AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoThe fastest bicycle in history is the stationary bike on the ISS.message-squaremessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up1220arrow-down110
arrow-up1210arrow-down1message-squareThe fastest bicycle in history is the stationary bike on the ISS.AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square9fedilink
minus-squareDannyBoy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up43arrow-down1·8 months agoA bike on the ISS might be doing 27,600 km/h relative to Earth but the bikes on Earth are travelling at 107,000 km/h relative to the Sun. It’s all about perspective.
minus-squareterminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·8 months agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_year Our sun travels about 825,000km/h around in the Milky Way. But take the entire galaxy’s speed into account: https://hypertextbook.com/facts/1999/PatriciaKong.shtml But…then there’s cosmic expansion…where everything is ‘slowly’ approaching light speed+ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_the_universe
A bike on the ISS might be doing 27,600 km/h relative to Earth but the bikes on Earth are travelling at 107,000 km/h relative to the Sun. It’s all about perspective.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_year Our sun travels about 825,000km/h around in the Milky Way.
But take the entire galaxy’s speed into account: https://hypertextbook.com/facts/1999/PatriciaKong.shtml
But…then there’s cosmic expansion…where everything is ‘slowly’ approaching light speed+ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_the_universe