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kurisu

if i go back in time from ireland twelve hours to my current position in space wouldnt i end up in japan? but even to do that wouldnt i have to compensate for the distance the earth travels around the sun? this never seems to be a worry on the telly and if i should have posted this in another forum feel free to tell the moderater

Capt'n Midnight

The Galaxy Song

Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft
And things seem hard or tough
And you feel that you've had quite eno-o-o-o-o-ough
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving

And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour
A sun that is the source of all our power
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned
Are moving at a million miles a day
The sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see
Of the galaxy we call the Milky Way
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars
It's a hundred thousand light-years side to side
But out by us it's just three thousand light-years wide
It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light-years thick
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
We're thirty thousand light-years from Galactic Central Point
We go 'round every two hundred million years
In this amazing and expanding universe

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whiz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know
So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth

PS. our galaxy will collide with Andromeda in about two billion years :eek: