Re: xkcd: Time Traveler Causes of Death

On 25/08/2024 20:56, BCFD 36 wrote:

On 8/23/24 12:49, Lynn McGuire wrote:

xkcd: Time Traveler Causes of Death
    https://www.xkcd.com/2976/
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So no time travelers died of the extreme heat at 250 million years ago when the average temperature of the Earth was over 90 F ?

Air conditioning may be needed.  Admittedly,
if you recognise that air may be needed,
other fatalities described can be avoided.
I don't trust your word anyway on the past
climate or the future.

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/whats-hottest-earths-ever-been
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Explained at:
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https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2976:_Time_Traveler_Causes_of_Death
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Lynn
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 What about the earth no longer being where it was when transport was initiated? I think that may be fatal.

Not a problem in practice, except when it is.
In The Time Machine_, for instance, it's fine.
Whereas the mutant "Strontium Dog" bounty hunter
Johnny Alpha has a remarkably potent grenade-style
weapon, which transports somebody a short distance
in time, not in space, while the planet they were
standing on moves along its orbit.  Cute visual,
you can see your house from here...  a long way down.