pyramids. I guess that does kind of support the Stargate theory that the pyramids were constructed with the help of advanced aliens.
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Re: Time Travel
« Reply #83 on: August 28, 2008, 08:10:01 PM »
*sigh*  That theory's been around about a hundred years before Stargate even existed.

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Re: Time Travel
« Reply #84 on: August 29, 2008, 02:39:24 PM »
I don't doubt it, but Stargate is the first well known sci-fi to make a big deal about that theory.

It would have been cool if the Animorphs had visited other key points in history and were forced to morph into a famous person of the era. Ax could morph Leonardo Da Vinci and end up drawing the blueprints for many of his futuristic ideas!  :D
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Re: Time Travel
« Reply #85 on: August 29, 2008, 03:18:43 PM »
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Ax could morph Leonardo Da Vinci and end up drawing the blueprints for many of his futuristic ideas!

That's brilliant. You got a lot of great ideas, Phoenix. Ever thought about writing professionally one day? You could be the next Arthur C. Clarke!
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Re: Time Travel
« Reply #86 on: August 29, 2008, 03:25:42 PM »
Thanks Yorick, I actually do plan on getting published someday, but not anytime soon. For one thing, I'd have to finish a story first! If only I could time travel. Then my future self could come back in time and give me a copy of my finished story, therefore saving me the trouble of writing it! As long as I remember to later bring back a copy to my past self, I don't think it counts as a paradox...
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Re: Time Travel
« Reply #87 on: August 29, 2008, 06:39:08 PM »
Lol...Ax as Leonardo Da Vinci would equal awesomeness. Though as an aspiring archaeologist and amateur historian myself, I find it pretty irritating that some people think it was the work of aliens that gave us pyramids and other wonders of the ancient world.

Frankly, i think that's just an insult to the Human race saying we're just too stupid as a species to ever figure out anything more advanced than like stick throwing lol. And supposedly the so called 'advanced helper races' had no trouble whatsoever building up their own respected civilizations without any outside help? That doesn't make alot of sense to me at all.

Anyways, enough with that rant. And yeah, there should have been more specific time travel in Animorphs cuz well...time travel is like super cool! ;) And Phoenix you ever write a time travel book along those lines, I'll be sure to buy it if it ever gets published :D
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Re: Time Travel
« Reply #88 on: August 29, 2008, 06:44:52 PM »
I'm not saying that humans couldn't have built the ancient wonders (some people are capable of amazing things), but I wouldn't be very surprised if aliens did help. I do believe that aliens exist and they might account for many myths and legends, particularly those involving the ancient "gods."

I agree, time travel is awesome! In fact, one of my story ideas is a series entirely based on time travel. Sadly I never started the story, but I do plan on going back to it one day so I appreciate the comment!  :)
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Re: Time Travel
« Reply #89 on: August 29, 2008, 07:06:43 PM »
Well, I believe that there are other sentient races and life out there somewhere, but it remains to be seen whether our race has ever been visited by them which I strongly doubt (at least in the way described in previous posts).

And actually, one thing they think could have made belief in gods and other deities stronger, was the accidental finding of extinct prehistoric creatures. In more obscure records of ancient writers and historians, there are numerous accounts of ancient Greek villagers on this one island that kept plowing up strange animal bones that paleontologists recognize as extinct creatures from the Pleistocene era. Of course the people 2000 years ago would not have recognized them as such, and would have considered them to be the bones of heroes and creatures of myth.

Also there's a theory that the griffin (sp?) of ancient mythology was actually the fossilized remains of a protoceratops (sp?) which the Scythians, steppe nomadic tribes, were showing travelers passing through the area during the 6th century BC and maybe even earlier. Though these fossil remains may not have created many of the ancient culture's myths and gods and legends, it very well may have given people back then proof of sorts as to their existence.

And as far fetched as this may seem to some people, it's actually quite plausible given that many ancient civilizations carried out construction work for roads, wells, and cisterns; as well as mining for resources which could have put them in further contact with millions of years old fossil remains.

Just some more food for thought. Not that i'm trying to be purposely rude and argumentative, it's just something that i'm very passionate about as you may or may not see in my posts regarding said subject. But then again amazing discoveries are found alot in the fields of archaeology and paleontology and who knows what may be found somewhere down the road? ;)