It enables every other facet of combat capability, and it is especially relevant in the vast distances of the Western Pacific.
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The report listed nine objects that came within two lunar distances of the Earth - about 800, 000 km (497, 120 miles) - since 1991.
Space-based systems are especially useful in the vast distances of the Pacific, which is one reason Pentagon leaders highlighted their priority last week.
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Defending champion Ignisious Gaisah of Ghana has never returned to the heady distances of 2006, when he was capable of jumping 8.30m plus.
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He found that after distances of just a couple of hundred metres, gliding on unwaxed skis was faster than on their waxed counterparts.
Europeans braved the distances of Asia for commercial reasons.
Elephants, according to Dr O'Connell-Rodwell, can transmit signals through the ground this way for distances of as much as 50km when they trumpet, make mock charges or stomp their feet.
Although early camera designs that sought to find and encode eyes from distances of greater than one metre had difficulties making matches, the technology has improved in the past five years.
And in some of the world's great winemaking regions, such as California, geological variations mean that the ability of soil to retain or lose moisture can change within distances of a few metres.
It is similar to a Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagram but the latter plots luminosity (or absolute magnitude) rather than just apparent brightness and a knowledge of the distances of the stars plotted is also needed.
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The camera is capable of focusing on any target at distances of about 0.8 inch (2.1 centimeters) to infinity, providing versatility for other uses, such as views of the rover itself from different angles.
Ample evidence is left of how they were carved from softer volcanic rock in a central quarry, but it is still a mystery how exactly they were then moved, despite weighing countless tons, over distances of miles with no mechanical propulsion (or even the wheel).
And that geometrical prediction was confirmed directly by the Sloan survey, using the known distances of 500m light years to the density peak and 13 billion light years to the region where the microwave background originates as reference points to look for geometrical distortion, in the way that a more traditional land survey might use triangulation points.
Now instead of traveling long distances carrying heavy vats of water, or migrating to the cities to make a living, the villagers can stay put and begin to enjoy their surroundings more.
Their study, to be published later this year, has followed 18 whale sharks for periods of up to three years, over distances in excess of 3, 700km (2, 300 miles).
Blanco plans to turn the case study into a Web-based tool to help other companies calculate and potentially reduce the energy consumption of products moved over long distances by multiple means of transport.
Its open highways remain a captivating blend of vast distances punctuated here and there by the same sort of delightfully tacky bits of roadside Americana that made Route 66 what it was.
That signal will enable warfighters in armored vehicles and light trucks to transmit information at a rate in excess of two megabits per second over long distances despite the presence of geographical obstacles that often block communications.
"The orthograde single and two-footed leaps are likely useful during feeding and crossing short distances between branches of the same tree, " explains Mr Channon.
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As a keen cyclist himself, Mr Barter said he also planned to spend a week next year riding the kinds of distances that Godwin would have done.
Giant, centralized distribution facilities that use nuclear or fossil fuels, then sending electricity over massive distances losing upwards of 70-80% of the power in transmission, is the historical utility industry approach.
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To make the light travel enormous distances, thousands of volts of electricity are sent through the cable's copper sleeve to power repeaters, each the size and roughly the shape of a bluefin tuna.
He spoke of distances in metres and kilometres, and it took me a while to understand that this was not an affectation so much as a driving need to convert units of measurement more or less instantaneously.
But losing a 5.6km race to the world junior 10, 000m champion was no disgrace and Twell, who was named European Athletics' Rising Star of 2008, showed she has what it takes to mix with Africa's best over a range of distances, something that has not been said about many Brits since Radcliffe burst onto the scene.
As technological progress allows the exchange of goods and ideas over longer distances and among larger groups of trading partners, other people become more valuable alive than dead.
The proliferation of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons technology and that of the means of delivering such weapons over very long distances with ballistic missiles are of particular concern in this regard.
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That reduced clearance may mean the driver's foot could brush the side of the brake pedal when going from the accelerator to the brake, thus increasing stopping distances and the risk of a crash.
The proximity of offshore wind in the the Atlantic Ocean to deep demand centers avoids the problems of moving power over long distances and significantly enhances the economic fundamentals of mega projects like those currently being considered in North Carolina.
Mr Meacher told MPs that traditional practices dating more than 50 years had established separation distances where 99.5% of pollen would not get beyond those distances.
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