The Lunacy of Time Travel
It amazes me that otherwise intelligent people talk about time travel as a possibility, and that they’re busy working on devices that will let them move through time, either forwards or backwards.
The Earth rotates once per day (no duh!), and is approx. 24,900 miles around at the equator. It’s turning counter-clockwise from the perspective of someone hovering over the North pole. At noon in Quito (on the equator), you step into your time machine. You go back 6 hours. They opened the door at 6am that morning and found your body crushed to a pulp. Bone fragments too tiny to piece back together, and a really big dent in the floor and one wall.
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Mike
Dave Travis
Rose
Thanks for this great synopsis. (BTW, “No Name” near bottom of your list was Mel Lawrenz, Elmbrook...