The International Space Station orbit the Earth at 8 kilometers per second — but it ’s tough to visualize just how fast that is . When you think about it in terms of how far the thing moves during the row of a birdsong you know , though , you ’ll be shock .
Intoday ’s What If ? post , Randall Munroe takes a looking at exactly how fast the ISS move . He grant two instance . The first is hit :
The ISS move so promptly that if you fired a rifle slug from one end of a football game field , the International Space Station could cross the length of the champaign before the bullet trip 10 pace .
But my pet is how he picture the distance travel while listening to I ’m Gon na Be ( 500 Miles ) by The Proclaimers . He explainshow far you ’d travel to it while locomote at 8km / s :
That vocal is about 131.9 beats per mo , so imagine that with every beat of the strain , you move forrader more than two miles . In the clock time it took to sing the first line of the refrain , you could walk from the Bronx all the way to the Statue of Liberty . It would take you about two line of the refrain ( 16 beats of the birdcall ) to get across the English Channel between London and France .
mind to the whole strain , and you ’d have journey 1,000 mil . That is quick . [ What If ? ]
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