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Thursday, December 31, 2015

Perspectives on traveling

Start here:  the Observable Universe
This is our Solar System

This is our "State"
Within the Solar System is our "Country"
This is our "City"
This is our "Neighborhood"

These are our neighbors




 
Our Solar System

This is our house
Traveling the world, you may feel that you are covering a lot of territory.  The circumference of the earth at the equator is 24,901.55 miles.  But if you started from the outer edges of the observable universe, it would be over 13 billion light years  to our house.