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the gap between two points and the alibi every coward leans on
means The amount of space between two points, or the emotional remove one keeps from people or things.
from From Latin 'distantia,' meaning a standing apart, built from 'dis-' (apart) and 'stare' (to stand) — literally things standing away from each other. It traveled through Old French 'destance' before settling into English, where the same root that lets two cities stand apart also lets two people do so.
- light speed
- defines the meter via how far light travels
- andromeda
- its light left before humans existed
- emotional version
- measured in unanswered texts, not miles
- shortest path
- straight only on flat surfaces, never on Earth
- horizon trick
- earth's curve hides ships hull-first
for instance
earth to moon — 238,900 miles average, traveled by apollo 11 in 1969
marathon — 26.2 miles, olympic running event standardized in 1896
light year — 5.88 trillion miles, astronomical measurement of stellar distances