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Old 25-10-2009, 07:55 AM
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If time travel was at all possible we would be inundated with tourists from the future.
You'd think! ... unless they were cloaked...


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The equator moves at about 1600 km/hour due to the Earths rotation. 0.5 km/sec
The Earth goes around the Sun. 30 km/sec
The Sun orbits the Galactic centre. 250 km/sec
Our galaxy is moving relative to other nearby galaxies. 300 km/sec
Our local group of galaxies are moving relative to others. ?>300 km/sec
I wonder what our actual linear velocity is on any chosen vector? I'd be some "carrier" landing to get back to, spinning like we do as a planet within a spinning solar system within a spinning galaxy within......
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