Kookie215@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-210 months agoIf I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed?message-squaremessage-square287fedilinkarrow-up1258arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up1250arrow-down1message-squareIf I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed?Kookie215@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-210 months agomessage-square287fedilinkfile-text
Its the 14th century and you’ve had no time to prepare, after you’re done reading this post you are snapped. What do you do?
minus-squareSendMePhotos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up30arrow-down2·10 months agoScientifically speaking, the earth is constantly moving in an upward spiral. Your exact physical location would put you in some random outerspace area without oxygen or any protection. Just floating in space until you die.
minus-squareJackGreenEarth@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·10 months agoScientifically speaking, there is no absolute reference frame. So you can be wherever you like depending on what reference you choose.
minus-squarepebbles@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·10 months agoHow do you define upwards in space? North? Or maybe normal to the orbit and vaguely north?
minus-squarewhotookkarl@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up28·edit-210 months agoI think they mean forward wrt the direction the sun is moving relative to the galaxy, like this:
Scientifically speaking, the earth is constantly moving in an upward spiral. Your exact physical location would put you in some random outerspace area without oxygen or any protection. Just floating in space until you die.
Scientifically speaking, there is no absolute reference frame. So you can be wherever you like depending on what reference you choose.
How do you define upwards in space? North? Or maybe normal to the orbit and vaguely north?
I think they mean forward wrt the direction the sun is moving relative to the galaxy, like this: