We need a marriage odometer (or several)
Apr. 12th, 2013 11:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceCome Sunday, Karen and I will have travelled roughly 585 million miles as a married couple.
That's relative to the sun, of course. I am utterly ignoring the way the whole solar system spins around the galaxy, not even to mention the Great Attractor. I was briefly and mildly tempted by our motion relative to cosmic background radiation - we hurtle towards Leo at 390 kilometres a second - but only the COBE satellite can see that, so I'll settle for distance measurable by me against a common default. And I'd quite like an odometer, ticking away in the corner of my screen here. At 18.6 miles a second, it's going to tick fast.
That's relative to the sun, of course. I am utterly ignoring the way the whole solar system spins around the galaxy, not even to mention the Great Attractor. I was briefly and mildly tempted by our motion relative to cosmic background radiation - we hurtle towards Leo at 390 kilometres a second - but only the COBE satellite can see that, so I'll settle for distance measurable by me against a common default. And I'd quite like an odometer, ticking away in the corner of my screen here. At 18.6 miles a second, it's going to tick fast.