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Domochevsky
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Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 2:54 am Post subject: New Year's Special |
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You can never go wrong with huge Explosions. 
However you can go wrong with Timelines... to get back to "Yesterday" you would have to go West, not East. (Since you substract Hours as you get further West, as depicted by the GMT)
First i entered the new Year (GMT+1), then America (GMT-6 to -8 ).
... but i assume that was intentional.   |
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The Author
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Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 11:12 pm Post subject: Re: New Year's Special |
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| Domochevsky wrote: | However you can go wrong with Timelines... to get back to "Yesterday" you would have to go West, not East. (Since you substract Hours as you get further West, as depicted by the GMT)
First i entered the new Year (GMT+1), then America (GMT-6 to -8 ). |
See, that's how abstract-ish the whole concept is - it is true that you're racing the clock when you're moving west, but to get to yesterday you have to move in the opposite direction, as the Professor did.
If Lillytown is at GMT -7, and the Professor would have flown west, he *would* have gained time (assuming he was flying fast enough) - but at most 5 hours, until he reaches GMT -12 (5 hours earlier than his local time). If he had continued west from there, crossing the dateline, he would then suddenly have been at GMT +12 (19 hours later than his local time), thus *losing* 24 hours! His only chance to get to yesterday was traveling east as fast as possible, and crossing the dateline west-to-east, i.e. from GMT +12 to GMT-12, gaining a full 24 hours minus the time he spent getting there. Of course, the real trick is explaining it all to the shockwave and the wall of flame.  |
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Domochevsky
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Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 12:17 am Post subject: |
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| So he flies to tomorrow to get back to today? Genius! |
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Alexander
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Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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Which means Superman did actually go back in time and save the world! It was not a lousy pseudoscience but actual factual B-movie science!
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Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 5:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Yup, that's what the Professor would have tried next: reversing the direction of Earth's rotation - hey, he did it before, just for kicks. |
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