Sentences with phrase «precise distance through»

Which they almost got right except that the astronomers Delambre and Méchain assigned to determine that precise distance through Paris ended up in 1799 underestimating it by what satellites have now determined to be 2290 meters or 0.0229 %.

Not exact matches

Or you can continue to believe that you are a product of chance, that there is no God, that somehow through millions of years of evolution that the perfect experiment happened, that by chance the earth is the precise distance from the sun to allow us to live and that we slithered out of the primordial goo, stood upright and built highrises.

So while it may not kick your butt too hard on the drag strip, it's still a fun car to thread through the urban jungle, where it demonstrated precise steering and fairly flat cornering, the latter feature making for much more comfortable long - distance drives.

The thief walks a ridiculously long distance through a town and a forest and everything that comes in between, doing so at a torturously slow pace from beginning to end, and you have to maintain a frustratingly precise distance between him and yourself - don't get too close, don't get too far.

Divisions include airborne which are stealthier in their footwork as they are faster yet simultaneously quieter before firing at enemies with suppressed weapons; armoured brings the heaviest weaponry; expeditionary force is equipped with shotguns; infantry are capable of leading the attack with bayonet charges in close quarters combat or holding position to take on enemies at mid to long range through rifle battles; and mountain are expert snipers with sharpshooter focus for precise sniping from a distance.