Sentences with phrase «vast distances as»

Laser and cannon fire is exchanged over vast distances as my surviving destroyers try in vain to take out their opposing numbers but everything is going wrong.

Arctic plants have retreated and advanced in their colonization of fertile regions with great speed and over vast distances as the climate changes

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The one pictures a vast distance between God and the world; the other imagines them as intrinsically related.

«When I lie on my back and look up at the Milky Way on a clear night and see the vast distances of space and reflect that these are also vast differences of time as well, when I look at the Grand Canyon and see the strata going down, down, down, through periods of time which the human mind can't comprehend....

«When I lie on my back and look up at the Milky Way on a clear night and see the vast distances of space and reflect that these are also vast differences of time as well, when I look at the Grand Canyon and see the strata going down, down, down, through periods of time which the human mind can't comprehend... it's a feeling of sort of an abstract gratitude that I am alive to appreciate these wonders, when I look down a microscope it's the same feeling, I am grateful to be alive to appreciate these wonders.»

There they were, all five of them, situated on a vast open field with the San Juan Mountains far off in the distance acting as their backdrop.

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.

The vast distances to the galaxies and thick shrouds of dust blocked a view of the inevitable climax: supernovas exploding in rapid succession as each generation of giant stars dies out.

It is so vast that the average distance between objects is about as great as the span from Earth to the sun.

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.

The tents and outbuildings of a remote field camp on the shores of Lake Bonney in the Dry Valleys, in the shadow of Taylor Glacier, provide a sense of scale often difficult to convey in photos of Antarctica, where distances are vast and typical human landmarks such as power lines are absent.

The assaults that this most fundamental theory of reality makes on our intuition are legion: particles that exist as probabilistic wave functions in «superpositions» of multiple states or places, or at least seem to as long you don't look at them; «entangled» particles that influence each other over vast distances of space when you measure one of them.

The vast distance to the source implies that it releases an enormous amount of energy in each burst — roughly as much energy in a single millisecond as the Sun releases in an entire day.

The team hopes that the vast distance between the sites (roughly 3000 kilometres (1864 miles) between the most easterly and westerly stations), as well as the number and diversity of instruments used, will eliminate the chance of instrument error or local atmospheric disturbances.

Researchers already knew that two photons can form long - distance connections across vast stretches of space, whereby measuring the state of one causes changes in the state of the other — a phenomenon known as entanglement.

The telescope's design and instruments have been altered time and again as their designers encountered, then overcame, obstacles thrown in their paths by the harsh demands of a space orbit at such a vast distance.

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.

His day is a packed one, covering vast distances, though it is presented as if he's forever within short driving distance of home.

Logline: When a teenager who has always felt distanced from his parents discovers that he was, in fact, kidnapped as a child, he is thrust into a vast conspiracy and must go on the run in order to survive.

Nick Moran of The Millions had interesting prospective, mentioning «The emissions and e-waste for e-Readers could be stretched even further if I went down the resource rabbit hole to factor in: electricity needed at the Amazon and Apple data centers; communication infrastructure needed to transmit digital files across vast distances; the incessant need to recharge or replace the batteries of eReaders; the resources needed to recycle a digital device (compared to how easy it is to pulp or recycle a book); the packaging and physical mailing of digital devices; the need to replace a device when it breaks (instead of replacing a book when it's lost); the fact that every reader of eBooks requires his or her own eReading device (whereas print books can be loaned out as needed from a library); the fact that most digital devices are manufactured abroad and therefore transported across oceans.

Acoustic indication such as whistles are used to command herding dogs mainly because these can be heard over a distance that's generally involved when gathering a large flock of sheep in a vast grazing land.

This behavior is based on their origins as a working breed, where the Shepherd would range over vast distances and herd livestock without needing to be told how to do it.

He parlayed his vast experience in sailboat racing and long distance ocean passage making into Voyager Ocean Passage LLC, making use of his standing as a world class sailor.

We are within walking distance of the swimming beach, lagoon, wellness centre and spa as well as the Wilderness village where you'll find a vast variety of shops and quality restaurants to enjoy.

Gradually, in the distance, the Flinders Ranges rise out of the vast plains of the desert, as you return to Wilpena Pound.

The Ulin Villas & Spa is a five - star villa resort located on Jalan Merta Sari, a quiet side street off the main Seminyak roads, and within walking distance to the upscale Seminyak areas vast array of restaurants, trendy designer boutiques and entertainment venues.The resort is within a 25 - minute transfer from the Ngurah Rai International Airport in Tuban, South Bali, while the islands two other popular beach resort areas, namely Kuta and Legian, are just round the corner, within an approximate 15 - minute taxi ride south from Seminyak.While notable dining and entertainment venues such as Ku De Ta, Potato Head Beach Club, Huu and La Lucciola are within close reach via Jalan Kayu Aya and Petitenget, the livelier nightlife bar scenes are mostly found along Jalan Raya Legian.

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.

Vast customisable camera options allow players to set specific parameters for the cockpit, TV pod and TV pod offset with a twenty point system for genuine customisation for the field of view and horizontal offset to be zoomed in or out; vertical offset and angle of camera to be increased or lowered in height; near clip plane decides at what distance a nearby object is no longer rendered; the mirror angle to be increased or lowered in height; as well as the amount of camera shake and camera movement.

Vast customisable camera options allow players to set specific parameters for the cockpit, TV pod and TV pod offset with a 40 point system for genuine customisation for the field of view and horizontal offset to be zoomed in or out; lateral offset to be moved further to either side; vertical offset to be raised or lowered; angle of camera to be increased or lowered in height; near clip plane decides at what distance a nearby object is no longer rendered; the mirror angle to be increased or lowered in height; as well as the amount of camera shake, camera movement and a look to Apex limit that is displayed in degrees.

If so, I will be making a kerbal space program-esque mod as soon as possible, interplanetary economies and tech have always fascinated me, and how they trade and interact over such vast distances.

Upon starting the game, players can choose to access the configuration tool, which includes a vast array of graphics settings such as Shadow Resolution, Distance, Casters, and Filtering, Ambient Occlusion HBAO +, unlimited draw distance, high - quality DOF, High - quality glow effect.

As a counter ticks the seconds in real time, images explode and fracture within the sculptural landscape suggesting the complexity, and ultimate futility, of comprehending such vast distance and speed.

While Whitten will be remembered as a giant of American painting and a singular figure in the creative history of black diaspora, he kept his eye fixed on the deeper currents that connect people across broad cultural divides and vast historical distances.

You'd have to be blind not to notice that, from a distance, Tacita Dean's commission for Tate Modern's sepulchral Turbine Hall looks like nothing so much as a vast stained - glass window — and for this reason I fervently hoped it was going to have the same effect on me as Olafur Eliasson's numinous The Weather Project (Eliasson's commission, the fourth in the Unilever series, filled this space in 2003 - 4 — and oh, how I worshipped it).

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.»

Development of high voltage direct current cables and transmission systems — Although initial loss of electricity of DC cables is higher than for AC, there is no incremental loss of electricity as the length of the cable increases, making it possible to build offshore wind farms in very windy areas and transmit the energy over vast distances to areas with poor wind regimes, and to combine wind generators from different areas to reduce the impact of low - wind days and the need to use backup hydrocarbons on those days