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One other thing to keep in mind is that there is no such thing as a stationary object. It is ALWAYS moving with respect to something. This can sometimes be surprising when you're writing about objects moving at high speeds. For example, if you were flying in a shuttle craft at impulse beside an asteroid moving at several million miles per hour in space it would look to you as though you were just floating there beside the asteroid. In fact though you would both be moving beside each other at an obscene speed. | One other thing to keep in mind is that there is no such thing as a stationary object. It is ALWAYS moving with respect to something. This can sometimes be surprising when you're writing about objects moving at high speeds. For example, if you were flying in a shuttle craft at impulse beside an asteroid moving at several million miles per hour in space it would look to you as though you were just floating there beside the asteroid, and the two of you were stationary. In fact though you would both be moving beside each other at an obscene speed. | ||
This may seem unnatural but think about your current circumstances. If you were standing at the equator of the earth you would be moving in a circle (being dragged along by Earth's rotation) at just over 1000 miles per hour. Not only that but no matter where you are on earth, you're being hurled through space at over 66000 miles per hour because of the Earth's orbit around the sun. You don't notice that because you're stuck to the planet and you inherit its momentum. Forgetting the earth for a moment, the entire solar system (including you) is moving through space at around 560 million miles per hour ([http://books.google.ca/books?id=U4FZp6f6q6MC&pg=PA45&lpg=PA45&dq=milky+way+galaxy+rotates+million+years&source=bl&ots=SRXBmYOdEV&sig=ggVcW5IBX4zmvJbmT86_towlCR0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=MREIUKOGJofa0QHs4aGOBA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=milky%20way%20galaxy%20rotates%20million%20years&f=false]) | This may seem unnatural but think about your current circumstances. If you were standing at the equator of the earth you would be moving in a circle (being dragged along by Earth's rotation) at just over 1000 miles per hour. Not only that but no matter where you are on earth, you're being hurled through space at over 66000 miles per hour because of the Earth's orbit around the sun. You don't notice that because you're stuck to the planet and you inherit its momentum. Forgetting the earth for a moment, the entire solar system (including you) is moving through space at around 560 million miles per hour ([http://books.google.ca/books?id=U4FZp6f6q6MC&pg=PA45&lpg=PA45&dq=milky+way+galaxy+rotates+million+years&source=bl&ots=SRXBmYOdEV&sig=ggVcW5IBX4zmvJbmT86_towlCR0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=MREIUKOGJofa0QHs4aGOBA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=milky%20way%20galaxy%20rotates%20million%20years&f=false]) | ||