The Indian Ocean was displayed as a large sea surrounded by land, while many of his measurements of longitude (something that was very hard to measure accurately until John Harrison's timepiece won a famous competition in the 18th century) were way off beam.
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After flipping off the beam, the judges gave her a score that put her in fourth place.
His disquisition on light, aimed at disproving Newton, was way off-beam.
The beam reflects off any objects, including people, within the area.
While the driving lights are the first use of a laser beam reflected off a mirror, the daytime running lamps, with their characteristic "torch" effect, and the indicator lights use LEDs.
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Clementine's radio beam was bounced off the moon to a receiving dish on earth.
The light source is polarized by a Polarized Beam Splitter and reflects off of each of the chips.
There is a trade-off, though: the shorter a beam's wavelength, the less deeply it can penetrate.
But the slow decay in radiation intensity from a tabletop pulsar would make possible extremely long-range transmitters, giving far-off space probes an energy-efficient way to beam information back to earth.
Beam says cases of Skinnygirl are still flying off the shelves and further flavor expansions are rumored to be in the works.
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Then I turned to the left and, caught in my beam, the tape on a lone tent off in the distance shone.
The other two methods rely on specially shaped laser beams - instead of a beam whose intensity peaks at its centre and tails off gradually, the team is investigating two alternatives: solenoid beams and Bessel beams.
At dawn, he could see that but for the roadside oaks everything was gone, burned off the face of the earth as if by a powerful beam of light, the house standing naked and singed in a field of white ash.
In Beam, you have a company that was recently spun off from a larger conglomerate (Fortune Brands) that made no sense, and a management team that is eager to prove what an independent Beam can do.
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