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It's the equivalent of crashing at 94 miles per hour into a wall with a door in front of it.
As of 2012, the world record for fastest short-distance sprint speed is roughly 27 miles per hour.
His fastest recorded speed is less than 5 miles per hour.
That's 18,000 miles an hour, just over Mach 23!
So that's more than 100 trillion miles.
OK, now imagine that car is 100 trillion miles away, and you want to know the precise color of that fly.
At NASA, where astronauts are hurled into space at 17,000 miles per hour, motion sickness is a serious problem.
But depending on where you sit, it is hundreds of miles/hour relative to Earth's center.
Thus, the tsunami is born, moving at over 500 miles per hour.
But our last find came really just a few miles from where we are now, in the Solomon Islands.
The answer lies 12,000 miles over your head in an orbiting satellite that keeps time to the beat of an atomic clock powered by quantum mechanics.
As you increase your speed, you would normally continuously go from, say, 20 miles/hour up to 70 miles/hour.
In 1976, the landing ellipse for the Mars Viking Lander was 62 x 174 miles, nearly the area of New Jersey.
In 2012, the landing ellipse for the Curiosity Lander was only 4 miles wide by 12 miles long, an area more than 200 times smaller than Viking's.
Under the Han Dynasty, the wall grew longer still, reaching 3700 miles, and spanning from Dunhuang to the Bohai Sea.
Averaging 23 feet high and 21 feet wide, the walls 5500 miles were punctuated by watchtowers.
And since then, we've taken 7.9 million miles off the roads and we've taken 1.4 thousand metric tons of CO2 out of the air.
We went on 8,000 miles across America in the summer of 2013, through the cow pastures of Montana, through the desolation of Detroit, through the swamps of New Orleans, where we found and worked with men and women who were building small businesses that made purpose their bottom line.
And now our cars have self-driven more than 1.4 million miles, and they're out everyday on the streets of Mountain View, California and Austin, Texas.
I'm standing in a room across the street, while I'm standing on this stage with you, while I'm standing on Mars, a hundred million miles away.
AK: Wow, a hundred million miles away.
The Earth-Moon distance is a quarter of a million miles.
So for a fun twist, let us imagine that the only source of water available is trapped as frozen blocks miles below the surface.
Build space elevators, or impossible miles of transport belts that tether your planet of choice to our home planet?
The Moon is 250,000 miles away and it took Apollo astronauts three days to get there.
On Earth we have miles of atmosphere piled up on us, which creates 15 pounds of pressure on our bodies at all times, and we're constantly pushing out against that.
By rallying citizens together, we helped persuade our government to do the unthinkable, and act to fix a problem miles outside of our borders.
"Though I'm past 100,000 miles, I'm feeling very still, and I think my spaceship knows which way to go.
It's got 920 million miles on the odometer, but it still runs great and reliably takes a photograph of the sky every 11 seconds.
The data is then sent on a cellular network to well-equipped hospitals hundreds of miles away for analysis.
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