"Wind velocities change every two, three, four hours," Reeves said.
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The LHC works by smashing together atoms at incredibly high velocities.
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Pitching, especially at modern velocities, may inevitably wear down the body.
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But sound-wave velocities of around 4.7 kilometers per second (about 10,513 mph) are faster than sound-wave velocities in other kinds of minerals beneath the crust, according to the paper in the journal Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems.
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I would still need to determine the velocities of the individual stars.
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One develops an innate sense of parabolas, of F=ma, of velocities squared.
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A year later, the star eventually exploded, hurtling material outwards at extreme velocities.
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The cluster's colossal mass accelerates some of these galaxies to very high velocities.
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Most researchers in the field scoff at talk of escape velocities and immortality.
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There's limited wind roar and the Sonata tracks arrow-straight at high velocities.
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And while velocities are rising, pitchers are actually throwing fewer and fewer fastballs.
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Horrifyingly, maximum velocities achieved during strikes ranged between 4.2 to 4.8 meters per second.
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At these velocities, a trip from Honolulu to the Strait takes about 18 minutes.
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At current velocities, it takes twelve years to get to the moons of Neptune.
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The demon knows the positions and velocities of every molecule in a container of gas.
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With Voyager 2, the outward velocities fluctuated, sometimes dipping to zero but then rising again.
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Balls smashed with high exit velocities and high launch angles can still turn into outs.
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They could robustly ascertain 452 of these single stars' temperatures, rotational velocities, surface gravity, and brightness.
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The velocities involved are tiny: for Proxima Centauri about two metres per second, a brisk walk.
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On these more "local" scales, galaxies frequently mess with each other's spins, shapes, and angular velocities.
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It was about proving he could adjust his long levers to big-league velocities and approaches.
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When throwing, the two masses (the shot and the human) would have equal and opposite velocities.
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Ronald Drimmel, astronomer at the Turin Astrophysical Observatory, posted this map of stars' positions and their velocities.
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Moreover, the velocities of light-emitting objects relative to Earth can be obtained from their red-shift.
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On Venus, the electric wind is strong enough to accelerate those oxygen ions to atmospheric escape velocities.
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The first stage is also subjected to "extreme velocities and re-entry heating," making landings more difficult.
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But when you want to poke along at moderate freeway velocities, the Alfa is dignified and easygoing.
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Particle colliders accelerate tiny bits of matter to velocities close to the speed of light, slamming them together.
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The researchers compromised and figured that 20 percent eclogite and 2 percent diamonds could explain the high velocities.
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Stars' vertical positions are plotted on the x-axis, and their velocities are plotted on the y-axis.
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That included 1.3 billion stars' apparent motion in the sky and actual velocities for over 7 million stars.
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Typically, scientists see matter flowing out of these regions with velocities around 10 percent the speed of light.
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Raposa: Testicular fortitude, ass-slap-to-hot-foot ratios, sunflower seed shell exit velocities, things of that nature.
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We could point at their different velocities, commercial fiction being produced faster (and read faster) than literary fiction.
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Ice flow velocities of Larsen C in February 2017 and April/May 2017, from ESA Sentinel-1 data.
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"High-velocity BB guns, which have muzzle velocities higher than 350 feet per second, can increase this risk."
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The velocities involved are tiny but the effect on the star's spectrum can be measured from the ground.
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As that pin is removed, the satellites fly out with (hopefully) predictable velocities and directions, forming an expanding network.
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Those Falcon 9s that have to reach extra high velocities don't have as much fuel leftover for the landing.
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Higher velocities often come with higher chamber pressures, which can cause premature parts wear and reliability problems over time.
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The relative velocities could be hundreds of feet per second, so it is almost like getting shot with bullets.
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This contraction also affects the size of space-time chunks, which are then perceived differently by observers with different velocities.
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I feel we are internalizing rapidly shifting currents of change that are moving at velocities that momentarily transcend literal articulation.
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The bullpen is something much closer to excellence, posting some of the highest velocities of any squad in the game.
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If the moon were made to go Ka-Boom, the needed forces would send chunks of Moon flying at high velocities.
