Sentences with phrase «system objects like»

Not exact matches

Normally many of the object - oriented programming languages clean up for you because they notice when you are running low on memory and haven't used a bit of code in a while, but in the case of these terascale systems, it would be like having a kitchen the size of a football field, so by the time you ran out of room, it would take weeks to clean it up.

The interfaces are becoming incredibly user - friendly, and when it comes to something like 3 - D printing systems, it's plug - and - play — if you can point a mouse and click, you can print objects.

All religions are cults (definition alert: a cult is; «a system of religious veneration and devotion directed toward a particular figure or object») does this definition sound like your religion?

Kraus says that eternal objects «form the patterns structuring concrete fact» and «the forms structuring the togetherness of data into a datum of experience — eternal objects in Whitehead's language — are given for all times in ordered, intelligible, interrelated sets like mathematical systems» (ME 30).

Under Mourinho, he's taken it upon himself to cut through the inefficiencies and redundancies of his manager's system like an object of blunt trauma.

A transitional object like a soft small blanket, especially one that has mom's smell on it will help them to regulate their nervous system, will help them to fall asleep at night, and will help them to separate from you when you can't be there.

The system, called WatchStander, uses radar mounted on either side of a ship to scan the surrounding water for small objects that look like they are moving to intercept.

It gives further evidence of how Titan, despite its location in orbit around a gas giant in the outer Solar System, is one of the most Earth - like objects ever studied.

But very few single - star solar systems would be able to cast out a waterless object like an asteroid, a new study suggests.

Since the 1950s astronomers have solved this problem using «kinematic distances,» calculations that treat objects in the Milky Way a bit like pieces of flotsam spiraling into a whirlpool; because things tend to move faster as they approach the center, measuring how fast an object is moving toward or away from us yields an estimate of its distance from the galactic center — and thus from our solar system.

A dense atmosphere like Earth's is relatively rare in our solar system because an object has to be sufficiently massive to have enough gravity to hold onto it.

Astronomers chalked up Ceres's oddities to its being a relic from an early, formative epoch of our solar system, when planets coalesced from many Ceres - like objects caroming around the sun.

So even though the stick does not look like a beak — maybe not even to the chick — this strange object is more effective than a real beak at activating the bird's beak - detection system.

Like the three other big outer - solar - system objects discovered in the past three years — including 560 - mile - wide Varuna, found in 2000 — Quaoar resides in the Kuiper belt, a wide swath of asteroids located past Neptune.

Before this system is road ready, it will also have to work better in daylight and with objects in motion, like a bouncing ball or running child.

The ex-ninth planet travels in a steeply inclined orbit, rising above and diving below the solar plane — a clear indication that it's merely an escapee from the vast belt of comet - like objects that circle the solar system.

«With cheap, fast spacecraft,» says Guillochon, «we could send one out to every asteroid in the asteroid belt or to every Pluto - like object in the outer solar system.

«It's fascinating that the first interstellar object discovered looks so much like a tiny world from our own home system.

Astronomers who recently discovered the so - called 10th planet have also found what may be the weirdest object in the solar system: a Pluto - size orbiter shaped like a squashed football.

Based on preliminary work on assistive technologies done by the Lincoln Centre for Autonomous Systems, the team plans to use colour and depth sensor technology inside new smartphones and tablets, like the recent Project Tango by Google, to enable 3D mapping and localisation, navigation and object recognition.

When bats echolocate, they emit rapid - fire, high - frequency clicks (usually out of range of human hearing), then swivel their ears like radar dishes to catch the echoes, a system sensitive enough to detect objects as thin as a human hair and tiny, night - flying insects.

«With systems like this that make it easier to customize objects to meet your specific needs, we hope to be paving the way to a new age of personal manufacturing and DIY design.»

The analogy I like is that these objects in the outer solar system are the blood splattered on the wall after some horrendous murder.

Researchers who model the early history of the solar system would like to know Phoebe's exact birthplace, but that's unlikely, Dalton notes: The outer planets migrated during that era and quickly scattered Kuiper Belt objects into new orbits.

