Upon the surface of the "swimming pool,"
humanity is playing high-profit gambling games with oil-loaded ships. The
largest of all such ships in all history is a quarter-mile-long tanker of
580,000 tons. At top speed it can cross the 3,000-mile-wide Atlantic Ocean in
six days. That 3,000-mile, six-day tanker distance is traveled every two and
one-half minutes by the eleven-quadrillion-times-heavier Spaceship Earth, which
has been moving at this fast rate for at least seven billion years with no
signs of slowing or "running out of gas." As it travels around the Sun at
66,000 m.p.h., it also rotates at an equatorial velocity of 1,000 m.p.h.
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