Okay this is going to be a somewhat random post, but I can be rather skeptical at times, and I've wasted WAY too much of my limited brain power thinking about Time Travel.
It's just not going to happen, nice try. I'm even making the assumption here that time travel is feasible. In fact, let's just say that tomorrow, it is announced that the math has been done, and a device should be relatively easy to make. So let's go, right? Um, not so fast my friend... even if you can pin down the exact moment of your arrival, the question still remains, where are you going to come out at once you complete your time travel?
Better bring the space shuttle, because you are likely to be somewhere in space, most likely, no where near earth, or maybe even the solar system. (Okay math geeks time to point out my facts being wrong, so get ready). I was reading the other day where the Milky Way is moving at 600,000 kph relative to our local cluster. I also seem to remember that our solar system revolves around the core of the Milky way at around 150,000 kph, with some wobble above and below the galactic plane. Don't forget, we are going around our sun, , Earths' rotation, and probably about 2000 other factors that make it next to impossible to figure out WHERE EARTH WAS just a day ago with any accuracy to send a human being walking through a port or whatever method you are choosing... perhaps you could be close in enough in a spaceship to send a radio message to yourself with the winning lottery numbers, that is if you don't materialize inside the moon or something trying to be a little too cute getting too close.
But seriously, 50 years ago?
I haven't even played the quantum effects card. Or what about relative velocities? Or how about how you determine "absolute" coordinates in space. Hey, I got an idea, let's open a stable wormhole back in time... oops we came out in the middle of the sun, so much for that side of the planet for a while, probably end up looking like the moon in a Bugs Bunny - Marvin the Martian episode.
See and I didn't even have to ask if you got your time travelers inoculated against diseases in the past.
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I guess you just have to be open to the possibility that a way to control outcomes could be discovered, that something that seems impossible now could be made easy. Could man of a thousand years ago contemplate the internet, the computer, the blog? Could we not harness the improbability drive?
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