Sentences with phrase «into escape velocity»

The city is entering into escape velocity of gentrification.

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«I try to imagine how it would be to stand on the surface of this icy object — small enough that a fast sports car could reach escape velocity and drive off into space — and stare up at a 20 - kilometre wide ring system 1000 times closer than the Moon.»
As the satellite dips down into the atmosphere, STATIC identifies the cold ionosphere at closest approach and subsequently measures the heating of this charged gas to escape velocities as MAVEN rises in altitude.
John Michell (1783) and Pierre - Simon Laplace (1796) were the first people to propose the concept of «dark stars» or object which, if compressed into a sufficiently small size, would have an escape velocity which exceeded even the speed of light.
After that, it remained on the martian surface until about 16 million years ago, when a massive impactor — a comet or asteroid — slammed into Mars, spewing material into space at such tremendous velocity that some of it, including ALH84001, was able to escape Mars's gravity.
In order for a space shuttle to make it into space, it needs to continuously accelerate until it reaches escape velocity.
In principle, however, one could do it by surrounding the expanding gas cloud with a massless elastic membrane, or an elastic membrane accelerated to match velocities when the gas reaches it, or by an array of rocket nozzles pointed into the flow to catch the gas, or by surrounding it with a massive perforated sphere with a gravitational escape velocity higher than the gas velocity, or by running it into a medium of suitably graduated density, etc...
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