Sentences with phrase «thin high air»

Evidence has also been gathered of the existence of a twilight, which would indicate the presence of a thin high air more rarefied than prevails on our highest mountain peaks.

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But as you fly higher, the air becomes thinner, so the plane must travel faster to maintain lift.

The stocks are not high because of production — they are up because money is being created out of thin air to keep them from falling down.

High in the Peruvian mountains, where the Inca once built beautiful empires and the air gets thin with a slight chill, a mystically marvelous root vegetable grows called maca, which has been cultivated for thousands of years.

The mile - high, flaky creation is taller and wider than most, and every paper - thin sheet, from the dark, carmely exterior to the buttery puffs of air within, is visible from counter-level view.

Quinoa is able to survive high altitudes, thin and cold air, hot sun, salty or sandy soil, little rainfall, and sub-freezing temperatures.

The main reason behind these high - scoring games and large totals is the thin air in the mile - high city.

While the experts debate how an athlete can get ready for the sky - high Mexico City Olympics, Marathoner Buddy Edelen is finding out for himself in the thin, chill air of Colorado

The Rockies home ballpark is famous for being the most hitter - friendly stadium in baseball, and the main reason for these high - scoring games and lofty totals is the thin air in Denver.

The Colorado Rockies ballpark is famous for being the most hitter - friendly stadium in baseball, and the main reason for these high - scoring games and lofty totals is the thin air in Denver.

The funny thing about football is, when a high - tension game is drawing to a close, with two sides getting more desperate with each passing second for a victory, all the discipline and professionalism suddenly vanishes into thin air and all that matters is to put that ball into back of the net.

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.

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.

Clouds develop in this high layer of the atmosphere only when the air temperature drops below — 117 degrees Fahrenheit, the threshold for water vapor to condense in the stratosphere's thin, parched air.

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

At high altitudes, the body adapts to the thin air by generating additional red blood cells, which grab more oxygen from the air in the lungs.

And as for jumping ropes, «an ideal rope is short, thin, and smooth,» Aristoff says, and if your goal is to set a speed record, «jumping rope at high altitude, where the air is less dense, could be advantageous.»

To isolate the effects of oxygen concentration, researchers from the University of Colorado compared the rate of SIDS in infants living at high altitudes, where the air is thin, to those living closer to sea level.

A thin, short - lived contrail indicates low - humidity air at high altitude, a sign of fair weather, whereas a thick, long - lasting contrail reflects humid air at high altitudes and can be an early indicator of a storm.

Some aircraft with lower temperature tolerances will far worse than others, and certain airports — those with shorter runways, in hotter parts of the world or at higher elevations, where the air is already thinner — will suffer more.

The study also shows that the thin air at higher altitudes helps birds fly faster, and that the faster a bird rises upward in the air, the slower they move forward.

The proteins from high - altitude pikas appear to be very efficient at this conversion, which helps explain how they thrive high up where the air is thin.

I hope to fill this void, apply a scientific eye, and impart credence to therapeutic nutrition and holistic medicine by substantiating all my claims with high quality scientific data — instead of pulling statements out of thin air, which sadly is commonplace with headline - grabbing, yet substantive discussion - lacking online articles.

Although the air will be thinner at higher altitudes, it is more pure.

High altitude rosehip seeds are similar, with thinner air and soil forcing the plant to create more nutrients for its own survival, to ward off wolves and bears.

As Lucy loses more of herself, ascending to a higher existence, our reasons to care for her vanish into thin air.

Not only has Telluride either world - or U.S. - premiered eight of the past nine Oscar best picture winners (including both «Moonlight» and «La La Land» last year, though technically, only one of those counts), but the ratio of genuine discoveries to cinematic disappointments is impossibly high — an appropriate enough designation for a mountain town where the air is thin and one can saunter in off the street and buy legalized recreational marijuana.

The best movies that come out of Sundance are the ones that, on second viewing, maintain the exhilarating high you had when you first saw them high atop the thin rocky mountain air of the resort town.

We set off up Pikes Peak, and engine performance wanes as we climb higher and higher, the thin air allowing for only 6.8 psi of boost compared of the GTS» usual 17.4 psi.

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The NISMO RC's 100 % electric drivetrain needs no oxygen, so it can maintain peak performance levels even at high altitudes where thin air really degrades the effectiveness of combustion engines.

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This event marks the first appearance by the GT - spec Corvettes in the dry heat and thin air of the high desert near Salt Lake City.

To save weight, the engine uses carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) for components like the oil tank and air intake system, titanium for its connecting rods, a high - strength, lightweight steel for the crankshaft, and a thin - walled alloy steel / nickel exhaust system.

There are some steep climbs there, and as you get higher and the air gets thinner, you might expect the turbocharger to struggle a little.

The formula looks the same — big thin - spoke wheels that showcase large cross-drilled high performance brakes, an aggressive front bumper with an upside down V shaped air intake, quad exhausts at the rear, wider wheel arches compared to the regular 4, and a small hump on the hood.

The iPad Air is thinner and lighter, has a higher resolution display and offers a much larger selection of apps.

The iPad Air is $ 50 more, but it features a thinner design, a higher resolution display and access to Apple's massive apps library.

The Galaxy Tab S2 follows on from last year's Tab S in being a high - resolution tablet, but while Samsung manages to put in a similar - sized 9.7 - inch AMOLED display to the iPad Air 2 with a 2048x1536 resolution, along with an eight - inch variant, Samsung has also made it 5.6 mm thick, thinner than the Air 2 by half a millimeter.

Is the air thin up there on your high horse?

Unlike public sector central bank money creation which creates high powered money out of thin air and does not produce additional debt, private sector money creation involves the simultaneous creation of offsetting debt.

Instead, when Pollock dripped thinned paint from a stick or a brush, moving his wrist and arm fast or slow, wide or contracted, high or low in the air above a canvas, an almost infinitely variable range of linear marks fell to the canvas below.

Unlike our circulatory systems which adapt to thinner air at higher altitudes, the ability to developmentally adapt to higher concentrations of CO2 just isn't there.

Many retreats began with an increase in thinning rates near the front in the summer of 2003, a year of record high coastal - air and sea - surface temperatures.

The high, thin cirrus clouds in the Earth's atmosphere act in a way similar to clear air because they are highly transparent to shortwave radiation (their cloud albedo forcing is small), but they readily absorb the outgoing longwave radiation.

Hello all, well this all is getting very dire, My vegetable garden is rotting in the ground, to much rain and scoring heat,, I noticed most of my trees on my 5 acre farm are browning at the top and the leaves are thinning on all of them and around 10 of them are completely dead... We live here in the carpet capital of the world and seems to me that most don't see or don't care about the sky or the trees or the air they breathe... Just this week We had to completely drain our grand kids pool and start over, with all this rain it turned green and no amount of algae killer would clear it up, The PH was insanely high...... It's the small things in life that make what's left of life on this planet........

Then higher air temperatures set up the process of so - called dynamic thinning.

Both low altitude bases are hot tropical, both peaks due to their high, thin air altitudes (19,000 ft) are perpetually no higher than - 3 F, so in F about 35 degrees below freezing, day in day out.

The Nature study suggests that global warming will mix growing amounts of higher, drier air with ocean clouds over the course of the century, thinning out the clouds and reducing their cooling effect.

As this sinking air mass weighs on the marine layer, the latter compresses into a thin layer with a relatively high concentration of water vapor.