{"id":1074,"date":"2004-04-29T23:27:36","date_gmt":"2004-04-30T04:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2014-08-02T03:23:23","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T08:23:23","slug":"behind-the-green-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2004\/04\/29\/behind-the-green-door\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the green door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nOn a somewhat lighter note, after the serious entries of the past week, <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/groups?&#038;threadm=b7aogv%24kbj%241%40panix1.panix.com&#038;rnum=1\">this<\/a> is the start of a thread on <cite>soc.history.what-if<\/cite> in which James Nicoll starts speculation about what would happen if the US in 1958 found a doorway in time to the Earth of 250,000,000 A.D.. This evidently fired the imagination of the posters there, as there is quite a lot of good, interesting speculation throughout the thread. Even though I like blogs quite a lot, Usenet still beats them when it comes to sustained discussion like this.\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nRelated links:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eponaproject.com\/\">The Epona Project<\/a>, an attempt to create a believable extrasolar in detail.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotese.com\/future2.htm\">One view of Earth 250,000,000 A.D.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefutureiswild.com\/\">The Future is Wild<\/a>, the website of the tv series of<br \/>\nthat name, which explored a similar issue. Heavy use of Flash.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a somewhat lighter note, after the serious entries of the past week, this is the start of a thread on soc.history.what-if in which James Nicoll starts speculation about what would happen if the US in 1958 found a doorway in time to the Earth of 250,000,000 A.D.. This evidently fired the imagination of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5538,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions\/5538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}