Essay About Alternative History And Bermuda Triangle

Bremuda Triangle
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What Mr Cherry is saying is: WI something generally held to be untrue
> is actually true? This is not alternative history because the existence
> or otherwise of the Bermuda Triangle did not follow from a chain of
> historical acts by human beings.
No. What I was saying is: “what if this thing, generally held untrue, is not
only true, but intruded on a historical event, as described afterwards.”
> OK, David. Whats the PoD? What is the decision point where history
> could have gone one way or the other and some woman or man makes a
> decision and the Bermuda Triangle comes into being?
The PoD is not the bermuda triangle, but its effect on Columbus ships as they
returned; I used the bermuda triangle only as the vehicle for the PoD.
> : “Secret history” involves the revelation that something that we think
> : we know about the past is untrue. It is not alternate history: it
> : leaves history unchanged,
Note, history DID change. Hence not secret history, even if it did invoke
something less-than-scientifically sound. Secret History involves the
revelation that something we think we know about the past is untrue… what I
did was -not- that.
> So how is history changed to bring the Bermuda Triangle into being?
> Really the PoD might just as easily be WI terrifying ASBs sink the Nina
> and Pinta? Tacky.
There are those out there who believes it does exist. I made the supposition
that it existed for the purpose of the divergence. The only PoD is “what if the