Doesn't the rock get smaller and smaller over the millenia until it's just Sysphus expertly toeing a pebble up a mountain, and getting frustrated when he kicks it into a pond with other pebbles, causing him to go mad searching for it?
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The sun would be the natural parent coordinate system of Mars, Earth, and (grandparent of) The Moon. So I see her centered on either Earth, the Sun, the Centre of the Milkway, Centre of the Local Group, etc. etc.
The speed at which she drifted through the wall wasn't on level of thousands of km's per second, it was on the order of a few meters per second.
This would admittedly rule out the Sun, since the Earth has an orbital speed of 29 km/s around the sun[1], and a spin velocity of 0.5 km/s[2], giving a minimum of 28 km/s. If we factor in orbit of the sun from the Galactic Centre at 240 km/s, giving 240 +/ 29, which is still too high for our range. If we factor in the speed of the Galaxy, then we're just adding more zeroes.
What about the moon or Mars?
So, to come full circle on my comment: Yeah maybe, the relative speed of moon and Mars would be on the order of meters per second that we see in the panel. I just don't see why they of all planetary bodies would be chosen for ghosts, instead of other natural origins.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_orbit
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_rotation#Angular_speed
3: https://www.universetoday.com/133414/distance-speed-suns-orbit-around-galactic-centre-measured/
Is it still comedy if it's accurate?
that's alright. In the UK we have a sporting good store chain called Blacks.
It's, uh, yeah.
Yes, but can you say removed, removed, and sharemoved?
We don't know if her drift axes are centered on the sun or not. I'm going to believe that they are
Likely inspired by Vernon Vinge's The Cookie Monster:
https://museum.netstalking.org/storage/cyberlib/lib/burz/ving4.html
But this character died stationary on the floor. Unless it's the Earth moving away from her as part of its normal orbit, in which case she'll get to visit it again soon
on the one hand, their crime was being kids, on the other hand, their crime was being kids