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Aktungbby · 02-08-15, 11:21 AM

1) The universe just got a new speeding ticket.
The most precise measurement ever made of thespeed

of the universe's expansion is in, thanks to NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, and it's a doozy. Space itself is pulling apart at the seams, expanding at a rate of 74.3 plus or minus 2.1 kilometers (46.2 plus or minus 1.3 miles) per second per megaparsec (a megaparsec is roughly 3 million light-years). 2) orbital speed averages about 30 km/s (67,000 mph), which is fast enough to cover the planet's diameter in seven minutes and the distance to the moon in four hours... 3) The Milky Way: We are moving at an average velocity of 828,000 km/hr. But even at that high rate, it still takes us about 230 million years to make one complete orbit around the Milky Way! 4) The earth turns on its axis: a spot on the surface of the Earth is moving at 1675 km/h or 465 meters/second. That’s 1,040 miles/hour. in a 23.93 hr day

Why does my bucket-list include a Ferrari?! when I'm already corkscrewing my way thru the space-time continuum at an astronomic velocity?

Well, I'd look kool

02-08-15, 11:21 AM	#6070
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,160 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	on the true nature of sitting still in my mancave 1) The universe just got a new speeding ticket. The most precise measurement ever made of thespeed of the universe's expansion is in, thanks to NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, and it's a doozy. Space itself is pulling apart at the seams, expanding at a rate of *74.3 plus or minus* 2.1 kilometers (46.2 plus or minus 1.3 miles) per second per megaparsec (a megaparsec is roughly 3 million light-years). 2) orbital speed averages about 30 km/s (67,000 mph), which is fast enough to cover the planet's diameter in seven minutes and the distance to the moon in four hours... 3) The Milky Way: We are moving at an average velocity of 828,000 km/hr. But even at that high rate, it still takes us about 230 million years to make one complete orbit around the Milky Way! 4) The earth turns on its axis: a spot on the surface of the Earth is moving at 1675 km/h or 465 meters/second. That’s 1,040 miles/hour. in a 23.93 hr day Why does my bucket-list include a Ferrari?! when I'm already corkscrewing my way thru the space-time continuum at an astronomic velocity? Well, I'd look kool __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!