• Chainweasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    20 days ago

    See backwards in time from the exact location I’m standing.
    How did the Egyptians build the pyramids?
    I’ll just visit Egypt and take a look back in time and see.

    • palordrolap@fedia.io
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      20 days ago

      Location is problematic. The Earth rotates, moves through space and the continents move. Even if you manage to compensate for the first two, where you’d need to be in the present to see what you want to see in the past is almost certainly not going to be where you think it is.

      • torch_and_blanket@sopuli.xyz
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        17 days ago

        It’s not really a problem. The colloquial reference frame definitely does not move through space, and the continents don’t move fast enough to pose a problem. Just fix the reference frame to whatever’s underfoot and everything works how you would expect.