Catalog of the Weird Parallels

[PTTG]

The park's gateways are just on the far side of the Nevada border, putting the real park itself in the southern Sierra Nevadas, well above sea level even the distant past.

There is a large settlement in the park, but most of the people live in settlements closer to the coast.

[Jasonft]

Anyone have a link to the map of the continents at the time in question?

[a humble lich]

[Moderator note: DO NOT quote the link in your reply! It will send your post straight into moderation because it's got some spam triggers.]

Here is one (it's 65 million years ago, right?)

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/com...hen_dinosaurs/

It looks like North America isn't that different, the inland sea was already gone.

Edit: I'm sorry, I didn't realize that reddit links set of spam triggers, I just saw it was a good map.

[vicky_molokh]

Aww, a humble lich, why did you have to edit the post, sending it to the spam pile again?
Fixed.

[ericthered]

That looks pretty modern, all things considered.

Then again, its easy to forget just how big the cretaceous is. The cretaceous is bigger than the whole of the cenozoic, and about equal in size the the jurrasic and triassic combined. and yet it only has one name. There is a lot of time for tectonics.

[Andrew Hackard]

Originally Posted by a humble lich

Edit: I'm sorry, I didn't realize that reddit links set of spam triggers, I just saw it was a good map.

Read the link and you'll see what really set it off. Reddit was a minor piece of it at worst.

And, yeah, what vicky said. Don't edit that post again, please.

[Jasonft]

Good: Dino Park is on the west side of what will become North America and should have a pretty good climate. Barring the occasional really nasty storm that comes in off that huge ocean.

Bad: Residents realize the meteor believed by many to have killed the dinos landed right... over... ohcrap

My that peninsula poking off the east side of 'Mexico' looks familiar. Party at Ground Zero anyone?

[Edit: Are the poles in the places indicated by the map? North at top, South at bottom?]

[PTTG]

Yeah, but it could be half a million years until it shows up, at which point humanity would be dramatically different...

[Jasonft]

And you are going to convince the park residents you know the *exact* number of years until BOOM how exactly? Especially if your time travel equipment goes wonky and permanently strands them all there?

[ericthered]

Originally Posted by Jasonft

And you are going to convince the park residents you know the *exact* number of years until BOOM how exactly? Especially if your time travel equipment goes wonky and permanently strands them all there?

Telescopes and Math! The object should be detectable. Though if you have to launch a satellite to do so its more expensive. Though when I run IW parachronic satellites are a standard tool. It just doesn't make sense to not make the things into conveyors when you launch them.