Sentences with phrase «up about a meter»

In contrast, Lamellibrachia lives at cold seeps — fissures on the 2 - degree - Celsius sea floor that emit methane and other gases for centuries or longer — and inches up about a meter every 100 years, topping out at 3 to 4 meters.

Not exact matches

The material was dispersed up to three meters away — nearly 10 feet — and a closer look at the study by Ars Technica found that about 70 percent of the dispersed material was at the height of a small child's face.

You'd fire up the whatever - kilobaud modem and start the pay - per - minute meter running and read about politics on Salon or whatever.

And eventually something's going to give, and so the coastline that's been jacked up over 500 - ish years or so is going to drop about a meter in about a minute or so,» Chris Goldfinger, a paleo - seismologist at Oregon State University, told CBS News.

I ran off with our things (fully expecting that the driver wouldn't want to hang around), but thankfully Thom was about 400 meters back, running like mad to catch up.

After announcing he was hungover, he offered some pointers about «la curva» in the early stages of the 875 - meter course, and the most dangerous area, the narrowed entrance of the ring, where pile - ups of collapsed people, a «montón,» were even more lethal.

(I had been much too excited about climbing up to 4,000 meters to sleep at all.)

So I suppose, considering what you and someone above said about the meter not catching stuff, my question would be (well two questions) why they follow up with someone who DOES have gestational diabetes by assigning a meter, and then whether, if the person was able to avoid huge insulin peaks by eating well and such that the meter showed them not going over their established (by the doctor that is) threshold, would that mean that they were effectively mitigating the risks?

The Meter has a special Power Up button enabling children to point the arrow to the Moodster that represents how they are feeling, opening doors for calm communication about emotions.

Via Danny Finkelstein's blog, there is an open access version of Populus's message meter poll on Tony Blair's conference speech (i.e. where one turns a dial, or in this case a slider, up or down in response to how positive or negative you feel about a speech) here.

Their model confirmed the existence of a magma plume pumping about 150 milliwatts per square meter (or about 11 square feet) of heat up to the surface, and peaking at as much as 180 milliwatts per square meter in a region where a rift in the crust may exist.

Maximum Depth - Most fish finders can measure depths of up to 100 meters, or about 328 feet.

This watch is water resistant, and you can go down up to 330 feet or 100 meters without worrying about water exposure.

Perhaps smart - meter pedlars will have to sharpen up their powers of persuasion for now, hoping that people will eventually get more excited about making small savings on power.

Scientists are reporting that a wall of water up to nine meters (30 feet) high surged onto Hawaiian shores about 500 years ago.

These spherical arachnids (pictured), most shorter than a millimeter, can trek up to 4 meters in the belly of a gastropod — about 2000 times farther than they can get on their own, according to a new study.

Several skulls of the newly identified species, Daspletosaurus horneri, which lived about 75 million years ago and grew about 9 meters long, have been dug up in northern Montana since the early 1990s.

XENON100 — as well as CRESST, a detector that uses tungsten — is set up in the Gran Sasso laboratory, situated in a tunnel in Italy about 1,400 meters underground.

The radio antennas that will make up HERA are each 14 meters (42 feet) wide, or about the length of a city bus.

Conway will be in charge of scanning anything especially large, with a budget for about 500 specimens up to 2 meters in length and weighing 250 kilograms.

As useful as Webb might be for studying Proxima b, most astronomers are far more optimistic about using a coming generation of ground - based Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs), behemoths with mirrors up to 40 meters wide, scheduled to debut in the mid-2020s.

While SCUBA divers can work down to about 40 meters (120 feet), the Curasub mini-submarine plunges to 309 meters (about 1,000 feet), where it can stay submerged for up to eight hours at normal atmospheric pressure, enabling the passengers to simply step ashore after a dive.

The 54.5 million cubic meter slide traveled those 4.6 km in about 3.5 minutes, with average velocities ranging up to 36 meters per second.

A study published online Oct. 13 in the journal Current Biology describes how researchers used metal microelectrodes in a jumping spider's poppy - seed - sized brain to show that auditory neurons can sense far - field sounds, at distances up to 3 meters, or about 600 spider body lengths.

