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From: ewa@sdcc3.UUCP (Eric Anderson)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Re: Why shouldn't time travel leave you in the same spot?
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Date: Sat, 14-Sep-85 17:39:26 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 14 17:39:26 1985
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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