Cool And Amazing Things

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osnafrank

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CReeder

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I never really thought about it but we are spinning cross-ways of the spiral arm. That means out solar system is sideways to the spin of the galaxy. That feels wrong but I suppose that is close gravity thinking.

I believe Douglas Adams said it best about our place in the Universe...

“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.”