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Revelation34 posted...

How would a car get into space if it started on a planet?

Because the planet isn't where it was anymore relative to when you left. The entire solar system has fucked right off by thousands upon thousands of miles relative to when you left your initial point in time space.

Even if you jumped just a few minutes the point in time space has moved considerably. Depending on which side of the planet you were on relative to it's orbit around the sun, you'd either have the misfortune of popping out several miles into the Earth's interior or several miles above it, and that's not even taking into account the movement of the entire solar system within the milky way, or the movement of the entire milky way within the local group, etc.

If you're already in deep space when you make a time jump, yeah the odds get much higher of at least "getting somewhen and somewhere", but if you're on a planet with some kooky machine I don't think it's gonna work the way literally all fiction portrays it.