• TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    What sort of universal reference frame do you seem to be assuming? All location is relative to other things, and keeping your location relative to, say, the Earth would be a lot more convenient that making it relative to some arbitrary star or something.

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    3 months ago

    Forget the orbit… remember the song…

    https://genius.com/Monty-python-the-galaxy-song-lyrics

    “Just remember that you’re standing on a planet that’s evolving
    And revolving
    at 900 miles an hour.
    It’s orbiting at 19 miles a second,
    so it’s reckoned,
    The sun that is the source of all our power.
    Now the sun, and you and me,
    and all the stars that we can see,
    Are moving at a million miles a day,
    In the outer spiral arm,
    at 40,000 miles an hour,
    Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way.”

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    3 months ago

    That’s correct. But if you’ve figured out how to travel through time, traveling through space should be easy.

    Also, be sure to wear a hazard suit so you don’t die from any ancient/future diseases your body has no protection from.

  • VicksVaporBBQrub@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    A wormhole type time machine would leave the travel points A and B physically independent of each other. This opens up the option to change destinations… step in at New York, exit in San Francisco.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    3 months ago

    I think it might depend on how the time travel is achieved. We all assume you’re just instantly pooped out in your destination time but if you have to actually travel through time, it might be like just putting everything in reverse, and so you’d move alog with the earth as you move backwards through some kind of time tunnel.

    Think Donnie Darko and not Looper.

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      3 months ago

      This was the thing in the HG Wells version that always got me. The machine always exists for the intervening time. I feel like that would be very disruptive to the civilizations that encounter it.