Bremuda Triangle

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. What's 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