Sentences with phrase «either by balloon»

Arizona - based World View Enterprises Inc. is developing a fleet of high - altitude platforms, called stratollites, carried by balloons to the edge of space.

Each employee has an annual «Faceversary» on his or her hire date, a ritual that within the company is seen as deeply meaningful and is usually accompanied by balloons.

«People all across this province are struggling to buy their first homes, scrambling to find space for growing families, and being squeezed by ballooning costs and low availability of rental homes.

Bottom's Up By ski, by balloon and even by bike, adventurers are turning Antarctica from the last frontier into the hot new playground

Inspired by my balloon and flower garland and the embroidery hoops from last month's Michael's challenge, I thought the ide could be great as a crown for parties.

-LCB- The tissue paper was picked up by the balloon.

The Orientation will run from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. and the Mixer will be from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.. On hand will be a tethered balloon, provided by the Balloon & Craft Festival, for you to view and enjoy while you build valuable business contacts.

But Curran said that since taking office Jan. 1, she's had to focus urgently on averting a financial storm driven by ballooning operating expenses and persistent budget deficits.

The rover is still far from a planned mission, but it would be able to collect weeks» worth of climate and seismic data from Venus» surface, all recorded on phonograph - style records that periodically would be lifted by balloon to an overhead drone.

And there can be no more stupendous example of silliness than August Andree's attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon in 1897, an elaborate method of committing suicide.

Both systems are beset by ballooning costs and, especially with a presidential election on the horizon, calls for reform, but a recent study could put ammunition in the hands of people who believe it is time the U.S. ceased to be the only developed nation without universal health coverage.

Pierre Auger's water tanks represent one way to do it; experiments borne by balloon, like the Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter, are another.

«We have much better statistics and can tell you that we do not see so extreme a feature» as was seen by the balloon - borne experiment, says Steven Ritz, a Fermi team member from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The ascent speeds of those convective clouds are determined by a factor called CAPE — convective available potential energy — which is measured by balloon - borne instruments, called radiosondes, released around the U.S. twice a day.

Recent shows have featured two 10 - year - olds, both named Laura, who meet because of a note carried across the United Kingdom by balloon; theories surrounding contagious laughter; and a parrot who helps a man manage anger problems.

Similar sightings have been made by a balloon - based experiment called ATIC.

The composition of the population will also play a crucial role in determining how countries deal with the stress posed by ballooning populations, experts noted.

The North Pole and Its Seekers October 28, 1868 New Expeditions to the Arctic Regions June 24, 1871 The Latest Arctic Explorations — The Remarkable Escape of the Polaris Party June 7, 1873 Rescue of the Remaining Survivors of the Polaris October 4, 1873 The Latest Polar Expedition December 26, 1874 Work for Arctic Explorers July 17, 1875 The British Arctic Expedition The Coming Arctic Expeditions May 22, 1875 The British Arctic Expedition August 28, 1975 July 3, 1876 The Search for the Pole The British Arctic Expedition December 23 and 30, 1876 The Recent Arctic Expedition January 20, 1877 Another Approach: Balloons and Airships Some Suggestions for Future Polar Expeditions February 13, 1877 Proposed New British Polar Expedition September 20, 1879 To the North Pole by Balloon July 13, 1895 Wellman's Airship for His North Polar Expedition By the Paris Correspondent of the Scientific American July 7, 1906 The Wellman Polar Airship Expedition By the Paris Correspondent of the Scientific American June 22, 1907 Farther North The American Arctic Expedition September 14, 1878 The Peary Arctic Expedition July 15, 1893 Nansen's Polar Expedition March 14, 1896 The Recent Failures of Arctic Expeditions August 29, 1896 The Return of Lieut. Peary September 27, 1902 The Polar Regions June 11, 1904 Peary's New Ship for Work in Arctic Seas October 8, 1904 Peary and the North Pole July 15, 1905 Peary's Arctic Ship, The «Roosevelt» July 15, 1905 Peary's «Farthest North» November 17, 1906 Race to the Finish: Peary and Cook Peary's Quest of the North Pole July 18, 1908 Peary and the North Pole August 21, 1909 Dr. Cook and the North Pole September 11, 1909 Dr. Cook's Discovery of the North Pole September 11, 1909 Honor to Whom Honor is Due September 18, 1909 Commander Peary's Discovery of the North Pole September 18, 1909 Retrospect of the Year 1909: Exploration January 1, 1910 «Investigating» Peary April 22, 1911 THE SOUTH POLE Exploring Antarctica Antarctic Exploration January 23, 1897 To South Polar Lands February 13, 1897 The Voyage of the «Discovery» February 3, 1906 Antarctic Expeditions, Past and Present Some Heroes of Exploration November 11, 1911 Dr. Charcot's Antarctic Expedition November 30, 1907 Motoring Toward the Pole By Motor Car to the South Pole By J. S. Dunnet October 19, 1907 The Shackleton Antarctic Expedition By John Plummer August 29, 1908 Lieut. Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition April 3, 1909 Lieut. Shackleton April 9, 1910 Two Novel Motor Sleds By Walter Langford May 14, 1910 Race to the Finish: Amundsen and Scott The Antarctic Expeditions January 13, 1912 The Discovery of the South Pole March 16, 1912 Amundsen's Attainment of the South Pole Progress of Antarctic Exploration By G. W. Littlehales, Hydrographic Office, United States Navy March 23, 1912 Capt. Scott at the South Pole April 13, 1912 Shadows at the South Pole June 15, 1912 The Scott Expedition and its Tragic End A Sacrifice Made for Scientific Ideals February 22, 1913 Achievements and Lessons of the Scott Expedition March 1, 1913 To the South Pole with the Cinematograph Film Records of Scott's Ill - Fated Expedition June 21, 1913 Science in the Heroic Age The Height of the Antarctic Continent By Walter Langford June 4, 1910 The Renewed Siege of the Antarctic January 17, 1914 Shackleton's South Polar Expedition The Value of His Scientific Observations By Henryk Arctowski June 17, 1916 Thawing Scott's Legacy A pioneer in atmosphere ozone studies, Susan Solomon rewrites the history of a fatal polar expedition By Sarah Simpson December 2001 Greater Glory In the race to the South Pole, explorer Robert F. Scott refused to sacrifice his ambitious science agenda By Edward J. Larson June 2011

