• @[email protected]
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    246 months ago

    If you think about it. Once phase shifted they would basically be gone. Due to the speed of the ship, they would just be left in space millions of miles behind before anyone realizes what just happened.

    • Flying SquidOPM
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      146 months ago

      Same issue with a time machine. The Earth moves. Fast. You go back in time a day and you’ll be floating in a void.

      • _NetNomad
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        246 months ago

        that’s why your time machine has to be a vehicle, like a delorean. you just drive to where the earth was, problem solved!

        • Flying SquidOPM
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          106 months ago

          “Where we’re going, we don’t need a life support system. Oh wait, we really do.”

      • @I_Fart_Glitter
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        46 months ago

        Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut is about this. It’s the only book of his I really enjoyed.

        • Flying SquidOPM
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          36 months ago

          I read that when I was a teenager in the early 90s and remember absolutely nothing about it.

      • Possibly linux
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        16 months ago

        The Earth moves

        Compared to what? Velocity is relative. From the perspective of Earth the universe is moving.