What are the odds

[KrAzY]

That time travel has been invent years ago, but they have not perfected location adjustment? 
I mean.. they can travel to any place in time, but with the earths rotation, they are not able to keep moving along with it thoughout time. The traveler either drifts off into space or into the core of the earths crust. 
They could have perfectly timed the stop to end-up on the earths crust, but that would only leave them a couple of precise moments in time they could stop and be ok, but can not just pick and choose times. 
 

[UglyBob]

[JerrySTL ★]

It's not just the earth's rotation. You also have to factor in the orbit around a Sun which is orbiting around the Milky 🌌  Way which is moving around in an expanding universe. Still probably easier than making self-drivind flying cars.

[Bikeguy]

1 hour ago, JerrySTL said:

Still probably easier than making self-driving flying cars.

Sooner than you expect...   I'd assume it will have auto pilot too. 

https://www.aeromobil.com/

[Longjohn ★]

What are the odds?

I’d say about 25 or 6 to 4

[Bikeguy]

1 hour ago, KrAzY said:

That time travel has been invent years ago, but they have not perfected location adjustment? 

Hmmm... You must have thought that 12 Monkeys was just a movie.   That was a 'glimpse' of our new reality that is unfolding now.   

[Bikeguy]

1 hour ago, KrAzY said:

That time travel has been invent years ago,

How else did the writers for Back to the Future, know that the Cubs would win the World Series?    

1 hour ago, KrAzY said:

but they have not perfected location adjustment? 

You are correct... they missed by one year.  

Yeah... what are the odds of that???    They had to know....

[maddmaxx ★]

Time travel exists.  We swim slowly forward every day from our beginning to our end.  I have yet to meet anyone swimming the other way.

 

 

_maddmaxx

[donkpow]

The odds are roughly equal to those related to the likelihood that the gov't will ever reduce taxes.

[Airehead]

9 hours ago, Longjohn said:

What are the odds?

I’d say about 25 or 6 to 4

13:7

[JerrySTL ★]

9 hours ago, Longjohn said:

What are the odds?

I’d say about 25 or 6 to 4

So time travel might work in Chicago?

[maddmaxx ★]

2 minutes ago, JerrySTL said:

So time travel might work in Chicago?

I suspect that a lot of those in Chicago hope so.

[Razors Edge ★]

11 hours ago, KrAzY said:

That time travel has been invent years ago, but they have not perfected location adjustment? 
I mean.. they can travel to any place in time, but with the earths rotation, they are not able to keep moving along with it thoughout time. The traveler either drifts off into space or into the core of the earths crust. 
They could have perfectly timed the stop to end-up on the earths crust, but that would only leave them a couple of precise moments in time they could stop and be ok, but can not just pick and choose times. 
 

Yeah, I always chuckled at this sort of conundrum.  Gotta hope, if you can figure out the impossible math for time travel, you can figure out the slightly easier math to move when and where you want to be. It is why wormholes at least keep it simple - go in here, come out there, and time doesn't matter. With a relative fixed entrance/exit point, you at least know you're going to end up near where you expect.  I guess those too could be "fixed" in place, and as the universe expands, the location would stay put, so we would see it as moving????

Regardless, Doctor Who never had problems with time or distance, so we have that as a goal.