Professor Garvey envisages a cone-like structure stretching 50 meters wide at the top to around 80 meters across at the base.

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The structure's cone-like shape was designed to reduce wind turbulence, yet there is only one piece of curved glass on the building: a lens-shaped cap at the very top.

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Funnel clouds look like cone-shaped or thin rope-like protuberances which hang down from the cloud base, and often do not last very long.

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But others are using fancy new techniques like cone-beam computerised tomography which actually expose people to much higher levels of radiation.

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The PlayStation Move consists of neon ice-cream-cone-looking remotes that act like a more accurate version of Nintendo's Wii remote.

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"It does, " agreed Waxman, thereby opening the door to a line of argument in which he found himself suggesting--apparently in all seriousness--that U.S. citizens might have to purchase a government-issued, Maxwell Smart-like "cone of silence" before making a speech in a public park.

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These cone-shaped outflows have denser ridges corkscrewing around their surfaces much like strings of lights wrapped around Christmas trees.

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Yet noble intentions do not, of themselves, move concrete, even rotting concrete like the cement-and-pine-cone slurry used to make the Elwha Dam, the first of the two structures to be built.

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Japanese companies (such as Mitsubishi Heavy) are working on a so-called clamshell nose cone that is supposed to increase reliability by opening like a clamshell outside the atmosphere and reducing the number of maneuvers required to hit an incoming missile.

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