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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Should have watched Tom Scott

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Wow, I never thought about that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Math is hard.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It's just another problem with the mechanics of the snap at the end of Avengers: Endgame

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (7 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Heyy this property features in the accidental time machine by Joe Haldeman

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

See, that's a problem they always skip in time-travel movies.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Can't they just float and follow the Earth? Or would it be too fast? What's the terminal velocity of a ghost?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What is this comment in response to?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Glad I’m not the only one confused. Who’s talmbout ghosts

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I also think about this a lot.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Same place relative to what?

It's space-time, not space and time. Moving backwards in one moves you backwards in the other.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I always wondered about this

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