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xkcd #2976: Time Traveler Causes of Death (xkcd.com)

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Many a hungry time traveler has Googled 'trilobites shellfish allergy' only to find their carrier had no coverage in the Ordovician.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 months ago (21 children)

Asphyxiation checks out

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (15 children)

There is no cosmic frame of reference. Earth is moving, the sun is moving, the galaxy is moving, but you can choose any frame of reference within that. It'd be really silly to use the suns frame of reference, you'd use Earth's.

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