2007-06-25 02:48:34 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
About 17,500 MPH, if we judge by John Glenn's Mercury/Atlas flight.
That's about 47,040,000 furlongs per fortnight, according to Google.
2007-06-25 02:52:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure, but Godspeed You Black Emperor! have both slow and fast passages in their music.
I would say godspeed is a variable, given that god/s don't exist. it is also based on Mercury/Hermes, whose winged sandals made him swift enough to be the messenger of the gods, and even that myth is predated by an Egyptian version.
Ironically, most of the story of Jesus is actually a rewriting of the myths surrounding Horus the Avenger, son of Osiris, which goes even further to making christianity a pagan religion than just celebrating all the major pagan feasts like Saturnalia, Samhain, the Solstices etc.
2007-06-25 02:56:21 · answer #2 · answered by Nodality 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Faster than a speeding bullet, stronger than Silent E.. able to leap.. oh wait.. wrong mythos..
Godspeed is a nominalization of the phrase God speed (you), understanding which depends on two things: speed in this sense means 'to prosper; succeed', which is now archaic, but which is the original sense of the word; and the verb is subjunctive, expressing a wish, with the entire phrase meaning "may God cause you to succeed."
2007-06-25 02:53:23 · answer #3 · answered by Kallan 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
1) Godspeed is not a speed limit, i means for example good luck on your journey
2)if it was a speed it would be the speed of thought, which is faster than light. You think it and your there
2007-06-25 03:26:46 · answer #4 · answered by E-Man 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It really isn't a speed of travel ...
"Godspeed" is (according to Wikipedia online here) a wish for a prosperous journey, success, and good fortune ...
2007-06-25 03:09:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's really a bit of a misnomer. It should read 'godslow'. See, we're still counting the time it takes for Jesus to return to earth... he told his apostles thought he'd be back before they finished preaching in the towns of Israel, and Paul said he would be back soon and would not tarry, but we're approaching two-thousand years and it appears that "soon" has an entirely different meaning in gods language than human language.
2007-06-25 03:01:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I answered your question before you asked it and you were like, "huh?what are you talking about?" THAT WOULD BE GODSPEED BABY
2007-06-25 02:51:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
5 mph faster than thought
2007-06-25 02:53:59 · answer #8 · answered by Don W 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It could make the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs.
YAY!!!!
2007-06-25 02:51:49 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Just slightly faster than "ludicrous speed"....
Or maybe it's just describing how the oceans were formed -- "Gods peed"....
2007-06-25 02:51:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