Originally Posted by Zamzow
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Now lets make this clock run at half speed - 24 hours for a revolution of the hour hand. Make that hour hand as long as the radius of the Earth and the tip will be moving a THOUSAND MILES PER HOUR.
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No offense meant, but that was a rather complicated way to say that a point on the equator moves at ~1000 miles/hour. Equator is ~40000km around, => 40000km/24h => ~1666km/h, or ~1000 miles/hour.
Now make that same calculation with the earth orbiting the sun, and you will get to ~67000 miles/hour or >100000km/h - wooooosh exitstageleft runningdog