Sentences with phrase «less than the speed»

«The highest velocities I calculated were about 600 feet per second, quite a bit less than the speed of sound,» Kommers reports.

Even if you have the very best Wi - Fi system available, you won't get more than 300 Mbit / s in total, which is some hundred times less than the speed per ray of light achieved by the Eindhoven study.

In that time frame, a Type III civilization could colonize the entire galaxy, even if their rockets traveled at less than the speed of light.

But it is possible that gravitons have a slight mass, which would mean that gravitational waves would travel at less than the speed of light.

The Unbearably Unstoppable Neutrino «The Unbearably Unstoppable Neutrino» [August] says that neutrinos travel at less than the speed of light and have dome mass.

Up ahead was a Focus doing less than the speed limit and very much in the pottering spectrum.

The game is sometimes a little dim witted when you collide with these obstacles, sometimes resetting you a good way back the track, and sometimes resetting to an off track location, which is annoying as the speed off - road is a good deal less than the speed you can attain on the racing line.

It proceeds to space at very slightly less than the speed of light (which of course it is, regardless of wavelength), depending on the transmission properties of the medium through which it passes.

There was some very effective stratospheric warming just after each time the coronal hole came around (the particles take longer to reach Earth than EM radiations, as they are travelling at less than the speed of light on a curved path), and subsequently the polar vortex shifted.

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And that's because Otis's invention didn't just whisk people and freight up and down floors with unprecedented speed, it recast the landscape of civilization: It did nothing less than reinvent the city.

Of those, only ten became so - called unicorns in less than three years, setting the speed record for all the rest.

«Although we expected mental speed to predict charisma, we thought that it would be less important than IQ.

NHTSA and NTSB said Brown did not apply the brakes, and his last action was to set the cruise control at 74 miles per hour (119 kph), less than 2 minutes before the crash — above the 65 - mph speed limit.

At top speed, the W16 will drain its 26.4 - gallon fuel tank in less than 10 minutes.

Hot air is less dense than cold air, and the hotter the temperature, the more speed a plane needs to lift off.

A lot of supercars can brush that off in less than 4 seconds, on their way to top speeds that threaten or exceed 200 mph.

The Paris Agreement — the most significant accord on the issue — will take effect next month after an intense ratification process that lasted less than a year after negotiations concluded, an unprecedented speed in the often slow - moving world of climate diplomacy.

Besides differences in video quality, Consumer Reports also gave the iPhone 8 — like its predecessor, the iPhone 7 — a higher score than Plus model because it had a faster auto - focus speed and picture sequence speed, plus less shutter lag.

In effect, the new middle price plan lets a customer who wants higher - quality video but doesn't need high - speed tethering pay $ 10 less than under the old Plus plan.

His Boring Company wants to build a «Hyperloop» vacuum - tube tunnel that would suck people from Washington, D.C. to New York in less than half an hour, at speeds of almost 800 mph.

Such tactics have contributed to Americans paying more for broadband access than the rest of the developed world, while generally getting less speed for their money.

Sullivan witnessed consistent broadband download speeds of over 10mbps, but ran into some technical difficulties that showed less - than - stellar results for the upload speeds.

Less than a year after making public his concept for a «Hyperloop» high - speed transportation system — essentially saying, «have at it, developers» — the erstwhile PayPal co-founder, current CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, and general poster boy for successful geeky entrepreneurs has made another bold declaration of his laissez - faire attitude toward intellectual property.

It's less noticeable when the video is playing at normal speed, but it's still there and makes the overall picture look less sharp than progressive scanning.

Comcast added 350,000 high - speed internet customers during the quarter, slightly less than a year earlier, but still the largest source of sales growth for the company.

Athletic wear brand Under Armour is also trading at almost 60 times P / E, but has less spare cash to throw around than Lululemon, and isn't growing square - footage at the same speed.

Those experts state that not only can we have a Hyperloop train running in California within a decade, but that it will cost between $ 7 and $ 16 billion, which is actually a lot less than the high - speed rail system that the state is working on.

After skewering the proposed system («one of the most expensive per mile and one of the slowest in the world»), Musk issued an open - source design challenge: a 28 - passenger solar - powered pod capable of levitating through a system of tubes almost at the speed of sound, with a one - way ticket price of $ 20 and a total building cost estimated at $ 6 billion, less than a tenth of the budget for California's high - speed rail project.

