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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's not far from the sign marking the exact latitude and longitude of the Earth's core.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

We’ve done ~20 orbits around the galaxy since then so we’re way the hell away from that spot.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Relative to us, which is how universal position works, we are in pretty much the same place.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Not to mention the galaxy was moving too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Is that why I'm dizzy all the time?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And the universe is expanding

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm starting to get a little motion sick...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Don't worry due to your inertial reference frame you can't tell anything is happening.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Must have been a lot of Dramamine going around before Einstein invented that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I wonder how they got it into their cake holes before Newton finally brought us all to the ground by inventing Gravity.