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Even if people do, in a not far distant future, begin to read one another's minds, there will still be the question of whether what you find in another man's mind is especially worth reading -- worth more, that is, than what you can read in good books.
On some distant farm a rooster crowed and, far down the valley, an associate answered.
Scientists dismiss these mechanisms as implausible since, for example, the magnetic field, when measured from earth, of a large but distant planet such as Jupiter is far smaller than that produced by ordinary household appliances.
Cetus lies far from the galactic plane, so that many distant galaxies are visible, unobscured by dust from the Milky Way.
The presence of other generalized non-cercopithecids of middle Miocene age from sites far distant — Otavipithecus from cave deposits in Namibia, and Pierolapithecus and Dryopithecus from France, Spain and Austria — is evidence of a wide diversity of forms across Africa and the Mediterranean basin during the relatively warm and equable climatic regimes of the early and middle Miocene.
As location swapping ( on Darknet ) and path folding ( on Opennet ) progress, nodes which are close to one another will increasingly have close locations, and nodes which are far away will have distant locations.
Wilson telescope, Edwin Hubble was able to resolve the outer parts of some spiral nebulae as collections of individual stars and identified some Cepheid variables, thus allowing him to estimate the distance to the nebulae: they were far too distant to be part of the Milky Way.
In the early 1990s, the United States was by far Honduras's leading trading partner, with Japan a distant second.
Benjamin FranklinWhile the society's meetings provided its name and social focus, however, they were relatively unimportant in its activities, and far more activity and communication took place outside the meetings themselves – members local to Birmingham were in almost daily contact, more distant ones in correspondence at least weekly.
There are several versions of the birth of the winged stallion and his brother Chrysaor in the far distant place at the edge of Earth, Hesiod's " springs of Oceanus, which encircles the inhabited earth, where Perseus found Medusa:
For example, the plant species Nertera depressa was first collected in Tristan da Cunha, but has since been recorded in occurrence as far distant as New Zealand.
The required genetic changes to the Hainish population were made in the far distant past, and apparently took many generations to accomplish.
Eurytion received the barest mention among the Argonauts, where Peleus and Telamon were also present, " yet not together, nor from one place, for they dwelt far apart and distant from Aigina ;" but Peleus accidentally killed Eurytion during the hunt for the Calydonian Boar and fled from Phthia.
Space missions have been used to image distant locations within the Solar System, such as this Apollo 11 view of Daedalus ( crater ) | Daedalus crater on the far side of the Moon.
Eventually all galaxies beyond our own local supercluster will redshift so far that it will become hard to detect them, and the distant universe will turn dark.
Some see the limits of the law as being far in the distant future.
In order to test these predictions, it is necessary to reconstruct the primordial abundances as faithfully as possible, for instance by observing astronomical objects in which very little stellar nucleosynthesis has taken place ( such as certain dwarf galaxies ) or by observing objects that are very far away, and thus can be seen in a very early stage of their evolution ( such as distant quasars ).
Objects which are relatively near to the observer ( for instance, the Moon ) will seem to change position against the distant celestial sphere if the observer moves far enough, say, from one side of the Earth to the other.
All the bursts astronomers have recorded so far have come from distant galaxies and have been harmless to Earth, but if one occurred within our galaxy and were aimed straight at us, the effects could be devastating.
In vain did Rib-Addi send touching appeals for aid to the distant Pharaoh, who was far too engaged in his religious innovations to attend to such messages.
The following account of the origin of the name Allegheny was given in 1780 by Moravian missionary David Zeisberger: " All this land and region, stretching as far as the creeks and waters that flow into the Alleghene the Delawares called Alligewinenk, which means ' a land into which they came from distant parts '.
The observation deck of the nearby Skylon Tower offers the highest overhead view of the falls, and in the opposite direction gives views as far as distant Toronto.
To make this possible, since Nova Scotia was far distant, the King declared that sasine could be taken either in Nova Scotia or, alternatively, " at the castle of Edinburgh as the most eminent and principal place of Scotland.
