If DA 14 had been just 20, 000 miles (this is a tiny, tiny, distance in space terms) shifted over one way then none of us would be here on this internet right now.
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Unfortunately, a passing gravitational wave will make only a tiny change in the distance the laser beams have to travel.
In the evening, the setting is magical as the sun sets over the Congo Mountains in the distance, and tiny lights from fishing boats flicker across the lake.
I've got photos of the tiny thing standing a good distance away from me at the park, arms folded defiantly, eyes glaring as if to say "No way am I doing what you want, lady!"
' He points at what from this distance looks like a tiny square on a piece of graph paper.
If this happens next year and Aldurazyme sells, the tiny company will be within tossing distance of breaking even.
I-mod pixels (the dots that make up the display) are tiny paired mirrors, and the distance between these mirrors can be adjusted to one of four settings.
This can detect tiny changes in electrical fields from a distance, even through textiles.
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Roger Linfield and his colleagues at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, who are in charge of the mission, aim to show that spacecraft flying in formation can be controlled so precisely that the distance between them varies by only a tiny fraction of a wavelength of light.
Way off in the distance, the sheep look like clumps of tiny white mushrooms.
Flying into Xilinhot, I could see a tiny farm, a speck of a house off in the distance.
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Look at Kenya: with but 43 million people, this comparatively tiny country holds more than one third of top times in distance races.
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Commercially obtained laser pointers project just a tiny beam, but its diameter grows much bigger as the distance increases and can result in temporarily blindness if shone in someone's eyes.
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The cool part comes when they cut to the (luxurious) interior of the sedan and focus on the dashboard, where the Distance Plus data is displayed inside the speedometer as two tiny cars moving towards and away from one another, in response to real world conditions.
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To the sun, the Earth is a tiny speck: its diameter is less than 0.01% of the Earth-sun distance.
In tiny Macau (with a land area of just 29sqkm), all residents live within a short driving distance from the casinos.
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