For me, "down" is the direction that gravity you pulls you, and "up" is the opposite. As you leave Earth's orbit and orbit the Sun instead, you start moving away from the Sun at 1 foot per second instead, unless doing so would move you back into a planet's orbit.
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~~~~ 860,000 years, you are traveling at the speed of light, and this only increases. Hope your body doesn't impact Proxima Centauri.
Edit: Oops, I assumed an Earth day is 1 second instead of 86,000 seconds
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WagnasT@piefed.world · 8 pts · 164d
Only involves one single person, still manages to destroy the earth.
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 164d
I thought he would have stopped at space as you are not going "up" anymore.
hitstun@feddit.online · 8 pts · 164d
For me, "down" is the direction that gravity you pulls you, and "up" is the opposite. As you leave Earth's orbit and orbit the Sun instead, you start moving away from the Sun at 1 foot per second instead, unless doing so would move you back into a planet's orbit.
CreamyJalapenoSauce@piefed.social · 7 pts · 164d
What if you hit some sort of local Lagrange point?
knightly@pawb.social · 5 pts · 164d
If all the local sources of gravity are balanced out, then you'd probably start moving away from the center of the galaxy.
hitstun@feddit.online · 5 pts · 164d
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~~~~ 860,000 years, you are traveling at the speed of light, and this only increases. Hope your body doesn't impact Proxima Centauri.
Edit: Oops, I assumed an Earth day is 1 second instead of 86,000 seconds
spinning_disk_engineer@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 163d
I don't think that one's been made for Youtube yet.
LodeMike@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 164d
Dead?
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 143d
Original static webpage version: https://what-if.xkcd.com/64/