From: gossg@gossg.org   
      
   johnny1a.again@gmail.com wrote:   
      
   >Hypothetically, imagine a starship comes across a human-inhabited, Earth-like   
   world, on which the former cities and centers of civilization have been   
   heavily nuked.  Assume it's been at least decades since the bombs fell.   
   >   
   >My question is, what if any signs would differentiate the results of a big,   
   world-wide nuclear exchange by locals on the planet, Cold War style, from a   
   space-based bombardment carried out by outside forces?  Would there be   
   anything that would strongly    
   indicate one scenario over the other?   
      
   Marooned in Real Time does this.  Time (downstream only) travellers   
   come back to find a depopulated Earth with some signs of nuclear   
   weaponry.  One of the survivors (offscreen) was trying to prove that   
   an alien invasion was responsible but got little attention paid to   
   him.  Then he got caught enhancing the evidence to make his point more   
   believable.   
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