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Distant planets have long orbits and therefore long wavelengths, and you cannot do the analysis properly until you have seen at least one orbit.
ECONOMIST: Extrasolar planets
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Technological feats such as self-driving cars and voice-recognition and translation programmes, not long ago a distant hope, are now realities.
ECONOMIST: Economics Focus
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In plain search Ask has long lost the battle to Google and Yahoo and is a distant fourth in search share with 4%.
FORBES: Ask.com Hooks Up With LinkedIn
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Another agency puts semi-celebrities on a boat in the south of France and then photographs from a distant camera with a long lens to give the picture the right feel.
ECONOMIST: The market for celebrity snaps is booming. Hide now
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Competitors threw long spears at a distant post, each strike greeted with wild drumming, dancing and cheers from the crowd.
BBC: Easter Island��s greatest festival
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The result is that lower interest rates favor long term projects with distant cash flows, such as ships, office buildings, and housing.
FORBES: Gold Mining Stocks Are An Increasingly Attractive Opportunity
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And fans of Davies since his early, autobiographical films "Distant Voices, " "Still Lives, " and "The Long Day Closes" will appreciate the inclusion of one of his favorite time-capsule gestures: a warm pub scene in which every patron, young and old, joins in singing popular tunes.
CNN: Review: 'The Deep Blue Sea' is nuanced
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Instead of just searching local networks and familiar territory, creativity requires the system to scour distant corners, odd memories, long forgotten jokes.
FORBES: How To Be More Creative At Work (Or What Corporations Can Learn From Booze-Hounds and Baby Elephants)
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There may be no direct air services, only connecting flights through distant hub airports, and the only other way to get there may be a long drive.
ECONOMIST: Travelling in an executive jet is just the ticket
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Yet the most provocative aspect of his vision, that avant-garde art could be a truly popular and collective experience, may be more distant than ever in the fragmentary multi-channel long-tail present.
FORBES: If You Think 'Breaking Bad' Is Edgy, You Obviously Haven't Seen Nam June Paik's 'Magnet TV'
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The Lake Yellowstone Hotel overlooks a vast and placid body of moonlit water, its distant east shore smudged with the glow of a long-burning forest fire.
BBC: The king of US national parks