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After miles of walking, Ekido could no longer restrain himself.
Six thousand miles of road, 600 miles of subway track, 400 miles of bike lanes and a half a mile of tram track, if you've ever been to Roosevelt Island.
For example, the Department of Transportation will probably tell you how many miles of road they maintain.
The MTA will boast how many miles of subway track there are.
You can see that from about midnight to around 5:18 in the morning, speed increases, and at that point, things turn around, and they get slower and slower and slower until about 8:35 in the morning, when they end up at around 11 and a half miles per hour.
The average taxi is going 11 and a half miles per hour on our city streets, and it turns out it stays that way for the entire day.
40-50 miles, it doesn't matter.
What it means is that a few feet of difference in the human body makes more of a difference to your microbial ecology than hundreds of miles on Earth.
Four days before my eventful release, four hostages were beheaded a few miles away from where I was kept in captivity.
Even in the driest, highest places on Earth, the air is sweet and thick with oxygen exhaled from thousands of miles away by our rainforests.
That means I had to go 600 miles away from my hometown to the River Ganges to take a holy dip.
When I met her, she had walked about 12 miles in the only garments she owned, to come to the capital city and to share her story.
This would be her route: over 3,600 miles across the open North Atlantic Ocean.
At this point, she'd covered over 1,000 miles, had had no radio contact in more than two weeks following a storm that disabled all her long-range communications systems just five days in.
As happy as I was this morning, I am unhappy now, so ... DL: After nearly three months at sea, she'd covered over 3,000 miles.
Came back to Earth at speeds of up to 822 miles an hour.
Roswell's a great place to launch balloons, but it's a fantastic place to land under a parachute, especially when you're going to land 70 miles away from the place you started.
This is Dave clearing the airspace with the FAA for 15 miles.
It's interesting here, because if you look, I'm right over the airport, and I'm probably at 50,000 feet, but immediately I'm about to go into a stratospheric wind of over 120 miles an hour.
There's nothing for me to tell it's the speed of sound, and very soon I will actually be as fast as I ever get, 822 miles an hour.
And before you know it, you can be tangled up or spinning, or you can release this drogue late, in which case what happens is you're going down at 800 miles an hour, and this thing is going to destroy itself and not be very useful.
And this is actually a real photograph of Earth taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft, four billion miles away.
At Cambridge, thousands of miles away from home, I realized I was spending more hours with my laptop than I did with any other human.
Along the ancient path of the Monongahela River, Braddock, Pennsylvania sits in the eastern region of Allegheny County, approximately nine miles outside of Pittsburgh.
She also loved to put 50 pounds of weight on her back and run for miles, and she loved to be a soldier.
In America, between 1990 and 2010, the vehicle miles traveled increased by 38 percent.
All the time he's been doing 65 miles per hour down the freeway.
It turns out that human drivers make mistakes that lead to traffic accidents about once every 100,000 miles in America.
We do three million miles of testing in our simulators every single day, so you can imagine the experience that our vehicles have.
Imagine that alone in the Southern Ocean plunged into icy water, thousands of miles away from land.
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