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  • Only the 318 in question, however, are close enough to the Milky Way for the predicted galactic speed limit not to have been imposed (300m light years may sound a long way, but it is a short hop on the cosmic scale).

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  • "I don't think that we are too far away from him being given the green light for him to go and play cricket in much the same way that he was at the start of the season, " Watkinson said.

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  • In the same way, the pattern of holes in a crystal fibre can create the equivalent for light of a graphite core and a diamond cladding.

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  • The alternative view, for those who like their galaxies light and fluffy, is that Sgr once orbited the Milky Way at a safer distance.

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  • There is a better way for donors and development institutions to light the world, and it is also an innovation in its own right: results-based finance.

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  • It will lead the way for the world, set a standard we can be proud of that will be a shining light for people to follow.

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  • This seems to be a way for the bank to make additional revenue in light of new federal regulations.

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  • Pace soon gave way to spin as the light deteriorated, Adil Rashid being driven for four in his first over to bring Di Venuto his fifty from 82 balls.

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  • Since they were first made in 1995, Bose-Einstein condensates have become commonplace as experimental tools. (They are particularly valued for their ability to slow the speed of light all the way down to zero.) Dr Steinhauer and his colleagues created a condensate out of a gas of rubidium atoms held in a magnetic trap.

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  • Earth and Mars are so far apart that radio signals, which travel at the speed of light, take 13.8 minutes for a one-way journey.

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  • The flip-down microphone can easily fold up and out of the way, and considering just how light these are, they can be worn for hours on end (trust us, we tried) without any sort of ear pain and unusual pressure on your dome.

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  • Gretzky then made his way to the harbour to light a second cauldron outside in the harbour area which will burn for the 17 days of competition.

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  • But astronomers have figured out a clever way for Hubble to "observe" the effects of the transit on the light from the sun: by looking at the moon.

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  • Mr. COLEMAN: That song really talks about--poking a little fun at myself and a little bit of fun also at the music industry and trying to see which one of us is going to flinch first, whether or not that light at the end of the tunnel is the 5:15 or it's actually a way out for me.

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  • All-optical routers that can manipulate packets of light, pulling some signals off a fiber and sending the rest on their way, may not be widely available for years.

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  • 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.

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