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To: BenLurkin

This is the part that fascinates me about astrophysics. Everyone always thinks of the sun just sitting there and we’re rotating around it, but in fact we’re all moving relative to the Milky Way at extreme velocities... you would think that eventually the “drag” of dust would cause the planets to fall behind.... and how did they all get up to momentum together .... and why aren’t all those asteroids and Kupier belt objects falling behind....

It’s just fasicinating such a complicated creation.


76 posted on 08/30/2017 10:41:50 AM PDT by reed13k
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To: reed13k

Sounds a bit like Monty Python’s Galaxy Song from The Meaning of Life...


84 posted on 08/30/2017 11:00:56 AM PDT by homegroan (Ambition can creep as well as soar.)
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To: reed13k

To quote the well used you tube rant: “Its gravity!!!!!!!!”


94 posted on 08/30/2017 1:25:28 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: reed13k; BenLurkin
but in fact we’re all moving relative to the Milky Way at extreme velocities...


101 posted on 08/31/2017 1:34:54 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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