This image from NASA's Curiosity rover shows the first sample of powdered rock extracted by the rover's drill.
These dry, 15-to-20-second statements are as fun to listen to as the dentist's drill, and make the air only under the strictest of rules: There can be no mention of products, and no appeal to buy anything.
"Allowing this armory to remain empty and stand as a symbol of the abandonment that once plagued the Bronx was simply unthinkable, " Bloomberg said as he stood in the chilly, vaulted, four-acre-plus expanse that was the armory's drill floor.
This innocent-seeming exercise, as prescribed by supercoaches Pia Nilsson and Lynn Marriott, is golf's most intolerable drill.
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Because it's not, as he said, it's not a drill and I think again from the state level from the federal level.
The incidents sharpened concerns about Shell's plans to drill in the Arctic, both among environmentalists and in native Alaskan communities.
Investors are betting on the company's ability to drill successful new wells between now and when the bulk of its debt matures.
Greenpeace campaigners have been criticizing Scottish oil firm Cairn Energy, which announced earlier this week that it had found gas off the coast of Greenland and had received permission from the nation's government to drill two wells.
Eventually, though, the drill will go deep enough to push rock powder into the drill's sample-gathering chamber.
Curiosity's robot arm will drill into the Martian rocks and feed the powdered samples into its onboard chemistry laboratory.
Then on New Year's Eve, the drill barge Kulluk had to be cut loose in a severe storm while being towed back to its winter home port in Seattle.
The American sergeant knows it's well worth rehearsing the drill over and over.
We're a few holes into our session, the same drill he's performed for 100 of the world's best professional golfers.
The other process, still in use, is to cut a window in an old well's steel casing and then drill horizontally into the oil zone.
But the president also makes the point that a country with only 2% of the world's oil reserves cannot simply drill its way to lower petrol prices.
In the months ahead, scientists expect to probe beneath the planet's surface crust for evidence of chemistry favorable to microbial life, using the robot rover's unique high-speed drill.
According to research firm Spears and Associates, National Oilwell Varco of the U.S. dominates the global drill pipe market with a 47% share, while Hilong is second with 13%.
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It's been 10 years in the making for Woodman, 37, who started the company in 2002 and built the first camera prototypes in his bedroom with his mom's sewing machine and a drill.
The Shell fleet's 14, 000-ton drill ship in Alaska, the Discoverer, slipped anchor two weeks ago.
The first thing to do is install your web camera according the manufacturer's instructions, you know the drill.
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"But the nice thing about Ocean's position is, if they drill a couple of dry holes they can reload" with more prospects, Gillespie says.
To complete the drilling without mishap, the rover's operators on Earth had to devise new procedures to solve a series of computer software problems that affected the craft's motor's control systems, said JPL drill-systems engineer Scott McCloskey.
They also noted the deployment of Russia's most advanced S-400 air defence system in Belarus and a parallel drill conducted by the Strategic Rocket Forces, the guardians of the Kremlin's nuclear arsenal.
The image was taken after the sample was transferred from the drill to the rover's scoop.
People can drill down within U.S., for example, and see detailed information on each sector of their their portfolios.
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PDVSA's oil-production technology is now at least five years ahead of Pemex's, particularly in its ability to drill in deep waters and in its use of seismic surveys.
He launched online contests offering cash prizes for whoever could make the best case of where to drill, using GoldCorp's proprietary geological information, which he shared on the company Web site.
Taking a prompt from one of Palin's unofficial campaign slogans -- "Drill Baby Drill!"
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