Over at Information is Beautiful, David McCandless has created this fantastic chart of all the major time-traveler timelines showing how they might fare against each other. Unfortunately, the Time Lord himself (Doctor Who) was omitted to preserve our sanity, but it’s still a fantastic chart.
David McCandless created this visualization as part of his upcoming book of chart porn, The Visual Miscellaneum. Here, he charts the temporal paths of different TV and movie time travelers (Doctor Who was omitted for the sake of sanity, though he hasn’t ruled out making a separate chart for the Time Lord), and, just for fun, imagines what might happen if time travelers who landed in the same year happened to meet up (I suspect that, despite his ingenuity, Marty McFly would not fare well against the Terminator). McCandless did feel that his research revealed one key deficiency in time travel stories: nearly all time travel journeys he mapped originate and land between the years 1900-2100.
Information is Beautiful via A Twirling Timeline of Fictional Time Travel – Chart porn – io9.
