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When you stop the other one, you only stop the shell; the liquid inside is still rotating because nothing's made it stop.
And then it pushes the shell round again, so the egg starts to rotate again.
Just look at this shell.
And also, staring at a turtle and saying, "I never appreciated what multitudes this contains in its shell alone."
If you could take all of the ozone, which is mostly about 10 to 20 miles up above our heads, and compress it down to the surface of the earth, it would form a thin shell only about two pennies thick, about an eighth of an inch.
And that thin shell does an amazing amount of work, though.
And there's Furby on the half shell.
EB: That's when we separate from the back shell, and we're now in free-fall.
It's a tiny hollow particle with a protective outer shell, about the size of a tattoo pigment, and you can fill the inside with practically whatever you want.
Finally, inspired by remarkable biological materials such as silk, abalone shell, tooth and others, we're designing new protein-based materials to address challenges in energy and ecological issues.
You're looking at the outside shell of the virus, and the yellow color here are those parts of the virus that are evolving very, very fast, and the blue parts are not evolving very fast.
Under the surface lies its best defense against attack: a hard shell on its belly.
It guides the formation of the upper part of the turtle’s shell, called the carapace, likely by attracting the cells that will become ribs.
The development of the bottom half of the shell, the plastron, is driven by neural crest cells, which can produce a variety of different cell types including neurons, cartilage and bone.
A turtle’s shell has obvious advantages for guarding against predators, but the rigid casing also presents some challenges.
Most mammals and reptiles rely on a flexible rib cage that expands to allow them to breathe, but turtles use abdominal muscles attached to the shell instead: one to breathe in, and one to breathe out.
So how did the shell evolve?
Our first fossil evidence of the full shell characteristic of modern turtles is about 210 million years old, and belongs to a species called Proganochelys quenstedti, whose ribs had fused.
Unlike modern turtles, it couldn’t retract its head into its shell, but had defensive spines on its neck.
What I discovered in these interiors is that there was a disconnect between the exterior shell and the interior architecture of the pieces.
In that the shell was originally conceived as a lightweight, modern, futuristic, high-tech pod for hurtling down the freeway, and the interiors were completely out of sync with that.
That seemed really like a crisis to me, that they had never been able to develop a vocabulary about escape, and about travel, and modernity in this trailer that was consistent with the shell.
We stripped out all the vinyl and zolatone paint that was covering up this just fantastic aluminum shell.
What I had to devise was a way of fooling the eye into believing that all these panels are curved with the shell.
What I came up with was a series of second skins that basically float over the aluminum shell.
This piece could fire a shell every four seconds.
Each child inherited the original’s unknown serial number within its furnace, and had a random, unique serial number of its own inscribed on its shell.
Then he’ll begin the following loop that will repeat until the stored variable equals 0, the furnace number of the original bot: 1. Find the bot whose shell serial number matches the stored number.
But these early ships retained the concept of the original log boat: their strength depended on the outer shell of wood, not internal frames and beams.
And they would use these completely unheard-of and unsuspicious brand names as a way of shipping container loads of fakes to shell companies that they'd set up across Europe.
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