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Today, the action takes place in a distant time and place, which gives the viewer a sense of detachment from what's happening, a sense of separation.
And when the action is pre-recorded and takes place in a distant time and space, watching seems like a passive activity.
By this, he meant that because the speed of light is finite, any signals detected from distant technologies will be telling us about their past by the time they reach us.
Of those that began as eggs on a distant beach, now less than 10 percent remain, at least, those were the odds prior to significant human interference.
And while a surprising number of important inventions come out of that distant time, what I want to talk to you about today is the invention of graphic communication.
The most distant feathered relatives of birds had straight feathers that looked like wires.
Evidence of human influence is seen in every part of the ocean, no matter how deep, no matter how distant.
As you scan its squares, a distant memory swims up from deep within your brain.
And the coolest thing of all, no matter the wavelength or energy, the light that we see out in the distant universe is the same thing as the light that we can experience and study here on Earth.
So, since we know the physics of how x-ray, ultraviolet light, or microwaves work here, we can study the light of a distant star or galaxy and know what kinds of things are happening there too.
This figure, Jonah, who spent three days in the belly of the whale, for the Christians, is the symbol of the renewal of humanity through Jesus' sacrifice, but for the multitudes of visitors to that museum from all faiths who visit there every day, he is the moment the distant past encounters and meets immediate reality.
The human eye is an amazing mechanism, able to detect anywhere from a few photons to direct sunlight, or switch focus from the screen in front of you to the distant horizon in a third of a second.
And in the not so distant future, the machines built with the precision and flexibilty of the human eye may even enable it to surpass its own evolution.
Some of English's more distant relatives include Hindi, Persian and the Celtic languages it displaced in what is now Britain.
Like starlight, which can convey images of the way the Universe looked in the distant past, so multispectral light can take us back to the first stuttering moments of an object's creation.
1.3 billion years ago, in a distant, distant galaxy, two black holes locked into a spiral, falling inexorably towards each other and collided, converting three Suns' worth of stuff into pure energy in a tenth of a second.
There, the self-sufficient machines would land on distant planets.
Now, I'm not thinking about a distant future.
It seems very distant from you, me, ordinary people.
Imagine you are a part of a crew of astronauts traveling to Mars or some distant planet.
Additionally, these sort of Edenic places are often distant from where people live.
The good news is that when we talk about clean transportation and different mobility, we're not talking about some distant utopia out there.
And I don't know exactly why this is, but I think it may be that we now just know so much more about the suffering of strangers in distant places, and so we now care a lot more about the suffering of those distant strangers.
But what's clear is the kinds of changes we're seeing show that the roots of altruism and compassion are just as much a part of human nature as cruelty and violence, maybe even more so, and while some people do seem to be inherently more sensitive to the suffering of distant others, I really believe that the ability to remove oneself from the center of the circle and expand the circle of compassion outward to include even strangers is within reach for almost everyone.
We have been using robots to study distant worlds in our solar system for a while now.
As our societies grew more complex and our trade routes grew more distant, we built up more formal institutions, institutions like banks for currency, governments, corporations.
Imagine you are a space explorer arriving at a distant planet, searching for aliens.
We saw a weird-looking alien bump on a distant mountain, but once we got closer, we saw it was a rock.
Now, you may be thinking, Professor Autor has told us a heartwarming tale about the distant past, the recent past, maybe the present, but probably not the future.
So while you're watching the movie, or even if you haven't, when you think about Mars, you're probably thinking about how far away it is and how distant.
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