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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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[–] Norgur@kbin.social 25 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Uhm ackchually Earth has been moving through space all this time, so this isn't the place, it's just the atoms which did it.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 25 points 10 months ago

Which referential are you picking? Is it better than Earth?

[–] teft@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Not to mention the galaxy was moving too.

[–] Blum0108@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Is that why I'm dizzy all the time?

[–] Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And the universe is expanding

[–] Bonehead@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Confused_Emus@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Norgur@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

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

[–] lauha@lemmy.one 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Relative to earth, it is that place.

Unless you are pretty far up autist and "relative to universe" is only coordinate system you know :)