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We were just over 200 miles left to go to the Pole, and we'd run out of time.
My record was minus 2.5 miles.
I got up in the morning, took the tent down, skied north for seven-and-a-half hours, put the tent up, and I was two and a half miles further back than when I'd started.
Strange mixture of feelings: it was extremely warm by this stage, a lot of open water around, and of course, elated that I'd got there under my own steam, but starting to really realize that my chances of making it all the way across to Canada, which was still 400 miles away, were slim at best.
And as he danced with my mother, who is, by the way, half his age, in a room full of generations of his family and hundreds of people, many of whom traveled thousands of miles to be there to celebrate him, I realized that he had not just given me advice, he had given me the first step that every single one of us is capable of making if we want to create a real, wholehearted impact on the world around us, right now.
All that driving that we've been doing out in the suburbs, we have doubled the amount of miles we drive.
But if I could ask you to do one thing, it's not to think about it as a piece of technology, but just imagine that, although we all understand somehow that it's reasonable that we use our 4,000-pound machine, which can go 60 miles an hour, that can bring you everywhere you want to go, and somehow it's also what we used for the last mile, and it's broken, and it doesn't work.
We've got to start building cities and human environments where a 150-pound person can go a couple of miles in a dense, rich, green-space environment, without being in a 4,000-pound machine to do it.
The answer is actually 186,540 miles, or seven times around the globe.
He also offers invisible surgery, where there is no cutting, and surrogate surgery, where he supposedly can treat somebody who is thousands of miles away by performing a procedure on a loved one.
And I think, you know, that's a great name for boats that think that they're going to do anything to make a dent in this, by dragging a boom between them when there are literally hundreds of thousands of square miles in the Gulf right now with oil at the surface.
It's three miles away.
This past January, I traveled to a place called WAIS Divide, about 600 miles from the South Pole.
Their entire camp, every item of gear, was ferried 885 miles from McMurdo Station, the main U.S. supply base on the coast of Antarctica.
They cut the cylinders up into three-foot sections for easier handling and shipment back to these labs, some 8,000 miles from the drill site.
And they can use that sense to navigate hundreds of miles of open ocean.
For example, we have an insurance system where the person who drives 20,000 miles a year pays the same insurance as somebody who drives 3,000.
I was standing outside on a hot summer night in Florida and just a few miles from the ocean.
Approximately 5,000 miles from Delhi is the little town of Gateshead.
I estimate, millions of miles, all packed in your skull.
These ones, interestingly, are 400 miles north of here outside Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria.
And then there's Scott Shaffer and our shearwaters wearing tuna tags, light-based tags, that now are going to take you from New Zealand to Monterey and back, journeys of 35,000 nautical miles we had never seen before.
They control 3.4 million cubic miles of ocean, and that's between one and two percent of all the ocean water on the planet.
They decide to head to the nearest town, Salena several miles away & take the cops with them as hostage.
That's damn near heresy as even Lynch's 'worst' film (worst in quotes, as he doesn't have an bad films really) is still miles above this dreck.
The only way that Jack can get rid of this elephant is to travel 4000 miles in four days and give him to a safe zoo for $30,000.
Right off the bat they depict a lava geyser and a note says that it is miles below the the surface of Washington State.
St. Charles juvenile correction center is a real place less than 30 miles from Mooseheart, although I think it may have closed down recently.
There, the group finds the rests of the plane five miles far from the expected location and the machine and the remains of the persons.
She said it tore her apart being away from him and it was hard - he was the one a million miles away, he was killing people and the only contact he got was through her letters!!!
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