642 Things To Write About - #2 What Can Happen In A Second
The International Space Station travels 7700 metres in one second as it orbits our home. In that same second, far below the astronauts, eleven trees are cut down in the Amazon rainforest as 4.8 people are born and 1.8 people die. Our planet has hurled itself 29.8km but we are not suffering from motion sickness, only heartache.
10,450 cans of Coca Cola are drunk while these 11 trees fall and 1.8 people die, our planet travelling at speeds we can't feel.
But we feel.