Sentences with phrase «receive radio signals»

Among the latter are a treasured colleague (William Fichtner) who helps her transmit and receive radio signals and whose name, Kent Clark, irrelevantly suggests an inverted Superman; a bad father (read: villain) and former mentor (Tom Skerritt) who briefly becomes her boss, then her competitor, and who kowtows shamelessly to the power structure; a religious scholar named Palmer Joss (Matthew McConaughey) who gives her a Cracker Jack compass, virtually repeats her father's tag line («If there wasn't anyone else out there [in the cosmos], it'd be an awful waste of space»), and goes to bed with her; and an eccentric billionaire (John Hurt) who lives on a well - appointed plane (recalling Jules Verne's Captain Nemo) and comes up with the funding.

Scientists built the array to receive radio signals — the sort of message that could answer a very important question: Are we the only intelligent life in this vast universe?

«We've successfully tested a method where only one of the antennas is used to receive the radio signals.

First conceptualized in the early 1960s, GPS is a space - based navigation system that allows a receiver to compute its location and velocity by measuring the time it takes to receive radio signals from four or more overhead satellites.

The team designed a custom base station to transmit and receive the radio signals.

Originally developed by the US government for military navigation, satellite navigation systems are now widely used by anyone with a GNSS device, such as an in - car SatNav, mobile phone or handheld navigation unit, which can receive the radio signals that the satellites broadcast.

The siren, located on County Route 1 in Scriba near the entrance to the Novelis Aluminum plant, went off shortly after 3:00 a.m. and again just before 4:00 a.m. County 911 officials received a radio signal from the siren that indicated a malfunction.

It operates much like a computer's sound card, but instead of making sounds or processing incoming audio, it makes and receives radio signals.

Or when it first received radio signals from the Universe on August 2nd?

«This is the same instrument that allowed us to support the challenging communications during the landing of the Spirit and Opportunity Mars rovers as well as the Cassini Saturn Orbit Insertion when the received radio signal was very weak,» said Sami Asmar, the JPL scientist responsible for the data recording.

Not exact matches

Made with hypo - allergenic, medical grade plastics and more importantly does not send or receive radio frequency signals.

The search for neutron stars has intensified because of a relatively small area, low in the northern midnight sky, from which the strangest radio signals yet received on Earth are being detected.

To receive speech, it converts encoded radio signals into sound vibrations that that are picked up by the phone's speaker.

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University are developing atomically thin «drumheads» able to receive and transmit signals across a radio frequency range far greater than what we can hear with the human ear.

NASA's Deep Space Network of radio telescopes received the explorer's last faint signal on 22 January from a distance of 12.3 billion kilometers.

They found these molecules not with optical telescopes but by tuning in with exquisitely sensitive antenna dishes that can receive the extremely faint radio signals generated by molecular clouds.

«The signal you receive via the antenna in digital form is then reconverted back into audible form, just like the principle used in every conventional radio.

The signal bounced off the asteroid, and its radar echoes were received by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's (NRAO) 100 - meter (330 - foot) Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia.

For example, if the, 000 - foot radio telescope at the Arecibo observatory in Puerto Rico were to transmit information at the rate of one it (binary digit) per second with a bandwidth of one hertz, the signal could be received by an identical radio telescope anywhere in the galaxy.

At 8:52:37 p.m. Eastern time, a radio antenna near Madrid received the first signal from the spacecraft since it buzzed the dwarf planet.

Three antennas were directed toward the object and radio waves received by each antenna were converted to digital signals, and then, these digital signals were sent to the ACA Correlator and synthesized.

CLEVELAND - Researchers at Case Western Reserve University are developing atomically thin «drumheads» able to receive and transmit signals across a radio frequency range far greater than what we can hear with the human ear.

This work branched off from a previous Arbabian lab creation, a tiny chip dubbed the «ant - sized radio» that can send and receive signals over radio waves without a battery.

For example, the signal from your cell phone measured one kilometer away is five million billion times stronger than the radio signals received from a bright quasar!

Strip Chart Recording of the Pulsar Signals Received During the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope's First Observation of a Celestial Radio Source.

ALMA can produce a high - resolution image of the universe by receiving weak radio signals with a sensitivity 100 times higher and a resolution (corresponding to a visual acuity of the human eye) several tens of times higher than other existing telescopes.

The receivers are supercooled to keep their materials and electronics from giving off any radio signals of their own that would swamp the weak signals we receive from space.

The Signal (R for brief nudity, pervasive profanity and brutal bloody violence) Experimental, sci - fi adventure flick shot in three parts by a trio of directors (David Bruckner, Dan Bush and Jacob Gentry) and set on New Year's Eve in a mythical city where mysterious electronic transmissions being broadcast via TV, radio and cell phones are sending the citizens who receive them on a homicidal rampage.

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Turn off devices that send and receive wireless signals, such as baby monitors, cordless phones, radios, cordless power tools and more.

You then set the transmitter to send a radio signal to your dog's receiver and they can receive a tone, vibration or static shock to reward or correct behaviors.

This time, Billy receives an interstellar transmission while working on a Photachyon Transceiver (a radio that can receive signals anywhere in the galaxy).

To receive the Veronica Vex radio signal you'll need to make an antenna.

Communicate with train crew members by radio, signals or by other means to give and receive train operation information.

Communicate with train crew members by radio, signals, etc. to give and receive train operation information