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  • The Ousters had been the single external threat to the Hegemony for the four centuries since the forebears of the barbarian hordes had left Sol System in their crude fleet of leaking O'Neill cities, tumbling asteroids, and experimental comet farm clusters.†   (source)
  • The Deliverator's car has enough potential energy packed into its batteries to fire a pound of bacon into the Asteroid Belt.†   (source)
  • Asteroids.†   (source)
  • To offer another analogy, this is like dispatching a crew of meteor watchers to Crater National Park because a huge asteroid struck there two million years ago.†   (source)
  • And that asteroid field?†   (source)
  • The last mass extinction happened about 65 million years ago, when an asteroid probably collided with our planet, killing all the dinosaurs and about half of the marine animals.†   (source)
  • The Al-Hajarul Aswad, a great black rock entombed within the walls of the Kaaba, is thought to be an asteroid.†   (source)
  • Pac-Man, Millipede, and Asteroids.†   (source)
  • Could some of them have survived the onslaught of asteroids, fires, raiders, and disease?†   (source)
  • A makeweight flying to the void Supplemental asteroid Or compensatory spark Shoots across the neutral dark.†   (source)
  • Since Boom started quite a few young cobbers have gone out to Asteroids.†   (source)
  • A carbonaceous asteroid with a twenty-five megaton airburst yield like Tunguska was unlikely to occur over anything important.†   (source)
  • New games had been added, replacing the classic pinball machines and Pac-Man and Asteroids.†   (source)
  • Spaceland had started several generations back with a flat plate of asteroid rock half a mile diameter.†   (source)
  • I thought Command School was in the asteroids somewhere.   (source)
    asteroids = millions of large rocks that move around the sun mostly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter
  • We'll have the asteroid belt, but they'll have Earth, and you run out of raisins and celery kind of fast out there, without Earth.   (source)
    asteroid = millions of large rocks that move around the sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter
  • It had just brought a vast load of drawn steel processed by a factory ship that was taking apart minor planets in the asteroid belt.   (source)
  • Sometimes Ender had only a single starship and eight fighters; once the enemy dodged through an asteroid belt; sometimes the enemy left stationary traps, large installations that blew up if Ender brought one of his squadrons too close, often crippling or destroying some of Ender's ships.   (source)
  • There are usually a few changes on the way from gathering nuts and seeds to harvesting asteroids and putting permanent research stations on the moons of Saturn.   (source)
    asteroids = rocks that move around the sun, are smaller than a planet, and larger than a meter in diameter
  • The things were found about three centuries ago living on asteroids around Aldebaran.†   (source)
  • Don't, please, go into the whole 'there's no such thing as asteroids.'†   (source)
  • Can't we just call those carbon asteroids?†   (source)
  • And to make matters better, the "good" part of the asteroids paid for the production.†   (source)
  • According to my experts, most of this stuff is to be found in asteroids.†   (source)
  • So we're heating up other asteroids to work on later.†   (source)
  • Aten asteroids were mostly inside Earth's, but entered Earth's orbit or crossed it.†   (source)
  • I want to find better asteroids to melt and I think I can do that better Earth side.†   (source)
  • The way that asteroids and comets are detected has to do with the way that stars are viewed.†   (source)
  • Most of what you define as asteroids probably started in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.†   (source)
  • And most asteroids are, sorry, Dr. Bell, rock.†   (source)
  • I thought the purpose of my VLA was to melt asteroids?†   (source)
  • "When Apollo mines most asteroids, there is, unfortunately, a good hit left over," Kelly said.†   (source)
  • I thought you wanted to heat up asteroids?†   (source)
  • Which asteroids are you thinking of mining?†   (source)
  • So they slow the rotation of big asteroids with really big and many tugs.†   (source)
  • But most asteroids aren't one thing or another.†   (source)
  • Most of what we mine is from asteroids that have crashed into the Earth.†   (source)
  • No EPA telling me I can't melt asteroids because it changes the space environment.†   (source)
  • And they'd raised the subject of the metals Tyler's company was starting to extract from asteroids.†   (source)
  • They looked as if they were suckled on asteroids.†   (source)
