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Time travel is easy, it's just lame

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Weirdcore @sopuli.xyz cm0002 @lemmy.world 2d ago

Time travel is easy, it's just lame

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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 fascism

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.
Isn't this the premise of The Langoliers?
I'd like to return to about 12 hours ago so I can sleep
Weirdcore my beloved
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
- We are all time travelers
- Slowing down the metabolism seems the mistake realistic thing we might be able to do to something like time traveling.
- My Lemmy client says your comment is 1h old. Is it possible to learn this power?
  
  You can backdate posts on AP.
- You can travel to the past. You just need to take a plane to somewhere in a negative offset time zone.
- I'll travel several hours into the future and it only takes me one bottle of vodka.
- Unless you're traveling close to the speed of light!
  
  It still takes you an hour, it just takes everyone else near infinitely longer.
The people are all gone, the Langoliers just haven't shown up yet.
- Of course not, don't be ridiculous.
  
  This comment makes me so happy, I do the dance of joy.
- Even though a bit cringy because of the metaphysical stuff, I really liked that twist on the time travel trope.
- My first thought
Because the langoliers got them?
- Serge - pronounced sa-rrr-zzh
- That was the first Steven King movie I saw when I was a teenager. Messed me up.
  
  Miniseries
  
  yeah balki doesn't do well
  
  I saw it on TV when I was 7 or 8. I had nightmares for months.
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.
Your brain is a time machine. However, it cannot effect the reality that you physically reside in.
- Time machine, but not a space machine
  
  And the bike is a space machine, but not a time machine. What we need is a spacetime machine.
  
  You can travel through space too, but again, it won't affect the world you physically reside in.
  
  😔
- We all have our time machines, don't we.
  Those that take us back are memories.
  Those that carry us forward are dreams
NGL, this sounds pretty awesome.
- Give me just a couple of minutes in either direction, I'm golden.
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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? 🤔
  
  No, sounds like the solar system just got pushed out of phase with the rest of their universe.
  
  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.
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Imagine going back to the past and getting UNLIMITED RICE PUDDING! (it's worth it I promise 😉)
♪♫ He's gonna take you back to the past ♪♫
Reminds me of white Christmas from black Mirror
Langoliers but worse special effects
- I think you mean better...
  
  I think you mean heresy

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