Word: nearest
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...nearest competitor, fellow technology-oriented MIT, is listed with an endowment of $4.3 billion. Its endowment growth over the previous year is only 16.6 percent...
Junior Marna Schutte had a day to remember as well. In the 400, an event in which she has already won multiple Heptagonal championships, Schutte ran a personal-best time of 55.28 seconds. She finished nearly three seconds ahead of her nearest competitor...
...usual, the Harvard throwers were superb. Junior Chris Clever's 61.02- meter throw won the javelin, while junior John Kraay's 15.90-meter throw gave him first in the shot put, edging out his nearest competitor by just a hundredth of a meter...
...whether we will travel to the stars, the answer is probably yes, but it will take a long time. Maybe 500 years. If you ask whether any human being will travel to the stars within the 21st century, the answer is certainly no. The difference between traveling to the nearest star and traveling around our own solar system is about the same as the difference between swimming across the Atlantic and swimming across the Potomac. To get across the Atlantic you need to have a boat or an aircraft. To get to the nearest star you need to have...
...other hand, the nearest star is about 10,000 times as far away as Pluto. A trip to the stars within a human lifetime requires a spacecraft that cruises at more than 10,000 miles a second and accelerates to this speed within 10 years. The engine would have to deliver about a megawatt of power for every pound of weight of the ship. There is no way an engine that small and that powerful could keep itself cool. Even if the fuel is something exotic like antimatter, carrying far more energy than sunlight or uranium, the problem of cooling...