As the Year Ends
Figure I'll try to get one more post in for the year! Hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas, and I wish you a Happy New Year.
Here's something you may find interesting to contemplate. As I type this post, sitting here at the computer, I'm traveling east at nearl 750 miles an hour. That is simply a rough guess of the Earth's rotational speed where I live. We are in the vicinity of 45 degrees north, and my quick figuring shows a rotational distance o f17.900 miles. Divide that by 24 and you get 746 some odd miles, the speed I'm currently traveling. Those of you closer to the equator would be going faster, roughly 1,000 miles per hour, or more simply because you travel farther in a 24 hour day, roughly 25,000 miles. Mean while, Santa, Mrs. Clause, the elves, and reindeer are hardly moving at all. It still takes them 24 hours to rotate about the earth's axis, but they are following a track they can walk in mere seconds.
Then have you wondered how fast the earth is travelling around the sun? Consider it's 93,000,000miles from here to our star, and the diameter of earth's orbit would be twice that. Compute the circumference of the orbit, divide by the number of days in a year and then divide by 24 for distance earth travels each hour. Hard to believe we are traveling that fast and yet have no sensation of it. Or could it be that we are not moving, but that everything else moves in relationship to us?
Here's to a great 2024, and I hope I'll be able to stick with a better routine and schedule of posting in the coming year.
DAe
Here's something you may find interesting to contemplate. As I type this post, sitting here at the computer, I'm traveling east at nearl 750 miles an hour. That is simply a rough guess of the Earth's rotational speed where I live. We are in the vicinity of 45 degrees north, and my quick figuring shows a rotational distance o f17.900 miles. Divide that by 24 and you get 746 some odd miles, the speed I'm currently traveling. Those of you closer to the equator would be going faster, roughly 1,000 miles per hour, or more simply because you travel farther in a 24 hour day, roughly 25,000 miles. Mean while, Santa, Mrs. Clause, the elves, and reindeer are hardly moving at all. It still takes them 24 hours to rotate about the earth's axis, but they are following a track they can walk in mere seconds.
Then have you wondered how fast the earth is travelling around the sun? Consider it's 93,000,000miles from here to our star, and the diameter of earth's orbit would be twice that. Compute the circumference of the orbit, divide by the number of days in a year and then divide by 24 for distance earth travels each hour. Hard to believe we are traveling that fast and yet have no sensation of it. Or could it be that we are not moving, but that everything else moves in relationship to us?
Here's to a great 2024, and I hope I'll be able to stick with a better routine and schedule of posting in the coming year.
DAe