Sentences with phrase «hurtling about»

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Surely in these conservative times, as we look over our shoulders toward the Dark Ages and fear the societal train is about to hurtle toward them in reverse, this would cause controversy.

Puerto Rico is hurtling headlong into what could be the largest municipal default in United States» history, and investors are kind of freaking out about it.

The dataset also includes previously unknown information about asteroids hurtling through our solar system.

As part of that exploration, us scholar - columnist - bloggers have been asked to talk about trends in our corners of the blogosphere, and make some predictions and prescriptions for the role of scholar - op - ed - writers - bloggers in Canada as it hurtles towards 2042.

So once you overcome that hurtle, that's when we can really talk about this.

When the two beams smash together, the resulting debris — including some B and anti-B mesons — continues hurtling in the direction of the electron beam at about half the speed of light.

Everyone was worried about those seven minutes that I hurtled through the thin Martian atmosphere, with a rocket - powered «sky crane» slowing my descent.

The most alarming thing about taking your hands off the steering wheel when hurtling along the road at 90 kilometres an hour is just how quickly you get used it.

Siding Spring's nucleus will come closest to Mars around 11:27 a.m. PDT (2:27 p.m. EDT), hurtling at about 126,000 mph (56 kilometers per second).

Since the dawn of the space age in the late 1950s, low Earth orbit has become a junkyard, with about 110,000 hunks of old spacecraft one half inch or larger hurtling at speeds as high as 30,000 miles per hour.

The Sun travels about 700, 000 miles per hour, hurtling through space carrying all planets including us on Earth with it.

Hypnosis literally creates new pathways in the brain, she adds: Now, when you head to the fridge or think about that can't - get - over-him ex, your brain hurtles down a new, healthier track, so you don't automatically complete the bad habit.

I think you are so right that switching to whole plant food based diet is as much about getting over mental hurtles as anything else.

Director Ang Lee creates a groundbreaking movie event about a young man who survives a disaster at sea and is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery.

Demi learns more about her new surroundings as players hurtle their way through this world toward one of the game's multiple endings.

While Manny overreacts and tries to sabotage their relationship, the rest of the characters fight to stop the asteroid that is hurtling toward Earth and about to cause their extinction.

And yet, for a mega-budget popcorn flick about a bunch of astronauts tasked with landing on a giant rock hurtling toward the planet?

Writing a Star Wars movie is a pretty daunting task, especially when it's outside of the main series and could go in about as many directions a ship hurtling through space.

Those hurtling toward mid-life crises will know that I am, of course, babbling about the spacesuit - clad star of Nodes Of Yesod, one of the finest games ever to grace the 8 - bit scene, and seemingly the core inspiration for Alientrap's exploratory platformer.

The film works — and just barely — only because the narrative flies at warp speed; there's no time to think about gaping holes in the plot and gross violations of the fundamental laws of physics, not to mention credibility, when you finish hurtling in the course of two hours across the Atlantic Ocean and back only to find yourself hurtling through the Chunnel with no chance to catch your breath.

Liz Hannah was hired in October to write the screenplay for Only Plane in the Sky, about the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, when President George W. Bush and his administration were hurtled from a press op in a Florida classroom onto Air Force One — then considered the safest place in the world to be.

The finish line remains a long way off in a Congress bitterly divided over issues such as health care, hurtling toward the 2010 midterm elections, and still without a specific proposal from the Obama administration about how it would revise the ESEA, currently called...

The acting is stiff and the dialogue is rigid, but who cares about that when you can see a Mustang suspended from a helicopter hurtling through the air over the Grand Canyon?

We hurtled by without skidding, and under hard acceleration the GTS's 365 - hp, 2.5 - liter turbo four barked about the acorns.

With only 3,000 pounds to motivate, the engine delivers V - 8 performance, a strong and balanced blast of thrust that sends the car hurtling to 60 mph in about six seconds.

It's in part due to the contrast of the serene way you can tool about at normal speeds, helped by the smooth and intuitive shifts of the eight - speed automatic gearbox, but you'd never tire of the explosive way it hurtles up the road when you want it to.

What the previously mentioned performance figures don't reveal, though, is the car's phenomenal midrange performance fueled by those twin turbos once the tachometer sweeps past 2000 rpm — before you can even think about it, this fabulous engine is hurtling the big S - Class down the road at impressive velocities.

Mounting peril creates a pulse - pounding pace, hurtling readers toward a nail - biting conclusion that inspires and will leave them apprehensive about what's to come.»

A super-massive black hole is hurtling toward Earth, but don't worry, it'll take about four billion years to get here.

On the Balearic Islands, the Western Park in Magaluf has the whirling Cola del Diablo («Devil's tail») slide, while at the Hidropark in Alcúdia you can hurtle down the Kamikaze slides or bob about in the wave pool.

Ludum Dare 48 - 2011 A game about hurtling from the sky towards earth, while partying, jettisoning crew members and blowing up.

The game actually found ways to help you with this — portals would shift to fit nicely onto a platform if your shot was off, and the springboard Aerial Faith Plates would gently correct your course if it looked like you were about to hurtle to your doom.

FIFA 16 is hurtling towards its September 24th release date and it's looking like one of the best entries for a while, with multiple improvements to shout about.

If you've been following climate science, you know what I mean: the sense that we're hurtling toward catastrophe but nobody wants to hear about it or do anything to avert it.»