[yarddog]

I guess the answer always is in relation to what.

I wonder if there is a place where all the universe, all the galaxies etc. are moving from or towards?

[SamAdams76]

I’m a little bit dizzy after reading that article.

[MtnClimber]

Our Milky Way galaxy is moving toward a massive feature called The Great Attractor at a speed of about 1.8 million miles per hour. Our galaxy is also on course to collide with the Andromeda Galaxy in about 4 billion years.

Hope we don't get a speeding ticket.

[Jack Hydrazine]

"...the speeds involved become absolutely huge!"

[SampleMan]

All movement is relative, as there is no universal zero spot.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

This is one of the reasons why time travel is so problematic.

If a person were able to go back in time just a couple of seconds, the earth would be countless miles away from the point at which the person went back in time.

In order to go back in time and remain on earth you would also have to move a great distance through space as well.

This might mean that worm holes are the only "practical" method of space-time travel.

[Fungi]

“Scientific American.” Scientific? American? Take a good long look at both and draw your conclusions.

[Maceman]

How fast is the earth moving?

The answer is here in:

THE GALAXY SONG!

[dr_lew]

We can also specify the direction relative to the CBR. It is more fun, though, to look up into the night sky and find the constellation known as Leo (the Lion). The earth is moving toward Leo at the dizzying speed of 390 kilometers per second.

There is a non sequitur here. "Leo" represents a direction in the sky, in which we are moving "relative to the CBR". "Leo" does not represent an object wrt which we have a relative velocity.

Not knowing any better, I would have to suppose that our velocity wrt the brighter stars of the constellation Leo, are significantly less than the cited 390 kps.

I await instruction to the contrary.

[stevem]

If you are one the side of the earth that is moving oposite to the direction the whole earth is moving, that would slow you down.

I suppose if you are one the part of the circle where you are moving opposite to the way the galaxy is moving and you are moving opposite to the way the sun is moving and opposite to the way the earth is spinning, you are going so slow you are actually going backwards.

[FourPeas]

Relative to what? The article keeps shifting its reference point.

[dynachrome]

Almost as fast as liberal lies

[Graybeard58]

The very reason I sleep with my feet facing eastward. I do not want to go that fast head first, it makes me dizzy.

[NYFriend]

But you are all roughly stationary in relation to me. Just saying.

[wally_bert]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuANURnBzWQ

[Vision Thing]

Not fast enough. January 20th, 2017, just get here already!

[hsrazorback1]

Here’s to hoping that Hillary’s world comes to a screeching halt very soon

[blueunicorn6]

Just a few months ago I was out in the backyard and I jumped up to pick an apple off the tree, and when I came down I was in Indiana.

[r_barton]

And all of this is undetectable by the average couch potato. ;-)

[grey_whiskers]

If anyone had gone up to the lobby outside the Blue Room, he would have found something other than fear that barred his way-an almost physical resistance. If he had succeeded in forcing his way forward against it, he would have come into a region of tingling sounds that were clearly not voices though they had articulation: and if the passage were quite dark he would probably have seen a faint light, not like fire or moon, under the Director's door. I do not think he could have reached the door itself unbidden. Already the whole house would have seemed to him to be tilting and plunging like a ship in a Bay of Biscay gale. He would have been horribly compelled to feel this earth not as the base of the universe but as a ball spinning and rolling onwards, both at delirious speed, and not through emptiness but through some densely inhabited and intricately structured medium. He would have known sensuously, until his outraged senses forsook him, that the visitants in that room were in it not because they were at rest but because they glanced and wheeled through the packed reality of heaven (which men call empty space) to keep their beams upon this spot of the moving earth's hide. -- C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength