This reflex occurs because our skin ridges signal that the object is about to fall.
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Instead, he identified places where the ridges of which fingerprints are composed either end or split.
The rugged terrain betrayed nothing, with undulating ridges rising sharply from the sea.
Hikers pass through a variety of landscapes, through lava fields, across black obsidian ridges and over mountain-tops.
Stony ridges rise up from ravines, dry riverbeds and hardly vegetated plains, and curl around each other.
Stony ridges gave way to tumbled boulders, slopes of sifted gravel, and then sand, blown into shifting dunes.
Two kinds of cranberry sauce, homemade and the round kind with ridges, are also part of this meal.
"What's different about them is that spreading ridges on the Earth typically spread symmetrically about a rift, " he said.
Because the trail is on ridges, the views from any section are spectacular.
These cone-shaped outflows have denser ridges corkscrewing around their surfaces much like strings of lights wrapped around Christmas trees.
One of these ridges, dubbed the Galactic Center spur, apparently stems from a super-stellar cluster orbiting the galaxy's center.
These ridges are about 13, 000 to 16, 000 light-years long and 1, 000 light-years wide.
The other two ridges the researchers see are not connected to super-stellar clusters.
It is difficult to think of places more deserving of protection from towering, unsightly turbines than mountain ridges and shorelines.
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These ridges take on a corkscrew form because matter spewing out from the spinning center of the galaxy moves in spirals.
Others are so large that their ridges and peaks tangle with those of the mainland itself to produce an ambiguity of land and sea.
When the sensor's cap had ridges, like a fingerprint, it was able to amplify and filter certain vibrational frequencies, the authors said.
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Dune: accumulations of wind-blown sand in ridges or mounds that lie landward of the beach and usually parallel to the shoreline.
Set in a monumental amphitheatre of peaks, ridges and jagged stone bluffs, it's far more rugged than the sweeping farmlands at Appenzell.
The ridges crested with gold and amber as we entered North Carolina.
The glaciated peaks stand opposite, slowly turning orange as the sun sets, while in the morning the sun rises sharply from behind their jagged ridges.
The dance is inspired by the motions of farming, which it imitates through gestures such as walking the field ridges .
Both hotspots and mid-ocean ridges are volcanic, so Iceland is doubly so.
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This is shallower and smoother than slow-spreading ridges such as the Mid-Atlantic.
While serving as his uncle's apprentice, Perdix was inspired by the ridges on the backbone of a fish, and invented the handy cutting tool.
Communities of people that enjoy discussing the latest in laminating film, coating steel coils and creating more efficient ways to ventilate ridges, whatever that means.
Rather than look for physical ridges, the scientists' method sweeps through AC frequencies to find the exact electrical impedances of fingertips in contact with the screen.
At around 6:30, the rising sun slowly reveals the rolling ridges all around us that seem to move like ocean waves toward the flat Utah deserts to the west.
The trail leads past a line of old-timers on a bench and climbs out of the yayla into wilder countryside, following mule tracks along rocky, mottled ridges.
Its characteristic features are the landforms shaped by the Ice Age: glacial ridges, pine and lichen-clad heaths, kettle holes and small ponds filled with crystal clear water.
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