I got to thinking, as I do sometimes, about how many miles I have traveled and now much
time I spent traveling. In the past, on some of my year end birthday posts I've posted how many miles this body has gone in reference to space and the amount of time I have spent here.
Engineer's minds think like to contemplate this shit sometimes when we are bored.
So, with the help of google and the magic of math here we go:
56 years time:
672 months
2922 weeks
20,455 days
490,920 hours
29,455,200 minutes
1,767,312,000 seconds
56 years distance:
Being in the northeast, I picked an average for 45 degree latitude and figured the circumference of the earth at that point. I have been revolving around the earth's axis once a day for 20,455 days. The rotation speed of the earth here approx 800mph and in 24 hour time the distance traveled is 17,677 miles. So, I have traveled 361,583,035 miles.
Now the fun starts.
The earth travels around the sun a distance of 584,000,000 miles per year
at a speed of 67,000 mph. Therefore, I have traveled 56 x 584million miles for a grand total of
32,704,000,000 miles around the sun. Wish I had a penny for each mile.
and finally:
Our solar system is traveling through space around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.
We are speeding along at 514,000 mph.
So I have been here for 490,920 hours traveling at a speed of 514,000 mph for a total distance of 252,322,880,000 miles (yes, trillion)
slightly over 10 times the national debt!!
One last thing I looked up. Even going at 514,000 MPH it would take 230,000,000 years for our
solar system to go once around the center of our galaxy. Math is done.
Happy New Years one and all. Thanks for stopping by...
Slainte!
All the best,
Irish
