Show DISTANCE TO THE SUN imagine a railway from here to the sun how many tours bours is the sun from us why if we were to send a baby in in an express train going incessantly a hundred miles an hour hoar without making any stoppages stoppages pages the baby would grow to be a boy t the e boy would grow to be a man the man would grow old and die without seeing the sun for it is distant more than a hundred years from us but what is this compared to neptunus Nep tunes distance had adam and eve started by our railway at the creation to go from neptune to the sun at the rate of fifty miles an hour bour bo ur they would not have got there yet for neptune is is more than six thousand years rears from the centre of our system Hou household sebold words |