r/RedDwarf

I'm pretty sure Blake Harrison appeared in it, but can't track it down

i've noticed it for a few weeks now. it's a steady little tap tap tap on the gutter outside my window, super quiet but perfectly even, almost like someone gently dropping a coin into a tin cup at regular intervals. rain makes it louder, wind makes it slower, and on dry nights it almost disappears until you realize you miss the rhythm. at first i thought it was annoying and tried to figure out what was loose or broken, but now i leave the window cracked on purpose just to hear it. it's become the background sound that tells me the neighborhood is settled and most people are already asleep. funny how something that small can make a place feel more like home once you stop fighting it.

A while ago I mentioned that a thought (that was later solidified thanks to a fanfic i was reading) that Rimmer is too much a stickler for the rules to let something like a drive plate be repaired badly. Earlier today I was thinking about the fact that Hollister knew about the 'faulty drive plate repair' long enough to call Rimmer to the Drive Room, wait for him and then haul him over the coals about it. If he had that time and he knew that the plate could be a problem, why didn't he evacuate the engineering levels and seal them down.

We know Holly sealed the cargo decks against the blast and the radiation, so why didn't Hollister do the same thing to the rest of the ship in the more than thirty seconds he had between learning of the plate's condition and the blast. He could have saved most of the crew that way, I get that Rob and Doug needed a reason for the accident and to make Rimmer less sympathetic in the beginning, but the more and more I think about the whole drive plate plot device, the less it makes sense.

This debate has scrambled the brains of my boyfriend and I. The argument is If Time travel and teleportation are essentially the same things? Teleportation = WHERE changes. Time travel = WHEN changes. That being said
Both can happen at once = WHERE + WHEN changes

My argument:
Example: It is Texas 2026 and I want to live 1950 New York. I would TIME TRAVEL there. This is just time traveling bc I want to live 1950 New York, I didn’t teleport there just TIME TRAVELED. Of course I changed setting when I traveled back in time.

Boyfriends argument: Time traveling and Teleportation are the same thing in a sense

Example: For example, if I'm in my room right now and I wanna time travel one hour into the past where I was in the kitchen, theoretically that changes my location, so it's like teleporting.

The definition of time traveling and teleportation essentially changes the meaning of them both. I would like to see what y’all think about this argument, it has been very fun!