The energy generators and frequency regulators they work with must be of a certain size.
Yet scientists are already speculating that this planet may be of a similar size to Jupiter and have its own ring system.
And they will be "of a size adequate to reach its objective".
He said work was ongoing to locate a fault six miles off the coast of Scotland and this could be something the size of a pinprick or a 10p piece.
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Each of the towers would be roughly the size of a two-car garage standing well-over half a mile high.
The ePad will be more of a legal-size, freehand version of the tablet PC, Brass said, noting it would be using the same technologies.
The prototype shield presented at the conference is too large to be useful (it would have to be carried around in a backpack), but the technology can eventually be miniaturized to the size of a bracelet.
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Extrapolating from this result, Dr Mileikowsky thinks that in a meteorite with a diameter of 20cm it would take about 1m years for such a colony to be reduced to a millionth of its original size.
It would be the size of a collar button and spin at more than 2m revolutions a minute.
If there was no air between its atoms, the Earth would be about the size of a baseball.
The vehicle will be the size of a small business jet, capable of making several flights a day, the company said.
According to DARPA's research description, the robot should be about the size of a softball but capable of squeezing through a one centimeter hole and reconfiguring itself within 15 seconds.
Bottom line, any one determined to be a fiduciary, regardless of size, should sweat if they are a fiduciary because the fiduciary obligations under ERISA are the highest known to law.
The blimps, which can be a quarter of the size of the 192-foot-long Goodyear blimp, have become an increasingly valuable tool for soldiers, who are able to monitor the information from the nearby bases.
The world's best, the Hubble Space Telescope, is as big as a school bus and sits out in orbit, while its successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, will be roughly the size of a Boeing 737.
After devising experiments to simulate the aging of a mattress, the CSPC calculated that a grand total of 210 micrograms of antinomy particles of a size capable of being inhaled would be released over the course of 10 years.
We were a little disappointed to see how small the garlands were each ball turned out to be the size of a large marble as they had looked more substantial in the photo Ms. Parks had emailed, but we went with them anyway since they were the main item we had chosen for both fireplaces.
Without specifying a policy, he seemed to be edging towards a view of appropriate family size for welfare claimants, of a maximum of two or three children.
But don't forget that the enlarged Virgin Money will still be a minnow - less than a tenth of the size of the big banking beasts on most measures.
Ta Moan turned out to be a sleepy site, about the size of a football field, with brown rock remains of walls that outlined one central building with some still visible decorated doorways and corridors, and half a dozen subsidiary structures.
At a third of the size of a normal card, it can be discreetly and simply stuck to the back of any mobile phone.
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While it doesn't say much, it doesn't outright deny the allegations -- something you'd think a company of Microsoft's size would be quick to dismiss if there wasn't a shred of truth to it.
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Its storage potential is enormous: Dr Sheats says that initially, a single layer of memory the size of a sheet of writing paper will be able to store one billion bytes (a gigabyte) of data.
Given a stick too short to be useful, and a stone of the right size, they chose the stone.
This would be a large scheme which, as a result of its size, would have low charges.
Now Mr. Dunbar, who teaches at Oxford, has taken the argument a step further in work yet to be published, by correlating the size of a specific part of an individual's brain with the size of that individual's social network.
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To get the material to assemble properly, all of the molecules had to be a specific size--11 nanometers for the iron oxide particles, each of which is 60, 000 atoms across, and five nanometers across for the lead selenium quantum dots, each of which contains 3, 000 atoms.
Dan Nichols said that would be equivalent to the size of a Fed-Ex delivery truck.
It would also need to be only half the size of a conventional jet of similar power, says Dr Lior.
The unit is said to be around the size "of a medium paperback, " checking in at 0.4-inches think and featuring a 6-inch 800 x 600 resolution display.
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