Sentences with phrase «like rocket engines»

Because the nucleus is so small, these jets act like rocket engines, spinning up the comet's rotation, Jewitt said.

Not exact matches

Having just one kind of first - stage engine in all of its rockets «is like Southwest Airlines deciding to use only 737s,» says Musk.

People describe rocket engines as thunderous; despite the warm day and nearly cloudless sky, it was more like being inside the thundercloud.

Standing nearly 5 kilometres from SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket as it took off for the first time, I felt like my lungs were exposed to the open air, the rushing sound and steam from the rocket's engines squeezing my heart and making it beat off - kilter.

Ideas abounded: using ion engines to ferry up the components of a moon base; beaming power to robotic rovers on the Martian moon Phobos; attaching high - power Hall effect thrusters to the International Space Station (ISS) and putting it on a Mars cycler orbit; preplacing chemical rocket boosters along an interplanetary trajectory in advance so astronauts could pick them up along the way; using exploration pods like those in 2001: A Space Odyssey rather than space suits; instead of sending astronauts to an asteroid, bringing a (very small) asteroid to astronauts at the space station.

«It's like a little nozzle which closes,» explains Twente's Detlef Lohse, similar to what happens in a rocket engine.

Anyway, that engine, highly resilient at birth (like ours) and relentlessly upgraded throughout the early years (unlike ours), has no problem accepting rocket fuel.

Taken together, the stability control's lenient, tail - out sport mode; the transmission that thinks like a DTM driver; and the engine that has the muscle to rocket you down the straights, create in the C63 coupe a car that makes track driving deceptively easy.

And like the late Steve Jobs of Apple (if Jobs had been a rocket scientist), Musk brought forth a product that doubles down on technology — double the engines, double the driving wheels, and double the driving safety.

Add to that the details we were being provided by the engineer about the high - tech, fragile - sounding stuff inside the engine — the «i - VTEC,» a system of «intelligent» valve timing that allows all 16 valves to open and close at precisely the correct time, for precisely the correct duration; a compression ratio of 11:1, more like a race - car engine than a passenger car; and a fuel injection system so sophisticated that rocket scientists would be scratching their heads.

Named after the Lockheed F - 94 Starfire jet fighter, the original Starfire was a 5 - passenger convertible that had a fiberglass body, a 200 hp (150 kW) Rocket V8 engine, and a wraparound windshield like that used on the top - of - the - line and limited - production 1953 Fiesta 98 convertible.

Step heavily on the accelerator and you'll feel like there's a rocket pushing you from behind, guided by the rumbling coming from the engine.

There aren't many V10 engines around and especially not in a fiberglass - bodied rocket like the Viper.

The 2.0 - liter turbocharged engine and 9 - speed automatic accelerate the 2016 GLC quickly, even if it's not rocket - like, and there was plenty in reserve for passing on narrow 2 - lane mountain roads.

A 12 - cylinder engine displacing 6.0 - liters produces a healthy 626 horsepower and 695 lb - ft of torque, and combined with all - wheel drive and an eight - speed automatic transmission the Continental GT Speed is able to shrug off its hefty curb weight and rocket down the road like a low - flying British land missile.

Sleek & sexy cars got your engine running, but don't feel like a round of Rocket League?

Through its Twitter account, Epic Games announced this afternoon that it will provide support to developers of Unreal Engine 4 in order to bring their games to Nintendo Switch, which means we could see titles like Rocket League, Street Fighter V and Final Fantasy VII Remake on that platform.

At either end is a large goal, and somewhere in the middle is a giant ball, around twice the height of the cars, which has what feels like its own low - gravity rules: it hangs in the air, moves begrudgingly after taps, and even when whacked will rarely outpace a rocket engine.

Like the Airships of Super Mario Bros. 3, the Airship portion of Airship Fortress track is filled with Rocky Wrenches, Bullet Bills and Rocket Engines.

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