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[-] realitista@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Maybe if you timed it juuuuuust right you could land somewhere on the planet as it orbits the sun and comes back to the same position once a decade or century or whatever? I mean I guess it depends on how you determine absolute location in the universe. Is that even possible with the universe constantly expanding?

[-] massacre@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Nope, not possible. The solar system itself is moving as is the galaxy... it's useful to think of Earth's orbit as spiraling around the sun in the direction our star is traveling. So 1 orbit later we have not come to the same location.

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