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Right means the train will go one car length forward, and left means the train will go the same distance backwards.
One fine day, Alfred Kinsey decided to calculate the average distance traveled by ejaculated semen.
During the Age of Exploration, spirits played a crucial role in long distance sea voyages.
What he said, that all too often, is that we accept the distance between those two ideas.
When the astronomical distance between the realities of the academy and the visionary intensity of this challenge were more than enough, I can assure you, to give one pause, what was happening outside higher education made backing off unthinkable.
They are so many and so varied that from this distance they appear like the stars from Earth.
A short distance away, he spots an unguarded ostrich nest, full of immense, but impenetrable eggs.
And it's one of the most interesting technical challenges that's very currently active in the computer sciences: being able to have a camera that can understand, from a fairly big distance away, how these little tiny balls are actually pointing in one way or another to reveal what you're interested in, and where your attention is directed.
What happened back a few years ago was a group of theoretical physicists at MIT actually came up with this concept of transferring power over distance.
Basically they were able to light a 60 watt light bulb at a distance of about two meters.
And those two coils of wire are really, really close to each other, and actually do transfer power magnetically and wirelessly, only over a very short distance.
What Dr. Soljacic figured out how to do was separate the coils in a transformer to a greater distance than the size of those transformers using this technology, which is not dissimilar from the way an opera singer shatters a glass on the other side of the room.
The downside to both of these is that you lose field of vision at any given distance, because it gets split up from top to bottom like this.
Full-field-of-view vision that can be sharp at any desired distance.
The lenses don't have any way of knowing what distance they should be focused to.
Our prototype borrows technology from virtual and augmented reality systems to estimate focusing distance.
Just in case though, to increase reliability, we also added a distance sensor.
We can again use your gaze direction to get a distance estimate for a second time.
We then fuse those two distance estimates and update the focus-tunable lens power accordingly.
This diagram shows you to scale the size of Earth and the Moon and the real distance, about 400,000 kilometers.
The problem with that distance is that it's a thousand times the distance of the Earth to the Moon, pretty far away, but there's no direct radio contact with, for example, the Curiosity rover.
So the distance, so rovers and robots and going to have to work autonomously.
MoldeVort gets to say one of them, and if you can pick a square on the board whose center is exactly that distance away, the curse will force him to move to that spot.
But that means you’ll need to allow a number larger than 4, which is the distance from one end of a row to another.
There are, in fact, points that are distance 5 from each other, which we know thanks to the Pythagorean Theorem.
Now, Mr. Alligator never did come, but the idea of Mr. Alligator coming actually saved my sanity and made it OK for me to keep going, because I believed, in the distance, there would be someone coming to rescue me.
In about five years we will discover planets like Earth, around sun-like stars, the same distance as the Earth from the Sun.
And from a distance it appears that it's a single group.
And as I'm speaking to you today, there are 63 inmates and staff in the Kenya Prison Service studying law at the University of London through distance learning.
This tribe, the Cofan, has 17 varieties of ayahuasca, all of which they distinguish a great distance in the forest, all of which are referable to our eye as one species.
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