• BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works
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    25 days ago

    The context of this comment is amazing.

    Imagine a creature, that died over 65 million years ago (earth was at the other side of the galaxy back then) and yet we can detect how the muscles attached to the bone

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        25 days ago

        Right now you’re orbiting the galactic core (well basically, its very close) at 240km/s +/- ~30km/s (Earths rotation of the Sun).

        And it still took 65 million years to complete less than half an orbit of the galaxy.