Sentences with phrase «hitching rides on it»

In his 20s, he sailed around the world on small yachts and wrote a series of travel articles called, «The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Seas» travelling by hitching rides on yachts (1989) in major travel and yachting publications.

Invasive species hitching rides on cargo ships has been an issue for decades, but it's been getting increasing attention as species like zebra mussels take over rivers and lakes and nudge out native species.

But as more people volunteer and more air quality monitors are hitching rides on bikes and strollers around the city, the coverage should fill out.

All these fairs, and others, too, were going on at the same time in the same cavernous spaces, which were like the biggest big - box stores ever built, their denizens streaming into the fairgrounds, riding half - mile - long mobile walkways, hitching rides on commuter trains from the beautiful old central railway station so evocative for Paul of prewar Europe, drinking late into the night in the dangerously crowded lobbies of the hotels, hungover and sleepless and hoarse by day, complaining and fibbing and wheedling and smoking and drinking, gorging and lying and drinking and fucking by night, and having the time of their lives.

Every sort of organism is on the move, hitching rides on ships, aircraft, cars and even people.

Frigate birds can stay aloft for months by hitching rides on massive drafts of wind that allow them to preserve energy while flying hundreds of miles a day or more, a study in the 1 July issue of Science shows.

By hitching rides on planes, trucks, and ships, this group has spread across the world; they're seen here ripping a larger ant to bits.

But up until now, CubeSats have always been stowaways, hitching rides on rockets carrying larger satellites.

From 2012 to 2017, at least 289 living Japanese marine species washed up on the shores of North America and Hawaii, hitching rides on fishing boats, docks, buoys, crates and other...

Now a bug that is famous for lurking in undercooked beef is hitching rides on greens like lettuce and spinach.

From 2012 to 2017, at least 289 living Japanese marine species washed up on the shores of North America and Hawaii, hitching rides on fishing boats, docks, buoys, crates and other nonbiodegradable objects, a team of U.S. researchers report in the Sept. 29 Science.

In his 20s, he sailed around the world on small yachts and wrote a series of travel articles called, «The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Seas» travelling by hitching rides on yachts (1989) in major travel and yachting publications.

Passengers are having a tougher time finding a seat on theBoeing 747 these days, but that doesn't mean their stuff won't be hitching a ride on the original jumbo jet.

A standard 757 costs approximately $ 8,000 per hour, but hitching a ride on Air Force One is free for the president.

It wasn't 11 a.m. when the group — along with NFL veteran and sportscaster Boomer Esiason, who'd been waiting at the airport to hitch a ride on Plank's jet — pulled up at Under Armour headquarters.

This navigation system ($ 85) hitches a ride on your bike's handlebars.

They may not be able to make you feel as if you've just hitched a ride on a unicorn for a jaunt through a lollipop forest, but they hope to at least nudge the edges of your office face into a bit more of a smile.

At $ 250,000 per ticket you too can hitch a ride on Branson's spaceship to suborbital space.

Hitching a ride on the marketing of another company can save your small business time and capital.

I felt as if I had hitched a ride on a red balloon floating to the stars.

defining moment came in the late 1970s and early 1980s when what Boyagoda calls the «two - track» nature of Richard's writing about religion and politics hitched a ride on the zeitgeist.

They all hitched rides on the cotton wagons, bouncing about in the white fluff, and the community was so enchanted that it arranged a big fish fry at the cotton gin to welcome Edwards» girls properly.

For this month's trend report we hitched a ride on board the Mollie Makes space rocket, and journeyed to the stars and back again in search of the best galactic finds across Folksy.

Dolls can hitch a ride on the back of a child's bike!

If you have three children, even your oldest can hitch a ride on the PiggyBack Board (which will cost you extra) if he / she gets tired during a long walk.

With fewer cash - strapped news outlets willing to underwrite the cost, reporters were forced to fly commercial on Obama's visits to Prague and Cape Canaveral — and some White House support staff had to be left home rather than hitching a ride on the press charter.

«Without the targeting agent, paclitaxel can not hitch a ride on EphA2.»

It also validates the concept of panspermia, the idea that life might have hopscotched through our solar system — or others — by hitching a ride on asteroids or comets.

Researchers trying to access Antarctica hitch rides on a variety of NSF - funded vessels, including the Nathaniel B. Palmer research ship, seen here in the background.

The microbe, notorious for its disease - causing variants that sometimes hitch rides on spinach leaves and undercooked hamburger meat, is actually an integral part of intestinal ecology.

Despite Conley's efforts, clean - room swabbing revealed some 150,000 heat - resistant microbes hitched a ride on Curiosity — a relatively small number, but still greater than zero.

Pesticides used on banana, coffee and rice plantations are contaminating remote Central American tropical rainforests by hitching a ride on air currents as they sweep up mountainsides.

«Species hitch a ride on birds and the wind to join green roof communities.»

CubeSat parts are relatively inexpensive, and the compact end products can hitch rides on rockets that already go to space, a boon to researchers and students alike.

The 4 - kilogram SpaceArc satellite hitched a ride on board a rocket that was launching a broadcasting satellite.

Spineless wonders inhabiting a remote Arctic Ocean archipelago may have hitched a ride on the backs of birds

Gulliver among the atoms: Have you ever thought what it would be like to hitch a ride on an electron?

If any moon bugs hitched a ride on those rocks — or on astronauts — they could easily have escaped into our environment.

«They tend to evaporate in hot places, hitch a ride on winds, and then condense in cold regions,» says Xu Baiqing, an environmental scientist at the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research in Beijing.

Getting around can be a struggle when you're only a few millimetres long, but the jet - setting pseudoscorpion Apatochernes vastus has the answer: hitch a ride on a bat.

But chemicals have hitched rides on winds and waters that have carried them there, as the cold climate acts like a sink for pollutants.

The experiment adds weight to the theory of panspermia — that life could somehow be transported between planets, perhaps by hitching a ride on an asteroid.

Studies for NASA's $ 2 billion Europa Clipper mission have often included the possibility of hitching a ride on one as a money - saving measure.

They hitched rides on debris swept up by the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami of 2011.

The rock regatta Shortly after the 2006 eruption of an underwater volcano near the Pacific island of Tonga, researchers found a wide variety of organisms hitching a ride on volcanic pumice, Bryan told OurAmazingPlanet.

«While the chance of any particular mosquito - borne virus hitching a ride on an airplane and surviving in the U.S. is like winning the lottery, somebody always wins the lottery,» Turell says.

For example, wingless flower mites hitch a ride on foraging bees or butterflies to travel to new flowers.

The researchers deliver a specific gene, which hitches a ride on a harmless virus, into the livers of mice, and once in the liver that gene codes for a protein called myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein.

Basically, germs; bacteria from Earth that might be hitching a ride on the Cassini spacecraft.

«And we thought it would be safer if I worked alone,» Gantz said, to minimize the chance that a mutant fly the size of a pinhead would hitch a ride on a human into the wilds of southern California.