Sentences with phrase «feat of engineering for»

«About as relevant and connected to the real world as the Tango'ed pussy - grabber in the White House» - Indicating you are infact connected to the real world so it's a pointless feat of engineering for you?

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The movie, which weaves together extraordinary feats of engineering and military, environmental and cultural achievements, hit theaters three days before China's rubber - stamp legislature convened to amend the constitution and allow Xi to potentially rule China for life.

Panoramic sunroofs are an impressive feat of engineering — a large pane of glass curved to the roof's aerodynamic contours and usually made of tempered glass, for its strength without added weight.

The bad news for passengers is that despite all these feats of engineering, more legroom in coach is not one of them.

Snap last month rolled out the redesign of its pioneering photo messaging app, Snapchat, the first major feat for its engineers since the app's launch.

Sprint's latest clever feat of financial engineering appears to be another success for the indebted wireless carrier.

Instead, activists radically increased their demands for buybacks, spin - offs, acquisitions, and other feats of financial engineering.

The workmen failed to meet precisely head - on, but it was for the time a superior feat of engineering.

In an intricate feat of urban engineering, the L train will be shut for repairs for 15 months, transforming streets in Lower Manhattan into the busiest bus route in the country.

Hein praised the county Department of Public Works for their efforts in getting a substitute bridge for the washed - out Hatchery Hollow Bridge in Oliverea, allowing cut - off residents to get in and out: «In less than 24 hours, using surplus materials, in an amazing feat of engineering and a testament to their hard work, they were able to make a secondary bridge.»

In a dramatic feat of engineering prowess, the private spaceflight company SpaceX successfully landed a reusable Falcon 9 rocket booster yesterday — the second such landing for the company, and the first successful touchdown on a ship.

His shelf was full of Grammy awards; every year he won new ones for his audio engineering feats.

We keep waiting for aliens to get in touch — but there could be smarter trails to follow, from feats of cosmic engineering to interplanetary pollution

Has the time for this epic feat of engineering come round at last?

Nature is full of marvels of engineering that humans have co-opted for their own mechanical feats.

In one of the most elaborate feats of synthetic biology to date, a research team has engineered yeast with a medley of plant, bacterial, and rodent genes to turn sugar into thebaine, the key opiate precursor to morphine and other powerful painkilling drugs that have been harvested for thousands of years from poppy plants.

Steve Justice, TTSA's aerospace division director and former Lockheed Martin engineer who worked on advanced top secret aircraft for the latter company's storied «Skunk Works» division, speculates that in both cases such incredible feats of flight could be due to the objects possessing some sort of warp drive.

While the feat of engineering is impressive, the fact that is specifically designed for children to use makes every single Christmas gift ever given pale in comparison.

The AMG GT for all intents and purposes is a feat of engineering.

All this, plus a serene cabin thanks to silent electric motors, seating for up to seven people, and no greenhouse gas emissions make the Model S P100D Ludicrous a fabulous daily driver, as well as one of the most impressive feats of automotive engineering ever conceived.

This feat has called for new ways of cooperation between the design and engineering teams throughout the development process.

That's no small feat, and it allowed engineers to tweak the suspension tuning of the new Volt for more dynamic handling without introducing harshness into the ride quality.

Pricing and launch dates are unknown as of yet for the SUV which was designed from the ground up, says Mitsu, as «an engineering feat» to accept a variety of powertrain options from petrol or diesel internal combustion engine (ICE) to PHEV as being discussed.

Amazon claims that all it took was a six month firmware improvement test to get the Kindle 2 to run for 85 percent longer than before, which is a pretty damn impressive feat of engineering.

Just north of Menzies we turn off to Kookynie and visit one of the great engineering feats of the early Goldfields, Niagra Dam, built to provide water for the steam locomotives.

Drive across the Continental Divide at Kicking Horse Pass and stop at the Spiral Tunnels, a feat of early engineering for one of the steepest railroad stretches in the world.

We transfer to special buses for the second leg of the journey: a spectacular road and great engineering feat blasted out of the mountain side.

The 1800s brought U.S. ships into these waters, leading to the ccompletion, in 1914, of the Panama Canal, a historic feat of engineering that saved thousands of miles of transit around Cape Horn for ships trying to reach the Pacific.

Opened more than a century ago, the line is celebrated not only for its fantastic beauty, but also for the feats of engineering that were required to complete it.

And save for the peripherals slightly sub-standard directional pad, it's a feat of ergonomic and functional engineering.

[4] The shapes and forms of some of the works suggest art glass and objects d'art that one would see on a coffee table, like an art deco ashtray or quirky container for chocolates - a building becomes a blown - up version of desk art because the computer can do it, mimic the plasticity of the medium, and make it possible as a feat of engineering.

His room paintings, such as the gold filigree work that he made for the Turner Prize in 2009 or the dizzying force lines — a graphic technique used in engineering — visible in the stairwell of Modern 2 in Edinburgh, are amazing feats of painstaking complexity.

As vint cerf (# 2) points out though, the engineering question for some of these proposals is not whether these feats are in fact possible, but in making them economical like carbon sequestration, cheap solar.

In a first - of - its - kind feat of science and engineering, a National Science Foundation (NSF)- funded research team has successfully drilled through 800 meters (2,600 feet) of Antarctic ice to reach a subglacial lake and retrieve water and sediment samples that have been isolated from direct contact with the atmosphere for many thousands of years.

But perhaps Boatner's most exciting feat of engineering was his ability to create an efficient technology that will be affordable for consumers.

«We believe it has not been possible until now to attach a survey quality laser scanner on a drone that can fly for such a long time, so this is a feat of engineering which will allow us to collect data of huge significance over the vast Amazon,» said Dr. Salman Khan from the University of Exeter.

Samsung must have spent a large amount of time reverse engineering Apple's iCloud backups to perform this feat and it's so good that it makes me wonder just how long it will take for Apple to try and cut it off.

It just shows that Apple hasn't really improved the battery performance much - although, given it's got a lot smaller battery than in previous Plus models (for some reason) that's actually an impressive feat of engineering.

Getting a clear, wireless connection for both the game and chat audio was no small feat of engineering either, Juergen explains: «It took six months of software and electronics development in order to have something that would work on the Xbox One.»