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Its thick atmosphere, not its distance from the sun, is the reason.
This statement sent shockwaves through the Western world, heightening the tension between the Soviet Union and the US who were in the thick of the Cold War.
It makes cervical mucus too thick and sticky for sperm to swim through easily.
It will spend the next six months drinking 225 liters of its mothers thick, fatty milk per day.
They're going to throw some polymer plastic into the bricks, shove them in a microwave oven, and then you will be able to build buildings with really thick walls.
To do this, I dip them in a thick, brown wax before taking them to a shooting range where I re-sculpted them using bullets.
And if you squint, you can maybe see the moon through a thick layer of cigarette smoke and airplane exhaust that covers the whole city, like a mosquito net that won't let the angels in.
And the beauty, to me, comes from the fact that I know that hands cut these stones, and they formed them into this thick wall, made only in this place with rocks from this soil.
You can't have too much atmosphere, too thick or too warm an atmosphere, because then you end up too hot like Venus, and you can't have liquid water.
On the surface, we spread a thick layer of mulch, so when it's hot outside the soil stays moist.
The largest organism on the planet is a mycelial mat, one cell wall thick.
How is it that this organism can be so large, and yet be one cell wall thick, whereas we have five or six skin layers that protect us?
Their legs grew thick, their feet sturdy, and newly developed thigh muscles turned them into formidable runners.
The egg is the largest cell in the body and is protected by a thick, extracellular shell of sugar and protein called the zona pellucida.
Work began to define you at that time in an overwhelmingly equalizing manner, and all the systems started to feel less reliable to me, almost too thick to hold on to the diversity of mankind and the human need to progress and grow.
And that stuff that gets stuck in the ground gets buried, and through time, we get big, thick accumulations of sediments that eventually turn into rocks.
What this means is that we can go to places like this, where we see big, thick stacks of sedimentary rocks, and go back in time and see what the landscapes looked like in the past.
Low, thick clouds like these are really good at blocking out the sun and ruining your barbecue, and high, wispy clouds like these cirrus largely let that sunlight stream through.
These low, thick clouds are extremely effective sunshades.
They need people like ethnographers and user researchers who can gather what I call thick data.
And what makes it so thick and meaty is the experience of understanding the human narrative.
Thick data grounds our business questions in human questions, and that's why integrating big and thick data forms a more complete picture.
Big data is able to offer insights at scale and leverage the best of machine intelligence, whereas thick data can help us rescue the context loss that comes from making big data usable, and leverage the best of human intelligence.
So to really find out what was going on, they hired an ethnographer, Grant McCracken, to gather thick data insights.
By integrating big data and thick data, they not only improved their business, but they transformed how we consume media.
For some, integrating thick data insights into the algorithm could mean life or death, especially for the marginalized.
Let's integrate the big data with the thick data.
So in other words, as long as our cells are wearing a thick coat of sialic acid, they look fabulous, right?
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.
Unfortunately, the ice is thick.
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