I wondered about campaigns that never quite achieved escape velocity.
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Escape Velocity by Jason M. Hough Jason Hough's novel Injection Burn came out earlier this week, but you won't have long to wait for its sequel: Escape Velocity comes out at the end of June.
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TPing things at 25,000 mph escape velocity would be fun too.
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You literally have to reach escape velocity in order to dismount.
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So fighting hard now to reach escape velocity is also prudent.
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Until it reaches escape velocity, it's vulnerable to Facebook's copy-cat factory.
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"This is a company that has already achieved escape velocity," he said.
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If you like cool-sounding science terms, escape velocity should fit the bill.
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Escape velocity would be lower, making rocket launches easier in the right spot.
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There is no other way to achieve escape velocity from our broken neoliberal model.
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That's when you know that "The First" probably isn't going to achieve escape velocity.
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There's something called "longevity escape velocity," which is a term transhumanists are very fond of.
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And their ability to get escape velocity or be noticed is really impaired right now. Absolutely.
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The Silicon Valley cultural obsession with achieving escape velocity and obliterating the competition is permanent, though.
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Even Facebook, to create the behavior and the escape velocity, they needed the physical college campuses.
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Escape velocity is the speed required for an object to escape the gravitational bounds of another object.
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If you think about the startups, what startup has achieved total escape velocity and continued to scale?
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Or if you were a fan of the Escape Velocity series, and cared little about the plot.
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The escape velocity, or the minimum speed needed to leave the Earth, is 11 kilometres per second.
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Larger narratives would only destroy that apartness from the chain of events which gives them escape velocity.
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Securing those votes — the political equivalent of reaching escape velocity — would prompt more Democrats to follow suit.
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Securing those votes — the political equivalent of reaching escape velocity — will prompt more Democrats to follow suit.
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This planet is nearly 10 times heavier than ours and has an escape velocity that's 2.4 times greater.
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The most photographed installation at Coachella 2014 was the 36-foot-tall animatronic astronaut known as Escape Velocity.
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This is Bridge Two, which he believes will bring us to longevity escape velocity within about fifteen years.
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Just when her campaign appeared to be reaching escape velocity, Bernie Sanders pulled off a historic upset in Michigan.
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Escape velocity: We haven't seen a Fed Chair so bullish on the U.S. economy in more than a decade.
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"This idea that we're going to have escape velocity in the economy, I just don't see it," he said.
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In other words, he figured out Andromeda's escape velocity, which in turn yielded a new estimate of the galaxy's mass.
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But by the time Ennius, considered the father of Latin poetry, died in 169BC, Latin literature "had achieved escape velocity".
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They would not have reached escape velocity without great VCs bankrolling them, and the Reality Ecosystem should be no different.
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When you build a persona with that kind of gravity, it takes a lot for your writing to reach escape velocity.
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But it remains incredibly expensive and logistically complex to see humans break the planet's escape velocity, let alone with any regularity.
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"Ultimately, while we have built some valuable things, we didn't hit the escape velocity the business needed to exist independently," Hackett wrote.
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When you have a company that you're trying ... You're at the point where you have got to reach escape velocity, presumably, right?
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"Whatever people used to doubt stocks people have to start acknowledging the economy has past the point of escape velocity," Goldberg said.
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And this is a very human story at its essence: it's those who are hungriest to find freedom who gain escape velocity.
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It would be particularly applicable in space, where achieving the speeds necessary to reach escape velocity usually requires large amounts of chemical propellant.
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If a collision is powerful enough, it can send debris flying faster than a planetary bodies' escape velocity and out into the solar system.
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Only by constantly tightening and amplifying these loops can companies grow rapidly from learning effects and hope to achieve escape velocity to become runaway leaders.
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After meeting with people who have ideas from "longevity escape velocity" to brain uploading, which do you see as being, like, the most out there?
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In other words, the so-called new normal — steady but not spectacular growth that never reaches escape velocity — is beginning to resemble the old normal.
