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Alexstarfire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

I’d be dead since the Earth wasn’t in the same position 650 years ago. Even taking that out of the equation, I’d die since I can’t communicate with anyone and don’t have the survival skills.

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Probius@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Actually, position and velocity are relative, so that’s a nonsensical statement without defining a reference object for the Earth’s position. If we’re not assuming you end up safely on dry land, you could just as easily end up light-years away as wherever you were relative to the sun.

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- isyasad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Actually 🤓 if we use the sun as our reference, they could not be light years away and would in fact be relatively close to the Earth, the distance being at most the diameter of Earth’s orbit, which even at most is less than 20 light minutes.
  
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dotson@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
ah, someone who understands that celestial bodies change spatial positions with time… nice

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