Every year, our planet makes one full trip around the Sun. And while that means we’re already moving at breakneck speeds, we’re about to ramp that speed up. Like, way up! Let’s turn Earth into a planet-sized spaceship and crank it up to light speed. What would happen to Earth if it started orbiting so fast? And what would it be like to experience this all from down on the ground?
00:00 What If Earth Orbited the Sun at the Speed of Light?
02:05 How fast does Earth currently orbit the Sun?
02:35 What would happen if Earth’s orbital velocity increased?
04:53 Where would we get enough energy to speed the whole planet up?
06:03 What’s the worst that could happen?
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My biggest fear is when Earth collides with Uranus. It makes deep impact!
A funny fact tho is if we somehow achieved light speed travel on out planet everyone who woke up in the daytime would have daytime until…….who knows when.
Welcome to what if reality, what way would you like to destroy earth?
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Gotta orbit fast!
Made in heaven
Me at the beginning: Hamuea but more intense.
The abilities of human beings are limited
once again, the legend cameraman deserves applause for going into space and simultaneously teleporting while recording to give us this beautiful visualizer
We die
Human-sized virus
You can only see the SuS part of the Thumbnail only once💀
Pano kung bumalik greatest what if mo?
Well this is all impossibly absurd all the time Bill Nye!
What if millions of earth hit Jupiter
What if Mercury and Jupiter swapped places
I was wondering… what would happen if by some freak accident the earth began to shrink. That would make for an interesting video I think. The other direction could be explored with the earth growing too.
It takes 8 second for to reach earth from the moon
the thumbnail
What if Uranus and Neptune collided what will happen?
i need to clean up my brain. i see something else with the thumbnail