Fueled by web - based tools that speed up the application process, a new paradigm for evaluating credit worthiness, and the ability to leverage technology to help them determine eligibility (often in under an hour), these lenders may approve business loans that might be overlooked by traditional banks, and can typically do it in much less time than their traditional counterparts.

The biggest immediate cost - advantage comes from savings in energy costs: fully loaded, the Tesla Semi consumes less than two kilowatt - hours of energy per mile and is capable of 500 miles of range at GVW and highway speed, accommodating a wide range of shipping applications given that nearly 80 % of freight in the U.S. is moved less than 250 miles.

If you're a super heavy data user, you'll experience slower data speeds in months when you've consumed more than 15 GB of data (less than 1 % of current Fi users today).

Posting analysis — and the above one less than four years ago was my very first written remember — jumped my analysis articles, abilities, thought processes, and education into hyper speed.

The bill proposes defining a «standup electric scooter» as a vehicle powered by electric motors of less than 750 watts, and capped at a speed of 20 miles per hours.

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The bill allows «mentally competent» patients with less than 6 months to live to get prescription drugs that would speed up the dying process, as long as two doctors agree the patient qualifies.

But I think the church's slighting of wilderness and wildlife is due less to hostility than to indifference — a disregard for the peculiar theological resources at stake and the speed with which they are being crippled.

It also confirms more than any other evidence that the universe had a beginning and expanded at a rate faster than the speed of light within less than a trillion of a trillion of a trillion of a second — less than 10 ^ -35 of a second — of the Big Bang by detecting the miniscule «light polarizations» called B - Modes caused by the Gravitational Waves — which were theorized in 1916 by Albert Einstein in his Theory of General Relativity but never detected before — of the Inflation of the Big Bang which are embedded in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation — CMB or CMBR that was discovered by American scientists back in 1964.

The planet itself seemed less impressive, in its old - fashioned, deliberate, annual or daily revolution, than this huge wheel, revolving within arm's length at some vertiginous speed, and barely murmuring, — scarcely humming an audible warning to stand a hair's - breadth further for respect of power, — while it would not wake the baby lying close against its frame.

Once hot, add onions and a tiny pinch of baking soda (less than 1/8 teaspoon — this will speed up the cooking process like whoa).

I used roasted pumpkin for depth of flavour and a less wet mix, but for speed you could use fresh raw chunks or puree from a can BUT in that case you will likely need to add extra oatmeal (or a similar dry ingredient) since the resulting mix will be wetter than when using roasted pumpkin which has a lot less moisture remaining.

Powered by Memjet thermal inkjet technology, the VP700 prints at a blazing speed of 18 metres per minute — 304 mm / s or 12 IPS --(or 100 10 cm x 15 cm labels in less than a minute), delivering exceptional vibrant colour graphics and crisp text and barcodes up to 1600 x 1600 dpi *.

The key stats — reduction in giveaway to less than 1 % per pack coupled with speeds of 320 pieces per minute — made RobotGrader the clear choice for the top prize.

This fully automated vacuum packaging system with partial or total back gas flush ensures oxygen residue of less than 1.5 % for a broad range of packaging types and valve options at increased output speeds.

Because gelato is churned at a slower speed than ice cream, it's denser because less air is whipped into the mixture.

But when Felder crashed, he had traveled less than half that distance, even though his speed had been approximately the same as in a good jump — 50 mph.

The Giants played audaciously after that; their pregame strategy had been to sweep the Colt flank manned by End Don Joyce and Linebacker Leo Sanford on the theory that Joyce has less lateral speed than Gino Marchetti, the other Colt end.

He runs less than 4.4 in the 40 - yard sprint — receiver - like speed — and is just big enough (6» 1, 222 pounds) to play smash mouth football.

I think I actually like him more than McKinnon because I think he can be just as effective a receiver and runner with maybe a little less speed but more power.

His final lap average speed of less than 180 miles per hour saved enough gas to fend off a thirsty and refueled field en route to a historic victory — even though it meant sputtering to a stop before he could finish his victory lap.

Those which turn up in races of less than three hours probably will carry the kind of optional equipment Duntov used at Daytona Beach — small racing windscreen in place of the standard, speed - cheating wrap - around windshield, a streamlined cockpit cover, modified camshaft and a rear - axle ratio to suit the circuit.