  • For which there are a lot of asteroids," Tyler said.†   (source)
  • There were "Aten" asteroids that crossed the orbits of Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.†   (source)
  • which are for scientific definitions just really big asteroids.†   (source)
  • Apollo has designated three asteroids so far.†   (source)
  • There was no reference to Venus, Jupiter, Mercury, the asteroids, the satellites.†   (source)
  • There was no hint that the stoic man in the brown leisure suit was an abusive alcoholic, that the smiling woman in the floral pantsuit was bipolar, or that the young boy in the faded Asteroids T-shirt would one day create an entirely new universe.†   (source)
  • PacMan, Asteroids, Ms.†   (source)
  • You can use the renewable power of our beautiful Sun to turn dangerous asteroids into useful materials.†   (source)
  • He found he could move all the way in to icons of other asteroids, and even one comet receiving the tender attentions of the SAPL.†   (source)
  • Some way we can figure out what these asteroids are so were not trying to figure out what a rock is from the ground?†   (source)
  • Asteroids and comets are closer than stars and if they are moving across your angle of view they create such a streak.†   (source)
  • It was bigger than the Glatun heavy ore freighters that had been plying their trade since Tyler started seriously mining asteroids.†   (source)
  • Doing so, including BDA, VSA and VDA production, had used up about half the "trash" portion of the Near Earth Asteroids.†   (source)
  • You scanned for the big asteroids.†   (source)
  • How do the Glenn mine asteroids?†   (source)
  • They had databases of all the really enormous amounts of stuff, comets, asteroids, bits, pieces, minor moons, rocks and just general debris, that filled the system.†   (source)
  • So you have dust-covered rocks of varying size which then ground together, producing more dust and fusing together into the asteroids we're looking at.†   (source)
  • I want to melt asteroids.†   (source)
  • Carbonaceous asteroids?†   (source)
  • We can mine asteroids.†   (source)
  • Asteroids one ,oh one.†   (source)
  • An asteroid could have hit the planet and wiped out all life, and Annabeth wouldn't have cared.†   (source)
  • Most of it went toward the cost of my rig and buying my own asteroid.†   (source)
  • When it breaks through the atmosphere, the lower half of the asteroid begins to glow.†   (source)
  • Basic idea is boost a bunch of mirrors, focus them on an asteroid, melt it and pull off the metals.†   (source)
  • Do we know where the poor asteroid is going?†   (source)
  • You know, pulling useable metals off of an asteroid.†   (source)
  • Can you make some{libbers to pre-separate the carbon from a carbonaceous asteroid?†   (source)
  • We're actually going to hook the nukes to another asteroid and crash it into the Troy.†   (source)
  • Dr. Chu and Dr. Foster were still perfectly content to watch an asteroid being slowly peeled.†   (source)
  • On the screen the six-hundred-meter asteroid impacted the side of the massive metal ball.†   (source)
  • I mean the asteroid is gone but that's no reason to stop the test.†   (source)
  • "Asteroid 33342 1998 WT," Dr. Bryan Foster said.†   (source)
  • Not to mention find an asteroid that's not just a ball of sand.†   (source)
  • And it wasn't ever supposed to stay in the asteroid belt.†   (source)
  • The material that had been snaking off of the asteroid was now wrapping onto it.†   (source)
  • What is called a 'Potentially Hazardous Asteroid.'†   (source)
  • When it's melted, the ice in the middle boils into gas and the asteroid blows up like a balloon.†   (source)
  • That will cause the asteroid to swell up like a balloon.†   (source)
  • Most of what you define as asteroids probably started in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.†   (source)
  • The Transvaal formations are from a nickel iron asteroid, as are the Sudbury complexes.†   (source)
  • So you get a nickel iron asteroid with a nice icy center.†   (source)
  • You're drilling into the interior of a six-kilometer diameter asteroid?†   (source)
  • "Troy is that asteroid you renamed," the general said.†   (source)
  • What I want is a small M-class asteroid.†   (source)
  • Especially since asteroid 6178 1986 DA turns out to be relatively high in palladium.†   (source)
  • I was expecting an asteroid-shattering kaboom.†   (source)
  • Two point one kilometer nickel iron asteroid.†   (source)
  • Then get one down by our target asteroid.†   (source)
  • The screen suddenly flashed up a picture of what was clearly an asteroid rotating slowly in space.†   (source)
  • The asteroid we're constructing Troy from is fairly oblong.†   (source)
  • Especially given the low metal content of the asteroid.†   (source)
