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They went five miles an hour and inside it was 105 degrees in the pitch dark.
My best friend, this person I love and admire, felt a million miles away.
It's about three miles out of Nairobi, and it's a mile long and about two-tenths of a mile wide, where over half a million people live crammed in these little tin shacks, generation after generation, renting them, often eight or 10 people to a room.
The first time I saw a wild animal in my home country was when I was 25 years old, even though lions and African wild dogs lived just a few miles away from my home.
A city that in the 1950s was the world's industrial giant, with a population of 1.8 million people and 140 square miles of land and infrastructure, used to support this booming, Midwestern urban center.
They further go on to say that 40 square miles of the city is vacant.
More miles per gallon, more light per watt, more words per minute.
Neighboring villages saw the fishing boom and drew up their own closures, spreading the model virally along hundreds of miles of coastline.
Spurred on by rising catches, leaders from Andavadoaka joined force with two dozen neighboring communities to establish a vast conservation area along dozens of miles of coastline.
And they didn't stop there: within five years, they'd secured legal rights from the state to manage over 200 square miles of ocean, eliminating destructive industrial trawlers from the waters.
But all that is just the beginning of the story, because this handful of fishing villages taking action has sparked a marine conservation revolution that has spread over thousands of miles, impacting hundreds of thousands of people.
For example, this Opel two-seater does 155 miles an hour at 94 miles a gallon.
This muscle car from Toyota: 408 horsepower in an ultra-light that does zero to 60 in well under four seconds, and still gets 32 miles a gallon.
And yet we may not realize that in a standard sedan, of all the fuel energy you feed into the car, seven-eighths never gets to the wheels; it's lost first in the engine, idling at zero miles a gallon, the power train and accessories.
But if this McLaren were to run into a wall at 65 miles an hour, the entire crash energy would be absorbed by a couple of woven carbon-fiber composite cones, weighing a total of 15 pounds, hidden in the front end.
See we're bound by today's technology on batteries, which is about 120 miles if you want to stay within reasonable space and weight limitations.
120 miles is a good enough range for a lot of people.
You, today, buy gasoline miles.
And we created electric miles.
And the price of electric miles ends up being a very interesting number.
Now even if we get to 40 miles per gallon by 2020, which is our desire.
Imagine only 40 miles per gallon cars would be on the road.
For them to get a battery that goes 120 miles is an extension on range, not a reduction in range.
You'll pay for the miles.
And I'll always remember, imagine traveling hundreds of miles west of Manaus, the capital city of the Amazon.
It's an intricate dance at 17,500 miles an hour between our capsule, the size of a Smart Car, and the space station, the size of a football field.
But I didn't know what happened to Anna until over a week later, when she turned up at a detention camp a few miles east.
There's Mateo, an 18-month-old boy, who was ripped from his father's arms and sent to a government shelter thousands of miles away, where they failed to properly bathe him for months.
This community that sits three miles from downtown has been stripped of its schools, access to healthy grocery stores and clean water.
I knew I was miles out of my depth.
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