Sentences with phrase «as swarms»

I hope that while placing the Tunguska event into perpspective we also come to realize that our false sense of security regarding impacts like this and worse is largely perceptual based on our limited understanding of our own history and its woefully human timescale, and I hope we realize that impacts might not be the rare events we've come to consider them as being, and that they may not arrive singularly and only on rare occasions, but as swarms of potentially devastating event producers, as our planet enters into regions of our Milky Way where clouds of potentially planet - disrupting objects are a genuine concern and are something we can and should do something about... and soon.

Sun morphing to grey as swarms moved from the southern hemisphere.

Scenes from Night of the Living Dead come to mind as swarms of rotting beings congregate on a farmhouse.

Upon arriving at EventCity, Manchester: I was nearly sucked into a gaming cyclone as swarms of people -LSB-...]

It has the thrill of some of the best stealth games, as you lie hidden around a corner hoping no one passes by, whilst getting you pumped up for the chase as swarms of guards hunt you across the map when you trip alarms.

Once he spots the zombie / vampires, though, the tension is gone as swarms of really digital hordes chase him.

Rocketing from 0 - 60 mph in a mere 1.9 seconds looks as ridiculous as it sounds, as swarms of Tesla Next Gen Roadster...

As they swarm into the workplace, their hair perpetually mussed from the wind stirred up by helicopter parents hovering nearby, companies worry how to accommodate their outsize expectations.

The conspiracy theorists are now in full effect as they swarm social media channels to discuss what the «cryptic» image could mean...

«The synthetic molecules made by our lab don't exactly look like rhamnolipids, but they can control bioactivities, such as swarming movements, surface adhesion and biofilm formation.»

Team leader Martin Bencsik has previously used sensors known as accelerometers to capture a distinct change in bee sounds before the phenomenon known as swarming, which is when the queen quits the hive, taking many of the worker bees with her.

Vignuzzi and Stapleford have begun their mosquito experiments anew to try and predict what chik might do in Central and South America, as the swarm continues its inexorable evolution.

Scientists have long been experimenting with robots that act as a swarm moving as one with not direct control mechanism.

Things aren't going well in Wakanda, either, as a swarm of Outriders surge over the Hulkbuster armor.

There are scenes here that will send a shiver down your spine, such as the swarm of rats running in terror from an approaching undead horde.

by Jefferson Robbins If THE DISSOLVE had lasted, Keith Phipps's fine recurring genre feature «The Laser Age» might have gotten around to the SF subcategory of Nature Gone Wild — the movies that set animals against humanity, such as The Swarm, Night of the Lepus, Squirm, and Prophecy (The Monster Movie).

This is referred to as swarming and can be an alarming sight to the casual onlooker.

They are easily angered and will attack as a swarm.

Beyond Good & Evil HD, Full House Poker and Torchlight appear to have seen some big successes this month, while other titles, such as Swarm and Islands Of Wakfu, have difficulty catching on with player's interests.

It's cumbersome enough fending off enemies as they swarm you from all sides, but once you run into levels with traps like clusters of bombs and sawblades flying through the air, it gets downright frustrating.

You leave him to die as the swarm of zombies swallows him up and you run for your life.

In one piece a bowing girl carries an axe and chopped wood on her back as swarming moths surround her.

There were some pretty interesting sculptures in the museum too, like Antony Gormley's «Quantum Cloud VIII,» which conveyed the body as a swarm of chaotic energy, and Richard Deacon's «For Those Who Have Eyes,» which was a bulb shape based on the anatomy of the human eyeball.

Even more to the point is the set of white curtains that covers a large swath of the main gallery; look closely, and you'll see a clear vinyl silhouette attached to it, as well as a swarm of insects printed on the curtains themselves.

The story is flying swarms of «nanomachines» using «genetic algorithms» (so they evolve) and «distributed intelligence» (so the individual «bots can act cohesively as a swarm) become killers (in order to reproduce somehow) and learn to communicate and then learn how to make themselves look like people and also take over people to make them do their bidding (along with gaining super-strength) but luckily they have bacterial components, so the good guys release a bacteria killing virus to win (I think), My dad actually stopped the tape at one point when Crichton for no reason writes about the good guy deciding whether he should drink tea or coffee (it sure was an exciting decision) and chooses tea because it has more caffeine (which is really untrue according to what I've known all my life as well as coffeefaq.com).

On the other hand, if you can sell that idea as a swarm of drones dropping autonomous sensors on an urban battlefield, they might take a shine to it.

Powered by electric motors and sophisticated control software, the taxi performs like a cross between a drone and a small plane, able to zip straight up on takeoff and then fly at twice the speed of a helicopter while making about as much noise as a swarm of superbees.

Not exact matches

Its new app, Swarm, acts as a social heat map to help its users find nearby friends and check in to share their location.

