hydroptic

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Oh yeah, like an observation platform. That's probably the only way you'd be doing time travel anyhow since it's also space travel because the Earth now isn't where the Earth was 200 million years ago; doing an atmospheric re-entry across time when you're not 100% sure where exactly everything will be sounds like an occupational health hazard and inadvisable at best. Gods fucking help you if anything goes wrong and you violently scatter pieces of your fancy time machine across a few square km of densely populated (by animals including genus Homo) area.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 9 months ago (14 children)

Or you shedding some of your microbiome's bacteria and fungi into the environment and whoops: they outcompeted something "local" and now whole species change.

I honestly don't think there'd be any way to avoid doing something that could possibly change the future in a dramatic way, because that far back incredibly minute changes could possibly lead to huge differences (because chaos theory), to the level of "a butterfly didn't flap its wings because I accidentally squashed it with my time machine, and now humanity never happened. Oops." But any change that means you didn't ever go on your trip means you have some sort of paradox on your hands, and then it becomes a question of how timelines work

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Hey I said wrong answers only

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

The power of WORM compels you

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

tagged this post NSFW

Not Safe for Worms?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Heeeeere wormy wormy, nice wormy. I have some spice for you

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Usul has called a small one! Again, it is not the legend

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Yeah, the problem with stolen source code is that you can't really use it for much except maybe developing modding tools, and even then you can't say out loud that you used the source and didn't reverse engineer shit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I'm your plastic pal who's fun to be with

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I wonder how much of SpaceX's success has happened not because of Musk, but despite him

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Share and enjoy

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not sure how many diehard Musk / Tesla fans even believe in climate change

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