Time travel in The Terminator (1 Viewer)

[THENZA]

It's not that complicated, dorks. You just need banana peels, beer, and a car equipped with a flux capacitor that can hit 88 mph.

The rest are minor details.

 

[tenordas]

Consider also that any time travel back or forward into time to your exact location would result in the traveler floating in space, and the whole idea is shot altogether.

Charting the location of planets in time isn't a big deal. The motion of stars and planets is set and has been basically since the beginning. There are many computer programs that track star charts forwards and backwards for centuries, and people were doing it using pencil and paper for hundreds of years (maybe thousands) before that. It wouldn't be that hard to program in location by date, especially considering the basically impossible hurtles that have to be jumped to make an actual time machine.

 

[THENZA]

Charting the location of planets in time isn't a big deal. The motion of stars and planets is set and has been basically since the beginning. There are many computer programs that track star charts forwards and backwards for centuries, and people were doing it using pencil and paper for hundreds of years (maybe thousands) before that. It wouldn't be that hard to program in location by date, especially considering the basically impossible hurtles that have to be jumped to make an actual time machine.

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The rest are minor details.

 

[GrandAdmiral]

Okay so what was going on there? The whole "only organic material can pass through" story runs a bit shallow to me. I mean, do they really HAVE to go through naked?

And before any of you bleeding heart T-800 sympathizers come out with "muh time displacement equipment!" let me pose this to you: How is the time displacement equipment supposed to just know that it's all organic. Like, if you can just wear human skin (like the terminators do) then why don't people just wear stupid fur coats or something.

I don't know. I'm not a scientist. But I feel like there's a better way to figure this out that doesn't involve totally nude time travel.

Seriously, if they're coming through like this, hell yeah they need to take their clothes off. I'm not John Connor.

 

[THENZA]

Seriously, if they're coming through like this, hell yeah they need to take their clothes of. I'm not John Connor.

"Yeah, um... This time machine only works if you go through naked... because science."

 

[TheDeparted]

Charting the location of planets in time isn't a big deal. The motion of stars and planets is set and has been basically since the beginning.

Relative to what?

 

[not2rich]

Charting the location of planets in time isn't a big deal. The motion of stars and planets is set and has been basically since the beginning. There are many computer programs that track star charts forwards and backwards for centuries, and people were doing it using pencil and paper for hundreds of years (maybe thousands) before that. It wouldn't be that hard to program in location by date, especially considering the basically impossible hurtles that have to be jumped to make an actual time machine.

Then what's the hold up? The Scientists need to get on this time travel thing, stat.

 

[crosswatt]

Then what's the hold up? The Scientists need to get on this time travel thing, stat.

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[guidomerkinsrules]

Relative to what?

everything

 

[tenordas]

Relative to what?

Relative to wherever you are in the universe. Especially figuring going from your planet to the same planet. Any star/planet tracking software could figure that without any issue.

Or as Thenza keeps saying: "minor details".

 

[B-Train]

Relatively, perhaps

It's all relative, really.

 

[purvis_guy]

I don't want my relatives time traveling.

 

[Scorpius the Allfather]

Maybe that is what this does...

Doc throws out a lot of scientific terms like "temporal displacement" and "space time continuum" throughout the films. Perhaps all of what you've pointed out is calculated and corrected somewhere in the Delorean's time circuits.

While those movies are great, the 2nd one shouldn't be possible. The first time traveler was Einstein the dog. If you remember, he SKIPPED an entire minute and then reappeared. That means he wasn't on Earth for that minute. So how do you visit your future self? You skipped all those years, you weren't on the planet.

 

[baarbogast]

Why would you want to possibly be out of fashion when you could be naked?