Beacon mirage; You Say Email:letters@liverpoolecho.co.uk.PERHAPS the statueKenneth Butterworth describes (ECHO letters November 18) was a mirage of St John''s Beacon. Light waves behave in strange ways when travelling across an expanse of water, especially with layers of air of varying temperatures. We have all seen this effect on a hot daywhen you think there''swater on the road up ahead. So, in effect, the statuewould be some elongation elongation, in astronomy, the angular distance between two points in the sky as measured from a third point. The elongation of a planet is usually measured as the angular distance from the sun to the planet as measured from the earth. of St John''s Beacon. Of course, it could equally be some mirage of a statue in one of the parks, magnified by the air layers acting like a lens. I had heard of this statue mirage before, possibly on the radio a few years ago when Tom Slemen This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. was talking to Noun 1. talking to - a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to" lecture, speech rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval - an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to members of the public who had seen strange things in Liverpool. It might be a real ghostly phenomenon, but I always opt for the rational explanation. Frank Gerrity, Speke |
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