Advances here will inform the more scifi-ish imponderables like a space elevator, and asteroid- or moon-mining.
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In the 95 degree heat, I felt like I was sleeping on a hot, hot moon-bounce.
At 39mm the watch features a monochrome dial with sweep seconds, moon-phase sector and date.
Meunier (moon-yay) is French for "miller, " an allusion to the flourlike appearance on the leaves.
The back-to-back roundhouse punches were jaw-dropping, the kind of blue-moon-eclipse results you refresh your cellphone to confirm.
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The tower is a bit like the moon - you see it every day but can't get to it.
The Taj Mahal in India has been called a poem in stone, a moon-white dream, a tear on the face of humanity.
Partly because of their longevity -- no one wants to change a light bulb on the Moon -- but also their hardiness.
Unlike the succession of glass plates used in 1941's "The Wolf Man, " through which we viewed the moon-induced metamorphosis of Lon Chaney Jr.
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They started off with more than 1, 000 virtual Moon-sized objects made of rock and ice and simulated about 200 million years of planetary evolution.
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Many of those people attended Wednesday's show and were thrilled by what they saw, regarding the Sailor Moon-inspired collection as a validation of their beliefs.
As usual, Hatton comes into the ring to a punk version of Blue Moon - and the London crowd are almost as receptive as Hatton's Manchester following.
After a few performances, he was moon-walking across the stage.
It would finally put a stop to our crippling moon-envy.
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At the end of the night, you tell it you're going to sleep by pressing and holding the lone button until the Up vibrates and the tiny moon-shaped light glows.
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In a conference room, looking through a wall of glass into the Messenger mission-control center, Solomon described his fascination with the parched and moon-like planet, which is a sister of Earth.
The Waxing Gibbous Moon - the lunar phase between first quarter Moon and a full Moon - will be approximately one degree south of Jupiter appearing to be only a pen width apart.
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The Hajj season -- dates vary depending on the sighting of the new moon -- peaks between Wednesday and Saturday this year, just as the winter flu season gets underway in the Northern hemisphere.
"My firm opinion, as clear as the full moon -- irrevocable, absolute, total -- is ... that you elect Nicolas Maduro as president, " Chavez said, waving a copy of the Venezuelan Constitution as he spoke.
Of course Galileo made great use of the telescope, and his discoveries--that Jupiter has its own moons, that the Milky Way is made of stars, that Venus has phases just like the moon--were turning points.
"My firm opinion, as clear as the full moon -- irrevocable, absolute, total -- is ... that you elect Nicolas Maduro as president, " Chavez said in December, waving a copy of the Venezuelan Constitution as he spoke.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon -- who has repeatedly called for a halt in the fighting -- headed to Jerusalem on Thursday after meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in the first of several days of talks around the region.
"My firm opinion, as clear as the full moon -- irrevocable, absolute, total -- is ... that you elect Nicolas Maduro as president, " Chavez said in early December, waving a copy of the Venezuelan Constitution as he spoke.
Audemars Piguet breaks this rule by combining its Caliber 2885 self-winding split-second chronograph movement featuring a minute repeater, a perpetual calendar and a moon-phase indicator with the sporty 44mm Royal Oak Offshore case in brushed titanium with a black rubber strap.
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New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, a Democrat, touted an "Apollo program" -- referring to the 1960s effort that put men on the moon -- that would reduce dependence on foreign oil by more than half and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent.
While his fellow Apollo 11 moon-walker, Buzz Aldrin, seemed up for anything from "Dancing With The Stars" to "Transformers 3" (and he's been a wry and inspirational figure to have on the scene), Armstrong kept his distance from the media circus beyond authorizing a biography, "First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong, " in 2005.
That here we would be -- 40 years after the first moon landing -- still wondering when humans will return to the moon.
Some say all amavasyas - or new moon nights - are auspicious for bathing in the Ganges, but Mauni (silent) Amavasya is also special as many pilgrims do not speak until they have had their bath.
Notable participants include Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, and Wendy Watson Wright, Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (UNESCO-IOC).
But it's not yet clear which of the two left-leaning hopefuls, Moon Jae-in of the Democratic United Party and Ahn Cheol-soo, a professor and former software mogul, will challenge Park Geun-hye, the candidate for the governing Saenuri Party.
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