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.
This thread is intended to provide a space for 'crazy' ideas. Ideas that spontaneously come to mind (and feel great), ideas you long wanted to tell but never found the place and time for and also for ideas you think should be obvious and simple - but nobody ever mentions them.
This thread itself is such an idea. Or rather the tangent of such an idea which I post below as a seed for this thread.
Rules for this thread:
If this should become a regular thread I suggest the following :