"By having more weight, the center of gravity goes up, " making the boat less stable, said Lt.
At Oort-cloud distances, the strength of this combined gravity adds up to the same sort of force as that exerted by the solar gravitational field, enfeebled as it is by its remoteness from the sun.
Encouraged by the wind, it defies gravity and flows up the gentle incline toward the trees.
Fire this rocket at such an angle and speed that it will slingshot thanks to gravity and end up orbiting the moon, the ultimate definition of a moving target.
"I don't think any period of imprisonment would adequately sum up the gravity of this case, " he said.
The ride up was gravity-defying, the ride down sudden and scary.
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said he would bring up the gravity of the situation in Syria with his counterparts at a meeting of the G8 economies that began Wednesday.
Within that green box is a microplate reader, a workhorse appliance in labs on Earth but the first of its kind to work in the near-zero gravity at 250 miles up.
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Gravity waves form when air traveling up and down in the atmosphere meets resistance.
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When we see a notable change in the gravity field, we can sync up this change with surface topography features such as craters, rilles or mountains.
As Iain Thomson puts it, it really might be time to take this space idea seriously and get on with getting up and out of this gravity well.
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To invest wisely in the likelihood that originators can capitalize on a string of fads through creativity and experimentation is very different from investing in one hot rocket that goes straight up with full knowledge that gravity will send it back down with equal and opposite thrust.
If you believe this historic range of returns set up a reasonably stable constant like gravity, then building companies with these metrics in mind is critical.
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The jeeps travel on rudimentary dirt tracks (built to access Tahiti's network of hydroelectric stations) and skirt sheer drops overlooking vast river valleys while going up hills so steep you feel like gravity is no longer on your side.
Now sponsored by the energy drink maker Red Bull, the theme of this year's competition was "games" and included a centrifuge made with a golf cart engine that spun players at up to five times the force of gravity.
Loop quantum gravity, as this rival is known, was dreamed up in 1986 by Abhay Ashtekar, of Pennsylvania State University.
They think the universe is stuffed with invisible dark matter composed of particles very different from the ones that make up visible matter, and it is the gravity of this dark matter that holds galaxies together.
"I do not imagine, like I saw a cartoon in a daily newspaper, that NASA will be setting up an area with no oxygen and no gravity where the miners will be floating about ... but you never know, " Manalich joked.
It ignored the gravity of the situation and so refused for weeks to call up IDF reserve forces.
It can flow uphill in apparent defiance of gravity and, if placed in a container, will move up the sides and escape.
Collins is home to Gravity 1020, a beer-centric restaurant that I wrote up for my USAToday.com Great American Bites column and believe is the best brewery restaurant in the nation.
But Cheney's predictably over-the-top comments reminded those same Americans that he has no peer in politicizing issues of gravity--and they made Obama look that much more grown-up by comparison.
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There's a mixture of excitement and apprehension and sort of the gravity of it and then the--putting the show together and working up new material.
My view: Apple has not fallen, but maturity is catching up with it in this incarnation, and its ability to defy gravity is diminishing towards the normal reality.
The returning Alpha crewmembers, meanwhile, are doubling up on exercise sessions to prepare for their return to Earth's gravity.
But given the gravity of Brazil's financial problems, and the exaggerated expectations that have built up among its people, these new talking-shops will have to reach agreement uncharacteristically quickly.
Along with a current line-up of more than 90 compatible games, including the five star No Gravity, Outfoxed, Silverfish, Temple Run, Super Crossfire HD, Air Attack HD and Terra Noctis, Gametel for iOS devices also supports iCADE's suite of classic retro games with over 100 titles available to download from the Apple iTunes App Store.
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When the Apollo 13 spaceship blew up 200, 000 miles from Earth, astronauts used the moon's gravity to slingshot the capsule back home.
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