I’ll bet you are thinking that you are not moving at all. The real answer depends on what you are using as your “measuring stick”. If you were to go stand in front of your house at noon tomorrow and never took a step and then looked at where you were exactly 24 hours later, you would find that you are in the exact same place. But let’s expand our measuring stick to our solar system, instead of just our planet. The earth is approximately 25,000 miles in circumference. Since the world spins one full time around in a 24 hour period, then that means the surface of the earth is moving at approximately 1041 miles per hour. So when you are using a different measuring stick you see that in that 24 hour period you actually moved at least 25,000 miles through space. It’s actually much more than that when you consider that the earth is also on a 364 + day orbit. This isn’t a math class so I won’t go into that calculation.
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