Sentences with phrase «millions of miles out»

millions of miles out to the asteroid belt, and then returned in a meteorite, Leshin says that idea is «basically a completely implausible scenario.

Not exact matches

Dan Logan, an ATA America's Road Team captain and a driver for FedEx Freight, pointed out that he has 2.4 million accident - free miles, «and there are thousands of drivers out there that are just like me.

«And he's probably sitting there thinking «I think I've bitten off more than I can chew here and Man City are a million miles above us and I need to sort of find a way of getting out of here».

Tabbed in 1961 by Roone Arledge (then an ABC executive producer) to be the host of a new sports anthology, McKay became a kind of explorer, traveling nearly five million miles, across 40 countries, over the next 36 years to seek out and report on sport's exotic secrets.

They also threaten Homo sapiens, that poor creature who lately has begun driving six miles out of his way to buy phosphate - free laundry soap, all the while turning his back on poisoning programs that are directly and specifically contaminating millions of acres of his country.

He told the Mirror Football Podcast: «They have been a million miles apart, not just with points but with ideas and the way they want to play [has] gone out of the modern game.

«a day in the life» is the rambling monologue of a housewife (not a million miles from myself;) juggling with household chores and sorting out the kids, answering the phone while cooking dinner and worrying about the economy — but at the end of the day when the jobs are done, you can escape from everyday worries by going for a run, a bike ride or for a swim — where you're alone to think stuff through or think of nothing at all — and certainly not about the phonebill or the mountain of ironing that needs doing.

It also pointed out that road building was highly expensive, with one mile of motorway costing # 30 million.

Amid the cacophony of a million drums, they try to pick out the sound of a single drum and its echo from roughly a million miles away on the opposite side of the sun.

A 9 - mile wide (14 kilometers) asteroid struck off the coast of Mexico 66 million years ago, wiping out 75 percent of life on Earth.

A large shield blocks out solar radiation, and the telescope orbits millions of miles from Earth's heat.

When comet scientists mapped out Comet ISON's orbit they learned that the comet would swing within 1.1 million miles of the sun's surface, making it what's known as a sungrazing comet, providing opportunities to study this pristine bit of the early solar system as it lost material while approaching the higher temperatures of the sun.

Now it ferries physicists and other visitors to a $ 16 million apparatus [pdf] they've built in a cavern blasted out of greenstone nearly a half mile beneath the hardscrabble town of Soudan, in northern Minnesota.

A squall of subatomic particles, including electrons and protons, raced out at 5 million miles per hour and slammed into our magnetic field, which deflected most of the blow.

Occasionally, the sun releases huge clouds of particles and magnetic fields that explode out from the sun at more than a million miles per hour.

In the case of our sun, we can glimpse the corona, which reaches at least 100 million miles out into space, during solar eclipses.

For example, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, which launched in August, can see an object the size of Pluto located a few hundred astronomical units away [one astronomical unit is 96 million miles — the distance from the Earth to the s Sun], and Spitzer can detect a planet the size of Earth out to about 1,000 astronomical units.

And much further out, a hefty fourth world 62 times Earth's mass orbits at a distance of 2.1 astronomical units (200 million miles) with a «year» of 1,190 days.

Comet Siding Spring's nucleus — a nugget of ice and rock measuring no more than half a kilometer (about 1/3 mile)-- is small, but the coma is expansive, stretching out a million kilometers (more than 600,000 miles) in every direction.

Thousands of miles of undersea fiber - optic cables that convey data from continent to continent rise out of the ocean in only a few dozen locations, branching out from those hubs to connect to millions of computers.

But millions of years ago the continents began to shift, and Madagascar drifted out to sea toward its present - day location in the Indian Ocean, some 250 miles off the eastern coast of Africa.

Excavations carried out over six years in the treeless, grassless, soil-less Ellesmere Island in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, 750 miles from the North Pole, have yielded a remarkable treasure: a 375 - million - year - old, scaly, fin - legged, flat - headed, swivel - necked creature called Tiktaalik roseae.

Now, using NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, scientists have found that this atmosphere, called the corona, is even larger than thought, extending out some 5 million miles above the sun's surface — the equivalent of 12 solar radii.

With more than 17 million Americans now living within one mile of an oil and gas well, there is concern about the possible contamination of surface and groundwater by trace metals, radioactive isotopes and other inorganic compounds released in these areas, they point out.

It also is hoped the probe will help astrophysicists find out why there's no organized solar wind (made up mostly ions and electrons) found in the vicinity of the sun's surface, even though it whips through the solar system at speeds ranging from about 670,000 to 1.8 million miles (1.1 million to 2.9 million kilometers) per hour.

