Mr. Sansom is English, bearded, formidably cultivated, the versatile author of numerous volumes of short stories, of novels and of pieces that are neither short stories nor travel articles but something midway between.

Since the 1950s, this type of fiction has to a large extent merged with science fictional tropes involving cross-time travel between alternate histories or psychic awareness of the existence of " our " universe by the people in another ; or ordinary voyaging uptime ( into the past ) or downtime ( into the future ) that results in history splitting into two or more time-lines.

Before the Civil War, Carnegie arranged a merger between Woodruff's company and that of George M. Pullman, the inventor of a sleeping car for first class travel which facilitated business travel at distances over.

In order to hunt sea mammals and to travel between islands, the Aleuts became experts of sailing and navigation.

There are several big coach companies, which control the market for intercity travel, and hundreds of small ones ( one bus = one company ), which operate between the smaller towns.

It is also possible to experience the Bosphorus by taking a regular ride in one of the public ferries that travel between the European and the Asian sides.

It is also possible to travel by the privately owned ferries available between Üsküdar and Beşiktaş or Kabataş.

These towboats travel between ports and are also called line-haul boats.

Commuter rail, also called suburban rail, is a passenger rail transport service that primarily operates between a city center, and the middle to outer suburbs beyond 15 km ( 10 miles ) and commuter towns or other locations that draw large numbers of commuters — people who travel on a daily basis.

But for two substances to travel at different speeds, and thereby be resolved, there must be substantial differences in some interaction between the biomolecules and the chromatography matrix.

As both teams are located on I-85, travel is relatively easy between home and away games.

A railway tunnel and a commercial truck ferry service also travel between Detroit and Windsor.

Namibia gained independence in 1990 In 2007, the two governments signed an agreement which expanded air travel between the two states.

In 2010, international rail travel was liberalised by new European Union directives, designed to break up monopolies in order to encourage competition for services between countries.

Both Finland and Estonia are members of the European Union and the Schengen agreement, freeing international travel and trade between the countries.

At best this kind of transition had previously been dealt with by having the directions of travel of the actor in the two shots correspond on the screen, but in a film such as The Bank Burglar's Fate ( Jack Adolfi, 1914 ), one can see shot transitions in which a cut is made from an actor just leaving the frame, to a shot of him well inside the frame in an adjoining location, which have the positions and directions so well chosen that to the casual eye his movement appears quite continuous, and the real space and time ellipsis between the shots is concealed.

Since there was already an existing road between Mabura and Kurupukari, and between Annai and Lethem, it was now possible for vehicles to travel between Georgetown and Lethem.

Scholars from the history of ideas have noticed that consultants play a part similar to that of the journeymen of the guild systems: they often travel a lot, work at many different companies and spread new practices and knowledge between companies and corporations.

Unlike their father, Hesiod was averse to sea travel but he once crossed the narrow strait between the Greek mainland and Euboea to participate in funeral celebrations for one Athamas of Chalcis, where he won a tripod in a singing competition.

The Hayling Ferry is the most convenient way to travel between Portsmouth and Hayling Island.

As Roel Sterckx observes, " The use of dog sacrifices at the gates and doors of the living and the dead as well as its use in travel sacrifices suggest that dogs were perceived as daemonic animals operating in the liminal or transitory realm between the domestic and the unknown, danger-stricken outside world ".

These inns were built between towns if the distance between them was too far for one day's travel.

However, there are some exceptions: many of the stars in the constellation of Ursa Major ( including most of the Big Dipper ) are genuinely close to one another, travel through the galaxy with similar velocities, and are likely to have formed together as part of a cluster that is slowly dispersing.

This first generation of stars re-ionized the surrounding neutral hydrogen, creating expanding bubbles of space through which light could readily travel.

Interstellar space travel is manned or unmanned travel between stars.

For example, following the ideas of Greek philosopher and scientist Aristotle, scientists reasoned that a cannonball falls down because its natural position is in the earth ; the sun, the moon, and the stars travel in circles around the earth because it is the nature of heavenly objects to travel in perfect circles.

Jules Verne, in From the Earth to the Moon, published in 1865, wrote " there will some day appear velocities far greater than these the planets and the projectile, of which light or electricity will probably be the mechanical agent ... we shall one day travel to the moon, the planets, and the stars.

; Merchant Free Traders: The players travel the stars trading and adventuring along the way in their very own starship

The Ekumen stories tell of the efforts to re-establish a civilization on a galactic scale through NAFAL ( Nearly As Fast As Light ) interstellar travel taking years to travel between stars, although only weeks or months from the viewpoint of the traveler, because of time dilation, and through instantaneous interstellar communication using the ansible.

The Alcubierre drive ( or Alcubierre metric see: Metric tensor ) is a speculative idea based on a valid solution of the Einstein field equations as proposed by Miguel Alcubierre by which a spacecraft may achieve faster-than-light ( FTL ) travel, making travel to other stars more feasible.

A starship or interstellar spacecraft is a theoretical spacecraft designed for traveling between stars, as opposed to a vehicle designed for orbital spaceflight or interplanetary travel.

A function of slipstream is that apparent objective velocities are extremely variable, as it enables travel across millions of lightyears seemingly as swiftly as traveling between neighboring stars only a tens of lightyears apart.

With the aid of the elected head of the world government, Slayton Ford, Lazarus hijacks the New Frontiers, a starship designed to travel to distant stars, and liberates the Howards.

Latitude can also be determined by the direction in which the stars travel over time.

If the stars rise out of the east and travel straight up you are at the equator, but if they drift south you are to the north of the equator.

As a man who loves to travel amongst the stars, Archer realizes being captain is a larger duty than manager and astronomer.

Two more first season guests stars were Ruth Gordon, as Kirk's ex-con grandmother, and Jerry Van Dyke, as the owner of a travel agency who, against his better judgement, hires Joanna only to have her quit on her first day.

Flying about in the 3D view with the ship's normal engines is sufficient for travel within a sector ; travel between sectors is via " hyperspace ", accomplished through an elaborate and noisy " hyperwarp " sequence with graphics loosely reminiscent of the Star Wars and Star Trek films in which the stars seemed to stretch to radial lines.

With respect to the stars, the Moon takes 27 Earth days, 7 hours and 43. 2 minutes to complete its orbit ; but since the Earth-Moon system advances around the Sun in the meantime, the Moon must travel further to get back to the same phase.

Further, a possible answer needs double the travel time, i. e. tens of years ( near stars ) or 60, 000 years ( M13 ).

A high rate of proper motion can indicate that a star is located nearby, as more distant stars must move at higher velocities in order to achieve the same rate of angular travel across the celestial sphere.