Sentences with phrase «moving at miles»

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Hubble was about 400 - 500 million miles away from Jupiter at the time, and it was taking pictures of Europa's backlit silhouette as it moved across the gas giant's surface:

The so - called «Bos - Wash Landliner» was imagined in the late 1960s as running on air skis (a little like the initial Hyperloop proposal), vacuuming up moving vehicles at 60 miles an hour, and housing everything from a 100 seat theater to a gym.

On a stretch of Highway 101, east of downtown San Francisco, Vogt had clicked a button between the front seats, turned a dial to adjust the speed, taken his hands off the wheel, moved his feet back from the gas pedal and brake — and then turned to look me straight in the face, while, at 60 miles per hour, the scenery ticked by.

Cyclone Nathan was abut 300 km (185 miles) east - northeast of the holiday town of Cooktown, moving at 8 kph (5 mph) and intensifying as it approached land.

The hurricane is about 35 miles (55 km) southeast of San Juan, Puerto Rico with maximum sustained winds of 155 miles per hour (250 km per hour), the NHC said, adding that it is moving in a north - westerly direction at 10 mph (17 km / h).

The International Space Station (ISS) is an ultimate target for adventurous photographers, since it orbits 250 miles above Earth while moving at 17,500 miles per hour.

Submittal Exchange employees move at a fast pace: fifty miles - per - hour, to be exact.

«If you can move people from city to city at 1,200 (745 miles per hour) to 1,300 kilometers per hour, you have a system that can reshape society,» he explained, suggesting that as distances shrink, economic productivity could increase as traffic disappears.

The biggest immediate cost - advantage comes from savings in energy costs: fully loaded, the Tesla Semi consumes less than two kilowatt - hours of energy per mile and is capable of 500 miles of range at GVW and highway speed, accommodating a wide range of shipping applications given that nearly 80 % of freight in the U.S. is moved less than 250 miles.

Your new job site must be at least 50 miles further away from your old home than your old job was, though, and you may not have moved earlier than a year before starting to work in the new location.

However it was later discovered that the sun is in fact moving through space at approximately 600,000 miles per hour.

It does not make sense to ask why your child died when hit by a ton of steel moving at sixty miles an hour.

The prayer vigil had been scheduled for a field 30 miles outside of the city at «Campus Fidei,» or faith field, but organizers had to move events to Rio because of flooding.

Our culture moves at a thousand miles an hour.

The Earth's circu.mference is ~ 25000 miles and rotates in ~ 24 hours, which means that at the equator everything is actually moving eastward at over 1000 miles / hour.

If we now consider the number of the stars (15,000 x 106 visible to the optical telescope alone) you will understand how it is possible to say, cosmically speaking, that we are enveloped in a sort of monstrous gas formed of molecules as heavy as the Sun moving at distances from each other so great that they have to be reckoned in light - years (bearing in mind that light travels at a speed of 186,000 miles per second, and that we are only 8 light - minutes distant from the sun)-- a gas made of stars!

Light travels at 186,282 miles per second and so the «particle moving faster than 186,282 miles per hour» is not such a big surprise.

I'm sure it'll eventually get old — or at least less wondrous — because I was just as enchanted when we first moved to Santa Monica and I had 6 Whole Foods stores within a 10 mile radius (not joking).

This was before Mackey had won a single Iditarod, let alone four straight; before he used what he calls his marathon style — catnapping as his sled moves and covering 100 - mile chunks at a moderate pace without prolonged rest, instead of sprinting from rest stop to rest stop like most other racers — to win an unprecedented double (the Yukon Quest, the world's other 1,000 - mile dogsled race, and just weeks later the Iditarod) not once but twice; before he became so dominant that slower competitors complained they had no chance to finish within five days of him (the requirement for an official place and a commemorative belt buckle); and before a rival pushed for drug testing at the 2010 Iditarod, suspecting that Mackey's secret was his prescription for medical marijuana to alleviate the side effects of cancer treatment.

Peterson was near the head, moving at a pace of three minutes and 20 seconds per mile.

He's also wary because the world has been coming at him at 10,000 miles per hour, which is how fast his brain moves when ideas and thoughts compete for attention.

Five minutes earlier, in the second race at Pimlico, a 1 [1/16]- mile claiming event for cheap fillies and mares worth $ 8,000 - $ 8,500, So Sly and jockey Frank Douglas were racing sixth in a field of nine, moving three wide as they charged around the far turn.

Another movie portrays Roger Bannister's four - minute mile, Wilt Chamberlain at Overbrook High, some smooth moves by Pelé and a slow - motion high jump by world - record holder Dwight Stones.

