But the Humans piss off by the 30th Century.

[Guy Gardener]

I'm watching some Pertwee Era stuff and the sea Devil costumes were just horrid, and i start to feel a little concern for these buggers constantly getting frakked over by the billions of thuggish apes crawling across the surface...

The Mutants (which I am watching right now) is set in the 30th century, and mankind is still a pack of assholes, who have polluted this shit out of the earth and the humans all live in Skybases in orbit of the homeworld with nary a thought about return to the cursed surface...

Then you cobble together the notions about Space Station nerva and the Solar Flares and the hundreds of thousands of years from springboarded from events during the 30th century where earth is left alone to regenerate.

Plenty of time for the Silurians to set up shop unmolested before Man tries to come back and site ownership citing the land mark case of pot vs. kettle which the 5th and 11th Doctor could have told his Eocine friends about a smart way to avoid a scuffle.

 

[captcalhoun]

yeah, but humans are living there again by 2001,000...

 

[Guy Gardener]

Just because the Silurians could have taken back the earth, it doesn't mean that they can keep it.

The Earth might have changed hands a dozen dozen times before man came back.

 

[Count Zero]

Well, the Silurians weren't very clever. Their cryosleep units were always set to a certain time, with no accounting for changing conditions, so they probably didn't even notice humanity evacuating Earth for a while. Hopefully, someone woke them before the planet blew up in The End of the World.

 

[23skidoo]

The ending of The Silurians shows that they can still be destroyed by humans if the powers that be decide they're a threat. Or the comet strike (a future event mentioned in passing in Michael Moorcock's Doctor Who novel) could kill them off. There's any number of things that could happen. Maybe in a future story the Doctor for once actually encounters an alien race that ACCEPTS his offer of relocation.

Alex

 

[diankra]

The solar flares aren't in the 30th century (probably). The Doctor looks at one piece of equipment on the Ark/Nerva and identifies that bit (a modified Bennett Oscillator, ISTR) as being from around that time.
There's definitely humans on Earth in 4000 (Dalek Masterplan) and 5000 (Talons of Weng Chiang, among others). None of which fits with Ark in Space/Sontaran Experiment. (Though Beast Below helps make it all more complicated!)

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

Hopefully, someone woke them before the planet blew up in The End of the World.

Ooh! Yeah. I never thought about that before. Here's hoping.