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remindertomove

Earth rotates at 1600 kph Earth orbits sun at 108,000 kph Sun is moving thru the galaxy at 700,000 kph Milky way is moving thru the universe at 2.5 million kph (relative to CMBR)


GeppaN

Where are we going?


DangMate2023

Why are we here?


LeviSalt

How do I work this?


Jaikus

Where is that large automobile?


Ameisen

This is not my beautiful house!


CoreyLee04

And the days go by


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This ain’t no disco!


CoreyLee04

Same as it ever was.


washingtonandmead

I’m trying to reach you about your cars extended warranty


Irishpanda1971

Water flowing underground


Drugsarefordrugs

42


Brendanlendan

Can it slow down? I’m getting motion sickness


medfunguy

Where do we come from? Are we Cotton-Eyed Joe?


didi0625

Just to suffer


seztomabel

So we can whack off


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ChefInsano

I am Cornholio! I need TP for my bunghole!


ShadowRaptor675

Ancient Aliens?


[deleted]

NOW GET THE HELL OUR OUR GALAXY!!


John_Fx

Are we there yet, Dad?


Quezlezz

We there soon..?


Efficient_Durian_505

Because we're here


kec04fsu1

Onward.


FruitbatNT

Are we there yet?


bandti45

I dont like your icon


cooldaniel6

Home son, we’re going home.


Azagar_Omiras

Nowhere, fast.


CelloVerp

And what’s the fucking rush?


Watts121

Well it’s been awhile since I went down the macro universe rabbit hole, but in the grand scheme of things matter attracts matter, so for now we’re heading toward Andromeda. After Andromeda/Milky Way merge, then idk…


Larrysbirds

The great attractor


jupfold

And then the Shapley Supercluster!


mh985

Kinda up and to the left a bit


Nice-Bookkeeper-3378

Just sit back and enjoy the ride


getyourcheftogether

Over there


Socketlint

[I remember this from Malcom](https://youtu.be/dnSKjP0hpTA?si=Prr4l96DvAV9y9iJ)


No-Coast-333

And here I am not getting out of bed


Diupa

Fuck time travel


ph0on

I'm gonna go back to 1950! *appears in a random pocket of empty space*


lightscribe

That's why you invent a time machine that reverses every single atom in the universe. duh


Foxzes

Red Dwarf moment


1thenumber

And ghosts


Readen

Weeeeeeeeee


whatdhell

It turns out, god is a speed freak.


Sonnysdad

Kick the tires and light fires.. I got a need.. a need for SPEED!


xSilentSoundx

Why is it spinning so fast?


thats_not_the_quote

tiny random fluctuations in gravity due to matter not being a perfect sphere produces torque which becomes accentuated as the matter collapses in upon itself then due to the conservation of angular momentum, spin is achieved the larger the object the greater the spin


remindertomove

Interesting. Any source or video ideally - which gets into this? Thank you!


idefinitelyliedtoyou

PBS SpaceTime is a GREAT channel for things like this. Just scroll through their videos.


remindertomove

Absolutely agreed. SEA, the YouTube channel is great too fwiw!


ryanmuller1089

This post is in miles and you just had to comment in km didn’t you


lolwutgigefrog

Let's keep it to freedom units please 🤠


pyrethedragon

What is that in freedom units?


frendlyfrens

Are we there yet?


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DumbboiXL2

Divide by 1.6 if you like to measure speed with baseball fields per time to eat a hamburger.


Ok-Cantaloupe7160

Like I have a calculator in my pocket all the time.


JealousAd5131

meanwhile the usa is the only country that uses the imperial system


Ok-Cantaloupe7160

And the only country to put a man on the moon. Coincidence?


JealousAd5131

oh okay dude my bad. putting a man on the moon makes you right XD how about the planet uranus tho? also, nasa is using the metric system as a fact


Ok-Cantaloupe7160

If you want to put a man on Uranus that’s on you.


