Sentences with phrase «blasted off by»

The early Bitcoin backers, who reportedly own about 40,000 bitcoins (a cool $ 27 million or so in U.S. dollars), could blast off by the end of the year.

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XCOR is pursuing the latter paradigm with its winged rocket - powered Lynx, a reusable space vehicle that will take off from a conventional runway and blast into suborbital space (roughly 330,000 feet, or 63 miles) powered by an onboard rocket motor before flying back to Earth and landing on a conventional runway.

«It will start off building just the most elementary infrastructure, just a base to create some propellant, a power station, blast domes in which to grow crops — all of the sort of fundamentals without which you can not survive,» he said at the South by Southwest festival in March.

And if the blast appears to be caused by a hydrogen bomb, it would show North Korea could pull off a devastating thermonuclear strike on US soil.

Our crew was welcomed into the entire Southwest operation for a day, invited into an airplane hangar before the sun rose, allowed onto the tarmac to get blasted by hot jet exhaust, and given access to hundreds of employees who all got time off from work to come pose for our camera.

By focusing on low - priced, small - cap stocks with explosive volume patterns, Rick has developed an excellent track record for picking Blast Off stocks that run 50 %, 60 %, or sometimes 100 % in a very short period of time.

Powered by three electric motors — one in front and two at the rear — FF 91's all wheel drive system will be capable of blasting off a 0 - 60 mph time of 2.39 seconds, making it the world's quickest electric vehicle.

In the 4 - minute video below, we walk you step - by - step through the exact technical criteria that helped us identify $ KNDI as a Blast Off candidate in early December, which subsequently led to a 60 % winner in The Wagner Daily newsletter less than one month later.

One of three different types of breakout stock trades we target, the Blast Off setup seeks to identify massive volume spikes with large one - day price gains, followed by periods of tight price consolidation.

Tell us how we can blast off to the moon or eradicate polio by kneeling down and praying.

Our own government set off nuclear blasts and told observers close by that it was safe — nothing to fear.

The trail becomes increasingly treacherous as it descends into the American River Canyon, ascends the steep to Devil's Thumb, drops off again into the blast furnace of El Dorado Canyon and finally rises by graded switchbacks to Michigan Bluff.

He was let off the hook for his first big misstep by an offside call, but Guillermo Ochoa was forced into a couple saves after his second bad turnover, on a close - range shot from Emmanuel Emenike and a 25 - yard blast from Ogenyi Onazi in the 12th minute.

Recall Star Wars: Obi - Wan trains the young Luke Skywalker to trust what he feels by making him wear an opaque visor while fending off laser blasts.

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The recalled Gray drilled wide before skipper Wes Morgan's blast was deflected over and Chilwell scooped off target during a lightning start by the Foxes.

Two years ago in 2015, we drew 1 - 1 at Everton, before drawing 2 - 2 in the replay at Upton Park which was decided 9 - 8 on penalties, with the winning kick being scored by Adrian, famously throwing off his gloves before blasting home the decisive penalty.

Kids ride on toy shopping can be a blast for everyone - especially as memories are kindled again just by seeing your toddler climb onto a tractor and take off down the store aisle or grab a wooden toy wagon and pull her doll in it.

You can find a great outer space song called «Blast Off» on the cd «Wigglworm Workout» by Stephanie Burton.

The second blast went off some 10 minutes after the first at around 10 a.m. (0800 GMT), inflicting casualties on civil defense workers who had gathered to tend to the casualties, the Damascus correspondent for al - Manar told the station by phone.

Second, he let Sen Landrieu take the heat and be called a whore by his GOP minions for aquiring additional funds for Medicade - althought it was at his bequest Third - he goes around galavanting around the country fundraising» instead of governing - He blasts government for all of the ills and blamed the BP oil mess on Washington - yet he went licking up to DC for funds so he could build berms that wold be mysterious for the coast and let BP off the hook Cut funding for education - although he was afforded a damn good one He sides with his GOP pals about health care reform - REMINDER his child has a pre existing condition - heart problem

Earlier in the day, Astorino blasted Latimer for «spending thousands of dollars to jet off to London for a rendezvous» while owing five years» worth of unpaid property taxes on a home in Rye that's owned by his wife, Robin.

Assemblywoman Annie Rabbitt blasted Silver, stating, «I find it disgraceful and unfathomable that taxpayer money was used to pay off victims of sexual harassment and sexual misconduct committed by Assemblyman Vito Lopez, criminals conduct committed by yet another elected official.»

FINANCIAL DISTRICT — Mayoral hopeful and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio said there is a model approach to the city's massive backlog of labor contracts in the work done by Governor Andrew Cuomo, while blasting what he called Mayor Bloomberg's hands - off approach to the issue.

But Levitan — who typically proffers a statement outlining the mayor's record of achievements in response to any comments made by opponents — took to Twitter to blast Malliotakis and the other candidates during the forum after Dietl made an off - color comment about the mayor's wife.

You could still find pieces of green glass that had been melted by the blast, 70 years after it went off.