According to the going theory, a six - mile - wide asteroid slammed into the Yucatán Peninsula 65 million years ago, throwing enough dust up into the atmosphere to dim the sun for years, killing off green plants and triggering a famine that wiped out all the dinosaurs in the geologic blink of an eye.

Biologists had already observed this interaction in living systems — a coral reef whose millions of tightly networked members could communicate data about weather over hundreds of miles and a slime mold whose millions of member cells, spread out over acres, could coalesce and take organized action for survival at a moment's notice.

These limitations define a ring of space that starts about 6.5 million miles from the sun and extends out to just under 20 million miles — an area comprising about 1 quadrillion square miles.

«It was clear,» says Charles Beichman, chief scientist for physics and astronomy at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the head of the Finder project, «that going out to three or four or five astronomical units [500 million miles from Earth] was just too hard.»

The Deccan volcanic eruptions there would ultimately belch out some 1.3 million cubic kilometers (300,000 cubic miles) of molten rock and debris.

By combining observational data from OGLE and Hubble, astronomers have been able to work out the nature of the star system, which is located around 8,000 light - years away, to great precision The star system consists of two red dwarfs orbiting one another only 7 million miles apart (as a comparison, this is only 14 times the Earth - moon distance).

During this phase, some infalling gas was swallowed by the black hole, while the remaining was pumped out at a breakneck speed of nearly 2 million miles per hour.

She showed that a gap extends from the star out to a distance of about 400 million miles — similar to the distance to the asteroid belt in our solar system.

Who cares if there are a million solid Christian men or women within a 5 - mile radius of your house — if it costs too much you're out, right?

Rounding out the platter is a «Today Show» interview with «The Pudding Guy» David Phillips, whose acquisition of a million frequent - flier miles from $ 3000 worth of pudding was the impetus for Punch - Drunk Love.

As one commentator points out during Billy's successful title defence, he grew up just a few blocks and a million miles away from the showtime grandeur of Madison Square Garden.

A third person shooter of the type that only Nintendo could make, it's the freshest - feeling game to come out of Nintendo for years, with a cheeky, punky vibe that feels family - friendly and yet a million miles from Mario.

The slightly senile Woody is a cantankerous old fart who has recently taken to sneaking out of the house with the intention of walking the 900 - odd miles to Lincoln, Nebraska to claim one million dollars in prize money promised to him by a publisher's sweepstakes.

Early in Mississippi Grind, we see him at one of the functional, drearily brown casinos that are the film's main locales — we're a million miles from Vegas, let alone Monaco or Macau — and there at the table is one of those babblers he's learned to watch out for.

Edgar Rice Burroughs, who wrote the «John Carter of Mars» stories, appears as a character here, a young would - be writer (Daryl Sabara of «Spy Kids») reading the journal of his late uncle (Taylor Kitsch), a swarthy, two - fisted Civil War vet searching for gold out West who stumbled instead into another Civil War — this one a thousand years old and millions of miles away.

Falcone also stages a number of ingenious sight gags, most of them having to deal with the youngsters who have bonded together to make the growing brownie business a success, while a joke involving a foldaway couch got me to laugh out loud even though I saw it coming from a million miles away.

Secretary Duncan could still take a lot of heat out of opponents» arguments by declaring that the federal government is going to stay a million miles away from the Common Core.

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Anyone can see what appends when the USA government bails out the American automotive industry and doesn't rise a single cent on gas taxes in 30 years to - at least - repair the tens of thousands bridges and millions of miles of main roads!

Peter Gilbert claimed a million miles out of the turbocharging unit in addition to the engine itself.

GM says it knows HD pickups are often used for towing in adverse conditions so they are testing the bejeesus out of the trucks: Before they're released to dealers, the trucks will undergo more than 6 million miles (240 trips around the earth) of durability testing in the torture chambers at GM's Milford Proving Ground, over deserts and mountains of Nevada and across the frozen flats of Kapuskasing, Ontario.

More than 1 million kilometers (620,000 miles) of validation testing in cold and hot weather conditions was carried out during the development of the new, next generation manual gearboxes.

By erecting thirty thousand dams of significant size across the American West, they dewatered countless rivers, wiped out millions of acres of riparian habitat, shut off many thousands of river miles of salmon habitat, silted over spawning beds, poisoned return flows with agricultural chemicals, set the plague of livestock loose on the arid land — in a nutshell they made it close to impossible for numerous native species to survive.

The population of 8.5 million people is spread out over just 305 square miles, making this the most densely populated part of the United States.

Seven of them shelled out tens of millions of dollars for a trip on Russian Soyuz rockets to travel 200 miles above Earth's surface to visit the International Space Station.