How Fast?
Science brain teasers require understanding of the physical or biological world and the laws that govern it.
When you are driving a car down the street at a hundred miles an hour, in reality you are moving much faster.
How?
Answer
The earth is flying through space fairly fast, so you are moving at different speeds, greater than a hundred miles an hour.
The hundred miles an hour on the car may add to or subtract from your total speed. You are only moving 100 miles an hour in relation to the road. In space, your motion is much faster and much more complicated.
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jacintan 
Sep 10, 2003
| This is COOL, but if this was accepted, how come mine wasn't? |
Bobbrt 
Sep 16, 2003
| Yours wasn't accepted because it is essentially a duplicate of this one. Sorry, but Midknight beat you by three days. |
jimbo
Nov 06, 2003
| Much faster? In relation to what? You might be stationary with respect to some other point on the surface of Mars at a particular time. |
eiennikirei 
Dec 23, 2003
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bookworm91
Nov 21, 2005
| i sorta agree with jimbo. but that was a good teaser, and since you specified it was faster, one has to assume its the earth's orbit.  |
Vudluxi  
Jun 03, 2006
| Relatively speaking, this was good. |
jsdodgers
Sep 30, 2007
| thats not entirely true, because you could be moving the opposite way the Earth is moving    |
woooo
Jan 30, 2008
| I agree with jdodger |
racoonieboy
Jul 15, 2010
| jsdodger, even if you are going the opposite direction, you're still going faster than a 100mph. |
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