• Geek_King@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      With the Earth’s elliptical orbit, momentum would only get you so far in terms of sticking with the planet.

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        3 months ago

        relative to the galactic central point, per Eric Idle, the earth would be 200k/125 miles away in a single second, or relative to everything in the universe / background radiation, it would be 23,000 miles (37,000 km) away in a single second.

        Preserving momentum in different directions and you quickly double it

        Assuming an even rate of death, that’s just under 2 people dying per second currently, so you wouldn’t even be able to see the people who died before or after you if you retained human senses as a ghost.

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          If this were true we could then actually use ghosts to determine the “true” universal reference frame, right?