By studying the faint «light echoes» of a supernova's blast bouncing off its dusty surroundings, he can re-create the full, three - dimensional explosion.

Phobos's soil may also contain debris blasted off Mars by ancient impacts.

Once saltation is well under way, by far the majority of grains in motion are actually blasted off the sand surface by the impacts of other saltating grains, rather than being carried along directly by fluid forces of the wind.

Backtracking, they calculated that a single impact by a smaller asteroid could have blasted it all off the asteroid in February or March 2009.

Flanked by two rocket boosters and strapped to the back of a giant red fuel tank, the space shuttle blasted off.

Three computers control it all from a small room at the other end of the lab, which is sealed off by blast doors whenever the experiment runs.

The researchers, which include U.S. teams from NOAA, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and the University of New Hampshire, will be collecting seismic data from this region by bouncing sound blasts off the sea floor to determine its sediment makeup, as well conducting a multibeam analysis that will give them an idea of the shape of the ridge.

Galileo has also found that Jupiter's rings are made of small dust grains blasted off the surface of Jupiter's four innermost satellites by the impacts of meteoroids.

Mercury has a very thin atmosphere consisting of surface atoms blasted off its surface by the Solar wind.

The comet appears to have undergone visible changes, including the changes in the size and number of surface features such as smooth patches, pits, and craters, and the loss of ice vaporized by the Sun or blasted off its surface by the Solar Wind into its tail as well as failing back on the object like snow, so that it appears to shrink, on average, by 25 to 50 centimeters (9.2 to 19.7 inches) with each orbit around the Sun.

The probe failed just before reaching Mars — a fate shared by the agency's Mars Climate Orbiter, which blasted off in December 1998.

It is even possible that life on Earth may have evolved from life forms ejected from Venus, because pieces of planets were blasted off of each other much more frequently in the early Solar System by asteroidal and cometary impacts, and so microbes from Venus could easily have ended up landing on Earth (Sean Henahan, Access Excellence, February 5, 1997; and David Grinspoon, 1997).

If you can get to the gym every day and blast off 500 calories, then that's awesome — but if you follow up a morning workout by sitting at a desk for 8 hours, then you may not be too pleased with how long it takes you to start noticing weight falling off.

Many deliver a startle scare by triggering one of your senses with different sounds, air blasts, and even smells that sets off your fear response, but your brain soon realizes these aren't real threats, and you immediately start laughing and smiling.

In case you missed the blast, Shannon from Layered By Cake and I are hosting a style challenge, encouraging everyone to lay off the denim for a whole week.

It was a blast to kick off 2018 with Eloise Ross, a guest we've been hoping to book on the show for some time, and as you've hopefully heard by now, it was definitely worth the wait.

A living, breathing celluloid invasion flick led by a breathless ensemble of off - the - grid, in - over-their-head rockers who sell the shit hitting the fan with every quaking splinter of their being, Jeremy Saulnier's grimy, nasty, punk exploitation film is a 12 - gauge blast of ultraviolence that doesn't stop to ask about your feelings as its slashing you up the middle.

The moment Bruce and Dick blast off into space in the Bat Rocket to help deal with an invasion of the Watchtower by the Joker, Lex Luthor and a team of unjust super-villains, the game becomes LEGO Justice League.

From the opening - credits sequence, in which each title appears in the empty space vacated by Pearce's head after a hulk named Rupert punches it off the screen, this cheaply made, disposable product of the Luc Besson factory glories in its hero's cheerfully antisocial persona — Pearce is the whole show here, and he's having a blast.

Serkis is great but the film is a familiar freak show of hardship and ego run amok: a mad man of a singer - songwriter who, physically crippled by childhood polio that left an arm and a leg emaciated and nearly useless, blasts his way to stardom with cheeky lyrics and a stage act heavy on theater, while off stage fails as a husband (to artist Olivia Williams, tired of his self - involved existence), father (to impressionable son Bill Milner) and boyfriend (to adoring Naomie Harris).

There is a pistol - packing store clerk, an angry Ed driving off to abandon H.I. and then coming back to get him, a speeding police car turning up at the store, a pack of neighbourhood dogs chasing H.I, and much more, all accompanied by the Banjo of Ben Freed and yodelling courtesy of John R. Crowder, and punctuated by the sounds of screaming bystanders and gunshot blasts that seem amplified to sound like cannons.

TinyBuild's humorous platform - puzzler No Time to Explain Remastered is an absolute blast when played by yourself, but when another player joins you in couch co-op, the crazy - fun factor just goes right off the scale.

Believing him deceased and under NASA orders to abort the mission, his crew, led by Cmdr. Melissa Lewis (Chastain) blasts off leaving him there.

Tracks like album opener «Only One Will Die» and «Heads Shoveled Off» feature bombastic blast beats and thunderous double bass courtesy of Mr. Paul Mazurkiewicz while tracks like «Code of the Slashers» and «Shedding My Human Skin» feature some of the most guttural, demon summoning growls by George «Corpsegrinder» Fisher.