49. It's Moving Very Fast, And So Are You

You've never actually sat or stood still in your entire life. It might feel like you are - perhaps even right now - but nothing could be further from the truth. Planet Earth, and the Sun, and the entire galaxy are constantly moving at speeds that are almost beyond the imagination.

The Milky Way rotates at an incredible 140 miles per second and hurtles across space at 190 miles per second. If you take both speeds and factor them together, that means everyone on this planet is currently flying through the cosmos at 330 miles per second. That means that for every minute you're alive, you travel 12,000 miles through the universe. To give you an idea of how massive that distance is, if you traveled all the way around the world in a straight line, it would be a journey of 24,900 miles. That means every day you've been on a journey the equivalent of 694 world trips!

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