"There may be a bit of a demand vacuum a few months down the line, " he said.

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Both involve heating organic materials in a vacuum until they break down into carbon and vapors that can be condensed into a low-grade fuel oil.

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The acceleration of lift-off would not kill something that size, and if a rock is large enough, the heat generated as it is thrown clear will be negligible except at its surface where, if anything, melting may even produce an airtight skin to protect any microbes deeper down from the unpleasant vacuum of space.

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The company claims this is a world first -- a soundbar-style speaker to feature a built-in vacuum tube, and we hunted it down to soak in its majesty.

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To replace the force of gravity to ensure waste goes down into the toilet, there is actually a vacuum hose that sucks the waste.

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But, realizing that they needed better manipulators in the microscope, they put the atom down and spent 15 months redesigning the machine's vacuum chamber.

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We get a first glimpse of the tablet (or at least a tablet with a rear-facing camera) at about 10 seconds into the video posted after the break -- it's being held by a man who just used Thinq from his office to remotely feed his dog while watching the whole thing go down from the camera on his HOM-BOT robotic vacuum cleaner.

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This has the biggest implications for the baby bust generation (born 1966-1985) as they approach what should be their prime earning years and for younger baby boomers that will be facing a vacuum of demand from younger generations when they want to retire, sell the family home and down-size.

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But it is possible to lay down a thin layer of silicon on a flexible plastic sheet, through a process called vacuum deposition.

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