When you see that peculiar long delay, you can be sure that the live report is
coming into the local studio through a communications satellite link.
Radio (and TV, and light) does take time to travel from place to place. Normally, on earth,
the trips are so short that we don't perceive the delay, but when you start dealing with
signals that leave the immediate vicinity of the earth's surface, it starts to become noticeable.
If you've ever seen videos of conversations with the Apollo astronauts on the moon
during the 1970s, those are always slow and leisurely, because it takes radio (and light)
almost 1.3 seconds to make the trip between earth and moon. So if mission controllers
asked a question of someone on the moon, the soonest the reply could begin to be
heard was 1.3 seconds to get there + 1.3 seconds to get back = almost 2.6 seconds,
which was very noticeable.
The distance between the earth's surface and a geostationary communications satellite
is roughly double the earth's circumference. It does take up-link and down-link time
for a signal to be repeated through a satellite, and nowadays, it's not unusual for
a single communications path to include twosatellite hops before it gets to where
it's going.
And one more thing: Every time an analog signal (like a voice) is translated into
digital data, or a data stream is used to reconstruct a sound, the process takes time.
There's a very simple and intriguing way to see this. Make a cell-phone call to a friend
who's with you in the same room, and watch the delay through the cell-phone path.
without delay right away NOW
Reporters were hearing of the sinking of Titanic almost right away. First in Canada. Rumours and speculation abounded until it was confirmed the next day by the Olympic.
To rhyme with slipping away, it is really only necessary to rhyme with away; rhymes are about the sound at the end, anyway. Rhyming with away we have, delay, hurray, pray, stay, pay, may, bay, lay, etc.
He tells everyone that gabe is giving away appliances
There is no relationship between the two, wax away!
There is a delay and they are not given right away.
well, you can't "move" the reporters. if you want them to go away, talk to them and answer their questions. otherwise, just ignore them like there's no one there.
Abate, await, create, debate, estate, elate, sedate, relate, irate.
there are reports of tarantulas killing and dragging away chickens. whether or not they eat them I don't know!
It is likely that the fear of the Bolsheviks was justified. It led to 70 years of repressive rule that took property and most civil rights away from the average citizen.
the lightning is roughly a mile away
He tells everyone that gabe is giving away appliances