my nearest book

[waxesglad]

* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

"Not a sound is heard, not a thing is moving; the silence of a thousand ages is unbroken in this

Comments

[mandy_moon]

Hey, we're in space!

Wow, I thought the moon would be a little bigger than that. 1/6 the size of earth? Or maybe I should say I thought the US was a little smaller than that.

1928 knowledge/numbers (their random capitalization, not mine):

[waxesglad]

"The area of the Moon (14,685,000 square miles) is a little less than the combined areas of North and South America. Its diameter (2,160 miles) is about one-fourth that of the earth, and it would require 49 moons to equal the Earth in volume and 81 to equal it in weight (or mass). The Moon's average distance from the earth is about 239,000 miles, whereas the Sun is 400 times as far away. It would take an airplane traveling 150 miles an hour somewhat more than two months to reach the Moon."

[skincage]

I DID always want to know that. Thank you.

[waxesglad]

hah hah. they put all kinds of great illustrations and diagrams in these 1928 encyclopedias, i tell ya! that's why i never look at them in-depth... i'm afraid that my head will explode from it all.