I think about this way more than I’m happy to admit.
Morale of the story: Take out as many people as you can when you go so you’re not lonely for eternity.
We move (with the Sun) around the Milky Way at about 792.000 km/h. At that speed, you wouldn’t even see the earth getting away from you.
Even the galaxy fucks of very quickly from you.
But now we know who inhabits all those spoopy voids.
First picture looks like a Borg cube.
Thank you for this daily dose of existential dread 👌
Are they also unbound by momentum?
With the Earth’s elliptical orbit, momentum would only get you so far in terms of sticking with the planet.
relative to the galactic central point, per Eric Idle, the earth would be 200k/125 miles away in a single second, or relative to everything in the universe / background radiation, it would be 23,000 miles (37,000 km) away in a single second.
Preserving momentum in different directions and you quickly double it
Assuming an even rate of death, that’s just under 2 people dying per second currently, so you wouldn’t even be able to see the people who died before or after you if you retained human senses as a ghost.
If this were true we could then actually use ghosts to determine the “true” universal reference frame, right?
… Boo.
Even with a circular orbit, if you’re unbound by gravity you’ll follow a straight path while the Earth curves, resulting in it appearing to accelerate away from you.
TIL that ghosts are pinned to the lumineferous aether.
We already had a discussion about how that doesn’t make sense with this different comic: https://lemmy.ml/post/14518058
Yeah i has issues with that one this one makes more sense for amount of deaths per day
Who’s “we” tho? It’s like a 4 month old post.
Funny tho I wonder if the artist read that thread and got the idea for this comic or if it’s just a case of like minds.
I wonder …
Right, at the very least it would be a non overlapping spiral, as our sun orbits the galactic center
Which is probably what inspired this other comic.
Awesome idea for a Lovecraftian horror story. Maybe the ghosts leave a scent trail that attracts a ghost-eating planet-sized alien
Reminded me of the movie Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001), except the ghosts are alien ghosts, not human ghosts.
That alien’s name?
Pac-Man.
They go coast to coast?
Galactic!
{galactic coast to galactic coast}
The only things that aren’t bound by gravity are massless. Massless things always have to be moving at the speed of light. So really the question is, what direction would the ghost shoot off to? Momentum would have to be preserved, so it’d be the opposite direction of where the corpse drops. Or maybe the corpse just move a teensy bit to the opposite direction of the ghost?
Note: this assumes Newtonian or at least semi classical physics. In general relativity, there is no such thing as being unbound by gravity.
They’re often depicted as bound to a person or place, though.
Sounds like Scientology 💩
SpaceGhost(s)! Coast to (galactic) coast!
Zorak is the hammer! Me!!! ZORAK IS THE HAMMER!!!
This actually explains a lot.
The butthole is what really makes this comic
Einstein would like to have a word with you
several physicists are typing…
Now we know what dark matter is