The new images, at resolutions of about 80 meters per pixel, show a striking shoreline, where smooth plains of nitrogen ice from Pluto's «heart» rub up against water ice mountains several kilometers high.

[TL:] «And the larvae have to climb up the stems because they mine into the young stems on the plant, which are about half a meter to a meter up the stem.

Using GPS markers, they reckoned that the 38 farms had once taken up about 135,577 square meters, not too far off from the Aztecs» estimate of 124,072 square meters.

«It will climb up to about 100 meters above and will continue on its route.»

When he imaged the bottom of the Mississippi River, for example, Nittrouer saw formations up to 10 meters (33 feet) tall and spaced about 200 to 300 meters (656 to 984 feet) apart.

To study the movement of vent products, the researchers set up sediment traps and current meters near the hydrothermal vents along the East Pacific Rise, an ocean ridge located about 800 kilometers off the southern coast of Mexico and a mile and a half below sea level.

For comparison, the tsunami that devastated Japan's northeast coast in 2011 had a maximum run up of about 40 meters.

You get some radioactive material going up to about 500 meters up into the air.»

Musser: Right and even our best microscope or, in a sense, microscope, is the Large Hadron Collider — the one being built or one about to start up, really, now in Switzerland — and it can penetrate to, I think it is 10 - 19 to -20 meters; in effect it's a microscope down to those distances; and the plank scale, the scale at which strings seem to operate these other types of entities is another 1015 times smaller; it is 10 - 35 meters.

But by the time of T. rex's heyday, about 68 million years ago, the ferocious beast was up to 12 meters long, as long as a truck trailer.

The concept was straightforward — design and build a robot that could pick up inflatable game pieces (triangles, circles and squares each about a meter in the diameter) and hang them on pegs protruding from walls on either side of the 8.2 - by 16.4 - meter playing floor.

But the first tyrannosaurs in the fossil record after this gap, dated to about 80 million years, were already very large, up to 9 meters long.

During winter, each pump would be capable of building an additional layer of sea ice up to 1 meter thick over an area of about 100,000 square meters, or about the size of 15 soccer fields, the researchers estimate in the January issue of Earth's Future.

Then, about 3600 years ago, farmers started climbing higher and higher up on the plateau, reaching as far as 3400 meters above sea level.

A car standing up to 7.6 meters back speeds up and covers the extra distance in about the same time it takes the tailgating car, with both crossing the intersection at the same time.

The scientists detailed their best effort to come up with estimates of carbon cycling in three subsets of coastal areas: those dominated by river outlets, others consisting of filtering estuaries and bays, and the continental shelf — any coastal water reaching a depth of about 200 meters or fewer.

«Our entire experimental setup takes up about two square meters of our optical table surface.

They had depths of up to 243 meters (about 800 feet) and were drilled using bits attached to bamboo poles.

«In our paper we demonstrate that wheat and barley populations can be grown at a density of about 900 plants per square meter, thus in combination with LED light systems, this presents an exciting opportunity to scale up the operation for industry use.»

In the image of the Statue of Liberty, her head is about 3 meters across, so her head should take up about 3 pixels by 3 pixels in the image (see this page for other fun Statue of Liberty facts).

revealed... boulders measuring up to tens of meters, and outlines of near - circular objects about which little is clearly understood.»

To speed up the process, heat the water (no hotter than 100 ° F) and / or add some previously made CS to bring the initial meter reading up to about 004.

If you used a challenging enough weight, what you'll find is that your heart rate is probably up to about 80 - 90 % of your recommended max, and you are huffing and puffing like you just ran a 100 - meter sprint (which by the way, sprinting kicks the crap out of jogging any day if you want the easiest way to lose the flab).

But before Weggemann suits up for her final two races (the 200 - meter individual and the 4 × 100 - meter relay) at Rio's 2016 Paralympic Games, the Head & Shoulders sponsored athlete chatted with Daily Burn about her return to the pool post-accident, the lessons she's learned in the water and the best part of her journey to the Paralympics.

Brian brings up a great point: What is the best way to represent yourself on a dating site in a way that is both honest about who you are, and yet doesn't set off the creep - o - meters?

The city had hoped to have all households hooked up by now, but there are about 750 customers who still do nt have a water meter.