But this is a five meter telescope has about a quarter mile focal length.

Play enough video games and eventually you will really believe you can snowboard, fly a plane, drive a nine second quarter mile, or kill a man.

We've got the military have just deployed some of these into Iraq, where you can put fake troop movements quarter of a mile away on a hillside.

They go from eight cents a mile in 2010, to four cents a mile in 2015, to two cents a mile by 2020.

That's a 2,000 mile journey.

Yeah, I'm a million mile flyer.

Satawal is one half mile long by one mile wide.

So in a sense this is an absolute zero carbon, zero fossil fuel electric mile at two cents a mile by 2020.

I walked three fourths of a mile.

We fly about a mile above the surface.

My house is only a mile from here.

Maybe the last mile problem really should be thought of as the last mile opportunity.

Now, a six mile wide rock is very large.

So it's about a mile across, 600 feet deep.

The desert was advancing by a mile or two a year.

But a trained liespotter can spot a fake smile a mile away.

That's what I'm talking about as a last mile opportunity.

So this is what you call a last mile problem.

This is the last mile.

I walked about 1 mile.

a quarter of a millimeter.

To give you a sense of scale, this is about a mile wide.

Almost a quarter, or approximately a quarter of the matter in the universe, is stuff that's invisible.

The last mile is, everywhere, problematic.

This river is one mile across.

Trawling a zooplankton net on the surface for a mile produces samples like this.

It s a quarter past eight.

And today, you would see this inside the mine, half a mile underground.

The fastest woman to ever run a mile did it in 4 15.

And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.

The shopping center is one mile ahead.

The average depth at the top of it is about a mile and a half.

And these guys orbited a 30 or no, about a 22 mile long asteroid called Eros.

So, how do we tackle the last mile?

I mean, and only one mile is visible.

There are a quarter of a million at least those are the ones we know about a quarter of a million species of flowering plants.

It happened at a quarter past eleven.

Today 2010, in volume, when we come to market, it is eight cents a mile.

Here I have a bunch of other examples, all suffer from the last mile problem.

On a 42,000 mile mountain range. Great job security, but not the way to go.

We're going to look at the mid ocean ridge, a 40,000 mile long mountain range.

So that's all water under the sea a mile and a half, two miles, three miles down.

In 2004, two St. Helenian fishing vessels developed the capacity to fish beyond the 12 mile inshore waters of the island's 200 mile exclusive economic zone.

They are doing that on a quarter of the resources that are used typically in the Western world a quarter of the resources.

And the inconsistencies create, fundamentally, this last mile problem.