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In addition to the blimps, border officials are exploring more than 100 other types of military gear, from hand-held instant-translation devices that could be used at crossings to sensors that can monitor up to a 10-mile diameter area for days at a time.
Dr Carlstrom and his colleagues propose building an eight-metre-diameter radio telescope at the South Pole to search for such cold spots.
To prevent that, controllers must keep a hockey-puck-shaped safety zone at least 5 kilometers in diameter and 300 meters thick around each plane.
The team was able to confirm that the slightly-elongated 1999 RQ36 ranges some 480 to 511 meters in diameter, or at least a hundred meters smaller than previously thought.
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Keeping their tunnels at approximately one body length in diameter seemed to ensure that the ants could catch themselves when they slipped and allowed the creatures to continue to dig.
The tungsten dust contemplated here would be about 30 micro-meters in diameter, and be released at a point 1100 km above the surface of the Earth.
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At some 2.7 kms in diameter (or some nine Queen Elizabeth 2 ship-lengths in size), 1998 QE2 is due to make its latest closest approach to earth at 1:59 Pacific Daylight Time (4:59 EDT) today.
The heat exchangers and pipework required to make a 10MW plant already exist, but the 100MW facility will need a pipe that is not only 1km long (in order to reach the cold water at depth) but ten metres in diameter (in order to bring enough of that cold water to the surface).
Andrew Kent, a physicist at New York University, spends most days running electricity through a magnet smaller in diameter than a single cell, trying to determine the lowest current at which an electron's spin changes orientation.
At 180 feet tall and 12 feet in diameter, the Falcon 9 rocket is tiny in comparison to the football-field-long Saturn V rockets that carried Apollo spacecraft into orbit.
At the same time, they reduced the diameter of the entrances to some of the nest boxes, in order to deny admission to cowbirds (which are larger than warblers).
Early estimates put it at 20ft (6m) deep and 30ft in diameter but officials have created a 100ft-wide safety zone fearing the top of the sinkhole is growing.
The firm and its architect, NBBJ, looked at how fast people can walk and measured the diameter of the space from multiple angles. (An "infinity-loop"-shaped pathway slopes through the building, connecting employees to each other.) In addition, the floor plan is narrower than typical offices, keeping teams in sight range of one another.
The 1.4m (4.5ft) diameter stone features the Cotswold Way acorn symbol at its centre, and can be found in the abbey churchyard near the Roman baths.
According to Michaud, an AVE power station with a 656-foot diameter could generate 200 megawatts of clean electricity at a price as low as 0.03 cents a kilowatt-hour.
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Instead of looking at the number of hairs, it focused on thickening the diameter of each strand.
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Ms Bewley said that once work to expose the Rieneckia ammonite, which measures about 40cm (16in) in diameter is complete, it will go on display at the Gateway Information Centre along with a range of other fossils.
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The crown is 23.5cm (9.2in) high and, at the widest part, 31cm (12.2in) in diameter.
The five inch diameter black drum was found in the South Lanarkshire park at about 13:30 on Monday.
The 1.4m (4.5ft) diameter stone, which will feature the Cotswold Way acorn symbol at its centre, is to be set into the pavement in the abbey churchyard near the Roman baths.
Vancouver's own EaglePicher Medical Power has recently announced plans to unveil the "industry's smallest implantable-grade medical battery, " which comes in at a mere .26-inches long and .09-inches in diameter.
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DARPA's criteria, the craft, which has a diameter of 15cm (six inches) has managed a 16-minute flight at a top speed of nearly 70kph (45mph).
The trick was to use a diamond-shaped cloak, with properties carefully matched at the diamond's corners, to shuttle light perfectly around a cylinder 7.5cm in diameter and 1cm tall.
Since the rate at which small drops sweep one another up to form large drops varies with the square of their diameter, such drops are too tiny to make rain.
Built by EADS, it weighs in at 652.5 tons, is 239 feet long and has a fuselage 23 feet, 5 inches in diameter.
And at the highest level one follower succeeded in straightening the noodles out, discovering in his cup eight strands 2mm in diameter and measuring 40cm (16 inches), evidently extruded with perfect uniformity, and cut into perfect lengths.
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