If you stand at the equator, you're moving at about 30 km per second ... or roughly 67,000 mph. Everything else is moving at the same time, so you don't feel it. Check this cool site out to find a bit more info - including how to figure out the speed you, personally are travelling, based on where you are on Earth. It's pretty cool!I might have to do that! Hahah and wow that’s amazing!!and they don’t get sick!?
What a wonderful dad! I’m sorry for your loss but happy for you that you are left with such meaningful memories!My Dad loved numbers, and always kept the day's time changes in his head all year, On any given day, you could ask him how much longer or shorter today was than yesterday - and he'd have your answer immediately. It was a fun game for us. Never once, in all my years, was I ever able to stump him. It was cool!
He also used the sun to teach us how to count into triple digits and do quick calculations in our heads. As soon as someone asked when Spring was, he'd send one of us for the Farmer's Almanac to look up the Vernal Equinox. We would then sit down at the kitchen table and count back from the "First Day of Spring." We actually numbered the calendar blocks in tiny numbers penciled into the lower corner. Once the calendar was up, we were all fair game. He would constantly ask us how many days it was 'til Spring. More often than not, we'd have to think back a few days to the last time he'd asked or picture the larger number on the next Sunday's block and do the math quickly in our heads. It was a matter of pride to not get caught out unawares!
We started the same game with my children as soon as they learned their numbers. They're nearly grown, now, and still "play" the game with me and each other. Daddy's been gone for a few weeks, now, at the ripe old age of 84, but I'm sure the game will live on for generations.
Rest in Peace, Daddy, and in case you were wondering, it's 89 Days 'til Spring.
I didn't say they were good, but my regular Kodak could not focus on it at all. The first is earlier, not zoomed, and from my front porch. In person it was easier to see than the pic looks. Second is later and zoomed all the way in, plus cropped. Again, not good. But to the naked eye each planet was obvious. It was easy to see that Jupiter, the bigger, fuller planet, was in front...and Saturn was smaller and not as visible. Flatter and not as bright either.
The Tall Ships were in Baltimore Harbor, that year, too. We spent so much time there that my cousin ended up dating one of the sailors on the Italian ship. It was way cool!
Wow, that’s awesome!!! Glad you had such a great experience!! I still haven’t been able to see it
