If we ever manage to achieve time travel, how could we arrive

>>8250074

You couldn't so your time machine better be a spaceship as well

>>8250074
Depends on how the time travel would work. Can the mods start deletingthese idiotic "what if magic was real" threads that have nothing to do with science?

Obviously you add a compensator to calculate the position of where the earth was x years ago.

Ez pz

>>8250078

What if /sci/ mods were real?

>>8250078
>Einstein's ctcs
>not science

what is a woman doing in a /sci/ thread

>>8250074
>If we ever manage to achieve time travel
then we'll be able to calculate the earth's position at a certain time.

come on folks

>>8250074
Aren't you assuming that there's a "true", stationary frame of reference?

I think that would be interesting. Say the center of our galaxy defines the frame of reference, then you can only stop your travel when a habitable planet surface is below the time machine at that point in time.
Now I want to read a book about that.
> hey I invented a time machine, let's go into the future
> we brought space suits and magic infinite rebreathers
> fast forward x amount of time, solar system has moved so now you're in a completely different one
> alien life, but "plants" only, nothing actively mobile or remotely intelligent
> fast forward again different planet, aliens
> fast forward, suddenly humans around, turns out humans invented FTL travel and colonized a large chunk of the galaxy
> fast forward, unhabitable wasteland planet
> wait this is supposed to be Earth

>>8250074
WHAT DO YOU MEAN WE, PEASANT?

>>8250157
>all along the watchtower starts playing

>>8250074
I think the tougher problem is time travel in the first place...

If you can't travel back in time to before your time machine was switched on, you could just come out of the machine, wherever it was at that time.