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Neptune
The Little Red Lighthouse
📍 The rocks at the base of the lighthouse, facing out. Get the bridge in the frame above it — a forty-foot lighthouse under a six-hundred-foot tower is the same joke as a seven-inch Neptune ten miles from a seventeen-foot Sun.
At true scale: 7.2 in (18.4 cm) across
About this place
Seven and a quarter inches of Neptune, 10.27 miles from a bronze sphere in Liberty Park. Sunlight takes four hours to get here. Everything between this lighthouse and The Sphere is empty — nine tenths of today's walking was the emptiness, and the emptiness was the point.