11-11-2018, 09:24 AM | #11 | |
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And if time travel exists, there *should* be bunches of other time travelers around even if this is the first trip anyone has ever made - all the ones from further in the future than you came from are already here right? Try your GPS unit, it might work.
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11-11-2018, 09:33 AM | #12 | |
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Really all I care about is "Hey, I heard a character in a cartoon once calculate the date based on 'star charts'. Does that actually work and how accurate is it?" |
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11-11-2018, 09:46 AM | #13 |
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Re: How do time-travelers calculate the date?
I am bewildered. The sidereal chronolog has a long paragraph on p.24. I'd have thought "central processor and database" "3 8 inch opticak telescopes and 40 square yards of radio sensitive fabric" was fairly specific.
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11-11-2018, 10:17 AM | #14 | |
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Honestly if you have a chart that marks the planets for a particular date, the local astrologer should be able to do the calculation for you and tell you how many years it will be until "the stars are right".
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11-11-2018, 10:27 AM | #15 |
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Re: How do time-travelers calculate the date?
A thing of brass, ebony, ivory, and translucent glimmering quartz. Parts were of nickel, parts of ivory, parts had certainly been filed or sawn out of
rock crystal... One dial records days, and another thousands of days, another millions of days, and another thousands of millions. |
11-11-2018, 10:30 AM | #16 |
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11-11-2018, 10:31 AM | #17 |
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Re: How do time-travelers calculate the date?
Step 1- Figure out which star is the pole star.
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11-11-2018, 11:09 AM | #18 | |
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But looking at the chronolog now, I'm not sure why it needs 3x25lb 8" optical telescopes. Wouldn't just one telescope be enough? It makes sightings of one celestial object, logs its co-ordinates to a spreadsheet, then sights the next object. Three scopes seems excessive (and cumbersome).
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11-11-2018, 11:13 AM | #19 |
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Re: How do time-travelers calculate the date?
I was - messed up my PDF searching.
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11-11-2018, 11:28 AM | #20 |
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