TIL: Today I Learned

It's stuff like that that kicks ass. Also, facts like that every beam of light that hits your face on a sunny afternoon is older than human civilization.
 
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It's stuff like that that kicks ass. Also, facts like that every beam of light that hits your face on a sunny afternoon is older than human civilization.
haven’t head the one about beam of light and sunny afternoon. I also can’t figure it out. It takes about 8 minutes for light to get from the sun to earth. I could see it being more or less true at night for starlight.
 
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haven’t head the one about beam of light and sunny afternoon. I also can’t figure it out. It takes about 8 minutes for light to get from the sun to earth. I could see it being more or less true at night for starlight.
Yeah, but that photon originates during nuclear fusion at the sun's core. That photon takes 10,000-100,000 years to make it's way to the surface and then 8 minutes to Earth.

Hmm, that makes me wonder if photons take the same amount of time to wind their way of out supergiants like Betelgeuse or if because they're so much less dense that it doesn't increase the amount of time from core to surface.
 
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TIL my favorite Farmers market used to be a train station! Wild.
Please don't tell me you mean "Reading Terminal Market", because... I mean, it's there in the name.

Unless you thought they meant it in the other definition of "terminal", as in "extremely or hopelessly severe; leading to death", which, okay, it's Philadelphia. It could have that vibe.
 
Please don't tell me you mean "Reading Terminal Market", because... I mean, it's there in the name.

Unless you thought they meant it in the other definition of "terminal", as in "extremely or hopelessly severe; leading to death", which, okay, it's Philadelphia. It could have that vibe.
NO-that one I knew about...and am pretty sure my dad combined stories when I asked about the farmers market on the Black Horse Pike during conversation, thought he meant BOTH of them.

The Black Horse Pike one was just a farmers market with this really big stone thing.
 
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