Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Relativity












The earth is  24901 miles in circumference.



One complete spin per 24-hour day



so, people standing still, on the equator



are traveling at a rate of




1038 miles  per hour.




If they were facing east they could put their arms out



like in the Titanic movie and feel the wind in their face










The earth is  90 million miles from the sun



Pi R squared to calculate circumference of circle or orbit


makes 25434 million miles in the orbit


divided by 365.25 days in a complete orbit /year


makes 70 million miles a day  OR


earth traveling at a rate of 2.90 million miles an hour

























So here we are, traveling almost 3 million miles an hour, spinning through space
Standing on a planet where we're spinning a thousand miles an hour
and, as exciting as that can be, most humans... right... now... are... watching TV.