InformationalPrivacy
| Effect You ask the spectator to hold out his or her hand palm up. You in turn place your hand on top of theirs, palm down. With your other hand you place a quarter or other coin on top of your hand and explain to the spectator that with one quick... Read more of Palm Penetration at Card Trick.ca | Informational Privacy |
|
Most Viewed- Etiquette Of The Visiting Card- Etiquette Of Courtship And Marriage - Mourning Customs - Formalities In Dress And Etiquette - Proper Apparel For Men - Opportunity - Opportunity - Bell Time On Shipboard - Borrowing - A Cure For Love - A Lady's Chance Of Marrying - Accent And Pronunciation - A Dollar Saved A Dollar Earned - Altered Words And Figures - Wedding Anniversaries - Things That Are Misnamed - Short Rules For Spelling Least Viewed- The Names Of The Months- What Housekeepers Should Remember - The Rule Of The Road - Tomato In Bright's Disease - Tea And Coffee - Dentifrices--useful And Injurious - Salt-rising Bread - Doing Business With A Bank - Paying Notes And Acceptances - Grammar-spelling-pronunciation - Punctuation - The Name Of God In Fifty Languages - The Steps In The Growth Of American Liberty - The Constitution Of The United States - Would You Be Beautiful? - Care Of The Scalp And Hair - Character As Seen In Faces |
Appalling Depths Of SpaceDistances that Stun the Mind and Baffle Comprehension. The stars, though appearing small to us because of their immense distance, are in reality great and shining suns. If we were to escape from the earth into space, the moon, Jupiter, Saturn, and eventually the sun would become invisible. Mizar, the middle star in the tail of the Great Bear, is forty times as heavy as the sun. To the naked eye there are five or six thousand of these heavenly bodies visible. Cygni is the nearest star to us in this part of the sky. Alpha Centauri, in the constellation of Centaur, in the Southern Hemisphere, is the nearest of all the stars. The sun is off 93,000,000 miles; multiply this by 200,000, and the result is, roughly speaking, 20,000,000,000,000; and this is the distance we are from Alpha Centauri. At the speed of an electric current, 180,000 miles per second, a message to be sent from a point on the earth's surface would go seven times around the earth in one second. Let it be supposed that messages were sent off to the different heavenly bodies. To reach the moon at this rate it would take about one second. In eight minutes a message would get to the sun, and allowing for a couple of minutes' delay, one could send a message to the sun and get an answer all within twenty minutes. But to reach Alpha Centauri it would take three years; and as this is the nearest of the stars, what time must it take to get to the others? If, when Wellington won the battle of Waterloo, in 1815, the news had been telegraphed off immediately, there are some stars so remote that it would not yet have reached them. To go a step further, if in 1066 the result of the Norman Conquest had been wired to some of these stars, the message would still be on its way. Next: Senator Vest's Eulogy On The Dog Previous: Happiness Defined
Viewed 734 |
||||||||||||||||||||
