We were going to have a nice walk
around an area that we were curious about. I say were because a no time today
did the temperature get above 3.5 degrees. So apart form a quick walk to the supermarket,
yes with granny trolley in tow, we stayed in.
I played on the computer for
much of the day.
Mumble grumble, trying to consolidate
the information I know about my three times great grandfather James Harvey.
Got side tracked along the way,
well you do don’t you…well I do, and wound up posting a couple of queries on
different websites looking to add more Harvey info to the tree.
Genealogists are a great bunch,
within half an hour or so there were several replies and a couple of links that
I hadn’t seen before. So onward and upwards into the branches of the tree.
The Man spent a happy day reading
a new book he bought. Its full of interesting information.
What do you think of these facts?
There are thirty one and a half
million seconds in a year
Light travels at 186 thousand
mile a second in empty space, so a light year is 186,000 multiplied by the 31
and a half million and the numbers are just too big to think about.
The next time you admire the beautiful
full moon, think about this. If you multiply the distance from the moon to us by
three and a half then that is about how big the sun is. Scary isn’t it. And a
good thing it is so incredibly far away. Also it is a good thing space is a
vacuum because if it were not we would be deafened by the sound of those
humungous solar flares.
How about them apples then…..
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