Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site sdcc3.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!lll-crg!dual!qantel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!sdcc3!ewa From: ewa@sdcc3.UUCP (Eric Anderson) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Re: Why shouldn't time travel leave you in the same spot? Message-ID: <2997@sdcc3.UUCP> Date: Sat, 14-Sep-85 17:39:26 EDT Article-I.D.: sdcc3.2997 Posted: Sat Sep 14 17:39:26 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 18-Sep-85 04:08:03 EDT References: <9793@ucbvax.ARPA> <323@looking.UUCP> <2243@sdcrdcf.UUCP> <146@rtp47.UUCP> <1016@rayssd.UUCP> <187@kitc.UUCP> Reply-To: ewa@sdcc3.UUCP (Eric Anderson) Distribution: net Organization: U.C. San Diego, Academic Computer Center Lines: 14 Summary: actually.. it's worse In article <1016@rayssd.UUCP> m1b@rayssd.UUCP (M. Joseph Barone) writes: > .... A stationary time machine >should glue the traveler to the exact location on Earth no matter how >far back or forward in time he goes. Consider: The earth rotates around it's axis at 1000 mph at the equator, around the sun at around 50,000 mph, and the sun rotates around the center of the milky way at ?? mph (anyone care to compute that?) If a time machine put you back even one hour at the exact same spot, you would be more than 51,000 miles from the earth (which would go whizzing past/through you one hour later) Eric Anderson, UC San Diego {elsewhere}!ihnp4!ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdcc3!ewa Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com