• @[email protected]
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    391 month ago

    With the Earth’s elliptical orbit, momentum would only get you so far in terms of sticking with the planet.

    • @funkless_eck
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      1 month ago

      relative to the galactic central point, per Eric Idle, the earth would be 200k/125 miles away in a single second, or relative to everything in the universe / background radiation, it would be 23,000 miles (37,000 km) away in a single second.

      Preserving momentum in different directions and you quickly double it

      Assuming an even rate of death, that’s just under 2 people dying per second currently, so you wouldn’t even be able to see the people who died before or after you if you retained human senses as a ghost.

    • LostXOR
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      151 month ago

      Even with a circular orbit, if you’re unbound by gravity you’ll follow a straight path while the Earth curves, resulting in it appearing to accelerate away from you.

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      11 month ago

      Yeah they would go flying off into space relative to earth but I was more referring to the idea that they’d somehow become stationary due to being immune to gravity. That wouldn’t be sufficient on its own.