Gravitational pot...
Yeah man. I had some of that once
couldn’t move for hours!!!
And then was I Hungry!!!
Fascinating. Thanks for posting. HOORAY Caleb A. Scharf
And what about the local cluster? Well, we’re all being pulled in the direction of what is called the Great Attractor, which I don’t like the sound of.
I’ve traveled a bunch of light years in my 52 years.
Rotation on the surface of the earth, Orbit around the sun, wandering with the solar system, rotation around the galaxy, galactic movement through the universe.
That adds up to a crapload of miles.
We'll have to make the best of things,
It's an uphill climb.
The Earth orbits the Sun at the rate of about 66,000 miles per hour. That’s roughly 18 miles per second.
Are we there yet?
I’m still trying to understand, if we’re ‘physical’,
how can there NOT be an end to the universe
Our own galaxy is so big that, even if we could travel at the speed of light (186,000 miles/sec), it would still take us about 100,000 years to go from one end to the other. And there are believed to be galaxies so distant it would take 13 or 14 billion years to get there at that same speed.
Interesting.
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 there’s bugger all down here on Earth
So according to the theory of relativity, how much older would we all be if we were stationary and not moving throughout the universe at ~627 km/sec?
A little thanks to the gift giver might be appropriate.
Oh yeah, right. How are we supposed to do all that on the back of a turtle?
An interesting New Year’s Eve thread.
Thanks for posting.
Just slow it all down enough so I can get off.
Oh, I almost forgot, thanks for all the fish!
Obammymammy would disagree with that, he's the center of the universe, everything revolves around him. He said it, it must be true.
I’ve always been bothered when watching science-fiction movies about time travel, because of us bobbing around the Universe through time. If one travels backwards through time, the Earth will most certainly not be in the same position in the Universe. A hapless time-traveller will find themselves marooned far from Earth. (Unless you’re Dr. Who in the Tardis, which can relocate in space as well as time!)