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Each hummingbird was placed in a wind tunnel and videotaped in the infrared as they flapped away, varying the wind velocities.
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Higher lift-to-drag ratios require sharp leading edges, which, combined with extreme velocities, can generate surface temperatures up to 25,20213ºC.
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Yet as Vera Rubin's galactic observations demonstrated in the 1970s, the rotational velocities of stars didn't decrease—it stayed the same.
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If you watch major league baseball, you will see that there is a wide range of fastball velocities among pitchers there.
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Therefore, by doing the dolphin kick longer, Phelps reached faster underwater velocities but also reached faster velocity when recommencing surface swimming.
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"On the topic of the eight new interstellar comet candidates, Fraser said the researchers were "disingenuous" by using "arbitrary" inbound velocities to separate hyperbolic objects originating from the Oort cloud from those with interstellar origins, and that the authors failed to perform "a physical analysis to see what the distribution of velocities might be from infalling Oort cloud comets.
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It's a harder technological feat to achieve re-entry capability for an ICBM, which is subject to higher temperatures and greater velocities.
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If the velocities are different from physicists' basic assumptions, it might affect the theories that physicists use to understand the dark matter.
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That's because the molecules in the steam are getting really excited, bouncing around with higher and higher velocities as the temperature climbs.
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That's what Arizona State University is doing with a new digital anthology called Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A Collection of Space Futures.
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Knuckleballs To accelerate a charged particle to insane velocities, you need two key ingredients: a lot of energy and a magnetic field.
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These include a longer rear end, a modified tailpipe, and strategically placed vents that reduce the drag, enabling it achieve stunning velocities.
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" Moreover, they would "hover or stay stationary on the radar for a short time and depart at high velocities and turn rates.
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Maxwell and others wondered how a law of nature could depend on one's knowledge—or ignorance—of the positions and velocities of molecules.
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But James O'Donoghue, a former NASA scientist who's now at JAXA, animated warp-speed velocities in the solar system using the Enterprise spaceship.
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Some high-velocity BB guns have the same muzzle velocities as handguns, increasing the likelihood that a shot can be fatal, he said.
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His team needs to take a lot more measurements of dwarf galaxies and their velocities around other galaxies in order to strengthen their evidence.
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The system is constantly measuring and estimating the velocities of the objects moving around the drone, and it does this 50 times a second.
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It's reasonable to assume that Andersen has found a body position that favors the faster rotational velocities necessary to consistently land the quad cork.
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The colors reflect the approaching (purple/blue) and receding (orange/green) hydrogen gas velocities relative to Earth, while the brightness corresponds to the amount.
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It found that, by and large, exit velocities on batted balls did not increase at the same rate as the rise in home runs.
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"The velocities that are measured are faster than what we think we can reproduce with reasonable assumptions about what is there," Faul told MIT News.
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It also features radial velocities, amount of dust, and surface temperatures of lots of stars, and a catalogue of over 14,000 Solar System objects, including asteroids.
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"The first-stage will be subject to extreme velocities and re-entry heating, making a successful landing difficult," SpaceX wrote in a press kit before launch.
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In a nutshell, Ohtani brings the heat, with a fastball that touches triple digits, giving him one of the highest average velocities among starters this year.
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"The comet's current velocity is high, about 93,000 mph, which is well above the typical velocities of objects orbiting the Sun at that distance," Farnocchia said.
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"The comet's current velocity is high, about 93,000 mph, which is well above the typical velocities of objects orbiting the Sun at that distance," said Farnocchia.
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Space is already crowded—over 2,000 satellites are in orbit and NASA tracks over 500,000 individual pieces of debris hurtling at velocities of over 27,000km an hour.
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The researchers behind the newest study used this information to study the galaxy in phase space—fancy talk for how its stars' velocities vary with their position.
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GIF: NASA/JPLSupernovae produce some of the most powerful explosions in the cosmos, expelling a doomed star's contents at velocities reaching 10 percent the speed of light.
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Most former hitters pushed out of the game associate their departure as a result of facing velocities that become too uncomfortable, piquing the autonomic system's flight response.
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Iron Man is regularly shown taking hard, nearly instant turns at jet-fighter like speeds and even hitting the ground at similar velocities (whether intentionally or otherwise).
