Wednesday 10 April 2019

Away From the Numbers


Some very interesting photos appeared on my Twitter feed today - not least that one of the Black Hole. It's 55 million light years away (1 light year = 6 trillion miles) and measures, at least, a billion miles across. Just thinking about what those numbers mean hurts my brain; so I'll park it up for now and come back to it when I've had a little lie down.

In the meantime, the one above is a lot easier to get your head around - the Golden Gate Bridge taken in the early 1960s. So that makes it roughly 5,500 miles and 50 years away. I can cope with numbers like that. I just love everything about this photograph - if there's been a better photo taken of San Francisco's iconic landmark, I've not seen it.

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  1. Gosh I see you posted this around the same time I posted something that also included mention of the Black Hole (except I wholeheartedly nicked the picture and didn't just attach a link - will I be in trouble?).

    Great picture above though. THINK PINK my dears, THINK PINK.

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    1. Sometimes you just stumble upon a photograph that is so utterly perfect.

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  2. There is literally nothing not to like about that Golden Gate Bridge photo.

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    1. The ones we took in the car as we drove over it many moons ago are mere snaps in comparison.

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