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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 12 July 2015 12:45:36AM 1 point [-]

Any system of time travel in which the traveler does not teleport through time, but instead traverses all intervening time somewhat addresses this. There is an implication that the vessel is held near the Earth by the same gravity that would have held it in place ordinarily. In particular, this was true in Wells's original story. I think that the film Primer addresses this explicitly.