October 27, 2014 (Monday)
If you sometimes feel you are moving when you are standing still, your feelings are not leading you astray, because the earth upon which you stand is spinning. Fast. In fact, if you are standing on the equator, you are going round and round at over 1,000 miles per hour.
Not only is the earth spinning at a terrific speed, it is moving around the sun at over 67,000 miles per hour.
But get this. Our solar system–the sun with the planets, moons, asteroids, comets, meteors and space debris in its grasp, all spinning and moving–is traveling around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy at almost 450,000 miles per hour.
And that’s not all. The Milky Way Galaxy is moving through space, too, at over 671,000 miles per hour.
No wonder you sometimes feel like you’re moving when you’re not. You are.
The Milky Way
1 Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory in the heavens.
2 Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.
3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
4 what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?
5 You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor.
6 You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet:
7 all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild,
8 the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.
9 Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!