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What’s unusual about this object is that this is rather rare, that an object of this size passes so close to Earth. Interstellar Lab Food pods happens about once every 10 years, but this is a once in a decade opportunity to get some nice close-up measurements in a relatively large body that is relatively easy to measure to that effect.

Richard Moissl

Found on CNN
1 year ago

To me, the robot is eight years in the making, you have to understand how every single part of this robot is functioning -- what are all of the things that can go wrong, and things are always going wrong. So it's always like a puzzle. Being able to dive deep into the ocean and exploring some wrecks that would have never been seen this close up is very rewarding.

Adrian Piedra

Found on CNN
1 year ago

From a young age, hidden helpers learn the costs of war close up. You see how difficult the road to recovery can be. You know the reality of changing bandages or long stays in hospital rooms. You get tired of having to be brave. And there's no way to, you know, keep you from feeling sad sometimes. So no, we can't shield our caregiving kids from the reality of war or its aftermath, but we can recognize the costs, that they last long after our troops come home, and that injuries can be felt throughout generations.

Jill Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Our current plan is to visit Raised Ridges and investigate it close up, the helicopter's images are by far better in resolution than the orbital ones we were using. Studying these will allow us to ensure that visiting Raised Ridges is important to the team.

Ken Williford

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We have to realize that a single case where accountability resulted, does not mean that accountability will be the rule, sadly, it more likely will continue to be the exception. We just have to continue to work hard to expand that bandwidth and the ability of prosecutors through logic or resources in putting the right people in leadership positions to get it right. And secondly, we have to realize that a single verdict doesn't mean that systemic reform has happened and that we can close up shop.

Miriam Krinsky

Found on CNN
3 years ago

99.9 % of young people recover, 99 % of people recover. We have to recover. We can't close up our nation.

Ukraine Trump

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The actoralso shared two photos : one close-up picture of himself climbing and another snapshot of a visibly-frayed climbing rope. Gregg DeGuire/FilmMagic -RRB- Leto arrives at the 2019 LACMA Art + Film Gala Presented By Gucci at LACMA on November 2, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. ( Gregg DeGuire/FilmMagic) Leto posted a video of the incidentas well. Holy f ----- g s -- t ! Holy f -- k !

Gregg DeGuire/FilmMagic -RRB- Leto

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Finding something as minute as these changes in something so immense as Jupiters magnetic field was a challenge, having a baseline of close-up observations over four decades long provided us with just enough data to confirm that Jupiters magnetic field does indeed change over time.

Kimee Moore

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Enough of science and art, Close up these barren leaves; Come forth, and bring with you a heart Thst watches and receives.

William Wordsworth

added by Peelingthelayersoftheonion
5 years ago

The general theme of our discoveries is really how different Jupiter looked from how we expected, this is a close-up and personal look at Jupiter. We thought it was uniform inside and relatively boring. What we're finding is anything but that.

Scott Bolton

Found on CNN
5 years ago

People say, ‘You’re like a phoenix.’ No, I just had a strong role model in my mother, everyone will have challenges. Your natural instinct is to close up your heart and let it eat you up. Do something to help someone else. It will heal you. You’ll be like a magnet when you do that. Light to firefly.

Jane Seymour

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The funny part is that Quentin’s hands are in the close-up, but Quentin Tarantino said, ‘ [ Christoph Waltz is ] not going to do it right, it ’ll either be too much or too little. ’.

Diane Kruger

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Giada tapes sometimes three episodes in one day, and they do multiple takes on a close-up of her eating. She doesn’t always eat and swallow every time, since they can do sometimes six to 10 takes with three episodes a day, and that would be like eating six to eight meals a day … The bottom line is, she most certainly does eat the food she prepares on the show, but does not always consume the whole dish, as that would be too much for most people to eat in one day.

Stephen Huvane

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It was just a huge close-up picture of a disgusting penis.

Britta Carlson

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I think there is a lot of hostility there -- it is Muslims killing Muslims as well, if they think they are cooperating with the authorities, it is not just a matter of ethnic cleansing, as you put it -- it is a matter of people on different sides of the divide, and this divide we are trying to close up.

Suu Kyi

Found on CNN
7 years ago

As someone who lives in New York who has experienced the horrors of terrorism close up and personal, the idea of having someone on the Supreme Court who understands those issues, as well as their horrible human effect, is very comforting.

Chuck Schumer

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I would close up our borders, we are lax and we are foolish.

Donald Trump

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I would never have believed that the first close up picture we get of Pluto didn't have a single impact crater on it, that's just astonishing.

John Spencer

Found on CNN
8 years ago

First off, I’m a big guy and typically drive a big truck with a service body. I was more comfortable in the Chevy than I am in my truck, it drives and handles well; it’s got a great ride and plenty of pep; and I really liked the visibility—especially those side mirrors and the placement of the integrated close-up mirrors. Between those mirrors, its size, and the back-up camera, it was easy to park.

Larry Orton

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

A lot of people felt that because of the hard fought election and the nature of the presidential contest that they would never come together and that Afghanistan would literally split wide open as a result, close up that is not what I saw.

John Kerry

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Having observed her close up, he's got knowledge that very few people in Germany have.

Walid Nakschbandi

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The bronzes are exceptionally powerful and compelling works of art that deserve close-up study.

Victoria Avery

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

New Horizons is on a journey to a new class of planets we've never seen, in a place we've never been before, for decades, we thought Pluto was this odd little body on the planetary outskirts; now we know it's really a gateway to an entire region of new worlds in the Kuiper Belt, and New Horizons is going to provide the first close-up look at them.

New Horizons

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I simply wanted to capture street harassment in a very intimate, close-up way in the real world and have people talk about it, i just wanted to lay it all bare.

Rob Bliss

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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