how fast are we going?

We're not going anywhere, everything else is moving relative to us.

Originally posted by sonhouse
That may compute the velocity of the Earth around the sun, but that does not take into account of 1) the velocity of the solar system around the Milky Way, which you can compute easily enough, we are about 30,000 LY from the center of the galaxy, and one rev takes about 100,000,000 years. Then there is the velocity of Andromeda and the Milky Way collision a ...[text shortened]... t describe a curving corkscrew-like movement through the cosmos. A corkscrew within a corkscrew.