The black hole would end up being displaced by thousands of kilometers from its original location.

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Big tasks will be shared in grids of machines perhaps thousands of kilometers apart, assembled on-the-fly for a job.

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But since thousands of kilometers of open ocean separate the island nation from mainland Europe, sharing those clean energy resources has so far been impossible.

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And the government, which is sitting way over in Kinshasa - thousands of kilometers away - does not have the capacity to govern the eastern Congo.

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According to China Daily, the official codename of the aircraft is Kunpeng, named after a legendary bird in Chinese mythology that can fly thousands of kilometers.

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One shipping company announced last month it would bypass the region altogether, sailing instead around the Cape of Good Hope and adding thousands of kilometers to its voyages.

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Due to a cash crunch, contractors had stopped payments to cement and steel companies, migrant workers had not received wages for months, and projects to build thousands of kilometers of track had been put on hold.

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It is 3.8 kilometers of swimming, it is 180 kilometers of cycling over thousands of feet of elevation and followed by a 42 kilometer run.

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