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Interplanetary running – a 10k with a...

기사 이미지: theguardian.com

Summary

1. There is a free running app that takes you outwards through the solar system.

2. Most people concentrate on arrivals and departures, but the patience is needed for interplanetary travel as well as a running.

Voca

a slingshot: a catapult / a weapon / arbalest

The minds of Nasa engineers have spent decades dreaming up ways o fcrossing the vastness of outer space: Gravitational slingshots.

a bloke: an older man / a chap / a gent

The bloke who turned up in a full body suit showing all the muscles of the body.

be trite: be silly / be commonplace / be corny

It sounds trite, but it really did make me think about the patience needed for interplanetary travel.

not bat an eyelid: not seem surprised, worried.

I wouldn't normally bat and eyelid about running that distance.

Sentences

It's briliantly simple idea.

The run also let me indulge in one of my favorite activities: sterotype-busting.

You're rewarded with a bit of commentary and some original redordings from planatery missions.

When you have earphones in but no sound playing through them, you can only hear your own breathing.

There are huge excitement about the few days it spent close to everyone's favorite ex-planet. But no one mentioned 10 years it had spent doing not a lot on its way there.

Space travel is a game of patience.

Crossing the finish line was weirdly satisfying.

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