* Krypton was very briefly depicted in the first Fleischer Studios-produced Superman cartoon in the early 1940s as " a planet that burned like a green star in the distant heavens where civilization was far advanced and it brought forth a race of Supermen whose mental and physical powers were developed to the absolute peak of human perfection ," implying that all Kryptonians had Superman's abilities even on their own planet.

far and part
Lautner, for his part, `` belonged to the present-day race of small artists, who do not demand the utmost of themselves '', and the bitter description of the type includes such epithets as `` wretched little poseurs '', the devastating indictment `` they do not know how to be wretched decently and in order '', and the somewhat extreme prophecy, so far not fulfilled: `` They will be destroyed ''.
Because Bright's speeches were so much a part of him, there are long and numerous quotations, which, far from making the biography diffuse, help to give us the feel of the man.
The outlook for entertainment electronics in 1961 is certainly far from clear at present, but recent surveys have shown a desire on the part of consumers to step up their buying plans for durable goods.
A significant episode occurs near the end of part IV, when Tarrou and Rieux sit on the terrace of a house, from which they can see far into the horizon.
Its great natural strength and situation, not far from the mouth of the Sis pass, and near the great road which debouched from the Cilician Gates, made Anazarbus play a considerable part in the struggles between the Byzantine Empire and the early Muslim invaders.
After the death of Julian, he took part in the retreat of Jovian as far as Antioch.
This was the only part of AppleTalk that required periodic unsolicited broadcasts: every 10 seconds, each router had to send out a list of all the network numbers it knew about and how far away it thought they were.
The sons were said to have become kings: Iocastus of the region in southern Italy as far as Rhegium ; Pheraemon and Androcles of the part of Sicily between the Strait of Messina and Lilybaeum ; Xuthus of Leontini ; Agathyrnus of what was known as Agathyrnitis, having founded Agathyrnum ; and Astyochus of Lipara.
Тhe Aleut people were distributed throughout the Aleutian Islands, the Shumagin Islands, and the far western part of the Alaska Peninsula, with an estimated population of around 25, 000 before contact with Europeans.
These are by far the largest forces needed for any Beethoven symphony ; at the premiere, Beethoven augmented them further by assigning two players to each wind part.
The first part of Einstein's argument was to determine how far a Brownian particle travels in a given time interval.
Five kinds of Phaseolus beans were domesticated by pre-Columbian peoples: common beans ( Phaseolus vulgaris ) grown from Chile to the northern part of what is now the United States, and lima and sieva beans ( Phaseolus lunatus ), as well as the less widely distributed teparies ( Phaseolus acutifolius ), scarlet runner beans ( Phaseolus coccineus ) and polyanthus beans ( Phaseolus polyanthus ) One especially famous use of beans by pre-Columbian people as far north as the Atlantic seaboard is the " Three Sisters " method of companion plant cultivation:
Peuple Souverain anchored not far from Orient, but took no further part in the fighting.
Its popularity can in part be explained by its neoplatonic and Christian ethical messages, although current scholarly research is still far from clear exactly why and how the work became so vastly popular in the Middle Ages.
In the winter of 1994, the return of coho salmon far exceeded expectations, which was attributed in part to the fishing ban.
The Chilean War of Independence was part of the larger Spanish American independence movement, and it was far from having unanimous support among Chileans, who became divided between independentists and royalists.
The Taíno and Ciboney were part of a cultural group commonly called the Arawak, which extended far into South America.
In a letter to P. Schuyler Miller and John D. Clark in 1936 only three months before Howard's death, Conan is described as standing and weighing when he takes part in an attack on Venarium at only 15 years old, though being far from fully grown.
Often however Beavers with testicles intact, after escaping as far away as possible, have drawn in the coveted part, and with great skill and ingenuity tricked their pursuers, pretending that they no longer possessed what they were keeping in concealment.
These were four of the most powerful ships in the world, but he positioned them so far away from his six battlecruisers that they were unable to take part in most of the engagement with Admiral Hipper's squadron of five battlecruisers.
Drums were often put far from the horn ( part of the mechanical transducer ) to reduce sound distortion.
In October 1993, the Estonian Ministry of Environment issued a preliminary report summing up part of the degradation it had surveyed thus far.
Electromagnetic radiation thus includes the near and far field | far field part of the electromagnetic field around a transmitter.

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