Sentences with phrase «mile under the earth»

So 10 years ago, when an international mining company arrived near the shores of Lake Superior to burrow a mile under the Earth and pull metals out of ore, the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community of the Lake Superior Band of Chippewa had to stand for its rights and its water.

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Think of the beliefs of the past — the Earth is the center of the solar system, the world is flat, you can't break the sound barrier, you can't run the mile in under four minutes, and there's no need for a computer in the home.

Rotting in a coffin three miles from our home, 6 feet under the earth's surface, is not a better place.

About 380 miles from Chicago, you'll feel transported to an entirely different world under the earth at Mammoth Cave National Park, the longest known cave system in the country.

In the figure, measurements of the strength of mantle flow are shown along with the colored map of seismic wave speed at 195 kilometers (121 miles) beneath the Earth's surface, under the North American tectonic plate.

Scientists estimate the ocean is 60 miles (100 kilometers) thick — 10 times deeper than Earth's oceans — and is buried under a 95 - mile (150 - kilometer) crust of mostly ice.

Earlier this year, Zealandia was confirmed as Earth's seventh continent, but little is known about it because it's submerged more than a kilometer (two - thirds of a mile) under the sea.

And then there's Roger Angel, an astronomer and optical scientist at the University of Arizona who, working under a NASA grant, seeks to launch trillions of two - foot - wide disks of transparent film into orbit around Earth, a million miles up.

This is because, even if NASA and its partners had the capabilities of the Space Shuttle program, it would be far too distant to reach and service once in its operational orbit, just under one million miles from Earth.

The pressure at the center of a comet nucleus 3 miles in diameter is about what you would feel under a blanket here on Earth.

The second stage engine burned for just under a minute to push TESS into its initial high elliptical orbit with a low point of 120 miles (200 kilometers) and a high point of 168,000 miles (270,000 kilometers) above Earth.

To give you a sense of scale, Charon orbits just under 20,000 km (12,000 miles) from Pluto; our home planet, Earth, would fit in between them with a few thousand kilometers to spare.

Props are owed to Dennis Villenue's masterfully told cartel procedural Sicario, the under - appreciated mile - high disaster epic Everest, Alex Ross Perry's gut - wrenching Queen of Earth, and Joel Edgerton's slyly insidious thriller The Gift all for taking us somewhere we never want to go again.

With under 4000 miles this Mirai is in showroom clean condition and ready for an earth - conscious buyer who wants to help our planet every time they drive!

Spend days trekking through World Heritage Sites like Tanzania's Ngorongoro Crater, home to the densest population of lions on earth, and evenings in camp, dining by candlelight under the cosmos, hundreds of miles from humanity.

Fossil Fuels kill 320 times more people per unit power produced than solar + / Egyptians... There is something satisfying about visualizing oil company executives conscripted to toil under the hothouse conditions on 21 st Century Earth building the Great Carbon Pyramids - pyramids of calcium carbonate (or calcium bicarbonate, as the case may be) miles high, /

Because they do not know their ideal gases are imaginary and not real, they call them the different names of real gases erroneously, they are not capable of extrapolating into the fun part that there is no «invisible container» around the Earth so their ideal gas hard dots of massless nothing travelling at great speeds under their own molecular momentum through empty space miles apart from each other — are all disappearing to the ends of the universe.