Pic of the Day

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    • "The Solar System is traveling at an average speed of 230 km/s (828,000 km/h) or 143 mi/s (514,000 mph) within its trajectory around the galactic center,"grafician
    • The animation exaggerates it.i_monk
    • Sure, it's not 100% accurate, but we can get an idea on how planets really movegrafician
    • not a pic! godamn it grafician!CALLES
    • What is the Matrix?Bennn
    • what are the blue and white sphere at the top and bottom going straight?Bennn
    • ^ probably Neptune and PlutoGnash
    • Looks strikingly similar to my signaturemisterhow
    • Where's Nibiru?Maaku
    • ^Nibiru is just out of frame because it has a very elongated orbitgrafician
    • the violet is that damn Tesla roadster Elon launched a few years agoBustySaintClaire
    • The question is, what is it moving in relation to?Chimp
    • The centre of gravitational mass, which in this case is my balls.Nairn
    • THE MORE YOU KNOWapi
    • Every comment section should be made into a t-shirt, lolMaaku
    • Still not feelin’ anything and no we’re not spinning at constant speedmtch
    • We live on a disk. This is all BS!Bennn
    • Ladies and gentlemen, we're floating in spacejaylarson
    • how is that speed calculated? do they take into account the speed of the galaxy as a whole as well? and of the local cluster? and of the expanding universe?_niko
    • Here's a detailed scientific explanation of the actual motion of the planets: https://medium.com/s…zarkonite
    • https://medium.com/s…zarkonite
    • ah thanks Zarkonite, so taking it all into account, it looks like we're moving at 368 km/s_niko
    • Taking EVERYTHING into account, we're probably 'travelling' at over light speed compared to observers over the rim of the observable universe.Nairn
    • Weeeeeeee!jaylarson
    • It's all relative. Ba-dum-tssssh!monospaced

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