[StrictDabbler]

There's an Isaac Asimov story from the 50's that I wonder if you've read. It's called "Blank!"

In the story the scientist takes a friend forward 22 hours, but outside the time machine door there's nothing. Total darkness.

The friend asks if the scientist forgot the movement of the Earth and the galaxy, but the scientist assures him that no, that motion has been accounted for.

Instead it appears they've arrived between quantum periods, stuck forever out of phase with ordinary time like an elevator stuck between floors and frozen by the lack of momentum.

I ask because that's the first story I read that drew attention to needing to travel in space to keep up with the planet.

[rdtsc]

Thanks for the suggestion, I was not aware of "Blank!".

What inspired me to write the comment is was thinking about time travel and how people in movies and stories seems to always materialize on a nice level surface, somewhere in a building with the their feet exactly on the floor, in a nice meadow outside the city, on a sidewalk etc. Then, remembering how earth and galaxy move through space I thought how extremely hard would be to get a safe set of future spacetime coordinates to land on.