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"Only one type of rock produced the same velocities as what the seismologists measured: one that contains 1 to 2 percent diamond," the scientists explained in the study.
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So a rocket launching on the equator gets an extra speed boost, making it easier for the vehicle to reach the extra high velocities needed to achieve orbit.
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The team experimented with different types and sizes of click beetles, filming the leaping beetles with with high-speed cameras to capture their take-off angles and velocities.
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And the group's model accurately predicted the number of resulting drops, their sizes and distribution, and initial velocities, in keeping with the spatter patterns observed in the experiments.
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One estimate says there are 21,000 pieces of space junk larger than 10 centimeters, that could collide with other objects at velocities ten times faster than a bullet.
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At such high velocities, the robotic spacecraft would pass Pluto in three days and reach our nearest neighboring star system, Alpha Centauri, just over 20 years after launch.
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The variation in velocities were a result of the cartridge case cracking, and the issue was quickly rectified with a slight design change and additional 3-D printing.
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"For example, we can compare the effect of gravity on light bending as well as galaxy velocities, typically predicted to be different in modified-gravity theories," he said.
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Military strategists have long known the value of taking the high ground, and the remarkable kinetic energy that comes with orbital velocities is a gift to weapon designers.
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You could get jobs (with benefits!) making the groggiest of grognard games, modeling armor slopes and muzzle velocities in paper and cardboard form for companies like Avalon Hill.
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Mr. Pérez, Mr. Patitucci and Mr. Blade have found a way to make improvisations that are loose and unfastened, even at high velocities, but retain a cohesive tension.
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Hand could negotiate the Utah track at blistering velocities, but he was more than happy to let the car shimmy and wiggle here and there, just for kicks.
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It'll also add further data on stellar temperatures, velocities, and parallaxes (aka, how the stars have moved compared to even farther objects, such as bright quasars in other galaxies).
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The planet doesn't transit, or pass in front of its star from our point of view, so HARPS must instead measure velocities based on the spectrum of observed light.
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After initially discovering DF2 with the Dragonfly array, van Dokkum and Abraham used data from the Keck Observatory to measure the velocities of the brightest stars in the galaxy.
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Ali was a scientist of ring dimensions, of human biology, angles and physics and punch velocities, the limits of someone's stamina, understanding when a body is starting to fail.
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Recent measurements of the distances and velocities of faraway galaxies don't agree with a hard-won "standard model" of the cosmos that has prevailed for the past two decades.
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"The friction and the high velocities of material forming out of a black hole naturally produces X-rays," Peter Edmonds, a NASA astrophysicist and communications specialist working with Chandra, said.
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"The measurements on the Perseus Cluster showed the potential of the Hitomi x-ray microcalorimeter to transform our understanding of the velocities of hot gas throughout the Universe," Fabian said.
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But this time round the rocket was set for a geostationary transfer orbit, which would expose it to higher velocities and greater re-entry heating on its way back down.
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Normal rockets are limited in their ability to provide interstellar transport because they can't carry enough fuel to achieve velocities that would make interstellar travel feasible in human time spans.
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"You want four control surfaces to be able to control the vehicle through a wide range of atmospheric densities and velocities," Musk explained, referring to the four fin-wing-flaps.
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"What we have to do now is expand our search to more distant satellite systems, and find satellite galaxies as well as measure their velocities," said Pawlowski in a call.
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Whitesides' first reason was simply that, for at least the next few years, Virgin Galactic will be the only company flying people on a winged craft at near hypersonic velocities.
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The velocities needed for those numbers mean that by the time the missile has been in the air one minute, it is already traveling several times the speed of sound.
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And it turns out that, in order to bring particles up to the relativistic velocities required for certain experiments, a tube longer than the circumference of the Earth would be needed.
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By varying the construction algorithm, the researchers have designed cosmic webs that link up in a number of different ways; based on the size, proximity, and relative velocities of individual galaxies.
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There is also scepticism that North Korea has yet produced a re-entry vehicle that would protect the warhead on its path through the Earth's atmosphere at velocities travelled by ICBMs.
