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Originally Posted by multiweb
 And I thought it was a very simple orbit. Sounds more like the merry-go-round from hell.  I new that the ecliptic plane was fairly square with the galactic plane but I had no idea how far up and down we went. So we're doing the hoola hoop basically, flying through nasty stuff occasionaly. It's just amazing the earth is still ticking along relatively unaffected by the sound of it. Well except some measly extinction event now and then wiping 70% of biodiversity. But they were all seafood at the time weren't they? Frogs and snails. That kind of stuff  |
Actually, the ecliptic plane and the plane of the solar system is tilted at about 50 degrees to the plane of the Galaxy. The Earth is hardly unaffected, we just don't see it because of the timescale on which everything occurs and the degree to which things are preserved in the geological record.