Re: Time machine
| From: | Christopher B Wright <faceloran@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 16, 2002, 13:25 |
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Roger Mills sekalge:
> Small problem: exactly _where_ would you have the Time Machine send
you?
> :-)) Better take along an *ekwos just in case you need to
relocate......
Better a spacecraft. There's a little problem with time travel. In an
hour, the world moves a significant distance (if I recall truthfully, 600
miles, not to mention rotation). In seven thousand years, it moves much
more. The sun also moves a lot in that time, as well as this galaxy.
Of course, everything in the universe _could_ revolve around our little
planet in very complex orbits. And before everyone started mucking about
with satellites around the world, I would have argued that the earth
could be rather flat. Slightly bowed, but rather flat.
Does it matter? No. I just thought I'd mention it.
Laimes,
Wright,
watching le Tour.