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I did learn on Wikipedia that the Greenland ice sheet is huge, the size of Mexico, and its ice from top to bottom is two miles thick.
Fossil sites run up and down both lengths of that lake basin, which represents some 20,000 square miles.
This is the whaling camp here, we're about six miles from shore, camping on five and a half feet of thick, frozen pack ice.
But I hope what I'm about to tell you will resonate with you, though we have this big distance in miles and in our cultures.
And in 2007, I was in Space Shuttle "Atlantis," careening off the planet, traveling at 17,500 miles per hour.
It's like a Benetton commercial, you know, you have African American, Asian American, French, German, Russian, the first female commander, breaking bread at 17,500 miles per hour, going around the planet every 90 minutes, seeing a sunrise and a sunset every 45.
But we're all having this moment where we see our respective families working together as one civilization, at 17,500 miles per hour.
The design called for geosynchronous orbit 25,000 miles up, 100-meter diameter lens.
And on November 5, 2017, Wayband helped a person who was blind run the first 15 miles of the New York City Marathon without any sighted assistance.
But this solution doesn’t quite translate to a city skyline– a pyramid that tall would be roughly one-and-a-half miles wide, tough to squeeze into a city center.
The Sun is 93 million miles away, and we're tilting like this, right?
During my final year of my undergraduate degree, I desperately wanted to escape from being forced into marriage, so I applied to a fellowship program in Delhi, which is about 1,600 miles away from my village.
This rocket goes up 135 miles into the sky.
It all happened within five miles of where I'm standing, at Stanford University, between 1960 and 1975.
And how will it end up being different from a kid born 60 miles south of us, in Lynchburg, Virginia?
The average depth is about two miles.
Bill Lange: We tend to forget about the fact that the ocean is miles deep on average, and that we're real familiar with the animals that are in the first 200 or 300 feet, but we're not familiar with what exists from there all the way down to the bottom.
DG: Two octopods at about two miles depth.
We found, for example, that here in the New York area, you could get an echocardiogram for 200 dollars in Brooklyn or for 2,150 dollars in Manhattan, just a few miles away.
San Francisco, the same MRI, 475 dollars or 6,221 dollars just 25 miles away.
You want to move [only] crosswind for 1.2 miles.
And eventually, three miles later, we arrived at our destination, where a Jeep was supposed to meet us.
The one thing that kept me going: I remember the story of my grandfather, and how he used to walk 465 miles from his village to the city, just to protest for independence.
For more than 10 years, I and two million people back home have been living in darkness, locked between two borders that are nearly impossible to leave, literally, in an area that spans 25 miles long and about five miles wide.
Then she walked five miles, clenching that pencil, trying to enroll.
A car traveling at 55 miles an hour covers the length of an American football field in just under four and a half seconds, but just so happens to be the same amount of time it takes the average person to check a text message.
In all my driving games, I've driven a total of 31,459 miles.
Now we're going to go 2,000 kilometers, or about 1,200 miles, north of Oslo, only 600 miles from the Pole, and this is arguably the most strategic island you've never heard of.
The lawyers and the judges would travel from one county courthouse to the other, and when anyone was knowing Lincoln was in town, they would come from miles around to listen to him tell stories.
This is 100 percent autonomous, about 33 miles, an hour and a half.
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