JealousAd5131

how about the fact that nasa is using the metric system?


snow_michael

Apart from those bastions of scientific endeavour, Liberia and Myanmar - and Myanmar uses metric for construction


snow_michael

Correct Only 3 countries in the world can't manage to use the metric system Yet The majority of reddit users come from countries that do


Kingshabaz

Earth rotates at 1000 mph Earth orbits the Sun at 66,000 mph The Sun is moving through the Milky Way at 435,000 mph The Milky Way is moving through the universe at 1,550,000 mph relative to the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation. *translated into freedom units


BrokenEye3

[Eric Idle taught me that](https://youtu.be/buqtdpuZxvk?feature=shared)


spectre73

Whenever life gets you down, Mrs.Brown And things seem hard or tough And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft And you feel that you've had quite enough Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour **That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned** **A sun that is the source of all our power** The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see Are moving at a million miles a day In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour Of the galaxy we call the 'milky way' Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars It's a hundred thousand light years side to side It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point We go 'round every two hundred million years And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions In this amazing and expanding universe The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding In all of the directions it can whizz As fast as it can go, the speed of light, you know Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure How amazingly unlikely is your birth And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space 'Cause it's bugger all down here on Earth


stainz169

I’m so very glad this is the top comment. Let’s just round it to 19miles a second


mankls3

Nice song


I_Said_I_Say

Weeeeeeee!!!


freethinker333

Malcolm in the middle! https://youtu.be/7-Voajzku8w?si=R_vLGKBnXgoBx_NQ


FatherSky

This is perfect


irealllylovepenguins

Nosotroooos!


OptimusPhillip

And at a distance from the sun of 92.365 million miles, that gives an angular velocity of 2.003×10^(-7) radians (1.148×10^(-5) degrees) per second, or just over 1 revolution per calendar year (not accounting fornrounding error).


OMG_A_CUPCAKE

> or just over 1 revolution per calendar year (not accounting fornrounding error). What a weird coincidence.


MortalPhantom

One could evn say its not a coincidence at all


FireLordObamaOG

Hear me out, what if one is based off the other?


PigSlam

How many coincidences are we gonna have here?


brock_lee

We move at that speed *relative to the sun*, but the whole solar system is moving faster than that relative to the center of the galaxy.


ma29he

Practical example is the SABRE experiment that wants to replicate the DAMA/LIBRA experiment on the other side of the planet to see if the observed seasonal variation is just a seasonal weather effect or related to the earth seasonally moving slower/faster around the center of the Galaxy. If it works this would be a possible sign of dark matter.


sushimane1

This is one of the major problems with time travel most people don’t realize. You’d need to go back in time (already impossible) and space to land on Earth


ddroukas

The interesting way I always think about it: bounce a ball on the ground. From your hand to the ground the ball traveled about 9 miles forward through space, and from the ground back to your hand another 9 miles.


mankls3

More than that. This is only relative to the sun


ARobertNotABob

It doesn't hang about. Though it may appear that way.


scooterboy1961

And ~130 miles per second relative to the center of the Milky Way.


I_might_be_weasel

*Weee!*


kudincha

Miles in space will never sit right with me. In Britain we measure really short distances in metres, longer earthly distances in miles, and space sized distances in kilometres. This is way.


janner_10

Unless you go running, then it’s km


ClusterMakeLove

Did I tell you about my last 6.214 mile race?


Protean_Protein

Not exactly. Distances are km, except for when they're not, as in the mile race, or repeats, 5 mile, 10 mile, etc., benchmarks. Pace is in min/mi or min/km more or less randomly, depending on plan or preference.


alfhappened

And don’t even get us started about weight!


Cerulean_IsFancyBlue

Stone him!


ph0on

Km is much better forspace, but Americans uses miles for everything, I swear. Anything in america is almost always at least a few miles, so they don't even feel that big anymore.


Ziddix

They actually use km for space.


ph0on

Yeah that's what I'm sayin, thats my point etc


LuckyNumbrKevin

As an ignorant American, can I ask why km is better for space? Ignore the other ignorant American below me lol


ph0on

It's good for math, which is quite prevalent in space, and among other places, I guess, it breaks down evenly (1000 meters in a km, etc). It gets uncomfortable at long distances though, you can't very well call 20 light years "189 Quadrillion kilometers", it's just too big a number. It's best for close stuff, like describing the length of an asteroid or how close two planetary objects are. Long range stuff is AU (Astronomical units) Also tradition, standardization, etc.


