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Originally Posted by whswhs
Yes, but what I was saying was not that this was a true answer that they would figure out, but that "visitor from another planet" is a conceivable hypothesis.
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Mistaking future humans for aliens is the basis of a few novels. I can't recall who wrote one of them... but it's a great dramatic device.
Given Lowell's claims of martians, and Burroughs' novels...
... accusations of being a Martian are likely to fly pretty well.
And, given US Xenophobia in the era... could be even somewhat hostile. Be harder to get common folk to believe time travel over martian, and harder to get the educated to believe martian than time traveler. (Lowell was widely considered a nutjob, since no one else could see his canals.)