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 Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 12:54 pm
Apparently we're constantly moving, according to Wikipedia, at 108,000 kilometers per hour around the sun.
Less rounded sources seem to put it at about 107,300 kilometers per hour.
Both are in the ballpark of we're moving hell of fast.
In comparison, a quick search tells me that the supposed record for air travel was 3,529.6 kilometers per hour. Which would mean that at all times during the year, the people of earth are moving thirty times faster than the fastest jet is capable of.
According to Nasa, the earth is also rotating at a point where anyone on the surface of the planet at the equator would be constantly going 1000 kilometers per hour.
I find it to be quite astounding how we can be constantly moving so fast, yet we don't notice it.
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Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 8:22 pm
Now if only we could exceed the speed of light, in order to travel back in time. emotion_awesome
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Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 4:41 am
Foam-Dome Now if only we could exceed the speed of light, in order to travel back in time. emotion_awesome Who says we haven't already? I don't think anyone can say how quickly we circle around the galaxy's core.
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Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2013 11:32 pm
Divine_Malevolence Foam-Dome Now if only we could exceed the speed of light, in order to travel back in time. emotion_awesome Who says we haven't already? I don't think anyone can say how quickly we circle around the galaxy's core. Not at the speed of light, that's for sure.
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Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2013 12:58 am
Foam-Dome Divine_Malevolence Foam-Dome Now if only we could exceed the speed of light, in order to travel back in time. emotion_awesome Who says we haven't already? I don't think anyone can say how quickly we circle around the galaxy's core. Not at the speed of light, that's for sure. Who's to say? The circumference of the galaxy is massive and the amount of gravitational pull necessary to keep things as large as stars in orbit from a distance of 500,000 light years away could easily add together to force something to move faster than 300 million meters per second.
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Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 6:28 pm
Divine_Malevolence Who's to say? The circumference of the galaxy is massive and the amount of gravitational pull necessary to keep things as large as stars in orbit from a distance of 500,000 light years away could easily add together to force something to move faster than 300 million meters per second. . We're orbiting around the center of the Milky Way at approximately 828,000 kilometers per hour, and the diameter of the Milky Way (although not necessarily all galaxies) is around 100,000 light-years.
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Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 6:48 pm
Foam-Dome Divine_Malevolence Who's to say? The circumference of the galaxy is massive and the amount of gravitational pull necessary to keep things as large as stars in orbit from a distance of 500,000 light years away could easily add together to force something to move faster than 300 million meters per second. . We're orbiting around the center of the Milky Way at approximately 828,000 kilometers per hour, and the diameter of the Milky Way (although not necessarily all galaxies) is around 100,000 light-years. .... Dayum that's fast tho.
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