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Two Sentence Horrors.
The title should be the first sentence, while the body should be the second.
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In case anyone else was wondering:
"Earth orbits around the sun at a speed of 67,100 miles per hour (30 kilometers per second)."
So 9000 kilometers away in 5 minutes.
But then the milky way spins at around 200-250 km/s, so there's that displacement also.
If a time machine only travels through time and not space, would parts of the time machine travel through time at miniscule differences such that the power source is hundreds of kilometers away from the controls and thus the machine wouldn't work beyond the initial activation?
One final twist on the displacement, the milky way is also being moving away from its origin location of the big bang.
And in a gargantuan coincidence of improbability all these displacement vectors just so happened to cancel out perfectly the time the time machine was activated. Leading to the catastrophe that was the second activation…