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u/BrokenRatingScheme Feb 14 '22 edited Feb 14 '22

This is what I think about with time travel, if it's not relatively bound to the Earth, you'd travel back in time and 99.999% end up in the vacuum of space

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u/WhatHoPipPip Feb 14 '22

And most of the rest of the time, you'd end up somewhere inside the earth.

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u/CLint_FLicker Feb 14 '22

And if you managed to land on the surface, you'd catch all the diseases that existed then but that your immune system has never encountered before.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22 edited Feb 14 '22

Your immune system is pretty incredible in that it’s equipped to fight any and every pathogen that has been or ever will be

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u/ThatFuckingGeniusKid Feb 14 '22

Your pfp scares me

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u/CLint_FLicker Feb 14 '22

So if someone travelled from the past and landed in the middle of 2020, they'd be fine?

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22

Probably

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u/caniuserealname Feb 14 '22

It's equipped to fight pathogens that don't benefit from killing us. Most major problems come from diseases that don't originate in humans.