Dovetailing off of my blog a few days ago about blogging at Mach 1.3, I wanted to follow up with this posting. What would the speed be of the Earth be if we calculated the time and distance of the Earth's orbit around the Sun.
A quick google search resulted in the following website: http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/the_universe/uts/earth3.html
It appears that we are travelling around the sun at a whopping 67,000 miles per hour. Well, let's do the math again on this. If Mach is 761 miles per hour, 67,000 miles per hour divided by 761 miles per hour that means we are cruising along, doing real estate at Mach 88.
Think about that for a moment. if you read this blog for 5 minutes you would have travelled a whopping 1,116 mile per minute and in five minutes, you would have travelled 5580 miles from where you started. Don't for get about the 16 mph that the earth rotates on it's own axis.
When you place your head on your pillow to sleep tonight, You will never be in that same location again. This is not taking into account the un-imaginable mph orbit of our solar system around the galaxy. I will stop here.
I could just hear it now.
Officer: Do you know how fast you were travelling? My Blog reader: 67,000 miles per hour officer!