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The United States has been developing the $41 billion weapons system to defeat the long-ranges and high velocities of an ICBM like those being developed by North Korea and Iran.
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"One of the benefits of a bullpup-style weapon is that you can run much lower pressures and still achieve the desired velocities because you have a longer barrel," Stouffer said.
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They fiddle with different grips, test new arm slots and experiment with varying velocities of their pitches, so when a pitcher toes the rubber, he does not do so by happenstance.
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The most recent study on MLD efficacy, in 2011, used near-infrared fluorescence imaging in MLD therapy patients and found increased lymph velocities, or flow, when comparing pre- and post-treatments.
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It just says that for every event that the laws of physics allow, there is a corresponding event in which various things have been reversed, velocities have been reversed and so on.
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Then in the mid-1890s Henri Poincaré showed that actually there couldn't be any constants of the motion that were expressible as any analytic functions of the positions, velocities and mass ratios.
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Greater wind velocities mean that debris poses a greater threat to humans and animals, while the roofing, siding, and glass windows (protected and unprotected) of frame homes are more vulnerable to damage.
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In 6 2/23 innings, Weaver (11-11) conceded two runs, two walks and four hits while throwing a fastball that reached 87 mph, one of his highest velocities of the season.
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"Given this mission's GTO destination, the first-stage will be subject to extreme velocities and re-entry heating, making a successful landing challenging" SpaceX said prior to the mission in a statement.
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There was no wear from the barrel, all the systems held together and the rounds met muzzle velocities within 5 percent of a production M781 fired from a production-grade grenade launcher.
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Inconveniently, that is above the melting point of most materials used by engineers, which makes it hard to design things like wings and nose cones for aircraft intended to achieve hypersonic velocities.
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Then the scientists ran two sets of tests at varying wind velocities, much like they did with the living birds: one with feathers, and one with the feathers removed from the carcass.
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Biomechanists embedded with the track and field team had their Laveg laser guns, for calculating horizontal and vertical velocities in the triple jump and working out the optimal speeds before take-off.
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They found that the positions and velocities of five of those distant stars match models of the orbital passes the galaxies have made with each other over the last eight billion years.
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By comparison, the Bohmian view sounds rather tame: The electrons act like actual particles, their velocities at any moment fully determined by the pilot wave, which in turn depends on the wave function.
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The European Space Agency's Gaia satellite is currently surveying the positions and velocities of one billion stars, and a definitive inventory of the Milky Way could be completed as soon as next summer.
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But it also will never theoretically run out of fuel, and can gradually increase its speed over time to very high velocities thanks to the friction-free environment of the vacuum of space.
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What he really wants to do is use the same laser array technology, bulked up even further, to accelerate miniature spacecraft to ultra-high velocities — up to 20 percent the speed of light.
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Some relievers, like Yankees closer Aroldis Chapman, have reached higher maximum velocities, but Syndergaard, as a starter, not a ninth-inning closer, did it over a much larger body of work last season.
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Items that are smaller than a marble are not yet tracked but NASA reckons there are millions; and at velocities of more than 233,22024km per hour, even a fleck of paint can cause damage.
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SpaceX had already landed a Falcon 9 rocket on a drone ship before, but this time round it was exposed to far higher velocities and greater re-entry heating on its way back down.
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Though refineries and other facilities may be off line temporarily, Tulane University Professor Eric Smith noted that the wind velocities during Harvey were below the levels that coastal energy facilities are designed to withstand.
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SpaceX has also not attempted landings on about a dozen missions since that 2016 miss — something it usually does when the missions require the rocket to reach higher velocities that make landings more difficult.
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Image: ESA/Hubble, NASA, L. CalçadaTo get around the dark matter problem, Watkins' team measured the velocities and movements of globular clusters—dense and abundant concentrations of stars in orbit far from the galaxy's center.
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Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities is all about the coming future of space travel, with stories from a fantastic lineup of authors: Madeline Ashby, Steven Barnes, Eileen Gunn, Ramez Naam, Carter Scholz, Karl Schroeder, and Vandana Singh.
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This limit is a consequence of the uncertainty found in quantum systems, which are characterized by random fluctuations rather than the well-established positions and velocities we're used to in our everyday not-so-quantum world.