We are currently planning to test GAPS at laboratory accelerators, and these tests, if successful, will be followed by balloon and ultimately satellite experiments.

We had a lot of cuts because me and the other two models kept getting hit by balloons!

In science, students built model cars propelled by balloons in order to understand the physics of the vehicles.

Top speed, limited by the balloon - like tires, is electronically governed to 100 mph.

A Voyage in the Clouds: The (Mostly) True Story of the First International Flight by Balloon in 1785.

In July Google signed an agreement with Sri Lanka to give the entire island internet access by balloon.

Actor Patrick Mcgoohan, aka No. 6, was regularly chased (there were 17 episodes) by a balloon each time he tried to escape.

With a total number of 26 national parks and 29 national reserves Kenya is rightly known as the home of the safaris, which visitors can easily discover either by balloon, on foot or on the back of camels.

The reserve can be experienced from the air in small aircrafts and by balloon futher to the west.

Rare opportunity to traverse a major city by balloon.

In addition, floating planks held aloft by balloons will be scattered around Hyrule.

Have you ever seen a 30 ton tank lifted in to the air by a balloon?

His two newest works in the Turner prize, a slide sequence of of a stream moving over a bicycle wheel drowned in the shallows, and a colour film of a little tape recorder being hoisted aloft by a balloon, are extremely deceptive.

This is a multimedia retrospective of her attempts to, among other astonishments, play the cello in midair, borne aloft by balloons.

A number of students, faculty, and alumni from Cooper Union as well as other colleges across the US have shown their support for the protests via rallies and vigils outside of the Foundation Building, care packages of pizza and coffee delivered by balloons, and signed letters of support.

Being surrounded on all sides (including over my head) by balloons was disconcerting, at first.

The mainstay of this vocabulary was taken from the white cube in which the work was exhibited — including its doors, which opened and closed; its sounds, which became louder or quieter; its walls, which grew strange protrusions; its lights, which went on and off; and even its air, which was captured by balloons.

Like an «art house of horrors,» someone said of the fetishy content (Damien Hirst grinning With Dead Head, Andra Ursuta's noose suspended by a balloon, Dash Snow's pill bottles, a Jivaro shrunken head, stuff like that.)

Known for presenting animals outside their natural habitats — rats in champagne glasses, chicks harnessed by balloons or bursting from the seams of coffins or the earpieces of a telephone receiver — in Psychopomps Morgan has taken this subversion a stage further.

I find it hard to reconcile talking points of the current Republican leadership on the irresponsible burden placed on future generations by the ballooning national debt and deficit with derisive attacks on efforts to move past finite fossil fuels, to conserve fuel, to spur innovation and basic research and to treat the risks from accumulating greenhouse gases the same way the party treats the risk of fiscal breakdown from building financial obligations.

All around the world, communities are starting to speak out against the senseless «mass aerial litter» created by balloons.

But that path, too, is now complicated by ballooning deficits.

Millions of measurements taken by balloon - borne radiosondes do not show it.

If my quick notes are right, the movie seemed to also give the impression that the CO2 measurement was done by balloon — it is done by flask.

... X-rays are absorbed by Earth's atmosphere, such measurements are made above the atmosphere by apparatus carried by balloons, rockets, or orbiting satellites.

You might have noticed in the video we showed earlier of the Valentia Observatory phase changes for 2012 that the bottom panels showed the average wind speeds recorded by each balloon.

We then converted these linear fits back into temperature estimates for each of the pressures measured by the balloons.

Flying high over Antarctica, a NASA long duration balloon has broken the record for longest flight by a balloon of its size.

«The data are very strong that the planet is warming, as shown by analyses by NASA, NOAA, the Berkeley Earth group and others, by data from thermometers in the air including those well away from cities, thermometers in the ocean and in the ground, taken up by balloons and looking down from space, and changes in temperature - sensitive snow and ice and plants and animals,» said Alley.

A unique program makes approximately monthly measurements of the vertical profile of water vapor with frost point hygrometers carried by balloons at Boulder, Colorado.

This trend seemed to continue into the late 1990s and also seemed to be supported by balloon measurements.

Both featured synchronous observations at different altitudes, including in the latter case an extension by means of automated instruments flown by balloon to 1500 meters — the balloon flights were made both from the Lone Pine site at the foot of the mountain and from the summit.