r/DamnThatsMindBlowing 1d ago

Mind blowing facts about space

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u/Wait_ItGetsWorse 1d ago

'We're all moving faster than a speeding bullet''

Average bullet speed is 1600 km/h

Our solar system is travelling at 828,000 km/h

So no shit we're moving faster than bullet. Roughly 500 times faster.

u/Ninja_Prolapse 1d ago

Relative to what tho? If speed is always relative, how do we know the solar system is moving at any speed at all?

All genuine questions - I have enough knowledge to know I know very little about relativity!

u/Dangerous_Bid_2695 1d ago

Relative to the center of the Milky Way.

u/Muted_Dinner_1021 1d ago

The milky way is also moving 😅

u/Ninja_Prolapse 1d ago

I wonder how fast that’s moving..

u/Dangerous_Bid_2695 9h ago

Yes it is. Everything is. So what?

u/xXAnoHitoXx 19h ago

It's simply for the sake of convenience math that the earth is moving relative to the milky way galaxy. From our POV we are stationary, the milkyway galaxy and the solar system is moving relative to us. Their path and vellocity is just not as conveniently calculated like the model where we are moving.

Physic simply picked a frame of reference that make coming up with the theory describing the motion the easiest. With the simplest math.

u/BadgerAwkward 20h ago

Well, no. If we apply solar speed to ourselves then we must also apply it to the bullet. Solar speed + stationary < solar speed + bullet speed

u/Bluitor 1d ago

Well the bullet would be moving at 828,000 + 1600 km/h so we're still going slower than bullets

u/Aero-- 1d ago

Unless you shoot the bullet the other direction

u/NoAppointment8679 1d ago

Space just melts my brain, it is so so hard for me to grasp

u/GregBuckingham 21h ago

Firmly grasp it

u/EenRandNoot 14h ago

With Both hands

u/SciFiCrafts 1d ago

Moving damn fast, through the galaxy and is that not one more nail in the coffin of timetravel? You'd have to meet the exact point in space and time.

u/Curry_courier 1d ago

And we never reach anything. We'd probably die if we did.

u/conanhungry 1d ago

đŸŽ”Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour It's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned A sun that is the source of all our power The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see Are moving at a million miles a day In an outer spiral arm at forty thousand miles an hour Of the galaxy we call the Milky WayđŸŽ”

u/Puzzled-Interest2748 1d ago

So if the sun is just moving through the galaxy bringing us all along for this ride, how are we always seeing the same star constellations? Wouldn’t we be seeing new “galaxy space” if that were the case?

u/BubblyWasabi6488 1d ago

Really enlightened to see the vastness of space

Our earth is but a speck of grain of sand in the great Sahara if analogy of space to Sahara is used

u/Chozzasaurus 1d ago

Ok bot

u/VanillaAdventurous74 1d ago

Also, the entire solar system oscillates up and down as it races through the galaxy.

u/Pretend-Internet-625 1d ago

yes faster than a speeding bullet and more powerful than a locomotive. But not to good at leaping.

u/NinaCR33 1d ago

This is oddly terrifying

u/Temporary_Energy_756 1d ago

Plot twist: the sun revolves around the earth.

u/Suitable-Display-602 1d ago

This guy has the perfect voice for this shit , he could blow our minds marketing the i phone 18 out soon too !

u/Dangerous_Bid_2695 1d ago

Just like the landscape moves around a speeding car.

u/LeonTrollski1 1d ago

Speed is entirely relative. Is your frame of reference the sun, another star, the Galaxy, our Local Group? All different.

u/minatozuki 1d ago

so where is the sun going? some blackhole or meeting his gf ?

u/bluemesa7 22h ago

Arizona

u/DaimonHans 1d ago

Anyone surprised?

u/jefuchs 1d ago

Just about everything I see about space is limited to how big it is. We get it -- it's really really big. Surely there are other things to know about it.

u/Uneek_Uzernaim 23h ago

And they are all moving in relation to one another while also moving along with the movement of the galaxy itself.

u/LowerBed5334 22h ago

A "speeding bullet"? Someone got their Superman references mixed up.

u/PriorityNew1562 21h ago

So wait a minute

..first you say the space between the Earth and Moon is large enough to fit ALL planets in the solar system between. But then go to state the space between Neptune and Uranus is large enough to fit Mercury-Saturn. So then the space between us and the moon is greater than the space between those two yet they were framing it as though that space was the most impressive.

u/Puzzleheaded_Dot_225 5h ago

Can we stop for a second? I need to pee.

u/ogeytheterrible 3m ago

That last part of the video is misleading, we're only inclined about 60°, not 90° as depicted.

u/Sir_Slimestone 1d ago

Not particularly mind blowing, everyone older than 6 knows that the distances between celestial bodies are very large. This is like being told that the sky is blue. It should also be fairly obvious that sun is moving since literlaly everything else is, ofc orbital mechanics apply at a galactic scale.

u/PeachHonv8 1d ago

its more about appreciating the scale not being surprised by the concept itself

u/Spaceygirl84 1d ago

Lies... the sun and moon are local

u/AnyDragonfly9819 1d ago

That’s enough bullshit for me this morning

u/blackcatwizard 1d ago

Do you mean...facts/information?

u/knewmawnick 1d ago

The earth’s gravity isn’t that strong to cover a distance to hold the moon that far away. If it were, it would have atleast several other moons in orbit like Jupiter. This is slop