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Edited by Ocean Man:
5/18/2013 11:13:02 PM
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This theory(or speculation) seems cool but it has too much holes. If we lost the word Milky Way, wouldn't it be safe to assume we would lose the word "twilight". Thats a word not heard everyday. Milk, well thats a common beverage, it could be said to be the nectar of life to mammals. I'm sure the word milk would survive more than twilight. But would we really lose much if an alien invasion did attack us? Dictionaries are all around. Words wouldn't just be forgotten like that. But say we did lose words and had to rename most of the stuff in the world. Why twilight and milk may not even be words anymore. But it's most likely we will not forget the Milky Way. In Destiny we builded a city and we are already exploring the wilderness. Dictionaries and textbooks would survive the attack. And don't forget about tecnologie. If we can build spaceships able to enter space, I'm sure there are usable computers that still work, thus preserving what we did.
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The words themselves were not lost. Their contextual meanings were lost. Milk, way, twilight, gap, and so on are merely words. If people couldn't see the Milky Way for long enough and records were lost, it's meaning would be lost, not the words themselves. A rediscovering of the Milky Way would need a new term, such as Twilight Gap. That's what the first theory is explaining. As for technology, it can also be rediscovered and reverse engineered to speed through to current advancements. So the first theory still holds. However, this all depends on how devastated the final city was and how long since its destruction.
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Some of the legitimacy of my first idea depends on how bad we were sent back as a civilization and how much knowledge was destroyed, so yes its quite porous in that regard. What's your take on the second hypothesis?
