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Re:Do we really travel through time with the speed of light? by pdonis on Monday August 31, 2020 @02:22AM (#24328953)
>* How fast can something orbit the earth?*

If you mean the actual Earth and a free-fall orbit, the orbital speed of something in low earth orbit, like the ISS, about 8 km/sec, is as fast as anything can orbit the earth.

To get really fast orbital speeds (as in, speeds that are any significant fraction of the speed of light), you need objects much, much more compact than the Earth, objects whose actual size is not that much larger than the size of a black hole with the same mass. The only non-black hole objects we know of that are anywhere close to that compact are neutron stars.

Re:Do we really travel through time with the speed of light? by Aerroon on Monday August 31, 2020 @03:14AM (#24329158)
I wonder if black holes or neutron stars in a solar system are necessary for a civilization to start exploring the universe outside of their own solar system. It could be quite a boon to have something like that in the outer solar system for gravity assists.