Sentences with phrase «speed over the waves»

You can strain against the wind in a catamaran or speed over the waves on a jet ski.

Not exact matches

He bought the factory buildings for $ 190,000 and expects to spend two million dollars over the next year in getting the factory up - to - speed and the first wave of 2,000 bikes into stores.

I explained they were harmless, and essentially highly compressed air slipping over a structure moving at greater than the speed of sound... or an explosive wave expansion that moves out and then rebounds in... and so, the compressed waves move into our area from the weapons test area, and shake the glass windows, and we hear the sonic «sound» (or the wave's double sound) and the vibrational aspect of the glass within the window.

Imagine a 100 mile straight highway contained in two cash - strapped regions that had a sine wave border with a one - mile wavelength, with the highway as the X axis, so that both regions» police would be in constant dispute over who collects speeding tickets.

This leaves The Bronx as the only borough without an Apple Store, and the letter states that opening one in The Bronx would complete the company's footprint in New York City and bring it up to speed with the massive wave of development that has taken place in the borough over the past few years.

Emitted in a distant galaxy when multicellular life was just beginning to populate Earth, the waves traveled at the speed of light for more than a billion years to at last wash over our planet last September, taking just seven milliseconds to traverse the distance between LIGO's twin listening stations in Louisiana and Washington State.

Things can be rough on the open ocean — and they appear to be getting rougher, with increased average air speed, wave height, and frequency of strong winds and large waves over the past two decades.

More recently, seamen and engineers alike have dismissed them as easily explainable: If you know the speed and direction of the wind, if you know the distance over which it has been blowing and the depth of the water, you can predict the height, length, speed, and even the frequency of any wave.

In today's «internet of things,» devices connect primarily over short ranges at high speeds, an environment in which surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices have shown promise for years, resulting in the shrinking size of your smartphone.

D - wave machines are a long way from showing the exponential speed increase over classical computers that their advocates hope to see.

It moves erratically, sometimes crossing over the shock wave into interstellar space, which gives it a speed boost.

«This phenomenon is intriguing because the longer a sound wave lives, the more useful it can be for things such as precision sensors — or for use with quantum computers, systems that can achieve exponential speeds over your desktop computer for certain types of calculations.»

Post 2000rpm, you are greeted by a wave of torque which thanks to the eight - speed gearbox is well spread out over the range.

For the adventurous, there are high - speed jet ski safaris to tropical islands, skydiving from 14,000 ft over coral reefs, or testing your skills on Fiji's most iconic wave, the world - famous Cloudbreak.

The right hand break to the south west of the island is known as «Playgili» and is far from a playground as the wave jacks up for a speed run over the jagged coral heads and rocks providing solid barreling sections.

Over the duration of a surf session the knock on effect is not being able to paddle into position or build up enough speed to catch a wave — ultimately repeating the experience of the wave lifting up the back of the board and pearling once again.

Next speed boat trips to G - Land from Kuta depart May 16th, 19th & 20th Thinking of getting over to Joyo's G - Land surf camp for some perfect waves this season?

Price # 8.39 / $ 9.99 Description: Riptide GP: Renegade drops players into a futuristic world of illicit hydro jet racing, where armored riders kick out death - defying stunts over massive waterfalls, outrun cops, and boost at breakneck speeds across surging waves.

Experience a future of illicit hydrojet racing, where armored riders kick out death - defying stunts over massive waterfalls, dodge cops through public waterways, and boost at breakneck speeds across surging waves.

Fleshing out the package is solid online play, a wave - based Abyss mode, which has the player leveling up their character over time, a score attack mode, and a new mode called Speed Star.

The height of waves is in part determined by surface wind speed, as well as the fetch (distance over open water that the wind can travel) and the duration of a wind event.

Over the ocean this includes: sea surface slope and surface current, significant wave height, wind speed and sea level from radar altimetry at about 10 km resolution: sea surface temperature under cloud free conditions from the infrared radiometer at about 300 m resolution; chlorophyll a and phytoplankton from the imaging spectrometer under cloud free conditions at about 300 m resolution.

Concerning the waves from the droplet, given that the droplet moves slowly compared to the speed of sound, the weight of the droplet (i.e. its dynamic presence) should be spread over a fairly large area.

Zhao studied the internal waves by tracking them via the very slight bump the waves create on the sea surface (which he measured using NASA's record of Earth - observing satellite data — once again proving the program's utility), and looked at how their speeds changed over time.

Ocean overturning is a diurnal event, and since the average wind speed over the oceans is little more than BF4, there must be vast swathes of the oceans where the conditions for long periods are BF2 or less when there would be very little ocean / top surface mixing by wind waves or swell.