The devaluation of these kinds of connections means that many people are also deeply confused by them, especially when they encounter queerplatonic partners in person. And I do say partner, and sometimes refer to the unit formed by a partner and myself as a couple, because we are. We function like a couple, we do things together, we are intimate with each other, though not necessarily in the way people expect. We are a couple.
| Cool Cosmos. Earth moves very fast. It spins (rotates) at a speed of about 1,000 miles (1600 kilometers) per hour and orbits around the Sun at a speed of about 67,000 miles (107,000 kilometers) per hour. We do not feel any of this motion because these speeds are constant.
How fast is the Earth moving with respect to the rest of the universe? The only thing we can ever hope to do in an expanding universe is to determine our velocity (speed and direction) with respect to ever larger collections of matter, and larger scales. The Earth moves at about 30 km/sec in an orbit centered on the Sun. The sun looks like a stationary object locally, but we know it is moving around the center of the galaxy with a speed of 220 km/sec.