Sentences with phrase «shrapnel blasted»

«Dodging a bullet» is a well - worn cliche, but it looks as if the small armada of space probes orbiting Mars dodged a shrapnel blast last month.

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The trial of the man charged with detonating a bomb in Chelsea last year began in Federal District Court in Manhattan with video replays of the blast, emotional testimony from people wounded by shrapnel and an outburst by the defendant that led to his ejection from the courtroom.

Collectively they make up the Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory, a $ 50 million physics experiment to study bits of atomic shrapnel that blast out from some of the most violent places in the universe.

The lab's blast walls were up; sheets of Kevlar hung to catch shrapnel; banks of capacitors on the co-opted Air Force experiment primed to unleash 12 million amps of current; X-ray detectors set to snag bursts of photons; bottles of celebratory champagne chilled.

NASA's orbiting probes were in no danger of colliding with the comet, but with it traveling at a speed of approximately 125,000 mph (56 km / sec), the dust from its tail that reached Mars 100 minutes after the encounter posed a threat like a blast of shrapnel.

Some suffered only minor shrapnel wounds, while others faced life - threatening gunshot wounds and blast injuries that required the entire group's efforts and critical rapid intervention like chest tubes to stabilize them.

Use the shields on the front of the tanks to block attacks and wait for just the right moment to raise it and blast your opponent into shrapnel.