Sentences with phrase «human cargo in»

Though these trading posts were originally utilized for such items as gold, ivory, timber, and spices, by the late 1400s trade had expanded to include the buying and selling of human cargo in the form of African slaves.

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Mission controllers at Johnson Space Center in Houston also want to raise their «situational awareness» of the crew — another way of saying they want better ways to spy on their precious human cargo.

In 2016, Musk founded Neuralink, which is trying to find a way for computers to interact directly with the human brain, and the Boring Company, which is building tunnels to transport people and cargo using another proposed new technology — electric sleds.

In the project, which will be carried out by Alphabet's research arm X, human operators will fly drones carrying cargo beyond their field of vision.

She pointed out that smugglers are using claims of «credible fear» to get their human cargo into — and remain in — the United States.

John Newton a captain on a slave ship, transformed by prayer and prayer alone mid ocean in the very act of transporting human cargo.

Plus, humans could had ridden camels alone without cargo long before using them for cargo, where a human weight alone is a much lighter load than with cargo, that it might not show load stress in previous fossils, let alone that those projected camels are only the known ones by archeologists.

In Somalia, traffickers get around authorities by throwing their human cargo into the water when the authorities give chase.

Like the convict workforce who made up the bulk of the human cargo on the First Fleet, the livestock, purchased mainly at the Cape of Good Hope, were considered necessary to transplant a British society and economy in Antipodean soil.

Humans travel with a veritable army of hitch - hikers: marine plants and animals that float in a ship's ballast water; rats, bugs, and other creepers (and slitherers) that stow away in cargo planes.

Today the NIC is involved in all human space missions and regularly supports the ISS and the visiting cargo and crew transport vehicles that service the space station.

One idea put forth by aerospace expert Robert Zubrin in his book, «The Case for Mars» involves sending a cargo - carrying spacecraft prior to the habitat spacecraft that contains the human crew.

The Commercial Crew Program, building on the success of NASA's commercial cargo program, has been working to end the gap in the United States» domestic access to space, which will end up being more than seven years by the time the first human flights occur.

Being able to image them in the human eye at high enough resolution to use the presence of those markers — in this case the presence of axons and some of the shipment of different protein cargo and other things that are important for the ganglion cell health — to monitor those as a way to understand whether or not ganglion cells are healthy or not or getting sicker or not.

Ponicsan also wrote the novel on which the 1973 film The Last Detail was based, about two Vietnam servicemen carrying human cargo across northeastern states in the grip of winter.

But the boat's human cargo is tellingly offscreen, ostensibly in order to lend these scenes a mythic quality.

The game kicks off when the protagonist, cargo pilot Will, flies through the Bermuda Triangle and winds up in an alien dimension where he discovers a hostile race known as The Watchers, who are subjugating humans for various nefarious ends.

Among the most recent crop of sport - utility vehicles and crossovers, the Honda Pilot was the one that made the biggest leap forward in terms of tech, power, efficiency, and styling — all while keeping in mind the importance of its human cargo.

You might think that having ample space for humans would result in subpar accommodations for cargo, but you'd be wrong.

It's small and it's basic, but it will accommodate five human beings with cargo, it doesn't feel oppressive to drive and there's even a decent smattering of tech in the cabin.

Tinti is a writer gifted beyond her years, both literary in her perceptions — «the sailboat passed a cargo ship the length of an aircraft carrier, stretching across the surface like a giant guarding the edge of the world» — and possessing a thoroughgoing comprehension of the human condition, our sometimes desperate search for love and family, the rage we often feel as we stumble through our ignorance and past our fear to confront our mortality.

In a short video, John Vaillant explains how a career writing nonfiction led him up to writing his first novel, The Jaguar's Children, narrated by Héctor who is trapped inside an abandoned water truck, sealed to hide its human cargo, on the US - Mexico border.

The human cargo was chained and manacled in the hold, where they rolled to the left and then back to the right, their rotations determined by the undulating waves, but on each occasion that the vessel dipped, the cargo received the blessing of a libation of slime.

I would even hazard that any breeder willing to ship any puppy unaccompanied by a responsible human and alone in cargo at any age should have their practices questioned.

Highlights include The Column (2013), a film by Albanian artist Adrian Paci, which follows a block of marble as it travels over the sea from a quarry in China to Paris; and Just Before Paradise by Turkish artist Cengiz Tekin, which explores human cargo and the migrant crisis.

Another related installation is a large glass disc, titled Lotus (2007) that refers to the Buddhist symbol but also to the slave trade: etched in glass, the filigree pattern contained in each petal of the lotus flower is made up of diagrams of the placement of human bodies in the cargo hold of an eighteenth - century slave ship.

But the Kangaroo also looks like a kid - hauling bike, whereas the second - favorite Nihola, a classic style seen in a dozen variations in Copenhagen's streets, has a square front box that is slightly narrowed but seems to work well for human or other cargo.

They report in the journal Climatic Change that, if humans continue to burn fossil fuels at an accelerating rate, and as average global temperatures creep up by the predicted 4 °C above historic levels, then on the hottest days, between 10 % and 30 % of fully - loaded planes may have to remove fuel, cargo or passengers before they can take off: either that, or flights will have to be delayed to the cooler hours.

ICAO President Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu said that 65 countries had already signed on for the voluntary phase, and these countries together represent nearly 83 percent of total aviation miles, measured in «revenue tonne kilometers» (RTKs), which translate into one metric ton of load (human passengers or cargo) per kilometer traveled.

Anyone who operates a motor vehicle on behalf of your organization presents risks: human risks inherent in the driver, him or herself, and the risks rooted in the purpose or cargo of the transport vehicle.