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TEMPORAL an unknown but lush planet. This proves APE CHRONICLES also to be in or about 2675, a few days ANOMALIES before Pericles' arrival. The bulk of the International IN TIME TRAVEL events of the movie take place PLANET OF THE APES thereafter. UNRAVELS The third trip is entirely speculation, but Fan Club PLANET OF THE APES well considered speculation. It is eventually clear that Oberon ventures [email protected] (2001) closer to the electromagnetic field in an PlanetOfTheApesFanClub.com effort to track and rescue the lost pilot. By Mark Joseph Young This is not seen in the film; however, it Issue #42 http://www.mjyoung.net/time/apes.html does appear that the phenomenon April 1st, 2008 displaces its victims both temporally The Tim Burton remake of the cult and spatially, that is, it is clear that President of the classic has more time travel in it than Oberon is not anywhere near the planet the original; but perhaps it's not so of the apes (which we will henceforth International POTA Fan Club complicated as might be expected. Publisher / Editor / Writer call Apeland for lack of a better name). Each of the pods, as it enters the storm, The Time Trips Terry Hoknes is carried not merely through time but In the original film, two astronauts are 739 Taylor Street East also through space to arrive near thrown forward thousands of years and Saskatoon, SK Canada Apeland. There will be no homing land on Earth; sequels confused this S7H 1W1 (306) 270-9387 beacon back in 2029, no signal onto (and I am not fully conversant in the which Oberon can latch to trace its lost series). But this is not a sequel to the Issues #40 onwards pods. If it, too, is carried to that same original film, nor is it exactly a remake, planet, it must take the same path, $9.99 US funds per issue but a new original story based on the Includes Free shipping through the storm. And there is every original idea. It also contains at least reason to believe that as Oberon is anywhere worldwide four, and possibly six, trips through carried quite predictably through space time. Let us recount these individually. it is also carried somewhat Back Issues #1-39 Time travel in this story is accomplished unpredictably through time. It is also $4.99 US funds per issue by accident; only once is it clear that the most likely that Oberon has moved Buy 3 or more issues and get traveler intends to move through time, forward in time, toward the future. Note Free Shipping Anywhere worldwide and in only one other case is it possible that of the four known trips, the two that time travel was recognized as a which went from Earth to Apeland went possible outcome of the actions taken. A OR buy a complete run of back issues forward in time while the two which phenomenon somewhere in space #1-40 for $120.00 shipping included went from Apeland to Earth went identified only as an electromagnetic backward. Davison somewhat storm is the conduit which carries Payments made by either: irrationally relies on the assumption that travelers if not at random then at least PAYPAL.COM at the storm works that way. Thus it is [email protected] without defined pattern to other points reasonable to suppose that Oberon international money orders / checks / in time. No effort is made to explain temporally shifts forward slightly as cash in US funds this, but that it is a mysterious well. However, this is a considerably disturbance in space. We will identify shorter trip, as Oberon reaches Apeland All back issues of Ape Chronicles the five trips in the order of departure. centuries before Davison. and Ape Crazy are still available The first two time trips occur seconds The fourth trip carries not people but apart in the year 2029. Pericles, a information; and again, this is Ape Chronicles is the bi-monthly genetically enhanced trained speculation. Just after Davison vanishes, magazine for the International Planet Of chimpanzee space pilot (yes, but they The Apes Fan Club formed to promote Oberon receives a distress call. It is made the control panel simple for him) garbled and distorted, but it ultimately POTA has disappeared into the magnetic appears to be a distress call from All materials contained in Ape Chronicles are storm, and Captain Leo Davison has Oberon, received by Oberon. If, as we copyright 2008 of each writer and may not be taken a second pod to pursue him. At suggest, the Oberon has moved forward copied without permission the moment he loses contact with their in time, the distress call must be carried base station, Oberon, he sees the lost back in time--a time trip of information. Some info reprinted from Internet sites chimp; the chimp's pod then vanishes in Even if Oberon is not carried forward in such as www.IMDB.com and a flash of light, ultimately, we learn, to www.Wikipedia.com time, the distress call must still be arrive in or about 2675. Before Davison carried back. It is possible that Oberon's can even be certain that the pod is gone, trip is not forward in time but backward; a second flash engulfs his pod, and he in this case the distress call might not begins a rough ride through the storm, have traveled through time, but be a call bursting out and crashing in a pond on from a temporally duplicated ship which having been thrown back in time without any interference from travelers help him, recovers some of his gear happened to send a distress call out at from the future. Neither Davison nor from the pod, and picks up the signal this moment. Either the third or the Thane can arrive in the past until the from Oberon. Not aware that he has fourth trip, as defined here, must exist; moment comes for them to depart from traveled to the future, he assumes the both might. the future, and so there must be an ship tracked his homing beacon and We see the fifth trip, as Davison leaves original timeline which contains no such came for him. He is very disappointed at Pericles on Apeland and flies back into arrivals which will be altered by the discovery that his fellow crewmen the storm to return to Earth. He reaches subsequent events. have been dead for centuries (and it is Earth in or about 2155, one and a Oberon is a human research vessel or not clear whether he ever realizes that quarter centuries after his departure, and station in space; two pods are launched the humans who have been helping him the film ends there. However, it is clear from it into a magnetic storm. The first are their descendants), but the events he that one more time trip from Apeland's contains a chimp named Pericles; he has set in motion lead to a major battle future beyond the end of the film is vanishes from time. The second contains between the humans and the primates, in made back to some point prior to 2155, a pilot named Davison, who a moment which many are killed on both sides, but possibly prior to 2029. It would seem later also vanishes. Neither of these are only one character that we know. that General Thane eventually left seen again for six and a half centuries. In the midst of the battle, Pericles Apeland in some vessel and landed on It is important to note that the mayday arrives. His arrival seems to many of the Earth, where he altered history received a moment later is not received apes first like the Second Coming of sufficiently to create our surprise in the original history. That is an effect Christ and then like the proof that their ending. More on that later. of a cause still in the future, and until faith has been a lie; but it ends the the moment arrives for that cause to be battle. Only General Thane is still Going Forward initiated that effect cannot occur. This fighting, and he is soon defeated and It has often been said on this site that should not affect Oberon's decision to humiliated, but left alive. time travel to the future does not, in look for its lost pilots (it ignores the And within hours after Pericles arrives, itself, create any problems greater than distress beacon anyway), and as it does Davison gets into that pod and makes travel to Boston. The difference so it enters the storm. It, too, vanishes the first certain trip backward in time, between vanishing from timespace from time and space. from about 2675 to about 2159. But if altogether for six hundred fifty years, There is undoubtedly an immediate you've been paying attention to these spending that time in suspended search for the lost ship; but not having pages, you know that when someone animation, or being dead that long and the information to suggest that the ship travels to the past it creates an anomaly, then resurrected, is minimal. You aren't entered the storm, humankind soon and we must now construct the altered changing the future in this case, because abandons hope of finding it. It is history. the future has not yet been written and it presumed destroyed. Some time later is quite acceptable for it to be written Oberon emerges from the storm and Temporal Hiccoughs without you. Travel to the future is only crashes on Apeland, but by this time no In this analysis we've overlooked the problematic if it is initiated from or one is seeking it, and wouldn't be transmission received; it, too, must caused by actions taken in the future, or looking here even if they were.
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