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Joining Looker in the "is it or isn't it reaching escape velocity?" club, Periscope raised a big honking $25 million Series B from Bessemer in November.
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For Stockman, those "four no's" consist of a combination of no escape velocity, no earnings growth, no dry powder from the central banks and no reflation.
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The economy is unlikely to reach "escape velocity" due to the influence of Federal Reserve and other central banks' policies, billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller said Wednesday.
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It would be junk in any other context; vintage scientific equipment lucky enough to be projected at escape velocity to a barren destination 234,1.73 miles away.
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Perhaps you're like me and you wasted (or spent wisely) hours and hours of your youth playing Escape Velocity and its various sequels on an early Mac.
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Secret co-founder David Byttow joins Snap as director of engineering Secret was one of the last pop-up social networks to approach something resembling escape velocity.
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He also has emphasized the need for a cheap dollar and low interest rates as the economy seeks escape velocity from an extended period of low growth.
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And your suggestion is that for these hyperconfident masters of the universe who are VCs, explaining to everyone how they're gonna get to 10x and escape velocity.
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Escaping the grip of Earth's gravity requires a rocket to reach "escape velocity" — which means topping 25,000 miles per hour, or 33 times the speed of sound.
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Microsoft will keep plugging away with each of these products until it gets to a fifth of Apple's volume, at which point the products have achieved escape velocity.
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USA's Mr. Robot and Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale have certainly inspired some degree of media fervor, though I don't know that either has attained escape velocity just yet.
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Eventually, their growth will level off at a higher base, but then the escape velocity of earnings growth won't be enough to outrun the gravitational pull of inflation.
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But he is optimistic that Shuttl is inching closer to reaching "escape velocity" — which when it has hit, it would be able to scale at a faster pace.
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This remains a net positive, though rallies this year have had trouble barreling to significant new highs and taking investor spirits to outright optimism, failing to reach escape velocity.
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So, ironically by trying to achieve escape velocity we are in worse shape for a recession now than if things that slowed down when the period you're talking about Mike.
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That sometimes hurts the show, but I think it helped the flashbacks of "First Blood" attain escape velocity, decoupling just enough from our reality to examine their weirdo power dynamics.
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And if for some reason, electric vehicles don't achieve escape velocity or are supplanted by an innovation in, say, hydrogen fuel cells, then Ford is in better shape to quickly pivot.
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Enter the Falcon Heavy, which is able to lift 141,000 pounds to Low Earth Orbit (more than a Boeing 737 loaded with passengers), and lift over 4,000 pounds to escape velocity.
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They may be rather more expensive to propel to escape velocity, but crucially they are also far less likely to get cancer on the six-month journey to the Red Planet.
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Wal-Mart – Goldman Sachs upgraded the retailer's stock to "buy" from "neutral" and added it to its "Conviction Buy" list, noting that the consumer economy reached "escape velocity" in late 2017.
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"The most important thing is the Fed wants to create escape velocity from QE. They don't want to be the Bank of Japan in a permanent state of monetary easing, " he said.
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For every story you read, there were a handful that never reached escape velocity — requests that were denied, where records didn't exist, or where the documents handed over weren't all that interesting.
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It would be especially difficult for Reed to sell when Netflix has reached escape velocity as an Over-The-Top (OTT) service and continues to see robust subscription growth across the world.
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For every story you read, there were a handful that never reached escape velocity — requests that were denied, where records didn't exist, or where the documents handed over weren't all that interesting.
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The calculation can be repeated for each revenue level because the growth rate required for escape velocity at $50 million is obviously different (and lower) than the growth rate required at $10 million.
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The calculation can be repeated for each revenue level because the growth rate required for escape velocity at $2140 million is obviously different (and lower) than the growth rate required at $2500 million.
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He might even reach what Dave Gobel, boss of the Methuselah Foundation, an ageing-research charity, calls "longevity escape velocity", the point where life expectancy increases by more than a year every year.
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The rocket shoots straight up, as rockets do, reaches escape velocity, then pops its capsule off the top just before the Karman line that officially, if somewhat arbitrarily, delineates space from Earth's atmosphere.
