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How fast is the earth moving?
Scientific American ^ | 26 Oct, 1998 | Rhett Herman

Posted on 01/09/2016 6:12:50 PM PST by MtnClimber

Consider the movement of the earth's surface with respect to the planet's center. The earth rotates once every 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.09053 seconds, called the sidereal period, and its circumference is roughly 40,075 kilometers. Thus, the surface of the earth at the equator moves at a speed of 460 meters per second-or roughly 1,000 miles per hour. As schoolchildren, we learn that the earth is moving about our sun in a very nearly circular orbit. It covers this route at a speed of nearly 30 kilometers per second, or 67,000 miles per hour. In addition, our solar system--Earth and all-whirls around the center of our galaxy at some 220 kilometers per second, or 490,000 miles per hour. As we consider increasingly large size scales, the speeds involved become absolutely huge!

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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: aristarchus; aristarchusofsamos; catastrophism; cbr; earth; heliocentric; heliocentricity; heliocentrictheory; leo; xplanets
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To: dr_lew

Well, I don’t know. You could jump off with a stopwatch and time it till I come around again:)


41 posted on 01/09/2016 7:59:50 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Not fast enough. January 20th, 2017, just get here already!


42 posted on 01/09/2016 8:03:25 PM PST by Vision Thing
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To: MtnClimber

Here’s to hoping that Hillary’s world comes to a screeching halt very soon


43 posted on 01/09/2016 8:06:06 PM PST by hsrazorback1 (...and I'm spent.)
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To: wally_bert

Nice video. Jaguars recently have had a reputation of being a handfull near the limits. I have been looking at cars lately. Eliminated any of the Maseratis since none are nearly as fast 0-60 as my 2013 Audi S6 (3.7 sec). I have been looking at the Mercedes AMG-GTS, Porsche 911 Turbo and McLaren 570S. Have not had any hands on with the McLaren, but like it alot. That new Ferrari 488 GTB looks interesting, but have not seen price yet.


44 posted on 01/09/2016 8:08:08 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Just a few months ago I was out in the backyard and I jumped up to pick an apple off the tree, and when I came down I was in Indiana.


45 posted on 01/09/2016 8:27:40 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: taterjay

EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


46 posted on 01/09/2016 8:52:01 PM PST by Cats Pajamas
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To: freefdny
the Great Attractor which is pulling the Milky Way and all else towards it at the terrific speed of 14 million mph.

After unknown amount of years traveling at 14 million MPH, one would think that by now we'd be getting closer to the source of attraction causing the pull to be stronger and increase the speed of travel and SPLAT!

47 posted on 01/09/2016 9:04:06 PM PST by varon (Obama is a tumor.........)
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To: varon

The sun will go supernova and cook all the planets in about 4 billion years. The Andromeda galexy will collide with our Milky Way galexy also in about 4 billion years. The collision with the Great Attractor is farther out than that so why worry?


48 posted on 01/09/2016 9:14:29 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber
I should have said that the cause of CBR is a theory.

Maybe you should have said it, but you didn't, did you?

You missed your chance.

49 posted on 01/09/2016 9:53:04 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: dr_lew

Wow, are you my wife? That is how she talks to me. Don’t try to boink me, I have a CCW and always carry. I don’t know what is wrong with you, but you really stink! Please don’t contact me again. And stop drinking.


50 posted on 01/09/2016 9:59:38 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: winodog

The Earth, while spinning (rotating) is traveling “sideways” as it revolves (orbits) around the Sun. Our axis is slightly tilted in relation to the plane of our orbit (hence, the seasons). Our axis always points, just about, to the North Star, Polaris. Of course there are many bodies in our solar system each with its own rather fixed path. But our solar system, with all its moving parts, is headed toward where Leo currently is (because our solar system supposedly is circling the Milky Way which itself is moving towards where Leo currently is). We can say our solar system is “circling” the Milky Way Galaxy because they tell us that we are on an outer edge of the Galaxy and that the Galaxy is spinning. But, the Andromeda Galaxy is in the path of the direction we are moving, so we will collide with it before we reach whatever will be in the direction of where Leo currently is.


51 posted on 01/09/2016 10:11:04 PM PST by HandyDandy (Don't make up stuff. It just wastes everybody's time.)
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To: MtnClimber

And all of this is undetectable by the average couch potato. ;-)


52 posted on 01/09/2016 10:16:45 PM PST by r_barton
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To: HandyDandy

But there is so much space between stars that spiral galaxies colliding have different planar momentums and become giant eliptical galaxies. These have no spiral shapes, but become football shaped with no regular orbital pattern. One would expect head-on collisions of stars with the random orbits which could be in opposite directions resulting in tremendous collisions.


53 posted on 01/09/2016 10:28:39 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber
If anyone had gone up to the lobby outside the Blue Room, he would have found something other than fear that barred his way-an almost physical resistance. If he had succeeded in forcing his way forward against it, he would have come into a region of tingling sounds that were clearly not voices though they had articulation: and if the passage were quite dark he would probably have seen a faint light, not like fire or moon, under the Director's door. I do not think he could have reached the door itself unbidden. Already the whole house would have seemed to him to be tilting and plunging like a ship in a Bay of Biscay gale. He would have been horribly compelled to feel this earth not as the base of the universe but as a ball spinning and rolling onwards, both at delirious speed, and not through emptiness but through some densely inhabited and intricately structured medium. He would have known sensuously, until his outraged senses forsook him, that the visitants in that room were in it not because they were at rest but because they glanced and wheeled through the packed reality of heaven (which men call empty space) to keep their beams upon this spot of the moving earth's hide. -- C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength
54 posted on 01/09/2016 10:59:43 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: MtnClimber

All nice toys and all way outside this working person’s pocketbook.

A 2016 Tacoma is enough. Besides I’d probably get killed in anything built for real speed.


55 posted on 01/10/2016 4:30:02 AM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: MtnClimber

Just the right speed - as God intended.


56 posted on 01/10/2016 4:50:15 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: MtnClimber
The collision with the Great Attractor is farther out than that so why worry?

You're right. One SPLAT is just as good or bad as another, depending on how you look at it..........

57 posted on 01/10/2016 4:51:27 AM PST by varon (Obama is a tumor.........)
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To: MtnClimber

Yesterday is tomorrow..


58 posted on 01/10/2016 5:05:15 AM PST by Bikkuri ((...))
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To: MtnClimber

Hope I’m not alive to see it ;^)


59 posted on 01/10/2016 5:05:56 AM PST by Bikkuri ((...))
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

“There IS no spoon”...


60 posted on 01/10/2016 5:07:06 AM PST by Bikkuri ((...))
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