Object: Mercury - like planets Composition: Large, iron - rich cores Position in solar system: Closest to their stars

The fastest pulsars are in binary systems with another object, like a star or a white dwarf.

Meanwhile, new technologies allow engineers to dream beyond designing glorified mechanical arms: So - called «swarm bots» work together like army ants to move relatively heavy objects; a fire hose — cum - snake robot can slither across the floor before putting out a blaze; and Nissan is developing an avoidance system to prevent car crashes based on bees — which use their compound eyes to see nearly all the way around themselves while buzzing about, changing direction when they sense something in their path.

For planetary scientists like Jackson, being able to observe objects like these may yield important clues about how planet formation works in other star systems.

The system measures traits like a child's ability to follow an object as it passes in front of the eyes, as well as noting certain mannerisms or postures that are classified as being early signs of a possible ASD.

It could be many weeks before scientists understand what the lander data tell them about the formation and composition of 67P, which, like all comets, is a relatively pristine object that dates to the early days of the solar system.

It is likely that the object lacks water or ice and has been reddened by the impact of cosmic rays over millions of years, like the objects in the outer solar system.

Any object that strayed too close to the solar furnace would vaporize over the lifetime of the solar system, like a marshmallow held too close to a campfire.

Anthropologists believe that such object - specific counting, in which words like «half - dozen» and «six» denote the same quantity but refer to different objects, preceded abstract counting systems, in which any number can describe any object.

That technique most readily picks up Jupiter - size planets in fast, Mercury - like orbits, objects unlike anything in our solar system.

Jupiter and Neptune may have collected their Trojans about 3.8 billion years ago, at a time when the orbits of these planets were shifting and their gravity was flinging vast numbers of comet - like objects around the solar system (see The solar system, but not as we know it).

Meanwhile, Ben - Ary ponders the philosophical implications of the project: «In the future, will we treat these systems like pets or objects?

It did not look like a comet either, appearing under telescopic scrutiny to be shaped like a half - kilometer - long needle — a form unknown among natural solar system objects but often favored by starships in science fiction.

Visually, Titan is the object in the solar system most like Earth.

These doughnut - shaped objects might even explain the formation of other terrestrial planets like Mars, Venus, and many more outside our solar system.

«Currently objects in these outer regions are frozen in our own solar system, like Europa and Enceladus — moons orbiting Jupiter and Saturn.»

The large satellites of Uranus show unique geologic features we'd like to understand (such as the tortured - looking surface of Miranda, a small moon with the tallest cliff in the Solar System), while Neptune's satellite Triton is thought to be a captured Kuiper Belt object, similar to Pluto, potentially harboring an ocean under its icy surface.

Hasegawa: If we could travel back to 4.6 billion years ago and see our solar system at the age of a million years, we would see a similar object like this.

The additional classification as a plutoid makes clear where in the solar system Pluto and other objects like it reside.

The main focus of my thesis is to explore the outer solar system beyond Neptune to find more objects on orbits like Sedna and what they can tell us about the formation and evolution of the solar system.

In the 1700s, British astronomer Edmund Halley proved comets were objects that moved in a predictable way and had orbits just like the rest of the objects in the solar system.

When astronomers sent Rosetta to the ancient icy object, the spacecraft's mission was to understand the comet's composition so scientists could, ultimately, use it as a time capsule to see what the early solar system looked like.

The infrared telescope will observe Mars and the giant planets, dwarf planets like Pluto and Eris, and even the small bodies in our solar system: asteroids, comets, and Kuiper Belt objects.

While the presence of the calcium - carbonate is still in question, the paper shows strong evidence that the accreted material is almost certainly coming from the outer layers of a planet - like object and that white dwarf stars hold promise in informing on the structure of planets outside of the Solar system.

Laughlin also shared how the folks at Keck Observatory are helping search for new objects like Planet 9 in the dim outer realms of our own solar system.

Those capabilities allow SST to see more, and smaller, objects than existing systems, like the network of optical telescopes known as the Ground - based Electro - Optical Deep Space Surveillance (GEODSS).