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Ah I've gotten to the point where I have to define what "frame" and epoch each time base is in before I'll touch the representation of time( Unix,Gregorian, etc) .To be honest I'm probably just scratching the surface of time problem.
Hell probably the reason we haven't seen time travellers is we suck at tracking time and you probably need to accurately know your time and place to a very good precision to travel to a given point and we can't say where and when that is with enough accuracy to facilitate where to land. And people don't want to land in the earth's surface or 10000 km away from a stable orbit. Maybe some writer can build that out for a time travel book or to discount it for some reason lol
I recall a short story like that where someone died because they time traveled, but didn't account for position.
Highly recommended
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PUIxEWmsvI&t=3
Holy crap I wasn't ready for that. Great rec tho
Really good, thanks
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I want little Emily to change her future. A sequel is needed!--
(Thanks for sharing, was a good watch.)
There are... 2 sequels
Good luck finding them though!
There's link in the description, it's just that those are a bit costy ($8 just to watch on Vimeo)
Ouch. Yeah, I don't want to know that badly.