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Ewan McPhail sur Twitter : "That's my beautiful and talented lady right there #blessed #timeless... Light cone. In general relativity, the future light cone is the boundary of the causal future of a point and the past light cone is the boundary of its causal past. [Wikipedia] From the moment of my birth, light [that I could have influenced] has been expanding around the Earth and light [which could influence me, from an increasing distance of origin] reaching it -- this ever-growing sphere of potential causality is my light cone.

Today... My light cone contains 61 stars. Beta Leonis will be reached in in 2 days. (Data taken from the utterly excellent An Atlas of the Universe, which has maps from the solar system out to the the Local Group and beyond. There's a lovely 3d map of stars within 50 light years, the data from which is used here. Yosemite HD. First Things First (9780684802039): Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill: Books. How Does Your Day Match Up to the National Average? - Ask the Readers - Lifehacker. @Lazzzara: And some other odd occurences... - At various times during the day about 1% of people who are unemployed are "working". - Men get up earlier than women. - When people have 1 kid (vs. none), they work more, but when the 2nd kid comes along they work less. - People with advanced degrees work the longest hourse (bang goes the theory that low-paid unskilled workers work harder than the intelligentsia). - Men watch more TV than women.

@Lazzzara: I think it's pretty evident by that graph that way too many people put off breakfast. Furthermore, there are two dips that show lunch and dinner/supper. @Lazzzara: Lunch? That's cause they're working. The Long Now Foundation.