  • Then we're going to heat up an asteroid and start mining it.†   (source)
  • They'd stabilized the asteroid with pumped-fusion bombs.†   (source)
  • We're also planning on making a sort of ...volatiles asteroid.†   (source)
  • The cost of palladium alone in the asteroid exceeds the entire DoD budget!†   (source)
  • The "drill rig" was a complex of mirrors physically connected to asteroid 3159.†   (source)
  • There are enormous problems with asteroid mining.†   (source)
  • Chris had started as a filter technician ("Yes, that's an asteroid.†   (source)
  • Apollo broke up a carbonaceous asteroid and were turning out more nanotube than you can believe.†   (source)
  • This wasn't the asteroid he thought they were looking kr.†   (source)
  • As far as he could see it was still an asteroid rotating in space.†   (source)
  • I thought that was the big problem asteroid.†   (source)
  • Depends on the size of the asteroid and the amount of fuel, but you could get some boost there.†   (source)
  • "We don't actually want an asteroid-shattering kaboom," Dr. Bell said in a distracted tone.†   (source)
  • You could be running smack-dab into a firelight or an asteroid.†   (source)
  • But the asteroid was just sitting there.†   (source)
  • "I thought you were mining this," Steve said, looking at the comet parked next to the asteroid.†   (source)
  • Assume a more or less consistent nickel iron asteroid.†   (source)
  • "We've been cutting chunks off of asteroid 6178 1986 DA for the last three months," Bryan said.†   (source)
  • The Horvath have, also, offered the asteroid belt.†   (source)
  • But what's the point of us looking at this asteroid?†   (source)
  • They didn't get enough of the mass of the comet into the asteroid.†   (source)
  • "You asked about an asteroid-shattering kaboom on Icarus," Bryan said, grinning.†   (source)
  • "Asteroid 152536," Dr. Foster said proudly.†   (source)
  • Apollo first stabilized the asteroid, then drilled it.†   (source)
  • Thing is that we're working with a really big, very cold asteroid.†   (source)
  • The view of the spinning asteroid was replaced by a mass of numbers that Tyler could barely follow.†   (source)
  • It's a six-kilometer asteroid in the belt.†   (source)
  • I am agog to see what you need an asteroid for.†   (source)
  • In front of us, the river plunged into a massive pit, like an asteroid had punched a hole in the earth and diverted the water straight down.†   (source)
  • It's like talking to an asteroid.†   (source)
  • During the "Bad Times," we vacationed at Uncle Kowa's place out beyond the moon, on a terra-formed asteroid brought there before the Ouster migration.†   (source)
  • During the undeclared war with the Free Miners in the Lambert Ring Territories, it was Lieutenant Kassad who led the surviving infantry troops and Marine guards in cutting through the bottom of the old asteroid bore shaft on Peregrine to evacuate the Hegemony consulate staff and citizens.†   (source)
  • My command center was located under an armored dome embedded in the rocky surface of my own private asteroid.†   (source)
  • These doors opened into the launch tunnel, which led up to a matching set of armored doors set into the asteroid's surface.†   (source)
  • The rest of my stronghold was belowground, in a vast subterranean complex that stretched all the way to the asteroid's core.†   (source)
  • My avatar needed a stronghold, and I didn't want any neighbors, so I'd bought the cheapest planetoid I could find—this tiny barren asteroid in Sector Fourteen.†   (source)
  • His face was covered with old poison burns, gouges, and scar tissue, so it looked like the surface of an asteroid.†   (source)
  • Now I'm standing on the shores of a vast, shallow sea, watching the asteroid fall, a tiny dot, a pebble, insignificant.†   (source)
  • But is no limit to how big a fusion bomb can be; F.N. could build one big enough to smash L-City—or theoretically even a Doomsday job that would split Luna like a melon and finish job some asteroid started at Tycho.†   (source)
  • Before that was the Triassic extinction (also caused by an asteroid, or possibly volcanoes), which wiped out up to ninety-five percent of the species, and before that was the Late Devonian extinction.†   (source)
  • We need to melt the 'wings' to get the asteroid to form into a sphere before we do the full melt and balloon.†   (source)
  • From the gasps of astonishment in the room nobody else was expecting the asteroid to blast apart into splinters.†   (source)
  • They also generally stayed inside the asteroid belt ranging from outside the orbit of Mars to inside the orbit of Earth.†   (source)
  • "Oh, that's pretty obvious if you've been following all the developments with asteroid 318.516," the astronomer said, smiling.†   (source)
  • Why not just mine the asteroid belt?†   (source)
