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Re: [HOE] Lost Colony [John Goff]
At 09:42 PM 6/4/00 -0400, you wrote:
>> (though I don't think so - the space fleet would instantly recognize the
>> planetary configuration of the system)
>
>Two words: Continental drift. I could recognize Earth as it is now, but not
>was it was in the past. That's sort of specialized knowledge, and unlikely to
>come up unless one of the space fleet people was some sort of hobbyist on the
>subject. ;)
> -Loki
Two words - planetary orbits. :-)
I wasn't talking about the surface of the planets, but the configuration of
the planets themselves. Even given the relatively minor changes that would
happen in 50,000 or 100,000 years.
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