By the way, a 20-mile stretch of the Cross Bronx Expressway in New York was determined to be the most congested traffic corridor in the U.S., taking 54 minutes to traverse at an average speed of just 13 mph, representing a whopping delay of 41 minutes.

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Because they are so far away, by the time their images traverse the universe at the speed of light and arrive here for Schmidt to see them, more time has passed than the Earth and the sun are old.

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We believed that the speed at the end of the traverse would be too high.

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