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  • To see Herald Square on television made me feel as if I were stranded millions of light-years from Earth and picking up signals from the early days of radio, announcer voices and audience applause from a vanished civilization.†   (source)
  • The Ouster Hawking wake had been noticed by Hegemony monitoring stations but was misinterpreted as merely another swarm migration which would pass no closer than half a light-year to the Bressian system.†   (source)
  • If these Afghans blew the whistle on us, we might all be killed, right out here on this rocky, burning-hot promontory, thousands and thousands of miles from home, light-years from help.†   (source)
  • I thought how ironic it was that Jake's telescope could see stars a million light-years away, but not the town it was in.†   (source)
  • His voice seemed to come from light-years away.†   (source)
  • The distances are so great that we measure them in light-minutes and light-years.†   (source)
  • He sipped his whiskey, light-years removed now from the blonde and the bar and yet, more than ever and most unpleasantly present.†   (source)
  • He's light-years ahead of the old fart outside."†   (source)
  • Atlanta is only a couple of hours away, but it is light-years from this.†   (source)
  • No, but what is new is that the construction industry is a couple of light-years ahead of all other Swedish industries when it comes to competition and efficiency.†   (source)
  • Spiders are being transported there to help, but the planets are hundreds of light-years apart.†   (source)
  • She felt as if she heard her own voice, many light-years away, crying that she would give her life to see him-but in this room, she heard the voice of a meaningless stranger saying coldly, "No, Mr. Thompson, I wouldn't.†   (source)
  • These stars are light-years away, he says.†   (source)
  • Not long after that we were invited by Mrs. Poole and some of her church friends to a picnic at Cherry Grove Beach, which Mrs. Poole said was "light-years better than Ferris Beach.†   (source)
  • For now, for one night, the pressures of the job were light-years away.†   (source)
  • Still Frank, Jr., brooded about something, light-years away, or so it seemed to me.†   (source)
  • In the first case, the sooner I finish my work here, the sooner I can get back to where I belong, a good many light-years from here.†   (source)
  • I was scarcely anticipating anything so bleak as the slatternly railroad flats I had read about in certain stories of Jewish city life in the twenties and thirties; I knew that the Lapidus family must be light-years away from the slums as well as from the shtetl.†   (source)
  • Administrative details are not simple in an army spread through many light-years in hundreds of ships.†   (source)
  • Step two hundred empty light-years home.†   (source)
  • The maximum range may be twelve million light-hours, about twelve hundred light-years.†   (source)
  • Twelve light-years away, similar to our sun but a little smaller.†   (source)
  • For heaven's sake, mankind, it's only four light-years away, you know.†   (source)
  • A light-year is nearly ten trillion kilometers.†   (source)
  • He was now six light-years from the place that the Earth would have been if it still existed.†   (source)
  • The whole galaxy— or nebula, as we also call it—is 90,000 light-years wide.†   (source)
  • More than that, I was two hundred light-years and five and a half leap years from civilization.†   (source)
  • And the crazy thing is, the star on the top, Caph—it's 55 light-years away.†   (source)
  • Then the source of this transmission must be around four light-years away.†   (source)
  • I wonder if there is anyone out there in the night of the light-years?†   (source)
  • Then there's Shedar, which is 230 light-years away.†   (source)
  • So over a distance of four light-years, they can only send two protons.†   (source)
  • The distance to the star in the Milky Way that is our nearest neighbor is four light-years.†   (source)
  • A star with planets about four light-years away—the closest star to the Trisolaran system.†   (source)
  • It lies two million light-years from our own galaxy.†   (source)
  • The most distant galaxies we know of today are about ten billion light-years away from us.†   (source)
  • There can be billions of light-years between one galaxy and the next.†   (source)
  • How many light-years, or whatever it is, in what direction?†   (source)
  • Light-years away and on a different day, or maybe an hour or so later — —no matter.†   (source)
  • And yet we are so far away that light-years cannot express it.†   (source)
  • It's probably a hundred light-years away, maybe more.†   (source)
  • NGS 549672 is forty light-years from Earth.†   (source)
  • Or the Roughnecks might be forty light-years away.†   (source)
  • The blackness had returned, but Langdon could now hear distant whispers echoing across the light-years of emptiness.†   (source)
  • And when you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are hundreds and thousands of light-years away from you.†   (source)
  • Not to rape the planet for our resources—there's plenty of those spread evenly throughout the universe, so you don't have to travel hundreds of light-years to get them.†   (source)
  • With the Hawking drive humankind had explored, colonized, and linked with farcaster worlds across many thousands of light-years.†   (source)
  • The Arabs had very recently ceased to exist, and even when they had existed they were five hundred thousand light-years from Damogran.†   (source)
  • He stooped down and picked up a cold clod of earth, but there was nothing underneath it worth crossing thousands of light-years to look at.†   (source)
  • Island 241 was less than fifty kilometers from the oldest of the colonial settlements but it might as well have been fifty light-years away.†   (source)
  • This was the theory of "contact as symbol" proposed by sociologist Bill Mathers of RAND Corporation in his book, The 100,000-Light-Year Iron Curtain: SETI Sociology.†   (source)
  • It was exactly a nothingth of a second long, a nothingth of an inch wide, and quite a lot of millions of light-years from end to end.†   (source)
  • Treeships rarely accrued more than a four-or five-month time-debt, making short, scenic crossings where star systems were a very few light-years apart, thus allowing their affluent passengers to spend as little time as necessary in fugue.†   (source)
