Sentences with phrase «travel vast distances»

Before ancient objects enter a museum collection, they often travel vast distances and endure various periods of use, disuse, loss, and rediscovery.

Nowadays, the rail system that weaves across the country is still the easiest and most enjoyable way to travel the vast distances.

But Richard Pyle, a researcher at Hawaii's Bishop Museum, said he and other scientists have concluded that the ecological interconnectedess of the region — including the fish larvae that are dispersed on currents, and the sharks and other pelagic fish that travel vast distances — extends beyond federal waters.

We know several bird species can travel vast distances non-stop, prompting speculation that they must nap mid-flight.

Suppose I have a vehicle that is capable of traveling vast distances in short periods of time, a «star ship» of sorts.

Smoke from those fires has traveled vast distances, bringing hazy skies and poorer air quality to the Plains and parts of the eastern U.S.

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Incidentally, it has not gone unnoticed around Westminster that apart from a few infamous Labour examples, such as Labour's Ann Keen in Brentford and Isleworth, the vast majority of MPs in Outer London and the constituencies in the South East - who will lose out as a result of making those with seats «within travelling distance» of Westminster ineligible for the daily allowance - are Conservatives.

As this light travels the vast cosmic distances to Earth, the ongoing expansion of the universe shifts the once infrared light into longer millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths, all thanks to the Doppler effect.

For rail workers and passengers of the 19th and early 20th centuries, train travel — while miraculous for the speed with which it carried people across vast distances — presented ghastly dangers.

Electromagnetic waves travel over vast distances, so perhaps there is some way the electrical impulses that generate thoughts could be transmitted from one person to another.

The photons emitted by such explosions, traveling at the speed of light, or about 300,000 kilometers per second, can still take billions of years to reach Earth, covering distances so vast it exceeds human comprehension.

Light that is emitted or reflected by objects takes time to travel, and the vast distances it must cross to reach us from the farthest parts of the universe means that we see the most distant galaxies as they were billions of years ago.

A group of explorers make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.

Namibia's vast and cinematic landscapes make travel by light - aircraft the perfect way to get around and to cover great distances quickly.

Hi Michela, enjoyed ready how and why you travelled to Australia and how you fell in love with this vast beautiful land, You have great distances to get here but at the same time their are significant distance to travel between major cities, and if you go country and outback well there's a lot more kilometres to travel which can take days before you reach your destination.

Unlike long period waves that travel unopposed over vast distances deep within the ocean, wind swell travels within a few meters of the oceans surface and is affected by opposing winds and existing sea states.

The game is split into a series of hubs that act as nothing more than a method of separating the game's sprawling dungeons, the vast distances being traversable using Death's summonable horse or by a fast travel system for when equine transportation feels like too much hassle.

Of this work, Gregory Volk writes, ``... [c] onflating inside and outside space, nearness and distances, architecture and nature, a domestic setting and the vast world, contemporaneity and an immense scale of time, this is a risky, breathtaking work, and the apartment seems like a time - travelling capsule of sorts, visiting «remote pasts» as Robert Smithson once wrote, and also, perhaps, «remote futures» long after this current city has changed.»

Walking is the most natural, affordable, healthy and clean mode of travel for short distances, and a necessary component of the vast majority of transit trips.