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travels 93 million miles only to die unnoticed against your kitchen floor

means A single beam or shaft of sunlight, especially one seen streaming through a gap, window, or break in the clouds.

from A plain English compound of "sun" and "ray." "Sun" is ancient Germanic, kin to German "Sonne" and ultimately to a vast Indo-European family of sun-words. "Ray" came in from Old French "rai," from Latin "radius" — the same "radius" that means a spoke of a wheel and the bone in your forearm, the idea being a straight line shooting out from a center. So a sunray is, quite literally, a spoke thrown out from the wheel of the sun.

travel time
about eight minutes from sun to skin
ancient light
core photons took millennia to escape the sun
speed limit
nothing in the universe moves faster
bent path
refraction makes sunset rays arrive late, distorted
named fish
the sunray venus clam wears that title proudly
for instance

sunray mining company — canadian uranium mining company that operated in algoma, ontario from 1930-1990

sunray bread — british bakery brand established in london, still produces sliced bread products

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