Talk:3251: Time Machine Conversation
Spoilers for boats. 64.201.132.210 21:25, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
The barman says "Sorry, we don't serve time-travellers". A time-traveller walks into a bar. 81.179.199.253 21:31, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
Before explanation/transcript --OceanLord (talk) 21:38, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
Cool I’ve never been early enough to see an explanation-less comic also help me I’ve never commented before did I mess it up :( 73.148.10.13 (talk) 21:47, 27 May 2026 (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
- You messed up slightly -- you forgot to sign your comment with 4 tildes. Barmar (talk) 21:48, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynesian_navigation Sebastian --88.217.185.170 21:50, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
i think it should be "this page was created in the past" not "this page was created in the future". im changing that (its more like present here cause its 22:15, 27 May 2026 (UTC))
"'North Star'? I guess I'm not familiar with that. What's a 'north'? ... Primary direction, you say? So it's the direction the sun appears every morning?" 2604:2D80:AB87:B700:5456:ED28:D284:B682 23:08, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
- They would have been quite familiar with the fact that the Little Bear remained in the same direction all night every night. Though, to avoid confusing them, remember that during the Iron Age, the polar point in the sky would have been closer to Kochab (Beta Ursae Minoris) rather than Polaris (Alpha Ursae Minoris) RegularSizedGuy (talk) 03:43, 28 May 2026 (UTC)
People had been tracking the sun for thousands of years - building megaliths and celebrating solstices, I am sure they had concepts of direction. Lodestones are noted in Greek writing and may have been known earlier. Long distance navigation was also solved in the Bronze Age, in fact you cannot have bronze without shipping tin or copper from one of the few known mines. Definitely no more than a C for History.
92.19.86.70 06:39, 28 May 2026 (UTC)
Surely they would understand the concept of things, like food, being spoiled? Dogman15 (talk) 00:16, 28 May 2026 (UTC)