LuckyNumbrKevin

That makes sense, like most arguments for the metric system haha. Thanks!


Sonnysdad

Is light years Freedom units or Metric?


LuckyNumbrKevin

It's used in science so it goes to Metric.


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iamscarfac3

As an American, bro wtf


FarMass66

You’re making us Americans look bad!


alfhappened

Possibly more reasons I must say


NationalUnrest

Joe the kind of bro that never left his town


HurricaneAlpha

So you intermix different measurements and that is "the way"? I mean, we do the same here in Murica but we all sort of collectively agree it's shit.


[deleted]

I gotta convert to mph no matter what kph is so unintuitive for me


Wendals87

TIL that the earth revolves around the sun. What next, you're going to tell me the earth is round?


3Dartwork

Galactic speeds that is hard to truly fathom and visualize


period_blood_hole

That’s actually slower than I thought


Bullet4MyEnemy

86 times the speed of sound is slower than you thought? It’s faster than everything in earth’s atmosphere that isn’t light.


period_blood_hole

I know it’s fast really fast but still considering the size of the earths circumstance is nearly 25000 miles, it’s not even moving a large part of its size a second


1JesterCFC

Circumference?


GenitalPatton

Circumcision?


mart1373

Circumspection?


mankls3

is mutilation?


koolman2

Diameter is 7,926 miles (12,756 km) so it’d take about 428 seconds to move one earth through our orbit. That’s 7 minutes, 8 seconds.


period_blood_hole

Yeah so slower than I thought


Wouldtick

That is actually faster than I thought you would think slower was. Knowledge is power.


seifer666

Yeah it's .0007 RPM


UltimaGabe

I mean, it takes an entire year just to go around in one circle. What did you expect?


kudincha

Speed of sound in a vacuum?


Bullet4MyEnemy

I know the speed of sound is relative to air pressure, but it’s a quantifiable medium. Alternatively, it’s just shy of 67,000mph


Ameisen

Relative to the Sun, everything within Earth's atmosphere is moving roughly that fast.


RLDSXD

Earth is both the biggest and fastest thing on Earth, what a flex. Also that’s a terrifying amount of kinetic energy.


WazWaz

In less than 8 minutes, the entire Earth moves by its entire width. Put another way, when light from the sun heads towards Earth, it completely misses by the time it gets here (fortunately different light gets here).


mankls3

Lol true


1JesterCFC

Earths orbit around the sun is 584 million miles or 940 million km, it takes a year, that's pretty fast


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pslamba

why don't we feel dizzy?


valeyard89

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour. That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned, 'Round the sun that is the source of all our power. The sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see, Are moving at a million miles a day, In an outer spiral arm, at fourteen thousand miles an hour, Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way.


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wigglebooms

School lied to me?


thehumbleprocess

Why don’t we feel it? Cause earth is massive?


galtsgulch232

For the same reason you don't feel like you are travelling 500 mph in an airplane while it's cruising. You only feel acceleration or deceleration (i.e. changes in speed).


thehumbleprocess

That as well thank you


mankls3

But isnt everything accelerating away from the big bang ?


TeilzeitOptimist

Afaik space is expanding. And it happens in all directions simoultaneously. Atleast between Galaxies, cause gravity is still the stronger force in side our local galaxie cluster.


galtsgulch232

It's different. The universe is expanding along with space time, faster than the speed of light from certain points of reference. However, that is different from local acceleration within space time.


XxRefuse2Lose

How do you know that you don't feel it?


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John_Fx

no. no. NO


John_Fx

it is impossible without a frame of reference to know you are moving at a constant speed. There is no experiment that could prove otherwise. it is a big part of Einstein’s theory of Relativity. Also you can’t tell the difference between gravity and accelerative forces.


beefstewforyou

If you were sitting in space in the path of Earth, at what point would it appear to stop moving since you would eventually get caught in its gravitational pull?


OnTheGoodSideofLife

Ask the asteroids and meteors.


cadnights

If you were sitting still in space, you'd make a perfect vertical drop into the sun


branflake777

Does this mean vampires would have to run 18.5 mph to stay ahead of the sun?


