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[–] Hypnoctopus@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"nobody ever talks about this"

This has been talked about a lot.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Also it doesn't make much sense since there's no universal frame of reference. The time machine in the comic stays in place with respect to the sun which isn't really different from it staying in place with respect to the Earth.

The only real options are to have it essentially be a teleporter too (like the TARDIS) or to let it stay in place like usual. Making you move some random distance based on a randomly chosen inertial system is just dumb.

[–] Draknar@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought that was the premise of the show “7 Days” where the protagonist was put in like a time capsule thing and had to guide it both through time and space to land around where the Earth / location was at that time.

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s also right there in the name of Dr. Who’s vehicle, the TARDIS: Time And Relative Dimension In Space.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah IIRC a TARDIS is supposed to have a crew of about half a dozen people or so, and is also somewhat sentient which helps with landing in the right place. But the Doctor does it solo and the TARDIS is broken and slightly bonkers which is why it's fairly random where it ends up.