The popularity of Pokémon Go threatens companies like Foursquare, which has a service called Swarm offering coupons and prizes to customers who «check in» at participating venues, and social e-commerce sites like Groupon and LivingSocial, which many businesses use as a vehicle to offer discount deals.

Kraft Heinz reported earnings and sales on Friday that missed expectations, as attention continues to swarm the company and questions continue to linger regarding its long - term strategy.

As millions of people embrace the new mobile games, hundreds of new game developers have sprung up like swarming aliens in Halo.

Buffett wrote, «Bill Ruane - a truly wonderful human being and a man whom I identified 60 years ago as almost certain to deliver superior investment returns over the long haul - said it well: «In investment management, the progression is from the innovators to the imitators to the swarming incompetents.»

To analyze foot traffic patterns to the dozens of Trump - branded hotels, casinos and golf courses in this study, Foursquare looked at explicit check - ins as well as implicit visits from Foursquare and Swarm app users who enable background location and visit these locations in the U.S.

As Bannon tells it, as soon as Thiel finished, a throng of young entrepreneurs swarmed him, waiting for their turns to pitch the billionaire their companieAs Bannon tells it, as soon as Thiel finished, a throng of young entrepreneurs swarmed him, waiting for their turns to pitch the billionaire their companieas soon as Thiel finished, a throng of young entrepreneurs swarmed him, waiting for their turns to pitch the billionaire their companieas Thiel finished, a throng of young entrepreneurs swarmed him, waiting for their turns to pitch the billionaire their companies.

If the team behind Swarm gets its way, its Bitcoin - based crowdfunding platform will be seen by entrepreneurs as «Kickstarter on steroids.»

Assessing the size is also difficult: even though the perspective might be a factor here, the object seems to be smaller than the F - 16s, but probably much larger than a micro-drone as the bird - sized Perdix drones, 103 of those, launched from three F / A -18 F Super Hornets, took part in one of the world's largest micro-drone swarms over the skies of Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, California on Oct. 25, 2016.

Rather, they're aimed squarely at the «millennials» now swarming the workforce, a cohort for whom the annual performance review is as obsolete as a telephone landline.

As recently as last week, a 65 - year old man in Texas was killed after a swarm of bees attacked him while he was mowing his neighbors lawAs recently as last week, a 65 - year old man in Texas was killed after a swarm of bees attacked him while he was mowing his neighbors lawas last week, a 65 - year old man in Texas was killed after a swarm of bees attacked him while he was mowing his neighbors lawn.

Ride - sharing apps have taken off among Vietnam's rapidly expanding middle class as they provide four - wheeled comfort in a country better known for chaotic swarms of scooters and Southeast Asia's most expensive taxi fares.

As other countries swarm to seize emerging opp...

With help from a digital avatar of Deadmau5's cat, Meowingtons, you have to maneuver over and around sound equipment and security guards as selfie - seeking fans begin to swarm.

Investors swarmed some condo sales centres as soon as new projects were launched.

This technology is a huge step towards the future and eventually when it'll be combined with advances of new age technologies such as IPFS / Filecoin, Whisper, Swarm, DEVp2p and Ethereum it'll substitute the existing data centers that are currently powering the internet.

Foursquare's data scientists examined the foot traffic of a panel of U.S. users who have been active on the Foursquare City Guide or Foursquare Swarm apps (as well as partner apps) for at least the past year, have opted - in to provide background location awareness, and have visited at least one of the analyzed chains within the research time frame (January 2017 - December 2017).

The hope one might have once placed in comparative advantage global capitalism and the internet / cell - phone wiring of all, began to look increasingly hollow, as Walmarts filled with cheap Chinese goods, real jobs went missing, real skills became rare, and the internet became known not so much for an Army of Davids shoring up our common commitment to liberty, but for mobbish comment swarms, porn, The Social Network, diversion all - the - more addictive for being personally tailored (see: the fictional fat - slobs of Wall - E, or the perpetually downward phone - gaze of our «dumb» millennials), and unprecedented possibilities for spying, defamation, and demagogic manipulation for those with access to big data.

Swatting them away seems unlikely as their carapace is as strong as iron, plus they travel in swarms that are louder than a herd of stampeding horses.

«Consequently, if my theory be true, it is indisputable that before the lowest Silurian stratum was deposited, long periods elapsed, as long as, or probably far longer than, the whole interval from the Silurian age to the present day; and that during these vast, yet quite unknown, periods of time, the world swarmed with living creatures.

The reptiles from Inner Earth recall both the scorpion - like creatures who swarm from the bottomless pit in Revelation 9 and the Genesis account of Satan appearing as a serpent.

As they climbed, more and more ants swarmed up out of the ground so that by the time the first few ants had reached the bloody feet of Jesus, all the ground around the cross and the lower portion of the beam was a roiling mass of blackness.

As expected, the mass of ants swarmed in and they ate Jesus alive.