Sentences with phrase «-5,000-pound hunk of metal»

A machinist would use a lathe to take a hunk of metal and turn it into a useable engine part, for example.

Curiosity isn't just a hunk of metal: She has an energetic (and honestly adorable) personality conveyed through a Twitter account.

So unless they are making people bow down to that hunk of metal or declaring it a true act of God... just stop complaining already.

It is a meaningless hunk of metal upon which artificial significance has been heaped, and now we find ourselves arguing over that very significance.

A kilogram of ground beef at the grocery store has the same mass as this one special hunk of metal, an alloy of platinum and iridium.

From Earth, a glint of light could be a distant star or just a hunk of metal.

When turned off, Nexi isn't much more than a big - eyed hunk of metal with wheels for legs.

They are able to do this because they can measure an anomaly in Earth's magnetic field — like one caused by a massive hunk of metal.

So what was Brie doing with that hunk of metal in her video?

The Decepticons have a plan cooking and the Autobots want to defeat them with the help of the humans, but like normal the humans don't appreciate these massive hunks of metal that they have at their disposal and they instead decide to place all blame on the Autobots and curse them into corners.

Ray Fisher finds the heart in a hunk of metal as Cyborg / Victor Stone, a former college quarterback that a freak accident has turned into a half - man / half machine able to plug into anything.

The four - legged hunk of metal is also surprisingly one of the film's key characters.

«But there is no way this huge hunk of metal will hit 200mph without being dropped from space.»

Located in the engine block, this hunk of metal moves the pistons.

We're grateful for the standard air suspension, which combined with active anti-roll bars keeps the big hunk of metal on an even keel no matter how we try to capsize it.

And when you're piloting a two - ton hunk of metal... Read more

I know it's a near -5,000-pound hunk of metal with a higher center of gravity, so it's not going to behave like a sports car.

I won't hasten to call the 2017 GT - R beautiful, but it's no longer an alien hunk of metal.

The body stays well controlled through handling maneuvers and definitely doesn't behave like a hunk of metal weighing as much as it does.

On the other hand, anthropomorphizing and assigning gender to a hunk of metal, plastic, and rubber is a bit silly, so let's quickly move along.

You may assume that a truck this big would be packing a V - 8 — I know I did — but the hunk of metal that powers this vehicle only has six pistons arranged in an inline configuration.

When crash testing a vehicle the IIHS doesn't just hurl hunks of metal at vehicles and they say,» looks good».

Mazda did a fine job of making its big SUV look stylish and aggressive rather than like a big hunk of metal on wheels.

The overboosted steering (even in Sport +) and the basic physics of asking a 4,233 - pound hunk of metal to dance around a switchback simply conspired against the F - Sport, but the sedan still never felt out of sorts.

It's a sturdy hunk of metal with a rubber base that offers a faux - desktop experience for the tablet, adding an extra four USB 2.0 ports, Gigabit Ethernet, and an HDMI socket.

Call me an optimist, but I have to believe that human ingenuity and labor will beat inert hunks of metal every time.

Although you can never leave your Sidewinder, the game does a great job of making you feel like a pilot rather than a hunk of metal drifting through space.

Most of the game's foes are just plain uninspired, not well defined hunks of metal.

Frank Stella's status as a blue - chip artist didn't stop the people of Seoul from objecting to this 30 - foot hunk of metal installed outside a steel company's HQ.

When I wrote that I had achieved 155 mpg in our Pacifica hybrid (not including electricity), many readers were eager to know what those numbers would look like once we took this giant hunk of metal on the road.

Of course many thirsty cyclists would argue that comparing drink driving to drunk cycling is hardly a fair discussion - after all, one is a huge hunk of metal traveling at high speed, the other is barely heavier than your average person, and traveling much slower (especially with a belly full of beer!).

When my old toaster oven refused to operate without a wad of tin foil propping the door slightly open, I tossed the useless hunk of metal.

When you think of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), do you think of atomic clocks and hunks of metal that serve as standards of mass and length?

I'd rather save money and go on the occasional vacation than pour it into a hunk of metal that sits in my driveway.

When the internet first arrived, it was a discrete activity you performed on a discrete hunk of metal and plastic called a PC, using a discrete software program called a browser.

I'm impressed because it's a rugged hunk of metal that's clearly made for doing manly things like having adventures and going outside and «working in the fields.»

Do you sit in frustration, issuing fruitless voice commands to a cold, lifeless hunk of metal and plastic that couldn't even do your bidding if it wanted to?

Make no mistake: this Huawei doesn't escape the fact it's a hunk of metal strapped to your wrist - we tested it for two weeks at no point did we forget we were wearing it.

My biggest issue with this (and every) Android Wear watch is that you get one day of battery life at most before that cool - looking smartwatch becomes a useless hunk of metal on your wrist.

The trouble with many smartwatches is that when the screen isn't on, they are a hunk of metal or plastic on your arm doing nothing.Not the Kairos, a new smartwatch that hopes to let you have your cake and it eat it, so to speak, by featuring a fully working... Read more

Not exact matches

It has continued to cast huge air - conditioner compressor valves for York International, massive engine frames for Ingersoll - Rand, complex pump housings for Cooper Industries, and similar hunks of heavy metal.

However you remember Transformers, you share one thing with all of its fans — you love watching big hunks of living metal duke it out.

Every action, every methodical movement on the boat feels like the work of hands that have grasped this hunk of wood and metal for years, resulting in a character that is always believable and a performance that feels authentic right down to its salt - soaked bones.

Not every luxury brand car designer would pause to admire the glorious hunks of flame - clad metal.

These knobs are not overly heavy hunks of glittery metal.

But what about everyone who bought the $ 500 (then $ 450, then $ 400) hunk of now - scrap metal that's called TouchPad?

The only redeeming quality would be the explosions, which are not bad to look at, but when compared to the hunks of burning metal in games like Ace Combat and the Battlefield series, it isn't much.

This will keep those big hunks of moving metal away from you and give you more room to maneuver and react.

The base consists of a large hunk of gunmetal plastic, which is run through by a metal bar that then curves upwards to hold the display.

There won't be a third because that big ole» hunk of space metal will come crashing down into the Earth's atmosphere sometime between now and the middle of April.