Sentences with word «sled»

The sled tests will allow the Low - Density Supersonic Decelerator Project, or LDSD.
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A rocket - fired sled and pulley system pulled a one kilometer rope with parachute attached.
Their cockroach stand - in resembles a sled about 4 inches long and 2 inches wide propped up on six outstretched legs.
An example of low friction is when you sled down an icy hill.
It's easy because both the sled and the ice on the hill are smooth and the surfaces of the sled's runners and the ice slide past one another with little resistance.
The DNA evidence also shows that modern - day Siberian Huskies and Greenland sled dogs share an unusually large number of genes with the ancient Taimyr wolf.
For 14 years, scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, used a camera on a sled to study a stretch of seafloor 2 1/2 miles down.
They seem hot, but take each one individually: sled dogs.»
At 40 stations in the Southern Ocean, dragging a sled with a net through more than three acres of mud, Brandt found 674 species of isopod.
Slush Dogs For the first time in the Iditarod's 44 - year history, organizers imported snow for the sled dog race via the Alaska Railroad, as winter and spring temperatures climbed 9 degrees F above average, shattering a decades - old record.
Peary and MacMillan succeeded because they melded the best of turn - of - the - century American technology with the sophisticated skills of the Inuit: They wore Inuit clothing, learned their language, copied their sled designs, and hired many of them as guides and hunters.
Sandia National Laboratories has sent a mock B61 - 12 nuclear weapon speeding down the labs» 10,000 - foot rocket sled track to slam nose - first into a steel and concrete wall in a spectacular test that mimicked a high - speed accident.
«Sled track simulates high - speed accident in B61 - 12 test.»
A nearby film exhibit shows the rough - and - ready way in which the native Inuit repaired the sled — they shot holes in the runners, through which more lashings could be tied.
A B61 - 12 test unit slams into a target at the end of Sandia National Laboratories» 10,000 - foot rocket sled track in a complex forward ballistics test.
The galley is on the left, hot water drill equipment in the center left, surface infrastructure tower mid right, and the seismic sled on the right.
Plus we'd have less than a week to install and calibrate the instrument after bringing it to the site on a sled in the dark, so I needed to be well prepared.
Concussions, as you're hitting the eight - man sled or the seven - man sled, when you explode into the sled and then you recoil, you know, and then when you recoil and then you see stars and everything fades to black, you know I liken that to a concussion.
Materials • Printer • Paper • Scissors • Crayons and markers (optional) • Tape • Two drinking straws • Hole punch • Kite string • Measuring tape or ruler • Paper clip • Plastic grocery bag or other thin plastic bag • An open, clear area outside Preparation • Download the Sled Kite Template (pdf) and print it out on a sheet of eight - and - a-half-inch by 11 - inch paper.
• Carefully cut out the sled kite.
Your sled kite is ready to fly!
Frozen Planet Discovery It took 4 years, 38 sled dogs, 12 reindeer, 28 helicopters, and 840 hours trapped in blizzards for dedicated (and resourceful) camera crews to film the epic new nature documentary Frozen Planet.
O'Bannon recommends that we rope a cargo sled between the first two snowmobiles.
In this activity you will have a chance to build your very own kite — a simple sled kite — and use it to investigate how tails help kites fly.
Once domesticated, dogs proved valuable in myriad ways: guards, hunters, shepherds, pack animals, sled pullers.
Improvised a sled with the dog's rib cage, and then, using the skin, he harnessed up an adjacent living dog.
In front of it, a second sled held a bullet - shaped canister packed with scientific instruments.
Through patient detective work, Prof Turney found documents that reveal how the second in command, Lieutenant Edward (Teddy) Evans, later the 1st Baron Mountevans, crucially undermined Scott — stealing rations from food depots and failing to pass on orders to a dog sled team that would have brought Scott home safely.
There were eleven types of practice drills: dummy / sled tackling, install, special teams, multiplayer tackle, Oklahoma, one - on - one, open - field tackling, passing, position skill work, scrimmage, and tackling drill stations.
With the exception of the dummy / sled tackling drill, the most common location of impact was the front of the football helmet.
Reindeer, from Northern Europe or Asia, are often thought of as a domesticated animal, one that may pull Santa's sled.
Not as famous as Shackleton or Nansen, Inuit - Danish Rasmussen was arguably even more intrepid, traveling by dog sled from Greenland to Alaska in the 1920s.
His team made what he claimed was the first recorded trip to the terrestrial North Pole in 1909 by dog sled.
Scientific American magazine Editor in Chief John Rennie talks about the contents of the June issue, including articles on the evolution of cats and the physiology of sled dogs.
But what [was] really interesting in this study of the sled dogs, of Larry the sled dog in particular, was the discovery that some of these high performance dogs appear to have the ability to draw fat directly out of their and blood right into their muscle cells and immediately burn it that way, which is a more efficient way than normally what you'd see.
Steve: As I said, I've promised we have something for the dog people out there, and we have a short article in the front of the magazine, where we have the news pieces, about the amazing physical capabilities of high performance sled dogs.
BUT — if you have heart failure, you're not going to feel good; you're not going to be smiling; you're not going to be lifting your sled, as I understand he did.
Good sled dogs typically weigh between 20 and 25 kilograms, Pitulko says, as dogs of this size are big enough to pull sleds yet don't overheat like larger dogs.
Researchers are exploring the sled dog's sensitivity to insulin to better understand this pathway.
Researchers first discovered the metabolic switch in 2005, when a team headed by Oklahoma State University's Michael Davis — who has been investigating the metabolic, gastrointestinal, respiratory and blood systems of sled dogs for 10 years — did a controlled study at a professional racing kennel in Alaska.
According to Raymond Geor, an exercise physiologist at Michigan State University, sled dog muscle cells are well equipped to use this fat because they have a higher mitochondrial density — more cellular power plants — than other animals.
During the first few days of racing, sled dogs draw energy from glycogen stored inside muscle cells.
With a few crates of supplies and two sled dogs, Trinks and his partner, Marie Tieche, hunkered down in a cabin on Nordaustland for 13 months.
During race times, fat builds up in a sled dog's blood, most likely because of the high - fat racing diet.
A Challenge to Canine Health The rigors of the Iditarod sled dog race, in which a musher and a team of 12 to 16 dogs cover some 1,150 miles in 16 days, takes its toll on the health of its athletes.
Specifically, sled dogs seem to flip an internal switch that acutely changes how they burn fat calories, allowing them to keep going and going and going with no obvious pain.
Sled Legs are easy to transport and simple to use, combining the fun of sledding with the with the control of skis!
SLED traditionally does not have subpoena power, which would make it difficult to obtain Greene's bank records in the event that he refuses to turn them over.
«The sled hills will be in peak condition» said Poloncarz.
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