Are there sci-fi stories with the premise that a character wakes up transported to a different planet except it’s later revealed that it’s actually Earth in a distant time?
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What did Earth look like X million years ago?
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#62I never realized until seeing this 3D globe that literally an entire side of the earth only had water.
I've seen drawings of Pangaea before but never in a 3-dimensional sphere.
Just interesting to see and entire 1/2 of the earth with nothing but ocean.
I wonder how common this is on other planets.
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#63Are there sci-fi stories with the premise that a character wakes up transported to a different planet except it’s later revealed that it’s actually Earth in a distant time?
In Doctor Who, one of the Series 12 (2020) stories had that twist, and what stands this story apart from almost all other uses of this trope is that the twist was not an ending, and we see how characters process that reveal.
Please be careful if you gonna read TV tropes page linked in a sibling comment, as the title of that episode is in the list of examples on that page in Live-Action TV section, so you can accidentally spoil yourself all the fun.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
I believe you mean they are more like pterosaurs
I bet they mean birds, aka modern dinosaurs. This is a good 'aka' because dinosaur made baby dinosaurs who grew up to make their own baby dinosaurs. Each generation was slightly different than the last and after millions of years, the baby dinosaurs were named birds!
Well any dinosaur that existed and flew wasn't actually a dinosaur but rather a pterosaur. However I did a quick spot check and realize that modern day birds didn't evolved from pterosaurs but rather from dinosaurs surprised. So I stand corrected.
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#65Are there sci-fi stories with the premise that a character wakes up transported to a different planet except it’s later revealed that it’s actually Earth in a distant time?
You might want to check out the Time Odyssey series. It was written by Arthur C Clarke (along with Stephen Baxter) and deals with similar themes.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
I bet they mean birds, aka modern dinosaurs. This is a good 'aka' because dinosaur made baby dinosaurs who grew up to make their own baby dinosaurs. Each generation was slightly different than the last and after millions of years, the baby dinosaurs were named birds!
Well any dinosaur that existed and flew wasn't actually a dinosaur but rather a pterosaur. However I did a quick spot check and realize that modern day birds didn't evolved from pterosaurs but rather from dinosaurs surprised . So I stand corrected.
> Well any dinosaur that existed and flew wasn't actually a dinosaur but rather a pterosaur.
I believe you mean: "but rather a pterosaur or bird".
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#68I just had fun putting a pin into my hometown and discovering that it was at the equator at some point (300 mio years ago)!
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#69Are there sci-fi stories with the premise that a character wakes up transported to a different planet except it’s later revealed that it’s actually Earth in a distant time?
Land of the Lost. I suggest the Wil Farrell movie version.
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#70nothing is showing up for me. luckily i already know the answer: bryozoans, bryozoans, and more bryozoans
I also wasn't seeing anything, until I used "⌘ A" to select all text, and noticed that the list of animals or plants for the city I selected was displayed at the top left, in white text over a white background. Selecting all made it slightly more visible, enough for me to read the text.
Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/VQjfvQZ.png
