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When you are driving a car down the street at a hundred miles an hour, in reality you are moving much faster.
How?
How?
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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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This is COOL, but if this was accepted, how come mine wasn't?
Yours wasn't accepted because it is essentially a duplicate of this one. Sorry, but Midknight beat you by three days.
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.
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. 
Relatively speaking, this was good.
thats not entirely true, because you could be moving the opposite way the Earth is moving 
I agree with jdodger
jsdodger, even if you are going the opposite direction, you're still going faster than a 100mph.
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