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Alternatively, if you are constantly x feet above a spot on Earth, where x is the number of seconds since takeoff, we have a different problem. You’d be in a geostationary orbit above that spot, following the Earth as it rotates, no matter how far away you are. After about 10 years, 2/3 of the way to the Sun, you are traveling at the speed of light, and this only increases. Hope your body doesn’t impact Proxima Centauri.
Alternatively, if you are constantly x feet above a spot on Earth, where x is the number of seconds since takeoff, we have a different problem. You’d be in a geostationary orbit above that spot, following the Earth as it rotates, no matter how far away you are. After about 10 years, 2/3 of the way to the Sun, you are traveling at the speed of light, and this only increases. Hope your body doesn’t impact Proxima Centauri.
I don’t think that one’s been made for Youtube yet.