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"As the Earth lies at an average distance of 93 million miles from the sun, it must travel some 584 million miles in a year. In other words, we on earth are whipping along at 67,000 mph."
"Our world completes one full rotation on it's axis every 24 hours. That means that a point on the equator must whirl at nearly 1,100 mph to cover a distance of 26,000 miles every 24 hours."
The closest star to the earth other than the sun, proxima centauri, lies some 26 trillion miles away.
Have you ever noticed which way you are oriented? Which way your mental map
always puts at the top? For me the top is never north. Even though I know
which way north is when I look through my lense it is rotated 180 and South
is at the top of the page. At least while I am in Richmond. I think as I
move farther from home the map rather quickly switches to the top being
North (I prefer to look at my maps with north at the top, and I prefer to
look at my maps before I travel) but when I am home there is something
grounding me. What grounds me is home. Not where I have lived for 2 years
but where I grew up. I live about 40 minutes North of where I grew up and
whenever I visualize where I am West is on my right.
I spend 40 hours a week facing Southwest at my desk.
Probably 50 or so facing out into space with my feet faced to the North.
The couch and my favorite chair face East.
Sitting on the patio I face West.
Eating at my table I face South.
Go to the mirror, look in it, and say to yourself three times you and me got some thinking to do, then tell me there is not two things standing there looking back at each other.
As Vonnegut asks in timequake...
Art? Or not?
http://us.mobile.reuters.com/m/FullArticle/p.rdt/CTOP/ntopNews_uUSTRE50H1WG20090119
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Surging shoppers kill New York Wal-Mart worker
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A man working for Wal-Mart was killed on Friday when a throng of shoppers surged into a Long Island, New York, store and physically broke down the doors, a police spokesman said.
This actually isn't photoshoped. The germans (of course) built it for a massive excavation...according to the internets...
