Talk:2976: Time Traveler Causes of Death

How'd I do for my first 'explanation?' I know it's short...Onestay (talk) 17:56, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

I added to it. It's a good start. 172.69.134.191 17:57, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

Please sign your comments Onestay (talk) 18:01, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

How's this 127.0.0.1 18:24, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

added a table 42.book.addict (talk) 18:20, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

Shouldn't there be a thin line for "meteor" just below "trampled", if the time traveller lands during the Chicxulub impact event? Barmar (talk) 18:56, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

Probably a mistake on Randall’s part. He might correct it later (he’s updated other comics before), but unless you have a magic red telephone that reach his personal number right now, all we can do is wait (or add it to the Explanation/Trivia). 42.book.addict (talk) 19:20, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

I didn't think that the Cryogenian Ice Age was cold enough to be an immediate threat to a typical human, especially if that human was wearing winter clothes, just a long-term threat (mostly due to food). 162.158.41.68 21:09, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

Given asphixiation issues could be avoided by taking along appropriate breathing apparatus (and other life-saving solutions may exist for other periods), or just by not leaving your 'tardis' machine (with its airtight door, as hinted at, which may only be a problem if you can't open it again upon return), I think we're talking of essentially unprepared travel to these other times.

Maybe without a machine (or without taking it with you, given the comic indicating there is one). Not realising what you're walking into, like stumbling through a swirling time-wedgie or being blasted through time, might be the primary reason to become a time-traveler. And the everyday Joe that finds themselves doing that out of ignorance is mostly unlikely to have been pre-prepared for any such trip.

Or otherwise explain the stuck-door of the 'now-ish' era as being you generally would survive most now-ish trips (assuming you didn't do something like land in WW2 directly under a bomb or become captured by people who would be highly suspicious of your digital watch and your lack of valid id), or not actually going anywhen at all, then your death causes could be headlined by something really trivial like being stuck in a cupboard that forms the basis of the time-machine. (Or a wardrobe... Which I wouldn't put past being Randall's actual reference, on past form.) 172.69.43.174 22:50, 23 August 2024 (UTC)