Cojana

I've learned that were traveling through space at 72,000 miles an hour around the Sun,if treveling in a complete circle,the earth rotates on its axis,traveling ar 1,000 miles an hour, are in earth at anytime in position where we are looking down at the Moon,? china are directly below us, are they looking down at space when er are looking up,?/

Mecha_Dude

...no, because when it's nighttime in the west it's daytime in the east.

Dark Jedi

Down is relative.
Down in our gravity well means toward the sun. Thus, anytime the moon is out in the daytime, you are looking 'down' on it.

WWSD

If you make down relative to the moon's gravity we're always looking down on it.

I like to make my down relative to Deneb's gravity.

Dark Jedi

Fair enough.

Care to calculate 'down' in relation to galactic core? Universe point of origin?

WWSD

No, that's alright, I like looking down at Cygnus far too much to change my universe view.

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.

Dark Jedi

Always look on the bright side of life....