<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477424" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lost Love’s Distance</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The astrophysicist aimed the telescope at Antares.<br>Oh, this red giant of the Milky Way Galaxy is so beautiful, he said. <br>Almost as bright as the stars Aldebaran and Regulus.<br>Have a look, he told his assistant.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Almost as bright as the star Aldebaran and Regulus, <br>Repeated the assistant.<br>Yes, the professor said, it shines like a brilliant diamond <br>in the night sky, surrounded by colorful cosmic clouds<br>And winding dust lanes. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then five years elapsed and one moonless night<br>The astrophysicist again aimed his telescope at Antares.<br>But he could not concentrate as his thoughts <br>Constantly returned to his lost love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One chilly day he met her at a cozy restaurant.<br>They sat and ate and sipped their coffee and talked. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You were once so close to me, he said to her.<br>Yet now you are drifting more and more away.<br>I feel as if you were farther away than Antares.<br>You know how far it is? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yes, I know, she said. You were a good teacher.<br>Antares is about 250 light-years distant from the Earth.<br>That’s pretty far away since light travels very fast, <br>At a velocity of 300,000 kilometers each second. <br>In other words the distance between us <br>Is 250 times 10 trillion kilometers, and still growing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then the waiter came and brought them the bill.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Hartal">Paul Hartal</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477424" data-title="Lost Love’s Distance de Paul Hartal" data-description="The astrophysicist aimed the telescope at Antares. Oh, this red giant of the Milky Way Galaxy is so beautiful, he said. Almost as bright as the stars Aldebaran and Regulus. Have a look, he told his assistant. Almost as bright as the star Aldebar..."></div> </div> </div>

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