Reply to post: Re: Science 50 years old

Official: Voyager 2 is now an interstellar spacecraft

jake Silver badge

Re: Science 50 years old

Well, consider that according to measured blue shift of the CMB (red shift if you're in Australia), we are moving at at roughly 368 ± 2 km/s relative to the rest of the Universe. That's as close to absolute as we can get at the moment.

Throw in the motion of "The Local Group", and we're moving at 627 ± 22 km/s relative to the CMB.

Given that your post was made 1,544,611,672 seconds after your proposed start time (really!), the math(s) becomes fairly easy. (Find out how long it's been, in seconds, with this command in a *nix shell: date +%s. As I type, it's 1,544,633,943 seconds.)

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