Its the 14th century and you’ve had no time to prepare, after you’re done reading this post you are snapped. What do you do?

  • Probius@sopuli.xyz
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    10 hours ago

    Actually 🤓, position and velocity are relative, so that’s a nonsensical statement without defining a reference object for the Earth’s position. If we’re not assuming you end up safely on dry land, you could just as easily end up light-years away as wherever you were relative to the sun.

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      2 hours ago

      Actually 🤓 if we use the sun as our reference, they could not be light years away and would in fact be relatively close to the Earth, the distance being at most the diameter of Earth’s orbit, which even at most is less than 20 light minutes.