Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 09, 2011

What if they say, “You should know … You invented it, after all!”

Umm… he has a time machine. Called “the Wormhole Express”. And nobody sees the interstellar travel implications?

They also both know an alien. Why don’t they ask him/her/it to tell them how?

Time machines only go back and forth in time, not back and forth in space… unless you’re Dr. Who, I guess.

Did I get back in time? Awe, nuts…..

That’s one possible future reality, then there’s the more likely reality as told in The Time Machine.

As you move through time, the Earth and all objects in the universe will have moved. Your time machine better be able to navigate like a spaceship as well.

I read enough sci-fi in the 50s and 60s to know this wouldn’t work. The half mil would be useless. Now if you read the WSJ in the future (Or the Daily Telegraph for those who like fast action) and put the cash in a growth stock (Mable’s Buggy Wheel 1.25) or a fst horse (Broken Hooves in the 2nd), you’d be rich. Just remember the Market works in strange and mysterious ways.

Here’s the thing – the Earth is constantly on the move -on its’ axis, around the sun, and across the universe, since the sun is alo moving through space. A time machine must also, by definition, travel through space as well in order to match the exact time and space coordinates of the target. Otherwise the time pod would always end up in empty space everytime it moved, simply because the Earth is not at that spot.

Why not send people back in time to right after the big bang when the planets were all close together. Then you could just step back and forth between the planets you liked.

The unkown factor… What if humans abandonedescapist psychology and deemed earth inhabitable? Wellmanaged as a place to live instead of exploitable land fill.Then there wouldn’t be this weeks cartoon. A message from the future?

If Danae has anything to do with it, it would be imp..lode.

to jeffery: Enjoy her now. They grow up, move away and you always wonder about the wild child and what she’s doing. Then you end up on facebook trying to find her and it just isn’t pretty.

I’ll be glad when this arc is over. I haven’t understood either the strip or the comments. Never watched StarTrek, read science fiction, have no idea who Lars is, think time travel is only in movies…..you get the idea of how out of this I am.

Time travel is possible. In fact it is unavoidable.

@anonamoose. As I recall, it was really hot then, you’d probably burn your feet stepping from one to another. Recall from reading, that is. @Tom, have you ever read Robert A. Heinlein’s story “By His Bootstraps”? It has an interesting approach.

I know how to actually use the time machine for such travel, combine it with a spaceship, add some way of going into stasis, travel 4000 years backwards after launching, then wake up in the other solar system the day you started.