(urth) interview questions

[António Pedro Marques]

Tony Ellis wrote (06-01-2011 10:21):
> Lee Berman wrote:
>> Since there aren't any (that I recall) Abo or Shadow Child ruins, does this imply an
>> earthly orgin to these guys? Maybe something like David's idea...like, Q. Where did Homo habilus
>> disappear to?"  A. to Ste. Anne.
>
> An earthly origin, or perhaps that humanity on both Earth and St Anne
> is the result of some earlier galactic expansion. I find the idea
> pretty far-fetched to say the least - but also hard to dismiss, for
> reasons I go into in my response to Gerry.

Wolfe wouldn't put the French and Vernor Vinge in a timeframe much different 
from ours, so if someone came there millennia earlier, it wasn't someone we 
know from History. The folks from Atlantis, maybe? Or Gondwanaland, but both 
names are modern. Heck.