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On September 3rd, the following day, Dakota Access, LLC skipped 25 miles ahead in its construction, to destroy that site.
And 100 miles from here, river miles, it empties its fresh water and sediments into the Gulf of Mexico.
But where else do you go if this area is 8,000 square miles big?
And how do we convince our neighbors to the north, maybe 1,000 miles away or more, that their activities are causing problems with water quality in the Gulf of Mexico?
Similarly, in Lake Erie, couple of summers ago there was hundreds of miles of this blue-green algae and the city of Toledo, Ohio, couldn't use it for their drinking water for several days on end.
The idea with this is that we're going to eliminate tons of food miles, wasted energy, and overfishing of tuna by creating tuna, or any exotic produce or item from a very far-away place, with local, organic produce; so we have a watermelon from Wisconsin.
So developing nations and first-world nations, imagine if you could take these wild plants and consume them, food miles would basically turn into food feet.
I wrote the book on a treadmill, and it took me about a thousand miles to write the book.
It's more than a hundred miles across a difficult passage of ocean.
They'll often walk as much as 5 or 10 miles in pursuit of those items of inventory.
They were very important to coastal communities, going back hundreds of years, especially around the Claddaghduff, Connemara region where subsistence farmers used to sail out on their hookers and open boats, sometimes way offshore to a place called the Sunfish Bank, about 30 miles west of Achill Island, to kill the basking sharks.
Just 70 miles downstream is the world's largest freshwater delta, the Peace-Athabasca Delta, the only one at the juncture of all four migratory flyways.
So the Great Bear Rainforest is just over the hill there, within a few miles, we go from these dry boreal forests of 100-year-old trees, maybe 10 inches across, and soon, we're in the coastal temperate rainforest, rain-drenched, 1,000-year-old trees, 20 feet across, a completely different ecosystem.
I was taking a shower in a hotel room in Sydney the moment she died, 600 miles away, in Melbourne.
They put a laptop, and they connected to the diagnostic unit on the in-car network, and they did all kinds of silly things, like here's a picture of the speedometer showing 140 miles an hour when the car's in park.
Well, what if you make the car always say it's going 20 miles an hour slower than it's actually going?
They also were able to install malware that wouldn't kick in and wouldn't trigger until the car was doing something like going over 20 miles an hour, or something like that.
It needed to know the exact distance, so he knew very precisely that the distance between the two cities was 500 miles.
And then they stood at two hilltops, two miles distant, and they did the same thing, on the assumption from Galileo that if light had a discernible speed, he'd notice a delay in the light coming back from his assistant's lamp.
He lived in Paris, and he set up two experimental stations, roughly 5.5 miles distant, in Paris.
If I point a beam through this notch at a mirror, five miles away, that beam is bouncing off the mirror and coming back to me through this notch.
The ice could be anywhere from three to 16 miles deep.
I asked him, what was it like to actually herd a thousand cattle across hundreds of miles?
So hoping that the laws of physics will explain one particular number, 93 million miles, well that is simply wrongheaded.
Four-fifths of the world's energy still comes from burning each year four cubic miles of the rotted remains of primeval swamp goo.
Last year, Volkswagen announced that by next year they'll be producing this carbon fiber plugin hybrid getting 230 miles a gallon.
And this picture here was taken the final night from a distant cliff about two miles away, where the contents of the capsule were being beamed into space.
Narrator: Some 1,500 miles south of the tropics, between Chile and Bolivia, the Andes completely change.
Let's have our cars go at 60 miles per hour.
Let's say they do 30 miles per gallon.
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