If we're spinning and flying through space at a million miles an hour.

How come the North Star is always in the same place?

Because the Earths axis points directly at Polaris.

Though this hasn't always been the North Star, because the axis shifts. Back in 3000BC, the "North Star" was Thuban. In 13,000 years time, Vega will be the North Star.

The Earth travels at 67,000 miles per hour.

Though it could all just be a projection and not at all real...
 
Because the Earths axis points directly at Polaris.

Though this hasn't always been the North Star, because the axis shifts. Back in 3000BC, the "North Star" was Thuban. In 13,000 years time, Vega will be the North Star.

The Earth travels at 67,000 miles per hour.

Though it could all just be a projection and not at all real...
Yeah of course, that explains it.
 
"Did you know that it takes a man in a tweed suit five and a half seconds to fall from the top of Big Ben to the ground? Now there's not a lot of people know that".
(Peter Sellers mimicking Michael Caine in 1972).
 
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