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So I assume everybody knows that if you actually had a piece of amber and it had an insect in it, and you drilled into it, and you got something out of that insect, and you cloned it, and you did it over and over and over again, you'd have a room full of mosquitos.
A child who doesn't know his or her colors or doesn't know how to tell time, doesn't know how to tie shoes, doesn't know how to do those things, and doesn't know how to do something that goes by a word that was drilled into me as a kid: mind.
Curiosity has also drilled in that red soil and brought up other material.
We drilled holes in the helmet so that I could breathe, and I finished just in time for Halloween and wore it to school.
But when Gottman drilled down on this data, what he found was that women were generally pretty influenceable.
People drilled this idea of otherness into my mind, and I bought it because I didn't know anyone else like me.
Nobody knows how old the oldest living Coast Redwoods are because nobody has ever drilled into any of them to count their annual growth rings, and, in any case, the centers of the oldest individuals appear to be hollow.
In 1992, the team drilled diagonal tunnels to remove 38 cubic meters of soil from under the tower’s north end.
We actually drilled holes into the ice, way deep down below the thawing level, and had some cameras out there for the past month and a half or so.
And we drilled in the Ross Sea.
We drilled through a hundred meters of floating ice shelf then through 900 meters of water and then 1,300 meters into the sea floor.
So it's the deepest geological bore hole ever drilled.
I looked at my friend, who drilled seven dry wells, writing off more than a billion dollars for the company, and found oil on the eighth.
There are a few notable bits to laugh at like the bit when his girlfriend gets her head drilled into, but in general the film is bland.
I nearly fell out of my chair, though, when in a flashback scene they brought in either the cobra or the komodo - then normal size - in some indestructible solid steel container with some air holes drilled into it.
His team of scientists, working in South Africa, drilled down to the crust and "punched through" with a nuclear device in order to provide a steady source of geothermic energy.
What we are left with is a dull, silly movie that made sure it was drilled into our heads that Eli Wurman was Jewish.
As she is finding clues to find out what is going on, her neighbors are systematically slaughtered, drilled, and hammered by a masked man who somehow lives in the bowels of the building.
Lowest point is her scene in the dentist chair, getting her teeth drilled in what may be an unofficial--yet totally unfunny--nod to "Marathon Man".
We won't be satisfied until every single inch of the Earth has been drilled and every single drop of oil is used up.
However, the film attained it's nasty status primarily because of the graphic cover of a hobo being drilled in the head and also because it had a catchy and memorable title which the British tabloids could bandy about whenever they produced an article about the dangers that this new breed of violent films posed to civilisation as we then knew it.
It's a dangerous message, and not all that far off from the one that the Communists drilled into their victims (for "God and the FBI" substitute "the Party").
For example, indigenous Mapuche communities have protested wells drilled on their territory without prior informed consent.
Oil was discovered in Chad’s southern Doba region in 1975, with 300 wells drilled so far.
Turkey has no equivalent of Mahatma Gandhi, with his message of non-violence and co-existence drilled into the head of every Indian schoolchild.
Guardian employees had drilled a hole through it, rather than hand it over to the British government.
When the first well was drilled in Pennsylvania in 1859, it penetrated less than 70 feet into the soil before hitting oil.
By comparison, the well drilled by Deepwater Horizon, which famously blew up in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, began a mile beneath the water’s surface and drilled a few miles into the rock before finding oil.
Instead of insisting on discipline, his men wore whatever they liked, never saluted anybody, and never drilled.
In its campaign to increase consumption taxes, Japan’s Ministry of Finance drilled into the public psyche the concept of “Ricardian equivalence”: a government cannot stimulate consumer demand with debt-financed spending, because people assume that whatever is gained now will be offset by higher taxes due in the future.