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The panel was tested against 0.50 caliber ball rounds, as well as 0.50 caliber armor-piecing rounds, with impact velocities measured at speeds between 500 meters per second (1,118 miles per hour) and 885 MPS (1,980 MPH).
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DPS are divided into "hitscan" characters, whose bullets will travel in a straight line, with precision aim required (Soldier: 76, McCree, Widowmaker), and "projectile" characters who use projectiles with varying travel velocities and angles (Genji, Pharah, Hanzo).
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VICIS' youth helmet is tuned for the impact velocities expected in youth play, it's the lightest helmet available for kids at under 4 pounds and it has the widest field of view of any kids' helmet currently available.
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The company is continuing to work at barge landings partly because it's not yet cleared for ground landings at its Vandenberg location, and partly because barge landings gives SpaceX greater flexibility in recovering rockets with higher launch velocities.
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But again, AMG has upgraded the inline six to a standard of stunning expression, and the car's exhaust note was such a consistent symphony of combustion at all velocities that I didn't care if I wasn't going fast.
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So O'Donoghue took the Federation starship USS Enterprise, commanded by Captain Jean-Luc Picard (played by Patrick Stewart) in "Star Trek: The Next Generation," and sent it flying from the sun to Pluto at varying warp-speed velocities.
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Or possibly just ignored the idea, given that while Teslas are known for supercar-besting velocities for their highest-spec car, the business model is aimed more squarely at software engineers commuting in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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With the powerful telescopes available today, van Dokkum hopes not only to make more accurate measurements of galaxy velocities and distance, but also identify the epoch in which the galaxies formed, using new data from the Hubble telescope.
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Jays fans can feel some optimism even without using exit velocities and launch angles: though Morales posted an uninspiring 110 wRC+ in 2016, he slumped through the season's first two months, and put up a 135 mark from June 1 onward.
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Not only is the rocket subjected to "extreme velocities and re-entry heating" during its fall back to Earth, according to SpaceX, but there's less fuel leftover for the vehicle to reignite its engines and perform the necessary landing maneuvers.
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In the long term, the Army is working with gunmakers to develop the new Next Generation Squad Weapon (NGSW) that is slated to fire a special, government-produced 6.8mm projectile that promises higher velocities at greater ranges, service officials say.
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In the constellation of specks, they saw the animals sucking in water, then forcing it out in the direction they were moving away from, with the pocket of expelled water and the nautilus shooting apart at velocities they could readily calculate.
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Working with Mr. Bigelow's Las Vegas-based company, the program produced documents that describe sightings of aircraft that seemed to move at very high velocities with no visible signs of propulsion, or that hovered with no apparent means of lift.
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The new estimate of 19693 mph winds was made after a review of "available aircraft winds, surface winds, surface pressures, satellite intensity estimates and Doppler radar velocities -- including data and analyses that were not available in real time," the hurricane center said.
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"With respect to the month of July, all of the indicators and estimates from state sources that the bank follows show a decline in inflation with respect to June, although at different velocities depending on the index," the bank said in a statement.
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"There are so many galaxies moving at different velocities relative to our own, so I figured I'd skip that step and go straight to the biggest apparently moving thing I could think of — the CMB," O'Donoghue said, referring to the cosmic microwave background.
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It was the mid-'00s, and Jan de Bont—director of such big-screen velocities as Speed and Twister—was showing off a small sculpture of carcharodon megalodon, the ancient shark that was to be the star of his next film, Meg.
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Thames struggled initially but he found a groove at the plate after a few weeks—he needed time to adjust to the wider variety of pitches and velocities and grow familiar with the forkball, which is common in Korea but seldom seen stateside.
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But there's a much more immediate issue to deal with: one has to know the initial conditions for the Earth, Sun and Moon, or in other words, one has to know as accurately as possible what their positions and velocities were at some particular time.
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As researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported when the telescope was still in the planning stages: As the most sensitive single dish radio telescope, FAST would be able to discover more mega-masers and measure the radial velocities of masers with higher precision.
