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Have you ever stopped to consider…?

• We live on a planet that is spherical in nature.
• Our Earth spins at a speed just over 1,000 miles per hour.
• It takes it 23 hours 56 minutes 04.09053 seconds to make one complete rotation.
• Earth orbits the sun at a velocity of 67,000 miles per hour, taking about 365 days to complete a single orbit.

Do you feel like you’re going in circles?
... ... ... But at least you’re going really fast.

Benthoven 8 Nov 12
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Who hasn't considered this? I wanted to be a astrophysicist when I was a kid.

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Add to that, that we are located in one of the arms (Orion) of a spiral galaxy the is movíng at over a million miles per hour.
If you trace out the path of earths travel in space, what you get are spirals not circles.

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Reminds me of the Dave Letterman quote "we're hopelessly lost, but we're making good time!".

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Sounds like a Monty Python Song.

BD66 Level 8 Nov 12, 2018
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42...the answer is 42

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We took it out for a spin, and it kept on spinning.

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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 eno-o-o-o-o-ough,
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at 900 miles an hour.
It's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned,
The sun that is the source of all our power...

Jnei Level 8 Nov 12, 2018

OMG... One of the best Python songs ever... Right under Every Sperm is Sacred.

@Benthoven I rate this one as The Best!

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Ahh The Circular Theory.

When I'm old, with dementia, I will regress to my child-like ways, and crawl back into the womb; completing my circular life.

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Sounds like a night on very nice brandy!

Tequila more likely. 😉

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But wait, I thought it was FLAT!! You mean....

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Nope. As is anything in the physical world...it is all relative

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Honestly no, I don't think about it much, as I have absolutely no control over all this spinning !

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And the sun is rotating around the center of the galaxy, taking all of us along for the ride.

Embrace the circle. 😉

At about 18 miles per second if I remember it right.

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