The Quirkology team joined forces with Professor John C. Brown, Astronomer Royal for Scotland, to provide an answer to the age-old question "did the earth move for you?"Taking into consideration rotational and orbital motion of the earth, solar and galactic motion, and the duration of your own personal earth-moving act, the following website will give you a pretty good estimate of how far you traveled:
Note: This online calculator neglects any local motion occurring in your own personal bed or fluoroscopy suite. Feel free to add this correction factor to your final result.
(via Quirkology)
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