«I don't want to find out the physics of running into a 230 - pound moving object at 22 miles an hour.»

That means the village could have two big - box grocery stores within a mile of each other in its downtown area, as Mayor Dan McLaughlin told residents at a hearing the village would allow Pete's Fresh Market to move in near John Humphrey Drive and 143rd Street.

Though 2011 didn't bring home a pennant for the Sox, it did prove to be a winning year for Serpico, who moved his growing family into a new residence at Lexington Square in Bridgeport only a mile away from U.S. Cellular Field, which can be easily seen from his rooftop balcony.

This scooter can travel 10 miles on a full charge — which translates to 45 minutes if the scooter is moving at its maximum speed of 15 mph, making its running time similar to that of other models.

Sooner or later you're going to pass over another country, but at the Karman line, you're moving more than 17,000 miles / hr, making enforcement when the object is in your «airspace» sometimes seconds long.

Officials of the Communications Workers of America, with 39,000 members, said they are fighting to keep Verizon from gaining concessions which would allow the company to transfer employees at will, move jobs oversees and require workers to commute as far away as a 100 miles daily.

Lord Crisp, who was chief executive of the NHS and permanent secretary at the Department of Health from 2000 - 06, said the inquiry had heard awful stories of people having to be moved miles from their homes.

Hastings, N.Y. — Lots of dirt is moving at the planned site of a big motor and harness racing park that local officials hope will bring needed employment and development to this Oswego County town 22 miles north of Syracuse.

«Prostate cancer goes at 2 or 3 miles an hour, and the older you get, the slower it moves.

Bulk air flow moves at about 70 miles per hour through the grille of a 2008 Corvette Z06 in a virtual wind tunnel.

The average dust devil, which lasts for a few hours at most during the hottest part of the Martian day, is slow - moving but may carry several tons of dust within its height of 1.2 miles (two kilometers).

Something called Lunarlon foam is used on the inside to give even more comfort, even while you're running (or at least moving) for several miles.

In this case, one gas is 2.5 times denser than the other, and when they move at 380 miles per hour relative to each other, they become turbulent.

«Blue jets» move upward from the tops of thunderstorms in a narrow cone and fade away at an altitude of about 25 miles.

At Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina, researchers have surgically implanted electrodes in the brains of monkeys and trained them to move robotic arms at MIT, hundreds of miles away, just by thinkinAt Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina, researchers have surgically implanted electrodes in the brains of monkeys and trained them to move robotic arms at MIT, hundreds of miles away, just by thinkinat MIT, hundreds of miles away, just by thinking.

The Outer Core Made of molten iron, nickel, and other ingredients yet to be determined, the churning liquid outer core may have the viscosity of water, streaming at possibly one to several miles per week with the turbulence of a gargantuan, slow - moving washing machine.

They would be moving at about the same speed as the average star in our galaxy, 135 miles per second.

It is moving toward Siberia at a rate of up to 35 miles per year, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The demonstration, which the team carried out with an experiment called Station Explorer for X-ray Timing and Navigation Technology, or SEXTANT, showed that millisecond pulsars could be used to accurately determine the location of an object moving at thousands of miles per hour in space — similar to how the Global Positioning System, widely known as GPS, provides positioning, navigation, and timing services to users on Earth with its constellation of 24 operating satellites.

If a man on a train traveling at 70 miles per hour turns on a flashlight while his partner on the ground does the same thing, they both see their beams of light moving the exact same way, at 186,282 miles per second.

Using greenhouse - gas figures for truck and rail from the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (and assuming tractor trailers running at six miles per gallon of gasoline), we found that moving this monthly 174 - ton load kicks out 13.7 tons of CO2.

This jet, moving at perhaps 4,000 miles per hour, or more than five times the speed of sound in air, strikes so quickly that water molecules do not have time to flow away from the point of impact.

The results of the study, published today in the journal Nature, show that over the last 30 years, tropical cyclones — also known as hurricanes or typhoons — are moving poleward at a rate of about 33 miles per decade in the Northern Hemisphere and 38 miles per decade in the Southern Hemisphere.

Altogether, just over a third of the scientists in the sample had moved to a new institution more than 50 miles away at least once during their independent career.

Irene traveled up the East Coast of the U.S. on August 26, 27 and 28, moving at bicycle speeds, sometimes as slowly as 16 miles per hour.

3 Light moves along at full «light speed» — 186,282.4 miles per second — only in a vacuum.

They're cages that trap photons — particles of light that move at 186,000 miles per second — like fireflies in a jar.