2003 in (deadpan, hilarious) review

By at 5:23 pm Friday, Jan 9

Johannes has posted a completely hilarious, deadpan "Year in Review," analyzing the great aggregate effort and accomplishments of 2003.
The length of the earth's course is approximately 940 million kilometers. That means that every human being is whizzing along at about 30 km per hour in relation to the sun. Additionally, the sun (and with it the earth) is moving a) toward a constellation named Hercules (19.4 km/s), b) with the entire spiral arm around the center of our galaxy (272 km/s) and c) with the entire galaxy toward another galaxy (264 km/s).

Thus we've come quite a long way.

Link (Thanks, Johannes!)

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