Sentences with phrase «such feats of engineering»

But von Däniken is amazed at the very suggestion that primitive people could accomplish such feats of engineering.

Similar to other ancient Inca ruins in Peru (like Machu Picchu, Huchuy Cusco, Moray, and others), there is an other - worldly feeling to Maras salt mines — such a feat of engineering and creativity must have been inspired by something bigger than we mere humans.

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But like many feats of engineering, reducing the paperclip to such a simple design was deceptively tricky.

In a dramatic feat of engineering prowess, the private spaceflight company SpaceX successfully landed a reusable Falcon 9 rocket booster yesterday — the second such landing for the company, and the first successful touchdown on a ship.

Steve Justice, TTSA's aerospace division director and former Lockheed Martin engineer who worked on advanced top secret aircraft for the latter company's storied «Skunk Works» division, speculates that in both cases such incredible feats of flight could be due to the objects possessing some sort of warp drive.

To help attempt such a feat, scientists and engineers must solve hundreds of questions and issues.

This aspect of such feats of mechanical engineering requires creativity, and the results can be considered art in and of themselves.

This made construction of this incredible structure deeply mysterious to the Spanish who didn't see the Inca capable of such engineering feats.

His room paintings, such as the gold filigree work that he made for the Turner Prize in 2009 or the dizzying force lines — a graphic technique used in engineering — visible in the stairwell of Modern 2 in Edinburgh, are amazing feats of painstaking complexity.

«We believe it has not been possible until now to attach a survey quality laser scanner on a drone that can fly for such a long time, so this is a feat of engineering which will allow us to collect data of huge significance over the vast Amazon,» said Dr. Salman Khan from the University of Exeter.

Is democracy increasingly becoming such a confidence trick, merely a feat of social engineering that a good combination of surveillance and data extraction can profoundly affect?