Playing it safe, the scientist decided to set the time machine to go back just five minutes into the past for his first test. (lemmy.zip)

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Seconds later, his dead corpse floated through space, reflecting in his lifeless wide open eyes the blue planet slowly approaching.

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[-] Zozano@aussie.zone 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

One final twist on the displacement, the milky way is also being moving away from its origin location of the big bang.

[-] underscore_@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 months ago

And in a gargantuan coincidence of improbability all these displacement vectors just so happened to cancel out perfectly the time the time machine was activated. Leading to the catastrophe that was the second activation…

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

the origin location of the big bang

And that location is... ? :)

[-] moopet@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

gestures vaguelly

[-] Zozano@aussie.zone 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Minor correction: changed 'the origin location' to 'its origin location'

Wherever the blue shift stops when measuring cosmic background radiation I suppose.

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

I still take issue with the wording "the milky way is also being moving away from its origin location of the big bang". The milky way isn't moving away from its origin location, everything else is.

[-] Zozano@aussie.zone 1 points 3 months ago

And from every other point of reference, the milky way galaxy is moving away from it.

And then also, everything within the milky way is moving away from itself.

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