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Our solar system is moving at 828,000 km/hr orbiting the center of the Milky Way

Posted on 5/16/15 at 8:10 pm
Posted by Stacked
Member since Apr 2012
5675 posts
Posted on 5/16/15 at 8:10 pm
And at that high rate, it still takes us about 230 million years to make one complete orbit around the Milky Way.

Damn space, you scary.
Posted by LanierSpots
Sarasota, Florida
Member since Sep 2010
61583 posts
Posted on 5/16/15 at 8:20 pm to
Don't even care. Cant absorb that



So i just drink

Posted by TT9
Global warming
Member since Sep 2008
82952 posts
Posted on 5/16/15 at 8:23 pm to
My sentiments exactly.
Posted by TRUERockyTop
Appalachia
Member since Sep 2011
15812 posts
Posted on 5/16/15 at 8:24 pm to
Incredible
Posted by Roger Klarvin
DFW
Member since Nov 2012
46505 posts
Posted on 5/16/15 at 8:35 pm to
But God cares about what you do with your penis
Posted by Tiger n Miami AU83
Miami
Member since Oct 2007
45656 posts
Posted on 5/16/15 at 8:35 pm to
Yeah, too much for my lil brain to understand.

Cheers to the weekend and adult beverages though.
Posted by Rebel Land Shark
Member since Jul 2013
30162 posts
Posted on 5/16/15 at 8:36 pm to
Space is a very empty place
Posted by TbirdSpur2010
ALAMO CITY
Member since Dec 2010
134026 posts
Posted on 5/16/15 at 9:09 pm to
MPH or GTFO :spanked:



Incredible trying to wrap one's mind around that
Posted by Stacked
Member since Apr 2012
5675 posts
Posted on 5/16/15 at 9:17 pm to
okay okay

828,000 kph = 514,495.3 mph
Posted by Rebel Land Shark
Member since Jul 2013
30162 posts
Posted on 5/16/15 at 9:25 pm to
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But God cares about what you do with your penis


Christian logic
Posted by AUCatfish
How are yah now?
Member since Oct 2007
13995 posts
Posted on 5/16/15 at 9:57 pm to
Posted by Kentucker
Cincinnati, KY
Member since Apr 2013
19351 posts
Posted on 5/17/15 at 12:35 pm to
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Space is a very empty place


Not at all. Even space that isn't occupied by visible matter and energy is stuffed with dark matter, dark energy, neutrinos, the Higgs Field and Higgs Boson, the Supersymmetry partners of ordinary particles and many other exotic particles that we haven't yet detected but that we know exist according to the Standard Model of particle physics.
Posted by blue_morrison
Member since Jan 2013
5113 posts
Posted on 5/17/15 at 12:45 pm to
At the center of the milky way is deez nuts.









Posted by scrooster
Resident Ethicist
Member since Jul 2012
37593 posts
Posted on 5/17/15 at 2:19 pm to
Yeah, the size of space, our universe, is mind boggling.

Understanding it begins, first and foremost, with coming to grips with the speed of light beginning with 186,000 miles per second.

Once that sinks-in, everything else will eventually follow. It almost breaks-down like the metric system from there.
Posted by Nuts4LSU
Washington, DC
Member since Oct 2003
25468 posts
Posted on 5/20/15 at 9:42 am to
quote:

it still takes us about 230 million years to make one complete orbit around the Milky Way.


So, in its entire existence, our solar system has only made about 20 orbits around the galaxy's center. The sun will be dead by the time we make another 20 or so. In those terms, the life of the solar system seems short.
This post was edited on 5/20/15 at 9:44 am
Posted by FairhopeTider
Fairhope, Alabama
Member since May 2012
20759 posts
Posted on 5/20/15 at 9:52 am to
I think about these kind of things when Alabama loses a football game. "You know, letting Auburn ruin our chance at history by returning a field goal for a touchdown isn't that big of a deal when you consider the size of the universe...."
Posted by spacewrangler
In my easy chair with my boots on..
Member since Sep 2009
9745 posts
Posted on 5/20/15 at 10:14 am to
Catfish bringing the Monty Python reference FTW !



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 it's bugger all down here on Earth


Read more: Monty Python - Galaxy Song Lyrics | MetroLyrics
Posted by Pavoloco83
Acworth Ga. too many damn dawgs
Member since Nov 2013
15347 posts
Posted on 5/20/15 at 11:55 am to
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828,000 kph = 514,495.3 mph


Damn, thank you.

Friggin kilometers. This is merica.
Posted by Pavoloco83
Acworth Ga. too many damn dawgs
Member since Nov 2013
15347 posts
Posted on 5/20/15 at 11:57 am to
quote:

I think about these kind of things when Alabama loses a football game. "You know, letting Auburn ruin our chance at history by returning a field goal for a touchdown isn't that big of a deal when you consider the size of the universe...."


Posted by Cheese Grits
Wherever I lay my hat is my home
Member since Apr 2012
54620 posts
Posted on 5/20/15 at 12:10 pm to
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AUCatfish


So can we have your liver?
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