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It has a couple buttons and a system for detecting motion and distance.
Maybe the moon looks bigger near the horizon because it's next to tiny trees, houses, and towers in the distance.
Our brains judge the distance to objects and their apparent size by the focus of our eyes.
When looking at the horizon, your eyes focus far off into the distance so your brain knows you're looking far away.
One reason for this was that transportation was not widely available, so everything had to be within walking distance, including the few sources of clean water that existed then.
If it flaps its tail once, it can coast ahead for an incredible distance.
Past a certain distance from the nucleus, the probability of finding an electron starts to decrease more or less exponentially, which means that while it will approach zero, it'll never actually hit zero.
So we look for planets that orbit at just the right distance from their stars.
At this distance, shown in blue on this diagram for stars of different temperatures, planets could be warm enough for water to flow on their surfaces as lakes and oceans where life might reside.
And here's why that's important: there are many factors besides distance from its star that control whether a planet can support life.
Its thick atmosphere, not its distance from the sun, is the reason.
For instance, the center of mass of a flat, rectangular object of uniform density will be in the intersection of both diagonals, in equal distance from each corner.
And so using inFORM, you can reach out from the screen and manipulate things at a distance.
So we used the pins of the display to represent people's hands, allowing them to actually touch and manipulate objects at a distance.
We can clearly identify features of the wave pattern as a whole, most importantly, its wavelength, which is the distance between two neighboring peaks, or two neighboring valleys.
They write or talk more about others, often using the third person to distance and disassociate themselves from their lie, which sounds more false: "Absolutely no party took place at this house," or "I didn't host a party here."
And we stand in the far end by the entrance, far from the altar and from the gated enclosure intended for the clergy and we peer into the distance, looking for a beginning.
Michelangelo gave us an initial energy when he gave us the separation of light and dark, a churning figure blurry in the distance, compressed into a tight space.
If we were only able to calculate time to the nearest second, every location on Earth, and far beyond, would seem to be the same distance from the satellite.
So in order to calculate that distance to within a few dozen feet, we need the best clock ever invented.
So thanks to the atomic clock, we get a time reading accurate to within 1 billionth of a second, and a very precise measurement of the distance from that satellite.
We now know that you're at a fixed distance from the satellite.
Measure your distance from a second satellite and you get another overlapping sphere.
Some types of shrimp can also create a similar shock wave underwater, stunning or even killing pray at a distance with just a snap of their oversized claw.
How many are burned by 100 jumping jacks, or long distance running, or fidgeting?
They use it for things like sorting items in an online store by price, or creating a list of all the gas stations close to a given location sorted by distance.
And as the distance and depth of fishing have expanded, so has the variety of species we target.
The Earth-Moon distance is a quarter of a million miles.
And that's only if we launch on a very specific day, at a very specific time, once every two years, when Mars and the Earth are aligned just so, so the distance that the rocket would have to travel will be the shortest.
Which groups record more walking distance by pedometer, we give them prizes.
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