No one? Really? That sounds like heaven! is very introverted
> go back in time > "no one is there" > change plans > change SPAS12 to a barrel of petrol > go to the moment when Thomas Mathus has been born > pour everything with it > the whole Malthus family dies > go back to the present > it's now a utopia without neoliberal capitalism and/or the world-wide rise of fascismIsn’t this the premise of The Langoliers?
I’d like to return to about 12 hours ago so I can sleep
Langoliers?
is THAT what that was about?
I only ever watched the first half of the TV movie. Second half never really seemed to air, or it really failed to explain anything.
Yeah, they fly through some “portal” or whatever and end up in the previous day. Then langoliers show up to devour it. There’s some other madness going on, too. You know, typical Stephen King shit.
Weirdcore my beloved
♪♫ He’s gonna take you back to the past ♪♫
The people are all gone, the Langoliers just haven’t shown up yet.
Of course not, don’t be ridiculous.
Even though a bit cringy because of the metaphysical stuff, I really liked that twist on the time travel trope.
you can easily return to the past
but a tree used to be there where you are and now you’ve impaled it
Well, if we follow that logic, then where you end up is the emptiness of space, even if you go back exactly one year.
People tend to forget that the Earth not only goes around the sun, but the whole system is moving, so Earth is not in the same place as it was a year ago, even if it is relative to the sun.
I think that brings up the question of how do we go about establishing an absolute position? If everything is moving, what isn’t?
Everything being relative is a hell of a thing.
Presumably all time travel devices, spells, etc. compensate for that. If someone figured out how to travel to the past, calculating where the planet was at the time should be easy by comparison.
Even more specifically, if we are talking a temporal teleport, then this shouldn’t be a surprise. Most mainstream fiction uses teleports for time travel, pop out of one time and into another without experiencing the time between. As opposed to the device Farnsworth made in The Late Philip J. Fry, where they actually just change speed through time instead of skipping through it. In the latter case, you shouldn’t have to worry about this issue at all. But with a teleport, any teleportation device is simultaneously a temporal and spatial teleport, due to causality and the nature of spacetime. So any teleport would need spacetime coordinates, not just spatial or temporal coordinates.
In the year 252525
The backwards time machine still won’t have arrived
In all the world, there’s only one technology
A rusty sword for practicing proctology
NGL, this sounds pretty awesome.
Only time travel to the future is possible. For example I will time travel one hour into the future and it will take me one hour to get there
Slowing down the metabolism seems the mistake realistic thing we might be able to do to something like time traveling.
We are all time travelers
I’ll travel several hours into the future and it only takes me one bottle of vodka.
You can travel to the past. You just need to take a plane to somewhere in a negative offset time zone.
Unless you’re traveling close to the speed of light!
It still takes you an hour, it just takes everyone else near infinitely longer.
My Lemmy client says your comment is 1h old. Is it possible to learn this power?
You can backdate posts on AP.
Perfect !surrealmemes@sh.itjust.works content!
It is a plot point in the sci-fi series Perry Rhodan, where they push the whole solar system 15 minutes into the future (iirc) to hide it from the rest of the universe.
So if aliens launch a nuke at the solar system, you would have died 15 minutes ago? 🤔
For the “present” of the rest of the universe it is just empty space, the Solar System is in a bubble of spacetime completely disconnected from the rest and continuously shifted 15 minutes.
No, sounds like the solar system just got pushed out of phase with the rest of their universe.
Imagine going back to the past and getting UNLIMITED RICE PUDDING! (it’s worth it I promise 😉)
Langoliers but worse special effects
I think you mean better…
I think you mean heresy