  • Apollo Mining and Tyler Vernon are up to it again, grabbing headlines across the world with a bank-shot in asteroid engineering!†   (source)
  • The asteroid belt is, probably, a planet that either didn't quite form or sort of formed and then got pulled apart by tidal forces from Jupiter.†   (source)
  • The VDA controls were so refined he was controlling it by drawing a stylus across the image of the asteroid on a touch screen.†   (source)
  • "Not long ... "Whoa," Tyler said as the nickel iron asteroid started to grow in size very much like a balloon that was being inflated.†   (source)
  • Given that it has not even come close to mining out the asteroid the company calls Connie, professionals are wondering just what they are up to.†   (source)
  • "He's either an idiot or a student," Nathan said, watching the numbers from the asteroid's trajectory.†   (source)
  • Instead, a poor, lonely nickel-iron asteroid that was so minuscule it didn't even have a name had been chosen as the accelerant.†   (source)
  • When you've gotten done with the wings on the asteroid, I'd like to take the VDA apart and see how it held up.†   (source)
  • The terawatts of power punched through the semi-molten nickel iron, and a thin stream of it pulled off of the asteroid in a wriggling formation.†   (source)
  • It's just that it would be a better investment if they weren't pouring money into heating up an asteroid for no good reason.†   (source)
  • "We've drilled out a five-meter-wide, two-and-a-half-kilometer-deep hole in the asteroid," Dr. Bell said.†   (source)
  • It's making an asteroid of its own.†   (source)
  • The main belt asteroid was an eight-kilometer long, five-kilometer wide mass of virtually solid nickel iron.†   (source)
  • The three BDA mirrors they had brought out had been picked up by Paw Two and brought into alignment with the asteroid.†   (source)
  • With twenty BDAs working on Twenty-Nine we can probably cut that down to a month, then move on to the next asteroid.†   (source)
  • "We have ...an extensive asteroid belt," the undersecretary of state for interstellar affairs said, throwing in her only bone.†   (source)
  • It just warms up the asteroid.†   (source)
  • The petawatt and a half of power pumping through the VDA was gouging a huge line through the exterior of the asteroid and leaving behind a trail of debris.†   (source)
  • Blow up a nickel iron asteroid.†   (source)
  • For the purpose of this company and its nomenclature, an asteroid is something that is mostly rock or at least stuff like rock such as metal and carbon.†   (source)
  • Asteroid-shattering kaboom indeed.†   (source)
  • Earth, Mars, the asteroid belt.†   (source)
  • However, our laws, and long experience, prevent us from mining your asteroid belt as long as there is not a centralized, or at least effectively sovereign, system government.†   (source)
  • I think we need a better asteroid.†   (source)
  • Once the asteroid becomes molten.†   (source)
  • Professional and amateur astronomers across the world are watching in awe as Apollo Mining heats up a massive chunk of nickel iron in the main asteroid belt.†   (source)
  • Although the asteroid is currently well within the orbit of Venus, the degree of thermal coefficient necessary for successful melting of the entire, assuming any significant quantity of nickel iron in its composition, is one point six times ten to the sixteenth joules.†   (source)
  • Including a new asteroid, another potential Earth killer, which we're looking forward to turning into inexpensive raw materials to help with the commodities metal shortage on Earth and get the economy turned back around.†   (source)
  • The vision blocks of the Paw were installed prior to the development of standard ocular implants and designed so that a crewman on the Paw could maneuver it in the often complex environment of asteroid mining.†   (source)
  • Especially the asteroid belt.†   (source)
  • After stabilizing the six-hundred-meter diameter asteroid's rotation it had been fitted with the largest pumped fusion bomb ever created by man, adjusted to point at the target, and then the bomb had been set off.†   (source)
  • I've got an asteroid to melt.†   (source)
  • We'd better get something extractable out of that asteroid or between the cost of this thing and the cost of the Very Large Array I'm going to go from the richest man on Earth to the poorest in a nanosecond.†   (source)
  • Asteroid.†   (source)
  • That's an asteroid.†   (source)
  • The asteroid is spinning.†   (source)
  • The lonely Earth amid the balls That hurry through the eternal halls, A makeweight flying to the void, Supplemental asteroid, Or compensatory spark, Shoots across the neutral Dark.†   (source)
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