[VincentEvans]

Maybe they are all mostly dead and ever-more-feral survivors ridden by the crippling radiation- and pollution-borne genetic sicknesses are birthing still-born and slowly dying out while picking through the debris left from the civilizational collapse caused by global warming, ai, and the resulting world wars.

And the last stronghold of civilization are genetically superior, warlike, numerous, but illiterate Tate descendants hidden in the mountains of Romania, unable to build anything more advanced than a cudgel used in the rituals to determine the alpha leader.

[bugbuddy]

Most time travel theories ignore the fact that the earth is not fixed in space. It is moving relative to the sun in the solar system and the solar system is moving relative to the center of the galaxy, and the galaxy is… etc. A motion in each of these systems is not 100% accurately predictable forward or backward in time.

This fact alone means that any time traveler is most likely to arrive in the middle of empty space.

[idle_zealot]

> Most time travel theories ignore the fact that the earth is not fixed in space

This is a misconception that bugs me. The problem isn't that the Earth isn't fixed in space, it's that there's no such thing as a fixed point in space. Position is only defined relative to other objects. If you're going to use time travel in a story or something then it has to use something like an anchor object to determine destination. I.e. the relative location of the traveler and the anchor is replicated from the future to the past.

[gmane]

I'll give a half-baked counter to this: we know gravity impacts the flow of time through relativity. There is currently no evidence that time travel wouldn't be impacted by gravity in some way. Maybe the way time in time travel interacts with gravity protects you from this problem? Probably not, but it has just as much evidence to support it as your claim of time travel will dump you in empty space.

[_factor]

It’s even crazier if you imagine that whole universe might be countless universe lengths away from its starting point every microsecond for all we know. Acceleration is the only thing we feel.

You’re very likely to travel into an undefined void even if you map out and calibrate the whole system.

[sixtyj]

That why it is important not to mess up coordinate system. With wrong calculations they fall to ground. Or they are buried under ground. And space is full of frozen bodies.

[fyrn_]

1. Genetically superior 2. Tate Descendents

Pick One.

[VincentEvans]

Tall, powerful, beautifully bald, multitudinous and decease resistant!

[dingnuts]

Why are you giving Tate free advertising on a completely unrelated post? Just saying that asshole's name risks exposing more people to him.

Streisand Effect, people. If you hate someone and want them to go away you have to completely stop mentioning them online.

[tempestn]

Seems to me your comment has more of a Streisand Effect quality than the one you're replying to.