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Thank you for this daily dose of existential dread 👌

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Are they also unbound by momentum?

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TIL that ghosts are pinned to the lumineferous aether.

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With the Earth’s elliptical orbit, momentum would only get you so far in terms of sticking with the planet.

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relative to the galactic central point, per Eric Idle, the earth would be 200k/125 miles away in a single second, or relative to everything in the universe / background radiation, it would be 23,000 miles (37,000 km) away in a single second.

Preserving momentum in different directions and you quickly double it

Assuming an even rate of death, that’s just under 2 people dying per second currently, so you wouldn’t even be able to see the people who died before or after you if you retained human senses as a ghost.

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If this were true we could then actually use ghosts to determine the “true” universal reference frame, right?

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Even with a circular orbit, if you’re unbound by gravity you’ll follow a straight path while the Earth curves, resulting in it appearing to accelerate away from you.

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Yeah they would go flying off into space relative to earth but I was more referring to the idea that they’d somehow become stationary due to being immune to gravity. That wouldn’t be sufficient on its own.

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The butthole is what really makes this comic

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15 points

Now we know what dark matter is

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Einstein would like to have a word with you

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several physicists are typing…

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We already had a discussion about how that doesn’t make sense with this different comic: https://lemmy.ml/post/14518058

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Right, at the very least it would be a non overlapping spiral, as our sun orbits the galactic center

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Who’s “we” tho? It’s like a 4 month old post.

Funny tho I wonder if the artist read that thread and got the idea for this comic or if it’s just a case of like minds.

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9 points

I wonder …

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Which is probably what inspired this other comic.

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Yeah i has issues with that one this one makes more sense for amount of deaths per day

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Maybe ghosts are what dark matter is made out of.

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Cats know this.

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