Back in Time
I once saw a movie series called Terra Nova, where humanity had used up all of earth's resources, and, to escape, the mom of a young family is recruited by the project Terra Nova. Project Terra Nova is an effort to get rid of some of earth's population, to give people a second chance. Scientists found a fracture in time, going all the way back several thousand years, to the age of dinosaurs. So, by use of a portal, they send people back in several pilgrimages, and this young family is sent back on the tenth pilgrimage. The original purpose of the time portal was to go back and strip mine all of that world. The whole series is about the family discovering that, and then trying to prevent it. There was supposed to be a second series, because the last episode was a total cliffhanger, but it was cancelled (Arrrgh!! Darn you, producers!!). Anyway, wouldn't it be great if we had that opportunity?
Not if the first thing I met was this guy hungry for lunch.
ReplyDeleteI watched much of the series, but part of me had the feeling that the writers were making it up as they went along rather than having a coherent feel for a sci-fi experience. And then, it made no sense. If you stripped as much as they needed stripping the future would be totally altered and wouldn't be there to ship back to.
That whole time travel thing gets kinda funky... unless you say that it's alternate time streams, so that you don't affect the one future you're from. And that you don't care about the other one!
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