Re: Time machine

>Small problem:  exactly _where_ would you have the Time Machine send
you?
>:-)) Better take along an *ekwos just in case you need to relocate......
That's the big problem! If you go back exactly a hundred years, the earth
is in a slightly different position in its orbit and the sun itself has
moved relative to the rest of this galaxy. The galaxy itself has moved.
(Well, replace with a verb in a time-travel specialized tense that
indicates forward motion and reversed time.) Going back seven thousand
years would plop you down in a different solar system.

Your curiosity won't be satisfied, but your great-great-great-great...
(count: 59 generations later) grandchildren might find out. If, that is,
they get back before you go on the trip.

Just to be sure, create a faster-than-light method of traveling and send
an unmanned probe back. It will go to earth, record lots of stuff (video
and audio, even olfactory if you wish, to give the best chance of
learning the language), and then return to you.

ObLanguage: There are (almost) no new words in any language. To get a
specialized vocabulary for time travel or space travel, what would a
language do?

Laimes,
Wright.

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