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Graphic: Meingast et al/Gaia DR2 (Astronomy and Astrophysics)The dataset allowed the scientists to look at the positions and velocities of nearby stars taking on a river-like shape—Gaia's large field of view let them analyze different properties of the stars simultaneously.
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In April 2021 DARPA plans, in collaboration with Space Systems Loral (SSL), a firm in Silicon Valley, to launch an RSGS spacecraft that has two dexterous robotic arms and thrusters sensitive enough to accelerate or slow orbital velocities by as little as a centimetre per second.
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Initial projections were poor for the rocket making a successful landing last week, owing to the extreme velocities and reentry heating the Falcon 9 would be subjected to, but SpaceX CEO Elon Musk upgraded the chances to "maybe even" in a tweet sent just before blastoff.
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Initially, SpaceX played down the odds of a landing success saying in a press kit that "the first-stage will be subject to extreme velocities and re-entry heating, making a successful landing challenging," due to the high orbit the satellite needs to be placed into.
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This reprieve, if it can be called one, is the latest tidbit in a cornucopia of data from Gaia, a European spacecraft tasked with measuring the precise positions, velocities and other attributes of more than a billion stars in the Milky Way and other nearby galaxies.
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Because the electrons in a superconductor are already moving at velocities faster than those expected of a superlight dark matter particle, the momentum of the incoming DM particles isn't "lost" in the collision event and they can be observed as particles in the superconductor recoil from the collision.
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"While [the spectrometer] was designed to investigate gases, we were able to measure the ring particles because they hit the spacecraft at such high velocities they vaporized," said Hunter Waite, principal investigator for the spectrometer on Cassini's nose and lead author of the study published in the journal Science.
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While examining data from the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies — which keeps records of times, dates, velocities and locations of incoming meteors — Harvard University professor Abraham Loeb and undergraduate student Amir Siraj quickly became interested in a particular one that slammed into Earth over Papua New Guinea on January 8, 2014.
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"This particular rule augurs back to when we didn't have Jumbotrons, you didn't have free Wi-Fi in the ballparks, you didn't have fans with smartphones and you didn't have athletes who were 6-7 and 250 pounds who were hitting balls with exit velocities of 130 miles per hour," Isaac said.
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"What has happened is, because of the increase in velocities, you're seeing more pitchers pitching up — more pitching coaches and organizations encouraging pitches thrown up at the top of the zone — where that was never the case before," said Colorado Rockies Manager Bud Black, who pitched in the majors from 1981 to 1995.
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"This is an intriguing peek at a disc very close to a black hole, so close that the velocities and the intensity of the gravitational pull are affecting how we see the photons of light," said Stefano Bianchi, associate professor in the Department of Math and Physics at Università degli Studi Roma Tre in Italy.
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It's a matter of debate how soon – or whether – passengers and cargo will ride the system at velocities approaching 750 miles per hour (1,200 kph), but Hyperloop One already has raised $80 million from backers including clean technology venture capitalist Khosla Ventures; high-speed railway SNCF, the French National Rail Company; and GE Ventures.
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Now for another definition—average velocity (in one dimension) looks like this, where (Δy) is the change in vertical position: For an object with a constant acceleration (like we have here), the average velocity is just the sum of the initial and final velocity divided by two—it's literally the average of the velocities.
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They sat me down, interrogated me, asking what I had seen with eyes closed, and I said: the honoraria of sadness, nugget-bright, ores ropey molten in the encased seam, and messages, or messengers, their in-between blood filamentals criss-crossing pain-clear soothingly swift, at rest in unassessable velocities across chiasms chasmic in their embassies.
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" Like Schilling, the report cast doubts on the viability of North Korea's ICBM technology, pointing out that of the two missiles shown off in public "neither has been flight-tested, and North Korea has not developed and tested a re-entry vehicle capable of withstanding the thermal and mechanical rigors of re-entry into the atmosphere at ICBM velocities.
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Finally, as 2019 ended, Russian military officials indicated for the first time that they had deployed to the Arctic the Kinzhal air-launched ballistic missile, a weapon capable of hypersonic velocities (more than five times the speed of sound), again presumably to a base in the Murmansk region just 125 miles from Norway's Finnmark, the site of the upcoming NATO exercise.
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