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Friday's report showing that gross domestic product grew just 0.7 percent in the fourth quarter brought to a conclusion another year of dashed hopes for economic liftoff — "escape velocity," as it is sometimes called.
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They're not cannibalizing any products here, and I think that this is another step in the company reaching escape velocity and ultimately being a much larger company than the $60 billion market cap today.
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"Given the modest acceleration in growth that we forecast and the many downside risks around these forecasts, it seems overly optimistic to suggest that the global economy has reached "escape velocity"," said Barclays economist David Fernandez.
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Our reviewer praised Jemisin's "intricate and extraordinary world-building," and wrote that her heroes' escapes are not merely personal victories: "Her heroes achieve escape velocity, smashing through oppressive systems and leaving them behind like shed skins."
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The face is that good, and the meme is that good, and that is why the Baffled Nick Young Meme achieved sufficient escape velocity to break out of NBA Twitter and become reliable internet shorthand for confusion.
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"We have finally achieved escape velocity, leaving behind the gravitational pull of past mis-steps," the company said in a statement which described the return to dividends for the first time since 2014 as "an important milestone".
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Kehlmann is now in his early 40s, and his reputation has not reached escape velocity in the United States, though his last book, "F," about the varied fates of three brothers, was another rewarding, finely written effort.
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Long-time observers of the space movement tend to concur that the advent of NewSpace and several billionaires' commitments to human expansion into the solar system is needed if this great adventure is going to achieve escape velocity.
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Stealth space catapult startup SpinLaunch is raising $30M The basic idea behind SpinLaunch's approach is to get a craft out of the atmosphere using a "rotational acceleration method" that brings a craft to escape velocity without any rockets.
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Only the federal government, Atkinson argues, can target significant resources to places that are close to being strong innovation hubs in order to get those places to "escape velocity," which he argues is a matter of global competitiveness.
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Stock prices weren't based on price-to-earnings ratios, but instead what Peter Thiel refers to as "escape velocity," when companies grow so big, so fast, that others in their competitive set can't keep up and eventually fall away.
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These predecessors to the Voyager mission were the first to visit Jupiter and Saturn and to achieve the escape velocity required to leave the solar system (which they will both do one day, many thousands of years from now).
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Here on Earth, we've solved the challenge of getting ourselves into space thanks to the happy fact that chemical propulsion is sufficient for producing the speeds required to leave our planet's gravity (Earth's escape velocity is 11 kilometers per second).
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"I do still believe that if you want to reach escape velocity, you need people who have been there before," said Tavel, echoing a common sentiment that experienced startup executives remain scarce and can best be found in Silicon Valley.
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"To break away with enough escape velocity in home care, a company needs to effectively leverage technology to deliver a faster and better experience at a drastically lower price," Homehero CEO Kyle Hill wrote last year when his company ended operations.
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After pivoting to a voice and text chat tool for video game teams and trash talkers in 2015, Discord's current trajectory makes it one of few consumer-facing companies that's now reaching "escape velocity," as one of its early investors gushes.
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If the average lifespan goes up by 1.2 years every year, then effectively you've reached "longevity escape velocity," whereby you're pushing back the horizon by just a little bit more every year and the science effectively led you to outrun death.
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But the bulk of its 27 acts are rising musicians, many based in New York: the alto saxophonist and mixed-media artist Matana Roberts; the pianist Samora Pinderhughes; and the trumpeter Theo Croker with his band Escape Velocity, for instance.
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It's undeniable that global sentiment is growing in a complete reversal from the financial crisis malaise, when the euro zone moved at a snail's pace with no hint of inflation, while the U.S. hunted for ever-elusive escape velocity for its economy.
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During the first hour of the flight, the Atlas V's upper Centaur rocket stage will ignite for several minutes in two separate burns which will accelerate the spacecraft to a hyperbolic escape velocity of 5.4 kilometers per second (over 12,000 miles per hour).
