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Whale carcasses are also known to transport about 190,000 tons of carbon, which is the equivalent of that produced by 80,000 cars per year from the atmosphere to the deep oceans, and the deep oceans are what we call "carbon sinks," because they trap and hold excess carbon from the atmosphere, and therefore help to delay global warming.
My company, called Freelance Programmers, and that's precisely what it was, couldn't have started smaller: on the dining room table, and financed by the equivalent of 100 dollars in today's terms, and financed by my labor and by borrowing against the house.
The European equivalent of the municipal seal is the city coat of arms ... and this is where we can learn a lesson for how to do things right.
But what I like about them is, they're like the freshwater equivalent of sharks.
In Deaf culture, movement is equivalent to sound.
As you can see, the letter is explained in form, sound and examples of words in function, in addition to the equivalent in Latin.
Now, chemically speaking, this is equivalent to lowering the volume of a reaction vessel or a reaction mixture.
90 trillion Joules of energy are equivalent to 1 gram of mass.
These two apparently solid objects would completely disappear into a big flash of energy, equivalent to an atomic bomb.
That's the equivalent of the human weight of China taken out of the sea every year.
So that if you add wild fish and farmed fish together, you get the equivalent of two Chinas created from the ocean each and every year.
That's the equivalent of a third of a China, or of an entire United States of humans that's taken out of the sea each and every year.
It's the equivalent of crashing at 94 miles per hour into a wall with a door in front of it.
They have a high vitamin content, loads of healthy minerals, and can contain up to 50% protein, almost as much as in an equivalent amount of beef.
In other words, a clock must carry out some repetitive action to mark off equivalent increments of time.
If the weight of water displaced by the vessel below the keel is equivalent to the vessel's weight, whatever is above the keel will remain afloat above the waterline.
Shrink all that down so that it fits in the palm of your hand, and you'd have something equivalent to a modern hard drive, an object that can likely hold more information than your local library.
The amount that disappeared in 2005 was equivalent to everything east of the Mississippi.
The extra amount that disappeared last fall was equivalent to this much.
The amount of a moderate-to-severe snow melting of an area equivalent to the size of California.
And actually, their cumulative emissions this year are the equivalent to where we were in 1965.
Developing tar sands and coal shale is the equivalent.
That's roughly equivalent to the amount of moisture in a banana.
They can even leave a term in the original language, while they search for the most accurate equivalent.
That may sound like a long time, but when you consider that our universe is 14 billion years old, on a cosmic scale, it's incredibly fast - the equivalent of about 2.5 hours in an entire year.
Take the quoll, one of the world's smallest marsupials, which weighs only 18 milligrams at birth, the equivalent of about 30 sugar grains.
That's the equivalent of me showing holograms to someone for the first time, and you then saying, "What's the size of your television?"
And it cost about 500 dollars to start it, which was about the equivalent of 10,000 dollars of today.
It's far less than half the size of the Earth, and yet despite the fact that it's smaller, the surface area of Mars that you can stand on is equivalent to the surface area of the Earth that you can stand on, because the Earth is mostly covered by water.
That's saving 3.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions, which is the equivalent of taking all American cars off the roads for three whole years.
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