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And then he runs to the nearest tree and starts to break branches and throw rocks and curse like I've never heard.
They happened in places like this, in the Judean Desert, 20 kilometers away from the nearest road.
The nearest we've come is with aramid fiber.
The nearest hospital was at least 32 kilometers away.
When I placed a marker on the Google Earth Map, I had to go with the nearest city, which is about 400 miles away from where I live.
I headed to the nearest Burger King restaurant.
I grew up in the middle of nowhere on a dirt road in rural Arkansas, an hour from the nearest movie theater.
In Sangin where I was sick in 2002, the nearest health clinic was within three days walk.
And the nearest ferry crossing from Fife is from Burntisland.
And that's the nearest thing to the dream.
Next thing you know, two guys in white appear, they give you the strange t-shirt, take you to the nearest mental institution.
But where would be the nearest AED to help this patient?
Nobody knew where the nearest lifesaving AED was to be obtained right now.
And whenever you are in a city like Maastricht, and somebody collapses, you can use your iPhone, and within the next weeks also your Microsoft cellphone, to find the nearest AED, which can save lives.
If there is a monster underground, it is the crushing psychological remoteness that begins to hit every member of the team once you cross about three days inbound from the nearest entrance.
I have no idea where the nearest food pantry is.
But the problem with that is that we realized after a bunch of research that they are amazing at referring people to the nearest clinic or the public health care system, but what happens at the public health care system is this: these incredibly long lines and too many people who overload the system simply because there's not enough doctors and facilities for the population that's being referred.
So, in other words, if there was a street in an outskirt where there had been a bus, we put a bus back in, only now these buses wouldn't run all the way to the city center, but connect to the nearest rapid-transport mode, one of these thick lines over there.
These men were 10,000 miles from home, more than 1,000 miles from the nearest scrap of land.
The men knew that the nearest islands they could reach were the Marquesas Islands, 1,200 miles away.
It acts as a backup to the Internet so that, when the power goes out, it fails over and connects to the nearest GSM network.
So the interplanetary system is on its way, but there's a last project, which the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which funded the original ARPANET, funded the Internet, funded the interplanetary architecture, is now funding a project to design a spacecraft to get to the nearest star in 100 years' time.
You know, the Spanish didn't sink the battleship Maine, the Lusitania was not an innocent vessel but was loaded with munitions, the North Vietnamese did not attack the Seventh Fleet, and, of course, Saddam Hussein hated al Qaeda and had nothing to do with it, and yet the administration convinced 45 percent of the people that they were brothers in arms, when he would hang one from the nearest lamppost.
Our own solar system is huge, so even getting a package from the nearest star system 4.4 light years away would take over 50,000 years.
Now we're at Alpha Centauri, our nearest neighbor star, and the planet is gone.
That's a picture of one our nearest neighbor stars taken with the Hubble Space Telescope.
The nearest healthcare was fatal miles away.
We're talking hundreds of kilometers from the nearest road, there's certainly no electricity, but they had very good cell phone service, these people in the towns were on Facebook all the time, they're surfing the web on their phones, and this sort of got me thinking that in fact it would be possible to use the sounds of the forest, pick up the sounds of chainsaws programmatically, because people can't hear them, and send an alert.
I was approaching a part in the ocean which was 2,000 miles away from the nearest town.
The nearest land was Antarctica, and the nearest people would be those manning the European Space Station above me.
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