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12853470 No.12853470 [Reply] [Original]

I know this is biz, but did you realize that earth and everything else is actually just orbiting the earth as it is flying through space in one direction with no brakes? We aren't just circling a stationary object here.

>> No.12853475
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12853475

yeah but we probably wont crash into anything r-right

>> No.12853484

How the fuck does that work? The stars in the sky are traveling the same directions? Why don't they get smaller or shift if we're all careening through space randomly? And how do asteroids catch up to us?

>> No.12853499

>>12853475
Of fucking course we won't, dude. There's nothing around us for hundreds of miles and even if there was, you can figure out the likelihood of collision based on the relative motion of the objects. Nothing's going to freaking hit us.

>> No.12853511

>>12853499
thats what the dinosaurs though. it has literally happened before

>> No.12853517

Do you have any idea how space works? It might be only a few hundred miles but it's dark as shit in space, it's just vacuum. We can barely see anything in that range. That's why we can't see any planets or stuff around stars because only the stars make light. It's like the ocean, there could be something lurking right near us.

>> No.12853521

>>12853511
Dinosaurs didn't have radar and nukes and a scrappy team of oil drillers, dumbass. Did you even watch Armageddon? We have what it takes to win.

>> No.12853543

>>12853517
The sun is near us, dumbass, which is how we see other planets and comets and shit. Also we have radar which works even better than the fucking sun.

>> No.12853583

frens are in urgent need of Astronomy 101
>not an altcoin, btw

>> No.12853939

>>12853484
Can someone answer why the stars haven't disappeared yet or how they stay the same size if we're flying away from them?

>> No.12853946

>>12853543
radar actually reflects off the sun which acts as a large mirror. if a space object is made of mirror it wont be detected. source. phd physicsicists

>> No.12853983

Those stars probably aren't there in anymore. Just the light from many moons ago

>> No.12853993

>>12853475
aren't we hitting hundreds of tiny things a day? they just burn up

>> No.12854010
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12854010

there's a lot of stupid fucking people in this thread

>> No.12854037

>>12853946
fud. kys

>> No.12854229

I wasted my daily brain cells reading this shit

>> No.12855599

The big problem is that the moon is coming closer with each rotation and will drop down like a satellite that has no fuel