Sentences with phrase «vast distances of»

In the early years of Canada's settlement by Europeans, the voyageurs spent months, sometimes years, traversing vast distances of wilderness to buy animal pelts from distant Native trading posts.

One of these ways is our need for a myth to get us through the night: a myth to carry us through the vast distances of interstellar space: a myth to transport us through the endless aeons of time in which life has been lived on earth, a myth to reconcile us to our true evolutionary position.

Meanwhile, Australian buyers will pay AU$ 35,490 for a car that can cover the vast distances of that continent with few fill - ups.

One possibility for communicating across the vast distances of space is the use of radio or other electromagnetic waves.

Genetic elements must be activated at just the right moment, across vast distances of genomic space.

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.

> Easily disproved by stratification of layers of earth, laid down yearly, with far more than 5000 layers, radiometric dating, Pangeae, and the speed of light through the vast distances of space, a galaxy (ours) that is about 100,000 light years in diameter.

«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.»

«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....

This Water of ours, in Jupiter or Saturn, would be frozen up instantly by reason of the vast distance of the Sun.

Lisa Grossman's oil paintings of the wide open rural eastern Kansas, painted en plein air (or on location), are a meditation on open spaces, exploring the emotional responses to atmospheric shifts in light, color, and the vast distance of land and sky.

Not exact matches

This infrared photo, taken from 2.2 million miles away, reveals the vast distance between Earth and the moon — 239,000 miles, or about 30 diameters of Earth stacked together.

«Late in October 1914 three brothers rode from Choteau, Montana to Calgary, Alberta to enlist in the Great War,» reads Harrison's celebrated opening sentence, which author Vance Bourjaily would praise for establishing «both the voice and manner of the epic storyteller, who deals in great vistas and vast distances.»

And speaking of, there are also the unique nuances of Las Vegas to deal with: the vast distances between everything, the over-priced everything, the desert air that dries out your nose and lungs and virtually guarantees some sort of illness when combined with the giant plague of exhausted attendees.

«Now, with Hyperloop One, we are on the brink of the first great breakthrough in transportation technology of the 21st century, eliminating the barriers of time and distance and unlocking vast economic opportunities.»

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

Parents separated from their children know the joy and meaning of a voice that seems to leap the vast expanse of distance via the telephone.

With the introduction of audio and audiovisual communication, sound can be played back and print can be sent across vast distances almost instantaneously.

But for the vast majority of us whose marriages are a mixture of pain and joy, frustration and satisfaction, distance and closeness — for us enrichment methods and short - term crisis methods can be effective in improving our relationships by developing our hidden marriage assets.

The process of research is one based entirely on the analysis of light, calling for miracles of patience, ability and acumen; but it is astonishingly fruitful, since it enables exact measurements to be made of the mass, energy, diameter, distance and movement of objects vast in themselves but ultra-microscopic to us because of their remoteness.

Referring to the above correspondence between the Patriarch and the Metropolitan, Mingana observes that we can infer from the correspondence that «there was a considerable number of bishops and priests in India, whose sees and parishes were apparently scattered in the vast country to the distance of one thousand and two hundred parasangas.»

«We infer that there was a considerable number of bishops and priests in India, whose sees and parishes were apparently scattered in that vast country to the distance of one thousand and two hundred parsangas.»

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.

Robbie Savage has insisted John Terry is entitled to his opinion but feels he has «distanced himself from the vast majority of people involved in football» with his comments, the Metro reports.

So many good things have come from social media: It enables family and friends to connect despite vast distances, while the rest of ~ The Web ~ opens the door to a wealth of information, job opportunities, and even the potential to help save lives.

The vast knowledge of (now great great) grandmothers was lost in the distance between households with children and those with the experience and expertise about how to raise them well.

No doubt a giant container ship causes a lot of pollution, but because it can carry such a vast amount of load it's still often hailed one of the most efficient means of transportation in terms of distance × mass per tonne of CO ₂ produced.

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.

Many people don't have an extra 20 hours a week to enter job training programs, Wilson said, owing to the fickle nature of the North Country economy, where residents often have to patch together a string of seasonal jobs over vast distances.

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

A closer look reveals a scheme fraught with peril and potentially insurmountable obstacles, though not necessarily of the sort you might expect given the vast distances and harsh environments involved in a trip to Mars.

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.

Detecting astrophysical neutrinos would offer an unprecedented way of studying comic objects across vast distances, similar to the way infrared light allows us to peer into opaque cosmic dust clouds to see stars forming.

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 evidence for recent genetic connection among the three populations, across this vast distance, is solid and convincing,» says Craig Moritz, a University of California, Berkeley, biologist not affiliated with the study.

His designs advanced alternating current at the start of the electric age and allowed utilities to send current over vast distances, powering American homes across the country.

The occasional genetic interchange between populations also seemed to correlate with feeding grounds with high densities of krill, places where whales from different populations are likely to move vast distances and come into contact with other populations.

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.

To bridge even this tiny distance, however, we'll need machinery of vast power.

At the same time, we use a lot of energy to move and treat water, sometimes across vast distances.

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.

And over vast distances, the furtive force of dark energy overrules gravity.

«They're putting everything into H. erectus over huge geographical distances, essentially spread throughout the whole world, and over a vast number of years,» Johanson says.

Understanding why, and determining the ultimate fate of the cosmos, depends on making more accurate measurements of distance across vast expanses of space.

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.

Indeed, the U.S. already has one that is highly successful in moving resources vast distances, notably from the Gulf of Mexico to New York and New England.

More than one hundred and fifty years ago, Charles Darwin hypothesized that species could cross oceans and other vast distances on vegetation rafts, icebergs, or in the case of plant seeds, in the plumage of birds.

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.

In the background are the blue and red elongated shapes of many other galaxies, which lie at vast distances from us — but which can all be seen by the sharp eye of Hubble.

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.