Heretofore, design concepts for free-floating space colonies, says Sherwood, have entailed large hollow toroidal spheres with clouds, yards and pastures.
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The third story is cantilevered out over the two floors below it, so that it felt as if we were floating in space.
Velcro was designed as a fastener to replace zippers, but caught on commercially only after proving itself as a way to stop things floating around space capsules.
If an object floating through space passes near the line of sight between the earth and a distant star, its gravity should, according to the theory of relativity, bend and focus the light from that star.
The new science of radio astronomy indicated that elements of the recipe were also floating around in space.
As the planets congealed, gravitational forces and particle collisions created the high temperatures necessary to melt metals floating around in space, and minerals began their diversification.
It is more likely, then, that the object was floating free in space, and was captured by the sun's gravity in what was, in astronomical terms, the fairly recent past.
The most famous edit in that film is when the apes throw bone up into the air and then there's a cut - and that is a spaceship floating beautifully through space to the Blue Danube music.
An astronaut, in the most proverbial floating-through-space sense, is a brave man who has the world gawking at him.
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The bridges and main plates are crafted in blue sapphire, allowing the flying Tourbillon to appear as if it is floating in an empty space.
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Adam Wells, Virgin Galactic's head of design, said the cabin's interior was being kept as minimal as possible to reduce weight and maximize space for floating.
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The white of his expansive tabletops in paintings like "The Table" and "The White Table Cloth" resembles an emission of light rather than a pigment, so the haphazardly strewn plates and baskets appear to be floating or suspended in space.
The leak was detected after space station crew reported seeing small white flakes floating away from the station, the space agency said.
At Fidelity, the firm's offering in this space is the Floating Rate High Income Fund.
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Robbins dances around his victims, gently guiding them into place, floating in and out of their personal space.
All of our pirate ships are flying, because our worlds consist of enormous floating islands that hang in mid-space.
The first try came when the Samoan fly-half exhibited his vision by floating a 30-yard pass into space for Connor O'Shea to latch onto.
The McDonald's on NASA Road One, just down the street from the Saturn Lane gate of the Johnson Space Center, featured a giant fiberglass astronaut floating out from the roof in the posture of one of the old Gemini spacewalkers, holding an order of fries in his outstretched left hand.
Superimposing logos or other advertisements on to the centre-circle and penalty areas of the pitch will, for example, not be allowed while play is under way, and superimposing logos on to players or spectators is forbidden altogether, as is the use of the air-space above the pitch (so no more floating deodorants).
In the distant future, he is a space traveller and she is his saintly muse, floating together through the void in a lovely bubble.
The team calculated a distribution of masses and space velocities for some 35, 000 individual free-floating black holes thought to lie within that region of the galaxy.
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Once you get used to living in a Lilliputian space, it's easy to get hooked on the floating lifestyle--whether for long weekends, several months or full time.
Increased access to space will bring challenges for medical experts and scientists alike as they attempt to minimise the side-effects of space travel for the general public while promoting the exhilaration of floating in microgravity.
"There are loads of ideas floating around, and they're serious about implementing them, " said UK space scientist John Zarnecki, who is a visiting professor at Beihang University, the new name for the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
And there are plenty of variations on the theme: A version of the Levitron called "Floating Ideas" gives you a base over which you can float a variety of objects, including models of the space shuttle, a VW Beetle and a picture frame.
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