Sentences with word «slingshot»

Given that civil war was raging in Rome at the time it sank and that the ship was loaded with slingshot ammunition, archaeologists believe that much of the ship's lead may have been destined to end up as shot.

Gaming performance using SlingShot Extreme on 3DMark returned a 1943 score, lower than the Mate 9 and the OnePlus 3T.

It is providing David a bevy of slingshots in battle after battle with Goliath.

So today Facebook took yet another swipe at Snapchat with the re-release of its ephemeral sharing app Slingshot for iOS and Android.

Such a process is known to occur in planetary systems when close encounters can cast a planet into deep space, and within galaxies when a star can get ejected, but these lonely compact galaxies are the result of slingshots on a supergalactic scale.

We're bringing our search for the best slingshot on the market to a close, but our last products are worth investigating if you're looking for a serious model to take hunting!

October 6, 2017 • Stream the live webcast as Slingshot artist Lo Moon performs at WXPN's World Cafe Live in Philadelphia.

experience as one like slingshot in the sense that he's been forced to back up slowly through reflection only to be sprung forward into action.

«The most likely explanation for the production of the runaway BN star is that it was ejected by a gravitational slingshot from theta - 1C,» says Chatterjee.

While still on the looser side of control, the driving felt responsive enough to take a corner at high speeds with a quick tap of the nitrous to help slingshot around curves, although the camera still left a little to be desired.

In the Washington state capital of Olympia, police ordered protesters to disperse, calling them «members of a mob» as some threw bottles, used pepper spray and fired marbles from slingshots at officers.

That's the $ 20,000 Polaris Slingshot in a nutshell.

Although astronomers have detected other EKOs whose orbits lie mostly 50 AUs, these objects have very eccentric orbits, and almost all eventually move inward to within 38 AUs of the Sun, which place them within Neptune's gravitational reach and so these EKOs are generally thought to have been scattered out to their present orbits by a gravitational slingshot with Neptune to become part of the «Scattered Disk.»

February 21, 2018 • Watch on this episode of KCRW's Looped as inaugural Slingshot artist Lo Moon talks to Anthony Valadez before their show at the Troubadour.

Facebook first launched Slingshot back in June with an innovative, if a bit friction - full, feature where you had to reply with a photo or video to see one a friend had sent you.

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«The police put him out of business the first time because he was making slingshots for the entire neighborhood.»

But if Snapchat's not willing to sell and its Stories feature is obviously popular, Facebook is happy to commission a few employees to take their best Slingshot at usurping it.

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Gaming benchmark app 3D Mark returned a 2,389 score on Slingshot Extreme.

The social networking giant has just launched Slingshot for Android and iOS devices to provide

Startup pitch: SlingShot helps travellers to pimp their points - Tnooz.

In their study, published on March 27 in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), the researchers speculate that this could have been the origin of «Oumuamua: It was slingshot out of its home star system by a giant planet after being stretched into its peculiar cigar - like shape by extreme tidal pressures.

This week you are focusing on a major muscle group exercise (such as squats) and you're going to hit the hell out of it.Your diet changes to eating for mass so your body slingshots into a crazy anabolic state.Its called Compound Exercise Overload and if you've hit a plateau in ANY exercise, this technique will shatter it like a brick through a window!

Upon watching the first trailer, I was immediately reminded of another fun, but challenging racing game, published by Crescent Moon Games, and developed by Snowbolt Interactive, called Slingshot Racing.

Included in the line are: the Canvas Dragon Dummy and SlingShot Dragon, the Erratic Tennis Ball, a soft flying disc constructed with Chew Guard Technology, and the Sonic Stick.

The Note 7 got a multi-core score of 5,231 on the Geekbench 3 test, 2,517 on the 3D Mark Slingshot test, and 40,038 on Quadrant.

Microsoft introduced Skype Qik in October as its new app to take on popular ephemeral messaging apps such as Snapchat, Facebook Slingshot and Instagram Bolt.

«NASA»S OSIRIS - REx spacecraft slingshots past Earth.»

It originally tried to buy it but failed, then it released its own Facebook version in Slingshot which also failed to gain popularity.

March 27, 2018 • The 2018 NPR Slingshot band from Brooklyn visits WFUV for an in - studio performance ahead of the release of its debut album.

The games include Slingshot Island, which lets Phab 2 Pro owners use their device as an augmented reality motion controller to sling projectiles in a faraway fantasy land called Poach.

Perfect for outdoor sports or games, it's easy to see why this powerful model is also regarded as the best hunting slingshot by many raving fans.

Lot # 155 - Chevrolet built 3,255 SSRs in 2003, and only 743 were painted Slingshot Yellow like this one.

Though the game mechanics are different, the speed of the game and curvilinear tracks are definitely reminiscent of Slingshot Racing.

It doesn't give the same slingshot acceleration away from a bend as a mechanical differential and in slower second gear corners, with the traction control as off as it will go, it can struggle to get all of its power down.

I mean, nothing says «It's a party» like giant slingshots with hapless characters falling into increasingly painful situations, right?

Other tests show similar gains, including 3DMark Slingshot Unlimited 3.1 (which is independent of resolution), where we find gains upwards of 40 % over the Google Pixel XL, and over 60 % over the Huawei Mate 9.

Augmented reality is a natural for games, but playing Slingshot Island on the Asus ZenFone AR really drove home how Project Tango can bring games to life.

No surprise there's more than enough power to blend in seamlessly with expressway traffic or slingshot away in a brisk manner from a stoplight.

The air intakes, trimmed with bright metalwork, seem to flare like nostrils as they gulp in the air for the supercharged V - 8, while re-profiled seats grip even better as the car slingshots between bends.

October 6, 2017 • The NPR Slingshot band puts down the synths and picks up the guitars in the video for its second single.

It's not safe for him to wear this human slingshot contraption for more than an hour at the most, however some of us wear our children for hours at a time.

As the town becomes larger, Luffy's stretching abilities become more useful as the player can press the triangle button to latch onto the buildings and slingshot across the town.

An international team of researchers from the University of Rome Tor Vergata and the University of Montreal has reported, in a paper published this week in Nature Communications, the design and synthesis of a nanoscale molecular slingshot made of DNA that is 20,000 times smaller than a human hair.

Suspension tuning gets called out for particular praise: On bumps and undulations, the Optima delivers rebound control that rivals some of the best European sedans available, and the car slingshots through mountain passes with complete confidence and a notable absence of the kind of tire howl expected from a mainstream machine.

The scene - building tactic that the film keeps returning to entails the camera hunkering down in a defined space (a frat - house common room, a bar, a dugout) to observe a large group of characters tripping over each other with rapid - fire quips, cutting between them like a little steel ball careening wildly off ramps and spring - loaded slingshots.

It's the most advanced hunting slingshot in the world.

The second type of levels are space - based, featuring slingshots from places not always bound directly by significant gravity.