But if a big gust of wind pushes the ship too far to the left, the solution is not to figure out a way to generate an equally-sized gust of wind to push the ship back in the other direction.

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But the Albula steepens quickly, and the river disappears into a dramatic ravine, forcing the train to criss-cross the gorge, creaking like a sailing ship in a full-bellied wind.

BBC: Full steam ahead

Man, this all sounds a little too weird to be true, but apparently Wind River's VP of Marketing told LinuxDevices that they do have at least one customer who expects to ship a phone in the US running Wind River Linux before Christmas.

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I'm writing this blog from Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland, where a cold katabatic wind is blowing off the ice onto the deck of the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise.

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But it wasn't until humorist Dave Barry caught wind of the idea and threw his support behind it in a September 2002 Miami Herald column that this rickety ship took sail.

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Unusually for a car ferry, this ship would use three, massive computer-controlled sails to harness the maximum wind energy.

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