r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/StemCellPirate • 13h ago

Video Earth’s evolution measured in galactic years.

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u/sjayvee 12h ago

I feel so stupid.. the sun has an orbit?!

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u/jtcompound 11h ago

Unrelated, but if you had a ship with unlimited fuel and traveled at 9.8m/s2, to simulate earths gravity, it would take you about 20 years to reach the center of the milky way. After around three years you would reach 99.99% the speed of light and light. Just over 26,000 years would have passed on earth.

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u/sjayvee 11h ago

I need to watch Interstellar again lol

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u/jtcompound 11h ago

I imagine when you got there, there would already be a human colony in place

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u/SaltyTemperature 10h ago

And they’d have travelled faster than light, and be amused at the old timey chemical rocketship and dated tech showing up