Race Point Light on Cape Cod, Massachusetts doesn't have electricity-just gas lanterns-and the generator runs for barely two hours a day.
Such are the questions left to the experts at Caltech, which have just concocted a new device that can focus light to a point just a few nanometers wide.
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The anti-stain wipes are good too, especially if you are travelling with only one pair of trousers (I should have mentioned that dark corduroys are better than light ones from this point of view).
Ask if performers who live sedate private lives jump at the chance to cut loose on stage or on camera, and Ms. Harris's tone, up to this point sitcom light, becomes something else entirely.
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Patrizia Caraveo and her colleagues, at the Istituto di Fisica Cosmica in Milan have recently reported that in two pictures taken 12 days apart by the Hubble space telescope the point of light had shifted perceptibly.
Material for each color is deposited on the substrate through a fine metal mask, with one mask used for each color so that colors line up in a precise, very close pattern that, to the human eye, appears to create one pixel, or point of light.
Indeed, some at the meeting argued that if aliens were to use an astronomical phenomenon called gravitational lensing (in which the gravitational field of the sun bends and amplifies radio waves and light from Earth), human signals could be amplified to the point where even the light from cities would be visible.
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Now that Dr van Paradijs's team, and another led by Kailash Sahu at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, have had time to look properly at the fading point of light, they have noticed a faint fuzz around it that looks as if it could be a galaxy playing host to a dramatic explosion.
Start Point's light beams 25 nautical miles out to sea, warning ships away from treacherous Skerries Bank.
At one point powering the light display by pedalling a bicycle - you're completely immersed in the story.
Battle would surely have been joined by others - and an already hostile atmosphere inside The Stadium of Light could have reached boiling point.
Though Madoff was little known to the public before his fraud came to light, Wilpon and Katz point out that he was a respected figure in the securities industry.
Most historians now dismiss any serious organised plot, but Wilson was so worried he took to running the taps in Downing Street lavatories before having private conversations, and would point worriedly at light-fittings, implying that they were bugged.
Now, perhaps, the memory of his life can serve as a light for others, as a point of reference on our horizons.
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To make them sensitive to the deflection caused by pressure, the researchers carved grooves in the fibres along their length so that the bouncing of the light was less efficient at the point where pressure was applied.
Because of their light weight, strength and high melting point, ceramics are now incorporated into such military items as helicopter armor and parts in rocket guidance systems.
According to the company, when you capture all the light traveling in every direction in every point in space, you can do some pretty cool things like focusing a picture after you take it and creating interactive, living pictures.
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Light passing through each microlens focuses at a point a few tenths of a millimetre beyond it, and thereafter spreads out as a cone.
Jelle Van Damme was dismissed in the 82nd minute, but the hosts made light of their man disadvantage and nicked a point through Legear four minutes from time.
At that point, the rig calculates where light entered the polymer by measuring how much it has diminished during its travel time, and then composes an image from that data.
At this point in the interview, McWilliams sheds light on the dilemma that seems to be causing so much controversy around Fort Carson.
At that point, the imprisoned moon lost what little light it had left: it became a black, shapeless rock.
In a conventional optical system, light rays enter through a lens and converge at a point to form an image.
As well as carrying large items, they point out, airships are ideal for transporting light but bulky cargo such as flowers.
But they are at their most discerning when all point at the same object, and the light they collect is combined.
It's worth noting at this point that the navigation buttons are a little light under your finger, and the fatter-thumbed can find themselves choosing the wrong option, like a last-second golf putting twitch.
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The loss of England fly-half Wilkinson to a rib injury early in the second half, with Toulon leading 13-6 at that point, was a turning point as the French team lost their guiding light.
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