Sentences with phrase «thin air either»

It is really more of a not - quite - above - Earth's - atmosphere station, since it, like the shuttles once did, travels within the thin air of the ionosphere.

The researchers kept the animals in chronically thin air that's similar to the oxygen levels people would experience at the peak of Mont Blanc, the tallest mountain in the Alps, which soars nearly 5000 meters above sea level.

Dangling from the balloon was a payload that extended flat plates out into the thin air and exposed tens of millions of spores — far more than the estimated 56,000 that rode on the surface of the Curiosity rover to Mars.

A new material can suck drinking water out of thin air, no power required.

Transient electronics would also be valuable to the military, enabling devices carrying them to collect sensitive information, then disappear into thin air (or water, as the case may be).

After all, installing giant nets along hillsides and mountaintops to catch water out of thin air sounds more like folly than science.

Its goal: to generate energy from thin air.

Other groups have already shown that it is possible to grab ammonia cleanly out of thin air.

The concentration of atoms in an intergalactic nebula is fantastically low even compared with the thin air of Mars, but sound can exist there too, provided something can spark a big enough acoustic wave.

13,200 feet Groups living in mountain ranges at high elevations have evolved to survive the thin air there.

THEY are both breathtaking, in quite different ways: the thin air 4200 metres up, and the majestically rugged, alien landscape at my feet.

A new laser system renders full - color 3 - D images in thin air, researchers report in the Jan. 25 Nature.

But I'll have to go up to the really high altitudes alone because my balloon's volume provides enough buoyancy to lift only me and a lightweight life - support system through that thin air.

SCI - FI GRAPHICS GET REAL A new laser system renders 3 - D images in thin air, and could pave the way for futuristic displays akin to the iconic Princess Leia scene in Star Wars.

Unlike commercial planes, which can use the lower atmosphere's oxygen to give their fuel systems a boost, suborbital rocket planes use liquid oxygen tanks to compensate for the thin air and get the thrust they need.

These assets do not just appear out of thin air.»

While these are laudable causes, the MTA isn't going to be able to find the money out of thin air.

«Under his watch as Minister of Works, 300 Billion Naira disappeared into thin air.

They WISH the Republicans would split the party vote by creating a third party out of thin air.

The premise of the idea is this: Although the Treasury can't just create money out of thin air to pay its bills, there is a technicality in the law that says the Treasury has special discretion to create platinum coins of any denomination, and the thinking is that Tim Geithner could make the coin and walk it over to the Federal Reserve and deposit it in the Treasury's bank account.

The mostly empty carriages can still be seen carrying thin air across the Thames on windless days, while at weekends, confused tourists queue up to admire the airborne views of junk yards and refuse disposal centres on the northern side.

Mysteriously, they will, suddenly after every elections, disappear with the party's cash and vanish into thin air.

The money doesn't come out of thin air and we're already facing higher taxes to fund the Paid Family Leave bs Democrats are trying to ram down our throats.

These principles aren't plucked out of thin air.

Clegg told Radio 4's Today programme: «The Conservative party have been tearing themselves [apart] on Europe so they have now plucked out of thin air an arbitrary date, 2017, when a referendum would take place... on the back of what I predict will be a largely synthetic renegotiation of the terms of Britain's membership that won't satisfy their backbenchers.

You can't just «magic» two million jobs out of thin air.

«You can't create a cluster out of thin air.

However, in a matter of 12 months, the Joy and hope of the Ghanaian people has dissipated into thin air.

If not two thirds, why not 75 %, 60 % or any other number that Harry Potter's wand might conjure out of thin air?»

They can easily pull up the 99 % number from thin air instead of going through the shenanigans to actually make sure 99 % of the ballots in the box are for the dictator.

At the debate on the issue I attended, most of the panellists and delegates were almost entirely dismissive of the problem of antisemitism, with several suggesting that it didn't even exist in any real way within the movement and others suggesting the whole issue had been fabricated out of thin air by Labour MPs and the right wing press.

To term the «creation» of jobs out of thin air by spending tax revenues on wages (often paid to economic migrants creating new load on pubic services) an «investment» is an economic deceit.

Where???? It doesn't come out of thin air you know.

and accusing someone, either me or Rob Astorino, of «manufacturing an attack out of thin air.»

UPDATE: AQE's Billy Easton called to respond: «These scenarios are not plucked from thin air, plucked from the front pages of newspapers all across the state.

You throw numbers around you pull out of thin air and like Goebbels think of I keep lying enough some dumb fool will be won over.

But suddenly — to the shock and dismay of everyone I've spoken to — it has all vanished into thin air.

They in turn pay in... Money spirals out of thin air.

CRM (CONSTITUENCY Relationship Management) was not conceived out of thin air using progressive organizing principles.

Sarkozy can keep trying to fight his adversary by attacking him from different angles, but Hollande will keep vanishing into thin air.

When you go into a commercial bank and take out a loan, the money is created out of thin air: «Ping!»

Economists and politicians alike feel uncomfortable talking about money being created out of thin air, even though it happens every day when private banks create loans.

Where, only a few years ago, folk could stroll to their local club and see British Lions mixing it with the local plumber, they are now expected to watch foreigners play for their regional «club» (conjured out of thin air) on TV instead.

Because extremism and bigotry are rarely cooked from thin air.

I'm not just pulling that from thin air.

Our moms may not have had the advantage of numerous scientific sleep studies to rely on, but they weren't just making up facts out of thin air when they insisted that kids need their sleep.

A household with children seems to create paper clutter out of thin air.

Your baby will only become more upset if she thinks you disappeared into thin air.

Our sexual view of breasts did not just evolve from thin air — it evolved through a constant presence of sexual images of breasts in our culture.

Marden Wagner, then at the WHO, pulled the 15 % number out of thin air.