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Originally Posted by BillyMac
Stationary? It's all relative. My little corner of Connecticut is rotating, east to west, at a speed of 700 miles per hour, while we're all on a planet moving at a speed of 67,000 miles per hour around our closest star. Is you head spinning yet? Anybody need any Dramamine?
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Well, actually... (physics major, remember!
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Given that the earth is actually only 24,901 miles around, the equator is moving at just over 1037.5 miles per hour.
At 41.6 degrees latitude, you've moving at 74.77980905% of that - or 775.87 mph, just around the center of the earth. So you're moving that fast, sometimes WITH the 66486 mph, sometimes against. Like the car at the end of the spinning arm of the Octupus ride.
If that's not enough, the sun is moving around the galaxy at 514495mph., with our revolutions and rotations sometimes adding, sometimes subtracting.
NOW you need dramamine.