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Now the last option was the longest, and the most difficult: to sail 1,500 miles due south in hopes of reaching a certain band of winds that could eventually push them toward the coast of South America.
You want to be like, "Oh, dude, we had to get up in the middle of the night and drive a hundred miles in total darkness."
And that guy's like, "Actually, it was 87.3 miles."
They can't fish there for a radius of 200 miles.
And these stars have compressed down to maybe something like 12, 15 miles wide, and they are black holes.
But it only has to get close, about a billion miles away, one of these things.
About a billion miles away, here's what happens to Earth's orbit: it becomes elliptical instead of circular.
In 1908, just a 200-foot piece of a comet exploded over Siberia and flattened forests for maybe 100 miles.
In 1989, a large asteroid passed 400,000 miles away from Earth.
An asteroid five miles wide causes major extinctions.
We think the one that got the dinosaurs was about five miles wide.
I went 300 miles out of Delhi into a really remote village where the chances of a passing software development engineer was very little.
I've seen them do it from a village called Diggles in northwestern England, deep inside a village in Tamil Nadu, India, 6,000 miles away.
For instance, the obesity rate in my neighborhood is five times higher than, say, Beverly Hills, which is probably eight, 10 miles away.
They own 26 square miles of vacant lots.
Every school was a big top circus tent, and the pecking order went from acrobats to lion tamers, from clowns to carnies, all of these miles ahead of who we were.
Flocks that were a mile wide and 400 miles long used to darken the sun.
My rough calculation is it would be about 25 miles thick.
Since my family couldn't speak Chinese, I had to guide them somehow through more than 2,000 miles in China, and then into Southeast Asia.
I think somebody recently got 420 miles out of a single charge.
The bad news was that to do it, he had to drive at 18 miles an hour constant speed and got pulled over by the cops.
It's actually better to drive for about maybe 160, 170 miles and then stop for half an hour and then keep going.
This motor has enough power to take you up the hills of San Francisco at about 20 miles per hour, about 30 kilometers an hour, and this battery, this battery right here has about six miles of range, or 10 kilometers, which is enough to cover about half of the car trips in the U.S. alone.
It's a historical fact that in 1885, the average North Carolina housewife walked 148 miles a year carrying 35 tons of water.
So instead of going to coffee meetings or fluorescent-lit conference room meetings, I ask people to go on a walking meeting, to the tune of 20 to 30 miles a week.
The answer comes from a behavioral science experiment that was run one hot summer, 10 years ago, and only 90 miles from here, in San Marcos, California.
Eventually, it will be able to have to stay up day, night, day, night, for six months at a time, acting like the synchronous satellite, but only ten miles above the Earth.
These clouds can grow so big, up to 50 miles wide and reach up to 65,000 feet into the atmosphere.
And it wasn't about me, and it wasn't a punishment for taking the wheel and driving a few miles.
Now coastal countries have authority over 200 nautical miles from shore.
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