He said that the PSNI inspected the vehicle using a remote controlled "wheelbarrow" robot and found two gas cylinders, a length of wiring and a car battery.

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He piggybacks this unit directly on top of a scope, allowing him to produce never-before-captured wide-field images, like his striking, ghostly picture of Barnard's Loop-a huge arc of gas that covers the length of the constellation Orion.

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Think about what this advancement has meant just in terms of access to the resources: When drilling into a hydrocarbon bearing formation 100 feet thick, vertical drilling would allow an operator to contact 100 feet of rock, which would limit your potential recovery to whatever oil or gas would flow into that length of pipe.

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For a metropolis twice the size of another, the length of electric cables, number of gas stations and other bits of infrastructure decrease by about 15% per inhabitant.

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Press timidly on the gas pedal and the thing accelerates to over 100mph in the length of a football field.

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