It’s because those are relative speeds. The ISS speed is relative to the position of the earth. For the earth’s speed, I’d venture to guess it’s measuring the speed relative to either the sun or the galactic center.
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Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 1 week agoThe math ain’t mathing here. If that were true, in one hour the earth would be 80,000 km away from the ISS. I looked it up and everything you said is true, but something must be lost in translation
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 1 week ago
dwindling7373@feddit.it 1 week ago
The guy managed to connect button presses to letters to chain of thoughts it’s fair to assume he was being sarcastic.
Shadow@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
The iss speed is relative to earth. The earth speed is probably relative to the sun. There’s no common frame of reference between the two numbers.