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Space must be full of dead time travelers who didn't figure out that time and spacetime are not equivalent concepts. If you start your time travel at location A, say Orlando, FL and then travel five years back (or forward) in time, you will arrive in the same spot but the Earth won't be in that same spot at that time due to orbits and other planetary motion things. You will likely be in space or worse yet, inside an object that now occupies that spacetime. I think this is why time travel doesn't work out for us.

Back to the Future would have been a rather short movie if it took this detail into account.

Space must be full of dead time travelers who didn't figure out that time and spacetime are not equivalent concepts. If you start your time travel at location A, say Orlando, FL and then travel five years back (or forward) in time, you will arrive in the same spot but the Earth won't be in that same spot at that time due to orbits and other planetary motion things. You will likely be in space or worse yet, inside an object that now occupies that spacetime. I think this is why time travel doesn't work out for us. Back to the Future would have been a rather short movie if it took this detail into account.
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[–] • 2 pts

This is why a bunch of soldiers wound up fused to the USS Eldridge, they tried to come back in time and space to convince the American leaders to side with Germany but miscalculated a bit. /shitpost

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This is why a bunch of soldiers wound up fused to the USS Eldridge, they tried to come back in time and space to convince the American leaders to side with Germany but miscalculated a bit. /shitpost

See, they were lucky in that they only got fused to the bulkheads instead of becoming space freezy-pops. Don't mess around with time travel unless you want to become a bomb pop.