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What do you think his experience is going to be when he is going down the side of a mountain at over 70 miles an hour as an Olympic downhill skier?
Please forgive us when we spend one week in a place that has 100 percent light discipline, because you're not allowed to walk around with white lights, because if anything has a white light, it can be seen from miles away, versus if you use little green or little blue lights, they cannot be seen from far away.
But Waltham showed that if the moon were just a few miles bigger, things would be different.
I had the privilege of going to a wedding the other day in northern Namibia, 20 miles or so south of the Angolan border in a village of 200 people.
We're entering an age where we can stop him with the press of a button from 1,000 miles away, because whether he knew it or not, as soon as he decided to use his cell phone, he stepped into the realm of cyber.
No more phone, no more detonator, maybe no more terrorist, all with the press of a button from a thousand miles away.
Galaxies merge, they collide at hundreds of thousands of miles per hour.
These are the asteroids we may one day send spacecraft to, to mine them for minerals, but they're also the asteroids that may one day impact the Earth, like happened 60 million years ago with the extinction of the dinosaurs, or just at the beginning of the last century, when an asteroid wiped out almost 1,000 square miles of Siberian forest, or even just last year, as one burnt up over Russia, releasing the energy of a small nuclear bomb.
However cruel, however ruthless you can think this is it's a great design, and it is miles away from the fancy furniture, but still, it's part of my same field of passion.
Sixty-six years after the Wright Brothers took off from Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Neil Armstrong was 240,000 miles away.
My father and my mother left Jamaica and they traveled 4,000 miles, and yet they were infantilized by travel.
I had to walk home three miles from school.
The nearest healthcare was fatal miles away.
There's only one left in the world: it's nine miles offshore and 65 feet down.
Instead of driving 12,000 miles a year, which is what the average city dweller does, they drive 500 miles a year.
So, how is it that people went from the 12,000 miles a year to 500 miles?
We've tripled the miles that we drive since 1970 and doubled them since 1982.
And if we have it, you'll decide how many miles to drive, what mode of travel, where to live and work.
Now, imagine being his parents who flew in from Seattle, 2,000 miles away, to find their son in a coma.
In the process, we broke the record for the longest human-powered polar journey in history by more than 400 miles.
Scott's team covered 1,600 miles on foot.
Early on, we averaged 0.5 miles per hour.
It's 110 miles long; most of its surface is what's called blue ice.
But there is also a pole at the South Pole, and we got there on foot, unassisted, unsupported, by the hardest route, 900 miles in record time, dragging more weight than anyone in history.
And then we ran out of food completely, 46 miles short of the first of the depots that we'd laid on our outward journey.
We still had 100 miles to go downhill on very slippery rock-hard blue ice.
That's 20 miles between Mount Hope and Mount Kiffin.
Behind us lay an unbroken ski trail of nearly 1,800 miles.
And in fact, this car has driven over a million miles without any accidents on regular roads.
1,600 years before Columbus set sail, Eratosthenes not only realized the earth was round, but calculated its circumference and diameter within a few miles of their actual size.
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