Sun: "Hey, do you want toooo... go for a walk?"
Planets: go apeshit
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And like all good mothers one day she will grow into a red giant, engulfing her children and obliterating all life on earth.
That is the true meaning of mothers day ❤️
Did everyone forget about the galaxy? It's also a giant circle, and the sun orbits it like we orbit the sun.
Perhaps the real question should be "Where is the Galaxy taking us?"
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Wait till you read about the Lambda Model
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Fun, fun, we skip along together!
Swirling towards the center...
Where there is no pain and we are truly together, forever.
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Eat at Arby's
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It's my understanding that the specific direction on this relative motion graphic is just made-up, but it does do a good job of reminding people that we're orbiting the galactic center.
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That's not Mama, that's our son!
I mean its kinda terrifying when you think about it from the perspective of someone who grew up in an abusive household
"You will never leave my control"
Either you get tossed to the curb by mom and you are cold and alone after being so used to the warmth and the plant is dead (flung out of orbit), or get murdered by her (red giant... engulf the system)
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The sun is not a sweet mother, he is armed with the great serpent Xiuhcoatl and demands the hearts of our enemies.
Does the sun actually travel in a straight line, or do the orbits of the planets wobble it, and to what extent?
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What if Sol is not our Mama, but our Pied Piper? 🎺
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Just a loop around Sag A*
The fun stops when you find out about Sagittarius A.
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i see, that's why the ecliptic and the milky way don't align on the sky
Mama knows how we behave. She's taking us to the nearest galactic playground where she'll abandon us.
To saggitariusA
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Hey, that's the same path my life is taking!
Isn't this what Sepiroth wanted to do woth Jenova?
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Wait a minute... We're moving?
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IDK sometimes it feels like everything is just gonna explode one day
It's all oscillations.
While I've never seen it illustrated until now, I thought it was kind of obvious that this is our reality from outside our solar system. Is it not?
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ok! time for all those years of science to finally pay off:
Would you still love "her" if you knew that, every single second, thousands of waves of extreme radiation from the Sun, traveling at a million light-years per millisecond, hits our planet's atmosphere? These waves slowly erode one of the only protections that we have against the Sun. But don't worry, this planet has several more tricks up -- and under -- the crust of the Earth. The iron core of the earth emits a geomagnetic field that extends into space, creating a region called the magnetosphere. This magnetosphere blocks most of the Sun's deadly rays, deflecting them back into space.
(also I didn't get this off of Google. I just have a really good memory. also I added the bolded words)
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We're going in a circle, I like to imagine it like a parent driving around the block to put their kid to sleep
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