The fall of the Berlin Wall registers only dimly, as a far-off event.
Coverage of world news by American media is a first stop for journalists seeking to understand far-off events.
If his grandmother could recall far-off events so vividly, he reasoned, why couldn't this be applied more widely?
The projection was not far off; in the event Passion has backed 42 companies over the past four years — which have collectively raised £124 million.
Many may camp overnight to get a good spot by the forest of JumboTron screens affording most visitors the best sight of President-elect Barack Obama's swearing-in, a speck of an event far off at the west front of the Capitol.
In less assured hands this could be a problem, and there were certainly moments when I felt thrown too far off course by big events that turned out to be relatively inconsequential.
But the time isn't far off when another hot developer event may outdo them both (at least on the musical front) because it's in the business of producing and promoting concerts.
At sites where managers had reasonable certainty that events were far off in time (e.g., sea defenses with a lifetime of 50 or more years, security over future water supplies, or confidence about the length of time it might take saline water to move inland), we found that the approach was generally to try to maintain current conditions.
I may actually have begun to distrust science fiction, then, or rather to trust it differently," its sense of events seemed so far off the mark.
But how can we in 2012 America begin to comprehend the events of that far off place and time?
Such linearized gravitational waves are sufficiently accurate to describe the exceedingly weak waves that are expected to arrive here on Earth from far-off cosmic events, which typically result in relative distances increasing and decreasing by 10^{-21} 10^{-21}
