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Instead, the car is going to calculate something like the probability of hitting a certain group of people, if you swerve one direction versus another direction, you might slightly increase the risk to passengers or other drivers versus pedestrians.
And every now and then, "Hey, quit hitting me!" or a cry from one of the kids.
Somebody was hitting somebody else with brass knuckles.
And we have these huge rocks, you know, killer-sized rocks in the hundreds of thousands or millions out there, and while the probability is very small, the impact, figured in literally, of one of these hitting the Earth is so huge that to spend a small fraction looking, searching, preparing to defend, is not unreasonable.
They just did not have a reason to believe that diversity would help them achieve their most immediate, pressing goals: hitting the numbers, delivering the new product, the real goals they are measured by.
"1984," George Orwell's "1984," it's hitting the bestseller lists again.
So what you’re smelling is several hundred molecules floating through the air, hitting your nose.
And you need to know that Danny's clock is to be kept accurate by a ray of sunshine, that perfect noon hitting it every sunny day, and the pulse of heat from that sets off a solar trigger which resets the clock to make it perfectly accurate.
These rocks have been hitting our earth for about three billion years, and are responsible for much of what’s gone on on our planet.
If one person accepts responsibility ahead of time for hitting the button, then only they need to know who the robot has visited.
"Ping-pong" sounds like a cousin of "sing-song," like something Eastern, but actually, it's believed that it was invented by high-class Brits during Victorian times, who started hitting wine corks over walls of books after dinner.
And Eastern Europeans grew so adept at hitting back everything that was hit at them that they almost brought the whole sport to a standstill.
That player started hitting the ball back with his left hand and dictating chess moves between shots.
The basic principle is this: the smaller something is, the more sensitive it will be to disruption— think of hitting a pothole on a skateboard versus in a truck.
And then it has detectors on its back so it can sense how much starlight or moonlight is hitting its back.
This is hitting the reservoirs.
But when I was here, a lot of my fellow teenagers were in a very different situation, leaving school at a time then of rapidly growing youth unemployment, and essentially hitting a brick wall in terms of their opportunities.
The overall effect is like removing all of the nails and mortar from a house and then hitting it with an earthquake.
The words of Martin Luther King kept hitting me.
There is the idea of hitting the wall, that actually somehow everything is so fragile that it might just all unravel and collapse.
These are now technologies that are hitting critical mass.
I'm hitting it.
The first peak, obviously, is the limb hitting the load cell.
So to solve this quandary of the two force peaks: what I think was going on is: that first impact is actually the limb hitting the load cell, and the second impact is actually the collapse of the cavitation bubble.
If you tell the pianist to think about how she's hitting the notes when she's playing the piece, she can't play the piece.
And I came in half an hour beforehand so I could have it put on and kind of get used to it, and they got it bent so it's not hitting my chin.
This is a pulse of light that's only about one wavelength of light long, so it's a whole bunch of photons all coming and hitting simultaneously.
He looked at the odds of another world war, of a massive volcanic eruption, even of an asteroid hitting the Earth.
Think about it with the Corexit hitting the membranes, and it will clog up the gills, and then these animals are going to be getting something like what you call chemical pneumonia, trying to aspirate the compounds.
And because we started this work around the time of the financial collapse, around the time when foreclosures were hitting the news, we said, hhmm, maybe we should actually start in the financial domain.
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