Time Travel Woes
AKA: Bring a space suit, and a lot of books. You’re going to be lonely.
We used to think the earth was the center of the universe. Haha, those fools (we think now). Those primitive fools.
And then we start talking about time travel, and we seem to make the same mistake. Look, if I’m in Seattle right now and I hop in my time machine and travel back in time even 10 minutes — I’m not going to be in Seattle anymore. I’ll likely be out in space.
The earth is rotating (at 1000 miles per hour, if you’re on the equator). It’s also moving through space, at 66,000 miles per hour. That’ll get you from San Francisco to DC in 3 minutes. And of course, the sun and our solar system is also moving, and our galaxy too.
So until we can solve Time Travel AND Teleportation, we had best be careful.
In fact, maybe some mad genius scientist HAS figured out time travel. But forgot that we are on a earth-sized spaceship, speeding through the dark interior of a solar-system-sized spaceship, which booked a budget room at the far back end of a galaxy-sized spaceship. Hope they packed a space suit, and some reading material, in that time machine.
