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Once More Around Our Star
I was in a Pink Floyd kind of mood, and this track is the result. All standard GarageBand instruments.
Every year, ignoring for the moment the movement of our Solar System around the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy, you travel roughly 586 million miles as we orbit our star. That's almost 1.6 million miles every day, or 18.5 miles per second.
Here we go again, for another year!
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Image: ISS-46 Sunrise, NASA
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I explored how far we travel in space, including travel around the centre of the Milky Way, in another track here:
https://soundcloud.com/dacca/earth-spins-as-it-orbits-the
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By daccaI was in a Pink Floyd kind of mood, and this track is the result. All standard GarageBand instruments.
Every year, ignoring for the moment the movement of our Solar System around the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy, you travel roughly 586 million miles as we orbit our star. That's almost 1.6 million miles every day, or 18.5 miles per second.
Here we go again, for another year!
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Image: ISS-46 Sunrise, NASA
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I explored how far we travel in space, including travel around the centre of the Milky Way, in another track here:
https://soundcloud.com/dacca/earth-spins-as-it-orbits-the