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Insteadly t1_jd5lk17 wrote

You do realize that we’re sitting on a perfectly good planet that is already on an interstellar journey through the galaxy? Just sit tight. The sun is orbiting the galaxy at half a million miles per hour. It will take 200 million years to make one orbit.

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Majestic_Pitch_1803 t1_jd5lvrb wrote

Everything else is also moving though, some coming towards us, some moving away.

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Insteadly t1_jd5po8i wrote

That’s true even if you’re on an asteroid. Everything is moving.

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Majestic_Pitch_1803 t1_jd5qlf4 wrote

Indeed so it’s not like stars can get closer or further away from our sun very easily or quickly, from our perspective anyway.

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