January 26, 2006
The 4.8 Billion Mile Dollar
Last year I stuck this dollar…
behind the upper right corner of this sign…
The sign is along The Old Walk that Angel, Jacqueline and I frequent, and when we passed by the sign during our walk yesterday I looked behind the sign and found the dollar still there.
Until I collected it, the dollar hadn’t moved from that spot for an entire year, but given that:
The orbital speed of our solar system is 781,200 km/h or 485,415.17 m/h
The average orbital speed of our Earth around the sun is 107,218 km/h or 66,622.17 m/hr
The rotational velocity of the Earth where I am is 1383.55 km/h or 859.7 m/hr
Then (485,415.17m/hr + 66,622.17m/hr + 859.7m/hr) * 8760 hr/yr = 4,843,378,158 miles.
My dollar, by going nowhere, traveled 4.8 billion miles last year.
Thank GOD I didn’t lease it.
That dollar looks like it has been around the world and back again several million times. Maybe the sign put people off and kept it from being discovered.
Posted by: srp at January 26, 2006 10:17 AMVery interesting experiment.
Posted by: Simply Coll at January 26, 2006 11:07 AMI have a suggestion for a follow up experiment...
Place a new $100 bill under my doormat and see how far THAT travels.
Posted by: Fritz at January 27, 2006 4:17 PM