I feel like he should have gotten this out of his system by now

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This is the sort of thing we used to sit around getting baked and talking about in high school:

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WHAT THE EUGENICS? Academic Writes That We Should Find Someone Better to Bear Our Children

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It is unlikely that you possess the best combination of traits that a person would want to have. You’re probably pretty smart, but not as smart as other people; quite healthy, but not as healthy as others; not as charming, not as dedicated, not as personable, as others. There are 8 billion people in this world – what are the odds that you are the best?
Consider it from your child’s perspective. There are many people who they could be born to. Who would they pick? Do you have any right to deny them the father they would choose? It would be like kidnapping a child – an unutterably selfish act. You have a duty to your children – you must act in their best interest, not yours.
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:lmao:

Meg? Outzie? Is that you???

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Sneakers said:
Guess we ran in different circles. I used to think about whether or not time travel also has to imply space travel.
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It would have to, wouldn't it? (Presuming you're talking about physical space and not, like, outerspace in a rocket ship)
 
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vraiblonde said:
It would have to, wouldn't it? (Presuming you're talking about physical space and not, like, outerspace in a rocket ship)
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The example I think of: you're sitting in HG Wells time machine. You fast forward 10 minutes. In that time, the earth is no longer where it was, it's a significant distance away. Did you in the time machine also travel via inertia with the planet, or did you simply move in time to the exact point you were 10 minutes ago, floating in space, and continue your inertia from that point forward? If the latter, then calculations for time travel must also include space travel.
 
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Sneakers said:
Guess we ran in different circles. I used to think about whether or not time travel also has to imply space travel.
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What's to think about? They are explicitly linked in pretty much every fictional representation ever. You aren't just travelling to a time, but a time and place.

But here's something to think about, would you keep your "galactic inertia" once the travel is completed? You pop out the far side of the wormhole and are instantly atomized as your body attempts to pass through the earth at some tangential summation of each body moving 1.3 million miles per hour.
 
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Sneakers said:
The example I think of: you're sitting in HG Wells time machine. You fast forward 10 minutes. In that time, the earth is no longer where it was, it's a significant distance away. Did you in the time machine also travel via inertia with the planet, or did you simply move in time to the exact point you were 10 minutes ago, floating in space, and continue your inertia from that point forward? If the latter, then calculations for time travel must also include space travel.
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Okay, I see where you're going with this. When the earth rotates, we rotate with it. If we flash forward any amount of time, staying in the same spot, the spot isn't there anymore because it's moved on without us.

Is that right?

Getting people to time travel to a specific place and time requires more math than I'm capable of, but if it could be done at all anything is possible.

Crichton explained it in a fictional-ish way in Timeline, but it was a beyond my intellectual abilities to really understand. The story itself was good, though.
 
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