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It was alive once, hunted, stolen, stretched.
Now of course, your head would be squeezed and stretched unhelpfully, so you might have trouble understanding what's going on.
As weeks of deprivation stretched into months, some resorted to eating tulip bulbs.
And what you see, for example, if the flag was where that cross was in a small square environment, and then if you ask people where it was, but you've made the environment bigger, where they think the flag had been stretches out in exactly the same way that the place cell firing stretched out.
But in the great scheme of things, it's a pinprick, one of about 400 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, which you can see on a clear night as a pale white mist stretched across the sky.
Because the theory predicts that the Big Bang would have been so intense that as space rapidly expanded, tiny quantum jitters from the micro world would have been stretched out to the macro world, yielding a distinctive fingerprint, a pattern of slightly hotter spots and slightly colder spots, across space, which powerful telescopes have now observed.
And Simon was working on a new cable, WACS, the West Africa Cable System, that stretched from Lisbon down the west coast of Africa, to Cote d'Ivoire, to Ghana, to Nigeria, to Cameroon.
Or, "The meeting went from three to four," in which we conceive of time as stretched along a line.
Even though there are default situations in which one of these mindsets can be applied, they can be stretched and extended.
And the thing that struck me the most, that broke my heart, was walking down the main street of Sarajevo, where my friend Aida saw the tank coming 20 years ago, and in that road were more than 12,000 red chairs, empty, and every single one of them symbolized a person who had died during the siege, just in Sarajevo, not in all of Bosnia, and it stretched from one end of the city to a large part of it, and the saddest for me were the tiny little chairs for the children.
If a person stretched their arms wide, this person is saying, "It was this big."
And those small, little, inhomogeneities, 20 parts in a million, those were formed by quantum mechanical wiggles in that early universe that were stretched across the size of the entire cosmos.
If you took the human neocortex and stretched it out, it's about the size of a table napkin, and it's still a thin structure.
What I thought might be a six-month stint in Mumbai stretched to six years.
So what I'm going to show you is not a view into the world, it's basically the whole world stretched into a rectangle.
Now the event is stretched out in time and place, and everyone who watches plays their part.
This wearable digestive system, when it's stretched end to end, spans 60 meters.
The sun seems impossibly big, but in the great scheme of things, it's a pinprick, one of about 400 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, which you can see on a clear night as a pale, white mist stretched across the sky.
It's shiny, it conducts heat really well, it can be flattened into a sheet, stretched into a wire, but its melting point is low.
Eventually, their arms stretched out into wings.
With about 150 to 200 milliliters of urine inside of it, the bladder's muscular wall is stretched enough for you to sense that there's urine within.
So all the parameter fitting, and really the technology was stretched at that point to fit just Dan.
She took 72 minutes of activity, getting ready for a night out on the town, and stretched it over three days and performed it on a traffic island in slow motion in New York City.
So as your head is moving back and forth, your brain is twisting and turning and contorting, and the tissue is getting stretched.
Now, the colors that you're looking at are how much the brain tissue is being stretched.
That means the brain has been stretched to 50 percent of its original length, the tissue in that particular area.
It's a map in which we stretched places, so that those areas which contain many people are drawn larger, and those areas, like the Sahara and the Himalayas, in which there are few people, have been shrunk away.
But here, on this image of the world, remember we've stretched the map again.
As the ambulance receded, the sound waves were stretched, and they sounded lower in pitch.
Objects moving away from us, their light waves are stretched, and they appear redder.
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