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They hadn't been aware they'd been sat together for over an hour when we offered them surgery at the nearest hospital.
Fortunately for Mama Jane and her friend, a donor had provided treatment so that we could take them to the nearest hospital three hours away.
And so the first person who comes in says, "Well, I'll look around for the nearest exit and I will back out very slowly, and if the noise is still going on, I'll call my supervisor."
Our solar system is on the edge of the Milky Way while the nearest supermassive black hole is about 26,000 light years from Earth.
We're either going to kill ourselves by crashing into the nearest wall at super speed or, worse, if we're indestructible, we've essentially turned our bodies into missiles that destroy everything in our path.
Even if you rip off the nearest door to provide a bigger area to catch her with, you still wouldn't be able to save her anyway.
If we were only able to calculate time to the nearest second, every location on Earth, and far beyond, would seem to be the same distance from the satellite.
The solution nearest the wall spins faster than the solution closer to the middle.
You know, despite all my scientific skepticism, I found myself hiking into the jungle, guided by my aunt, over 700 kilometers away from the nearest volcanic center, and well, honestly, mentally preparing myself to behold the legendary "warm stream of the Amazon."
It's neither magmatic or volcanic in origin, and again, over 700 kilometers away from the nearest volcanic center.
They would then mine the available resources and harvest energy, build replicas of themselves, launch those to the nearest planets, and continue the cycle.
Patients often have to travel long distances to get to their nearest hospital, and access to hospital care is becoming more and more an issue in rural areas, in the US, but also in sparsely populated countries like Sweden.
All that the consumer would need to do is obtain a mobile code, take it to the nearest shipping place to be packed and shipped, and off it goes from one buyer to the next, not the landfill.
That would be like getting hungry at night and having to flip through the whole phone book from cover to cover, pausing at every line, just to find the nearest pizza joint.
Europe went right up to Russia, went right down to the Middle East, and if the world were truly becoming more flat and more Americanized, that would be less of a problem, but in a G-Zero world, those countries nearest Russia and nearest the Middle East actually have different economic capabilities, different social stability and different political preferences and systems than core Europe.
Mars, our nearest neighbor, is much smaller than Earth, so it has much less gravity with which to hold on to its atmosphere.
Our large Magellanic Cloud, our nearest galactic neighbor, is orange instead of its more familiar blue-white.
Come down with pneumonia, and your mother will rush you to the nearest hospital for medical treatment.
Imagine you have a two-year-old who wakes up one morning with a fever, and you realize she could have malaria, and you know the only way to get her the medicine she needs would be to take her to the riverbed, get in a canoe, paddle to the other side and then walk for up to two days through the forest just to reach the nearest clinic.
What would my nearest and dearest do with me?
For the last 100 years, we've had an adversarial relationship with the microscopic life nearest us.
I'm a scientist, and I work with researchers at North Carolina State University and the University of Colorado to uncover the microscopic life that is nearest us, and that's often in our most intimate and boring environments, be it under our couches, in our backyards, or in our belly buttons.
I do this work because it turns out that we know very little about the microscopic life that's nearest us.
And so I and teams of others are armed with Q-tips and tweezers and advanced DNA techniques to uncover the microscopic life nearest us.
And your second rule is a pattern rule where a robot takes on a color based on its two nearest neighbors.
It's therefore probable that Africa was formerly inhabited by extinct apes closely allied to the gorilla and chimpanzee, and as these two species are now man's nearest allies, it's somewhat more probable that our early progenitors lived on the African continent than elsewhere."
You just drive to the nearest lake, stick your hose in it, and you've got your car filled up.
But if you look out to the nearest set of stars, to the nearest 40 or 50 stars, it's about 10 years.
If you look at Andromeda, which is the nearest big galaxy, and it's two million years ago.
First, all the individuals are only aware of their nearest neighbors.
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