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I was approaching a part in the ocean which was 2,000 miles away from the nearest town.
We all know what it's like driving a car 20 miles an hour, 30, 40.
Take that 50, 60, 70, accelerate through to 80, 90, 100 miles an hour.
You go under this bridge at about 65 miles an hour, and there's another bridge here.
And I had to travel 2,000 miles across the country to get treatment, but within days of them prescribing a new medication, my life turned into an episode of the Walking Dead.
So let me take you to the Andes mountains in Chile, 500 kilometers, 300 miles northeast of Santiago.
And so after the spring, after they raise their young, they then fly thousand of miles over the Gulf of Mexico into Central and South America.
They fly thousands of miles over the Gulf of Mexico.
So sure, the national park is the southern end of this system, but all the things that make it unique are these inputs that come in, the fresh water that starts 100 miles north.
LD: By the time we finished our not-so-straight journey around the world, (Laughter) we had traveled 50,000 miles and logged 120 hours of video footage.
Such a beach would continue for literally hundreds of millions of miles.
30 times, the thickness reaches 6.5 miles, which is about the average height that planes fly.
40 times, the thickness is nearly 7,000 miles, or the average GPS satellite's orbit.
48 times, the thickness is way over one million miles.
Now, if you think that the distance between the Earth and the Moon is less than 250,000 miles, then starting with a piece of Bible paper and folding it 45 times, we get to the Moon.
Why is it that killer whales have returned to researchers lost in thick fog and led them miles until the fog parted and the researchers' home was right there on the shoreline?
Albatrosses frequently fly six, sometimes ten thousand miles over several weeks to deliver one meal, one big meal, to their chick who is waiting for them.
If you had a mole of donuts, they would cover the entire earth to a depth of eight kilometers, which is about five miles.
The first line of protection was a moat 60 feet wide and 22 feet deep, stretching all four miles from coast to coast.
Our minds are overworked, we think at a million miles an hour, we're always stressed.
We find them in fissures of rock miles beneath our feet, in boiling waters of the ocean floor, in acidic waters of thermal springs, and in cloud droplets miles above our heads.
So, when you look at your pencil, the light that hits your eye actually originated at the sun and has traveled millions of miles across empty space before bouncing off the pencil and into your eye, which is pretty cool when you think about it.
Now, at the time, I was amazed that a stranger more than 6,000 miles away would go to such lengths to help someone she would probably never meet.
They can heat their bodies 20 degrees above ambient temperature, they can swim at over 40 miles an hour.
The men in Apollo 10 reached a record-breaking speed of around 25,000 miles per hour when the shuttle re-entered the Earth's atmosphere in 1969.
So, if we're running at 25,000 miles per hour, the heat from friction would burn our faces off.
By the time we see what is ahead of us and react to it - time times velocity equals distance equals one-fifth of a second times 25,000 miles per hour equals 1.4 miles - we would have gone past it or through it by over a mile.
So, long distance travel at 25,000 miles per hour would leave us burning up, covered in bugs, and leaves no time to react.
When the girl at rest, velocity equals zero miles per hour, begins accelerating to reach the speed within seconds, velocity increases rapidly to 25,000 miles per hour, her brain would crash into the side of her skull.
And, when she stops suddenly, velocity decreases rapidly back to zero miles per hour, her brain would crash into the other side of her skull, turning her brain into mush.
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