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My computer crashed when i was only half way finished with my opening post and it took about ten minutes for me to fix it...modern day progress?...but its completed now and i added in some more velocities...
Originally posted by Foxe
Throw on that the Galaxy itself is moving about 1,342,161.78 miles an hour in it's own direction.
Originally posted by Holodomor
The answer is: Yes, we are moving at those speeds.
However, remember that time and space is relative, and that velocity is greatly more so depending on your perspective.
For example, the earth moving at 1000 mph as it rotates on its axis is pretty much completely unnoticeable due to the mass of the earth in comparison to your body. Mass of the objects that are moving affects the objects in motion, I believe this is part of the theory of relativity.
I hear what your saying and i know exactly what you mean...
Originally posted by massiveffect
It might be because everything else is moving around the same speed also. Think of it as if your driving on the freeway at 70 mph and you pass another vehicle that is going 65 mph. If your looking at only the other vehicle and not the road or backgraound if will seem your only moving acouple Mph. Not sure if the same applies to Celestial body's but thats just my two cents.
Originally posted by blocula
I hear what your saying and i know exactly what you mean...
Originally posted by massiveffect
It might be because everything else is moving around the same speed also. Think of it as if your driving on the freeway at 70 mph and you pass another vehicle that is going 65 mph. If your looking at only the other vehicle and not the road or backgraound if will seem your only moving acouple Mph. Not sure if the same applies to Celestial body's but thats just my two cents.
But the fact remians,supposedly,that the earth,with us and everything else on it,our solar system and the entire galaxy are all moving at many thousands,hundreds of thousands and millions of mph...
And so while driving down that highway at 70 mph,stick your hand or head out the window and its very obvious that your moving fast...
The earth is spinning really fast,while orbiting very fast through a solar system thats traveling extremely fast around a galaxy thats moving mind bendingly fast...
Yet when we're outside both day and night,it looks,feels and seems like theres very little movement, almost like nothings moving at all..
And all those white and grey clouds just hanging up there in the sky,the oceans and you and i are not all just effortlessly blown away into space,even though we're actually and ultimately moving at a speed of 2,237,000 mph through the universe?!?!edit on 22-3-2012 by blocula because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Dashdragon
Originally posted by blocula
I hear what your saying and i know exactly what you mean...
Originally posted by massiveffect
It might be because everything else is moving around the same speed also. Think of it as if your driving on the freeway at 70 mph and you pass another vehicle that is going 65 mph. If your looking at only the other vehicle and not the road or backgraound if will seem your only moving acouple Mph. Not sure if the same applies to Celestial body's but thats just my two cents.
But the fact remians,supposedly,that the earth,with us and everything else on it,our solar system and the entire galaxy are all moving at many thousands,hundreds of thousands and millions of mph...
And so while driving down that highway at 70 mph,stick your hand or head out the window and its very obvious that your moving fast...
The earth is spinning really fast,while orbiting very fast through a solar system thats traveling extremely fast around a galaxy thats moving mind bendingly fast...
Yet when we're outside both day and night,it looks,feels and seems like theres very little movement, almost like nothings moving at all..
And all those white and grey clouds just hanging up there in the sky,the oceans and you and i are not all just effortlessly blown away into space,even though we're actually and ultimately moving at a speed of 2,237,000 mph through the universe?!?!edit on 22-3-2012 by blocula because: (no reason given)
We're also moving through a vacuum, which by definition means there really isn't any friction to blow away anything like the passage of the air outside your car would.
Originally posted by blocula
Something about this outer space speed is not making much sense...again...that 3-dimensional, holographic, super computer generated simulated illusion is rising to the surface of extreme possibility...againedit on 22-3-2012 by blocula because: (no reason given)