Now sensors on a U.A.V. can detect a milk carton from sixty thousand feet.
When a commercial aircraft lands at an airport, it taxis several thousand feet before coming to a halt.
Dawn came and gradually I began to see the ground falling away more than a thousand feet below.
It is here that the Apennine Mountains drop a thousand feet straight down into the turquoise Ligurian Sea .
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Shaw had done as many or more in training, in the thin air of his gym at five thousand feet.
These differences in pressure take 40 to 50 thousand feet to occur and produce 100 mph downdrafts on a good day.
It was a dart flung at a dartboard twenty thousand feet away.
First, what is essentially a conventional oil and gas well is drilled vertically, typically to several thousand feet or more below the surface.
Since a plugged well already existed, the idea was to re-enter the sealed Davy Jones well to look another ten thousand feet deeper.
Five thousand feet below the surface of the ocean, we were at the mercy of remotely operated vehicles in order to change that situation.
To begin with, the vertical depth separation between drinking water aquifers and reservoir targets for gas production is several thousand feet of impermeable rock.
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And that will not happen until the politicians come down a few thousand feet to lakeside Geneva, where the real work can get done.
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Forty-thousand nanoseconds is 40 thousand feet, so you see the problem.
The closest drilling will be several thousand feet from runways.
During the flight we pass a thousand feet over the wetlands, and I watch the landscape change rapidly below: Long, thin lagoons slice through thick fields of brown marsh.
The company has had to raise capital in order to invest in pulling that oil out of the ground, thousands of feet below the surface of the ocean, and another thousand feet below rock and sand.
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Petraeus gives many of these airborne, progress-on-the-march tours to visiting congressmen, journalists, and academics, and there was a cringe-inducing quality to some of his recitations as he skimmed above the country at an altitude of a thousand feet.
If some wind shear would cross with another section a few hundred, or a thousand feet above it, you can end up in a condition where it'll actually cut like a knife, and slice the top of the balloon right off.
I've articulated the pleasure of birding, in much the same way, and if only to myself, when I'm alone in the woods and trying to dissect my ability to spend hours with my binoculars focused on something 6 inches long a thousand feet away, my glasses fogging over, and my neck and arms aching.
Teams of ten or so, each ensconced in an area of perhaps a thousand square feet, handle most of a product's assembly.
The proposed new structure, known as Building 20, was going to be the biggest lab yet, comprising two hundred and fifty thousand square feet, on three floors.
And the energy cost just to build those few thousand extra luxurious square feet?
In all, Sterling came to buy or develop 25.2 million square feet of commercial property, sixty-five thousand residential units, 8.7 million square feet of retail property, and sports complexes.
Instead of small rooms with no amenities and all-you-can-eat buffets, it would have four thousand rooms, of seven hundred square feet each, with minibars, fax machines, and telephones equipped for conference calls.
Yes coal that is beneath our feet and not forgetting a few thousand gallons of Water as well.
But the Air Force then calculated that a payload of thirty-two smart bombs, each weighing two thousand pounds, would be required to penetrate thirty feet below ground, insuring that any bunkers would collapse.
Fifty-two feet wide and a hundred and sixty feet long, the chute can generate sixty-five thousand pounds of drag.
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