Sentences with phrase «tons of water stationed»

The experiments involved are a weirdly diverse bunch, including IceCube, a detector composed of light sensors frozen deep in the ice of Antarctica (SN: 12/27/14, p. 27); Super-Kamiokande, which boasts a tank filled with 50,000 tons of water stationed in a mine in Hida, Japan; and the Helium and Lead Observatory, or HALO — with the motto «astronomically patient» — made of salvaged lead blocks in a mine in Sudbury, Canada.

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The layout works well because there is a very obvious «baby / toddler» splashpad area, a giant treehouse water fort with tons of sprinklers and spray stations, Slap Tail Pond (huge wave pool), a family raft ride and so much more.

A refurbished oil - drilling platform displacing 46,000 tons of water would serve as both the anchor station for the space elevator and a platform for a laser to propel the climbers.

The detector stations will be about 1.5 km apart, each one an 11,000 - liter (3,000 - gallon) tank filled with 12 tons of pure water.

Trees, flowers, clay, fruit, ice, sugar, and chocolate have all appeared as regular protagonists in her work, including a carpet of 10,000 flowers left to wilt on a museum floor; a room whose walls the artist painted in chocolate and then invited viewers to lick its sweet but precarious surfaces; and a thirty - two - ton minimalist grid of ice cubes melting in a nineteenth - century water pumping station in east London.