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But the distances on the universe are so large and the time scales are so large that it takes a long time for this to form.
And you'll see in the example with the starlings, with the birds, when this peregrine hawk is about to attack them, that actually waves of panic can propagate, sending messages over great distances.
Our own technologies are visible over interstellar distances, and theirs might be as well.
And over those long distances, its signal is very faint when it reaches us.
And in people with astigmatism, the cornea has two different curvatures which focus light at two distances and produce blurry vision.
The difference between the two eyes is small enough that most patients can merge their vision, allowing both eyes to work together at all distances.
And just in the last 5,000 years, in increasing rates, over increasing distances.
The world's first writing started in Sumer as a system of accounting, allowing merchants to communicate over long distances with traders abroad.
Your brain does the work of intelligently putting together the sharpest parts from each eye's view, but the two eyes see slightly different things, and that makes it harder to judge distances binocularly.
The part of the eye that allows us to refocus to different distances is called the crystalline lens.
The sensor is a camera that looks out at the world and reports distances to objects.
The breakfast that we eat as we sit down to check our email in the morning is still transported at great distances, usually at the expense of the local, more resilient food systems that would have supplied that in the past, which we've so effectively devalued and dismantled.
Turns out your body can regenerate, but only for small distances.
So, we do regenerate, but for limited distances.
We are limited with distances right now, but our goal is actually to increase those distances over time.
What's more, they are able to walk upright for long distances.
And we can then do the kinds of things that ecologists do on land, and do nearest neighbor distances.
He says children now walk long distances with cattle and buffalo to find uncontaminated grazing land.
Each time you're closer, it gets bigger, down to very, very small distances.
So what happens is that in a way you have a much bigger lung, but it branches and branches down to distances about the same for a whale, for a man and for a little rodent.
And the earliest evidence for it crops up somewhere between 80 and 120,000 years ago in Africa, when you see obsidian and jasper and other things moving long distances in Ethiopia.
It's the economy of moving these heavy, slow atoms over long distances that's very difficult to do.
Yet elsewhere in the country, people are still strolling around sightseeing and licking ice-cream when another tsunami rolls in... Kusanagi also manages to travel great distances without any hindrance, or even a crease in his cream shirt.
The connection between the beginning and end was a little spacey, that is, I had a hard time understanding the distances between the hotel and the opening sequence.
Indians are magical people who move around without a sound, can disappear in the blink of an eye, talk to animals, and read minds over large distances.
His secret passion for dressing like Olivia Newton John distances him even further from the people that already consider him a social outcast.
These once in a lifetime friendships occur between people with long distances between and there are always some natural reasons for why we don't meet these people anymore.
It's hard to stay interested as the film goes along because the characters we begin to sympathize with are each killed off in turn...which is fine as an element of surprise the first time it happens, but when it continually happens throughout the movie, the end result is that it distances the viewer and you're not left with much to care about.
We get two royals riding huge distances in the desert (she is not even wearing a hat), with about half a dozen attendants each.
Maybe something gets lost between the English the characters speak and my understanding but it's so pretentious and completely distances the audience.
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