Should have watched Tom Scott
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It should be illegal to remind people (me, particularly) about Steins;Gate while they're at work
I can't be fucking crying on the clock, dawg
Wow, I never thought about that.
Math is hard.
It's even cooler if you remember we send something to the moon even with all this variables and no calculators humans were able to know where the moon would be
Of course the moon is relatively close but still
Oooohh. Thanks for the tip, just added that into my time travelling port o pottie's destination algorithms. Gotta respect the earth be moving and shit.
It's just another problem with the mechanics of the snap at the end of Avengers: Endgame
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Also, the earth will never be in the same place twice. So it's not even like you can only jump increments of a solar year.
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Heyy this property features in the accidental time machine by Joe Haldeman
See, that's a problem they always skip in time-travel movies.
At least in Doctor Who, the T.A.R.D.I.S. can't teleport through space as well as through time, solving that problem. But most time machines don't
Also ghosts likely wouldn't be affected by a gravitational pull, so the concept doesn't make sense and there'd just be a trail of ghosts in space.
Can't they just float and follow the Earth? Or would it be too fast? What's the terminal velocity of a ghost?
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Glad I’m not the only one confused. Who’s talmbout ghosts
I also think about this a lot.
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Same place relative to what?
It's space-time, not space and time. Moving backwards in one moves you backwards in the other.
I always wondered about this