  • Transmission targets: a sphere centered around Earth with a radius of 200 light-years, containing approximately 100,000 stars.†   (source)
  • But, Edouard, Your Excellency, if the artifacts had indicated the presence of a Christ-oriented culture there, six hundred light-years from Old Earth, almost three thousand years before man left the surface of the homeworld… Was it so dark a sin to interpret such ambiguous data in a way which would have meant the resurgence of Christianity in our life-time?†   (source)
  • " "Well," said Ford, "the Thumb's an electronic sub-etha signaling device, the roundabout's at Barnard's Star six light-years away, but otherwise, that's more or less right."†   (source)
  • Monitoring target range: a sphere centered around Earth with a radius of 1,000 light-years, containing approximately 20 million stars.†   (source)
  • It's now just after four in the afternoon and I'm already being thrown out of an alien spaceship six light-years from the smoking remains of the Earth!"†   (source)
  • The Trisolarans were able to shoot two protons at the Earth from four light-years away and they both reached the target!†   (source)
  • Far away on the opposite spiral arm of the Galaxy, five hundred thousand light-years from the star Sol, Zaphod Beeblebrox, President of the Imperial Galactic Government, sped across the seas of Damogran; his ion drive delta boat winking and flashing in the Damogran sun.†   (source)
  • When I look at a star that is thousands of light-years away, I'm seeing the 'peal of thunder' from an event that lies thousands of years back in time.†   (source)
  • That night, as the Heart of Gold was busy putting a few light-years between itself and the Horsehead Nebula, Zaphod lounged under the small palm tree on the bridge trying to bang his brain into shape with massive Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters; Ford and Trillian sat in a corner discussing life and matters arising from it; and Arthur took to his bed to flip through Ford's copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.†   (source)
  • When we look up at a star that is thousands of light-years away, we are really traveling thousands of years back in the history of space.†   (source)
  • By then, the extraterrestrial civilization was still in the depths of space, more than four light-years away, separated from the human world by a long journey of four and a half centuries.†   (source)
  • When we gaze at a star in the Milky Way which is 50,000 light-years away from our sun, we are looking back 50,000 years in time.†   (source)
  • Even though, by the scale of the universe, a gap of four light-years was as close as touching, it was still a distance that was unimaginably far for fragile life.†   (source)
  • When radio telescopes can pick up light from distant galaxies billions of light-years away, they will be charting the universe as it looked in primeval times after the Big Bang.†   (source)
  • Not only in the sense that the stars as we see them are echoes of events that occurred light-years distant in time and space: everything up there and indeed everything down here is a fossil, a leftover from the first picoseconds of creation, when the universe crystallized out from the primal homogeneous plasma.†   (source)
  • This pen was packed with humanity moving from the temporary gate toward and through gate five-and onto some planet light-years away.†   (source)
  • He had been forty light-years into space, yet he had never walked on those silent, dusty plains less than two light-seconds away.†   (source)
  • The extradimensional distortions necessary to match places on two planets many light-years apart were not simply a matter of expenditure of enormous quantities of energy; they were precision problems fussy beyond belief, involving high mathematics and high art-the math was done by machine but the gate operator always had to adjust the last couple of decimal places by prayer and intuition.†   (source)
  • You arc looking at your own Universe, the island galaxy of which your Sun is a member, from a distance of half a million light-years.†   (source)
  • There were always several competitions going on, from acey-deucy to Honor Squad, and we had the best jazz band in several cubic light-years (well, the only one, maybe), with Sergeant Johnson on the trumpet leading them mellow and sweet for hymns or tearing the steel right off the bulkheads, as the occasion required.†   (source)
  • It sounds incredible to call a battle involving hundreds of ships and thousands of casualties a "raid," especially as, in the meantime, the Navy and a lot of other cap troopers were keeping things stirred up many light-years into Bug space in order to divert them from reinforcing Planet P. But the C-in-C was not wasting men; this giant raid could determine who won the war, whether next year or thirty years hence.†   (source)
  • Some of them are a million light-years away.†   (source)
  • The two men had known each other years before, but now, one living in his monk's cell and the other in his grand apartment in the four-story clinic, they were light-years apart.†   (source)
  • And even to say "southern heaven" is to try to familiarize terrific convulsions of fire in the million light-year distances (and why, from space to space, does the occupancy have to be by fire?†   (source)
  • Narrative, however, has two kinds of time: first, its own real time, which like musical time defines its movement and presentation; and second, the time of its contents, which has a perspective quality that can vary widely, from a story in which the narrative's imaginary time is almost, or indeed totally coincident with its musical time, to one in which it stretches out over light-years.†   (source)
  • What blasphemous nonsense, ultimately, to measure the "distance" of some star or other from the earth in trillions of miles or even light-years and to imagine that by the ruse of numbers you had given the human spirit an insight into the nature of infinity and eternity—when infinity had absolutely nothing to do with size, nor eternity with duration and distances in time, had nothing in common with the notions of natural science, were the abrogation of what we meant by the word…†   (source)
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