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Desert in sentence

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The presence of camels, mountains, desert wells and springs took me back to the year I spent wandering the Sinai Desert.
I sat down and felt the blood rush down from my face, and in the heat of the desert, I was freezing cold.
That's because an Apache triathlon used to be you'd run 50 miles across the desert, engage in hand-to-hand combat, steal a bunch of horses, and slap leather for home.
It may come as a surprise to some of you to hear that quite large areas of what are currently desert were actually forested a fairly short time ago.
This is the Namibian fog-basking beetle, and it's evolved a way of harvesting its own fresh water in a desert.
And then after that, there are all sorts of compounds and elements that we can extract, like phosphates, that we need to get back into the desert soils to fertilize them.
We see deforestation; we see the desert spreading; we see massive hunger; we see disease and we see population growth in areas where there are more people living on a certain piece of land than the land can possibly support, and they're too poor to buy food from elsewhere.
I saw the concept first in the DARPA Grand Challenges where the U.S. government issued a prize to build a self-driving car that could navigate a desert.
We made it learn from us, and we set it free in the desert.
The reason why you have to build these telescopes in places like the Atacama Desert is because of the high altitude desert.
We're impassioned with this idea that whatever you want to do, whether you want to replace a vein or a bone, or maybe be more sustainable in microelectronics, perhaps drink a coffee in a cup and throw it away without guilt, maybe carry your drugs in your pocket, deliver them inside your body or deliver them across the desert, the answer may be in a thread of silk.
And the reason I'm looking a little bit perplexed in this photograph is I was somewhat frightened, and I was too afraid on this occasion to ask him, having run for an hour through the desert and taken refuge in this house, why he had turned up and wanted to have his photograph taken with me.
In the Iraq War, at the beginning of the first Iraq War, the U.S. military, the air force, sent two squadrons of F-15E Fighter Eagles to the Iraqi desert equipped with these five million dollar cameras that allowed them to see the entire desert floor.
There is a median point between tiny rock and gigantic rock, and in fact, if any of you have ever been to near Winslow, Arizona, there is a crater in the desert there that is so iconic that it is actually called "Meteor Crater."
This was 50,000 years ago, so it may have wiped out a few buffalo or antelope, or something like that out in the desert, but it probably would not have caused global devastation.
Growing up in the hot Last Vegas desert, all I wanted was to be free.
And in the same way, in China, they always tell me, "It's like a fresh wind in the desert when we can come together."
The resulting tuning and tweaking of a fetus' brain and other organs are part of what give us humans our enormous flexibility, our ability to thrive in a huge variety of environments, from the country to the city, from the tundra to the desert.
I was visiting with an artist, Michael Heizer, out in the desert near Las Vegas somewhere.
We were standing out in the desert all alone and, thinking about my house, he said, "Did it ever occur to you if you built stuff more permanent, somewhere in 2000 years somebody's going to like it?"
What we are trying to do is to come up with a single species that can survive anywhere in the world, where there's barren desert.
How about this: In sub-Saharan Africa, next to the sea, saltwater, barren desert, how about we take that plant, plant it, half use for food, half use for fuel.
And in Dubai, sitting at the foot of those two glorious Emirates Towers, is a vision of the future in the middle of the desert.
How does that impact our desert culture?
I was in the desert, under the starry skies with the Sufi singer Mukhtiar Ali.
So I want to show you a clip of Aphaenogaster desert ants, in Professor Stephen Pratt's lab, carrying an object.
It turns out they're growing lettuce in the middle of the desert using water sprayed on top.
The difference is mainly irrigating the desert for food, or maybe golf courses in Scottsdale, you take your pick.
But there's kind of a paradox here, because it looks like it's surrounded by desert.
Those rivers are draining snowmelt from mountains far to the east, where snow melts, it travels down the river through the desert, and forms the great Aral Sea.
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