Medical students would trek long distances to watch a dissection performed.
That's doable in theory, because special relativity states that time slows down and distances shrink for travelers approaching light speed.
That is why the outlook for the big, slow-growing creatures of the deep, some of which travel long distances, is so bleak.
In order to get a detailed and truthful picture of the places he visited, he seldom traveled by cart or boat but would walk across hills and dales, and trudge long distances.
That businessman flies great distances every month.
The sun is cold, burning through the frosty distances of space.
But as you can see, astronomers have some pretty tried and tested methods for measuring distances in the Universe.
In hyperspace, there is no limit to how fast a starship can travel, and thus interstellar distances can be traversed in mere minutes.
Given the daunting distances between the stars, the real-life version will almost certainly be a lot less sensational than the movies depicting alien invasions or crash-landing spaceships.
This makes them very useful as a tool to measure cosmic distances.
The slowing of time has another benefit. It means we could, in theory, travel extraordinary distances within one lifetime.
Of all the lemurs, sifakas are perhaps the best known because they can leap fantastic distances in trees but when on the ground jump awkwardly on two legs, their skinny bodies stretched tall as they careen sideways.
What training distances should I get to and by when?
Industries such as cement and other building materials are usually considered "territorial goods", meaning they are bulky, basic and too expensive to transport long distances.
A surveying technique in which a region is divided into a series of triangular elements based on a line of known length so that accurate measurements of distances and directions may be made by the application of trigonometry.
Though they move with the famed "penguin waddle" they are capable walkers who can cover long overland distances.
This reduces pollution caused by shipping foods long distances.
Oh, no, I'm in the Conjurion—the marble basin my sister uses to talk to other wizards, or to travel long distances.
Wind or water can then transport the surviving grains great distances before they become incorporated into deposits of sand and gravel that may later solidify into sedimentary rock.
The techniques include, obtaining additional cores by drilling. The cores may be taken at different distances from the original deposit, or at different depths. They may also be drilled in the direction in which the vain is believed to extend.
Almost half of the bird species that breed in Britain leave for the winter, sometimes travelling prodigious distances.
Carbon monoxide is a good tracer for moving smoke plumes, even across large distances.
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