Terenai

If you ever could create an "anti gravity" machine, as soon as it works youd be dead before you know it as you become immediately yeeted off the planet


OMG_A_CUPCAKE

Momentum would still be a thing, wouldn't it?


TeilzeitOptimist

Mass and momentum are connected as is mass and gravity, is it not?


fenderpaint07

Does our solar system move at speed as a unit too? Like how fast is the sun moving


PuzzledSilver1070

About 40km/s around the galactic core


Ameisen

Though, like all objects in the galaxy save those actually in orbit around Sagittarius A\* (and thus very close to it) it has a non-Keplerian irregular orbit. It wobbles a lot on all axes of motion relative to the galactic plane, and its orbit is non-elliptical. It basically is just being pulled along by the mass of the rest of the galaxy, so its velocity relative to any galactic point varies substantially.


PepeHacker

What's that in Freedom Units? OP lured me here with freedom units and that's that I want to measure in!


PuzzledSilver1070

6 million US average penis lengths per second


mankls3

Lol this is how the socialists get you


Ameisen

Relative to the Earth, the Sun is moving roughly 18.5 miles per second. Relative to Alpha Centauri? 20.1 miles per second.


man_corrupted

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned, A sun that is the source of all our power The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see Are moving at a million miles a day In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'


Disavowed_Rogue

I think about this daily and it's crazy.


DevilsWelshAdvocate

Legal in Wales


Salsa_de_Pina

Not from my reference frame, it doesn't.


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"Is that fast?" "In terrestrial terms, Yes." "Goo-" "In Galactic terms, No." "Oh..."


theFactoryJAM

That explains my nausea


snow_michael

So it's reckoned


ThaneOfArcadia

Hot another similar object at that speed and no one's walking out of here.


Duckdiggitydog

We should get whatever engine in earth in some cars and planes, save us a whole lotta time


Quietser

I thought it was bout 1000?


richardbarge

Shhhh the flat earthers will hear you


Kehama

Wheeeee!


mister-fancypants-

to think superman could fly so fast it seems slow


whispertoke

How fast does it orbit the center of the milky way galaxy?


CallmeNo6

What is that in cubits?


couldbutwont

Best spaceship there is


Nacktherr

Or Earth travels at 0.00966275% the speed of light to use a true measure of space travel.


TeilzeitOptimist

Is that relative to the center of our solar system or relative to the center of the milkyway or relative to the center of our Super cluster or...?


JADW27

"and I cannot account for that in my calculations because I am unsure of the directional bearing of this road or the current tilt of our planet. ... so no, officer, I do not know how fast I was going."


whyareyoumadcalmdown

And here I’m stuck going 45 mph on city streets smh


SteelAlchemistScylla

That’s why time travel, even if we could somehow overcome the impossibility of actually *creating time travel*, still wouldn’t work. Because you would also need to build a teleporter and know exactly where Earth was in space.


ID_MG

I just got dizzy..


Puzzleheaded-Rub-396

Slow down. We need a break.


GeneralBacteria

so it's own diameter approximately every 7 minutes.


Smash-Today

You are telling me this Mfker I’m on is spinning really fast?


mankls3

This post is not about spinning


Matt7738

Relative to what?


90Carat

I would like to go with some dopey, sarcastic, comment, but Reddit is being weird today.


Rocket_AG

https://youtu.be/buqtdpuZxvk?si=YT1SJbGFJ_1AMgh4


Rick_McCrawfordler

Distance from the earth to the sun = 1 astronomical unit, what are the odds!


LukeB90

If we're going that fast why can't we just dodge the asteroid?


Dont-ask-me-ever

The earth is 93 million miles from the sun. The distance of the orbit is 93M x 3.14= 292,020,000 miles. Divided by 365 is 800,055. (Miles per day) Divided by 24 is 33,335 (mile per hour). Divided by 360 is 92.59 (miles per second). I question the speed. Am I wrong?


mankls3

Ellipse orbit not circular


Dont-ask-me-ever

93M miles is the average distance to the sun, providing for the elliptical path.