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And somewhere in the middle of South Dakota, I turn to my friend and I ask her a question that's been bothering me for 2,000 miles.
Here's a mother and her two year-old cub were traveling on a ship a hundred miles offshore in the middle of nowhere, and they're riding on this big piece of glacier ice, which is great for them; they're safe at this point.
They had come from thousands of miles away.
There would be a choice of a city which you could go to which could be in Honduras, instead of hundreds of miles away in the North.
Every morning I drive about 30 miles from my home in Ann Arbor to my office in Dearborn, Michigan.
Since the Model T, most people never traveled more than 25 miles from home in their entire lifetime.
But going from slinging some wire across rooftops in Boston to laying thousands and thousands of miles of cable on the Atlantic Ocean seabed is no easy matter.
There are places on that island where you can encounter a new language every two or three miles.
And while his body was on that bridge, his mind, his attention, was thousands of miles away.
You know, this happens to be the asteroid belt of architectural garbage two miles north of my town.
In fact, it's as large as Western Europe, but it only has 300 miles of paved roads.
Such red clay is not found within a hundred miles of Edinburgh, except in the botanical gardens.
Last month, I went out sailing, and we got out to the Farallon Islands, 25 miles off the Gate.
They were boats left five miles inland.
If we walk into the B15 iceberg when we leave here today, we're going to bump into something a thousand feet tall, 76 miles long, 17 miles wide, and it's going to weigh two gigatons.
Or that look of disappointment that you can just smell from miles away.
Do you feel like you're moving a thousand miles an hour?
You've got a plane that's thousands of feet up in the air, going at hundreds of miles an hour, and you're trying to drop an object, a bomb, towards some stationary target in the face of all kinds of winds and cloud cover and all kinds of other impediments.
I started with small images, I started with a few miles.
On average, there's one within 20 to 30 miles of wherever you are in the United States.
But basically by the time you're nine months and you're given birth, you have almost 60,000 miles of vessels inside your body.
59,999 miles that are basically bringing nutrients and taking waste away.
That means about 190 miles per hour.
A chunk of rock six miles across, moving something like 50 times the speed of a rifle bullet, slammed into the Earth.
The scale here is 50 miles on top, a hundred kilometers on the bottom.
But it turns out, you don't need something six miles across to do a lot of damage.
Another rock came into the Earth's atmosphere and this one blew up above the ground, several miles up above the surface of the Earth.
The heat from the explosion set fire to the forest below it, and then the shock wave came down and knocked down trees for hundreds of square miles.
However, think about this: This thing is orbiting the Sun at 10, 20 miles per second.
There were youth that had run 2,000 miles from Cannonball, North Dakota all the way out to Washington, DC, with a message for President Obama: "Please intervene.
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