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As I recall my discomfort with the proclamations of longevity-driven men who hope to achieve "escape velocity," I think of the astonishing hubris of the Harvey Weinsteins of the world, those who saw young women's bodies as theirs for the taking.
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It strikes me as ... Well, I think the thing that's hard in a hardware business model, candidly, is you don't necessarily generate enough gross margin to fund R&D and marketing, and that's what makes it really hard to get to an escape velocity.
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The shows that have that quality of escape velocity tend to be shows that allow some degree of fan theorizing (whether it takes the Westworld form of dwelling on plots and timelines or the form of attempting to catalogue every '80s reference in Stranger Things).
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Branding in general seems like something that doesn't matter 90% of the time, except for the 10% of the time when logos and designs reach escape velocity and turn into cool things to have on T-shirts or hats, and that's when it really does.
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Wherever it is possible to tie these advantages together, there will likely be ferocious competition, as with network effects, for startups to get an initial head start in competing for scale to achieve escape velocity and become runaway leaders given the huge premium on winning.
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The chatter is often about the team, the process and the investors, but under the surface is the reality that markets are efficient, and there is a step function of value difference between a company that has escape velocity versus one that does not.
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"I find it hard to believe that QE, whether in Europe, whether in Japan, the U.S. ... will give us sustained growth, or what we used to call escape velocity, without some serious structural reforms getting made," LaVorgna said in another "Squawk on the Street" interview.
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We voice opinions on these things if we're asked, but a company like Uber has this escape velocity right now where they have a lot of people who can give them input, and whether they should compete in China or own China — that's beyond my pay grade.
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He had placed his faith in the idea of "longevity escape velocity," the popular transhumanist notion that the pace of advancement in the science of life extension would eventually accelerate to the point that, for every year that passes, average human-life expectancy increases by more than a year.
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If I build my business such that all of the money, all of the infrastructure, all of the technology, all the people who are in place four years ago, when I thought it would be there, do a moonshot, you don't achieve escape velocity, you crash to earth.
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Again, it's another example of how lucky we are here on Earth; not only is it relatively easy for us to escape our planet's gravity, it's also relatively easy for us to escape the Sun's gravitational pull (escape velocity from the Sun at Earth's position is about 42 km/s).
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"It is a sign of hope that we are going to get, finally, that escape velocity that the Fed has been talking about for so long, " he said, referring to the push that enables an economy to escape its recovery period and enter an era of long-term economic growth.
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"All this indicates that we have finally achieved escape velocity, leaving behind the gravitational pull of past mis-steps, and gives the board confidence to recommend paying a dividend for the first time since 2014, which is an important milestone," Chief Executive Rupert Soames said in a statement on Wednesday.
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It's very speculative what the time frame is going to be, but I think we have a 50-50 chance of getting to work on longevity escape velocity, the point where we are postponing the problem of aging faster than time is passing and people are staying one step ahead of the problem.
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And if a few people do reach escape velocity and somehow survive in a bubble on Mars — despite our inability to maintain such a bubble even here on Earth in either of two multibillion-dollar Biosphere trials — the result will be less a continuation of the human diaspora than a lifeboat for the elite.
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That said I also do roughly this sort of thing in Mount & Blade: Warband (shout out to [the mods] Prophesy of Pendor and Brytenwalda!) and I used to mod an old Mac game, Escape Velocity, to allow me to do a lot of fiddly faction missions and let me change the military/political landscape of that universe.
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" Phil Sanderson, Ridge Ventures (formerly IDG Ventures) Ridge Ventures (formerly IDG Ventures) Founder/Managing Director Phil Sanderson is interested in "mobile AR experiences that are fun and engaging like Snapchat and Pokémon GO. Unlike VR, phones that enable AR are ubiquitous and supported by Apple and Google, so the ability for a company to reach escape velocity quickly is high.
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On an episode released last month of the podcast Escape Velocity, created by the University of Southern California (USC) Viterbi School of Engineering, Sharon Gerstel, an art history professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), explained why she became involved in this acoustic archaeology: For me as an art historian, I was interested in the perception of sound and how that perception was informed by the setting.
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