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They'd need, first of all, to have a thick skin to protect themselves from losing water through the skin.
So while a broken window and sealed window both have the same minimal effect on radiation, thick layers of steel, concrete, and packed earth can offer serious protection.
I did learn on Wikipedia that the Greenland ice sheet is huge, the size of Mexico, and its ice from top to bottom is two miles thick.
This is the whaling camp here, we're about six miles from shore, camping on five and a half feet of thick, frozen pack ice.
Most of Britain, all of Scandinavia, covered by ice several kilometers thick.
It's in this bony skull surrounded by a thick skin, and it needs information to put together a feeling of "How am I, as a whole body, doing?"
And what it entails is the use of resin, of this very thick resin with a veneer of the same kind of wood that's used throughout the hall, in a kind of seamless continuity that wraps the hall in light, like a belt of light: rather than separating, like a proscenium would separate the audience from performers, it connects audience with players.
And she got back a green, thick liquid, and within a minute of being able to do that and suctioning out over and over, that baby started to breathe.
Containing the sugars generated in leaves during photosynthesis, phloem sap is thick, like honey, and flows down the plant’s phloem tissue to distribute sugar throughout the tree.
In thick fluids such as honey, viscosity almost always wins.
SM: The reason he thought that is because buttermilk is so wonderfully thick and delicious.
That's a 2,000-foot thick formation, and it might be a beautiful place to hide a clock.
Now Brian Eno, who's been in the thick of the Long Now process, spent two years making a C.D. called "January 7003," and it's "Bell Studies for the Clock of the Long Now."
Energy from the sun is free, so they bask in the sun like lizards and wear an unusually thick coat for the tropics to keep that heat in.
The walls were so thick, paints were peeling, there were cracks everywhere.
Beneath the thick ice of Europa, in the vapor plumes on Enceladus, and within the methane lakes of Titan, astrobiologists are on the hunt for extraterrestrial life.
Take Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, which has a thick nitrogen atmosphere containing methane and many other organic molecules.
But they also made the myths that surround them, and when it comes to wonders, there's this thick connective tissue between mythology and reality.
To have even a chance of doing so, we have to control the environment precisely: the thick tabletop and legs guard against vibrations from footsteps, nearby elevators, and opening or closing doors.
This essential fuel then travels through the tree to the base of the trunk in the thick sap.
They are thick black envelopes.
A thick shield of these cells spreads across the belly, coming together in regions that produce nine plate-like bones.
Odontochelys semitestacea illustrates another, later step in turtle evolution, with thick ribs like Eunotosaurus plus a belly plate for protection.
And Satoh was not very big, he wasn't highly rated, he was wearing spectacles, but he was armed with a paddle that was not pimpled, as other paddles were, but covered by a thick spongy rubber foam.
My grandmother is washing my mouth out with soap; half a long century gone and still she comes at me with that thick cruel yellow bar.
But then if you think about it, this squid has this terrible problem, because it's got this dying, thick culture of bacteria, and it can't sustain that.
It's made of stainless steel, quite thick.
And we portray him as a huge bird monster surrounded by thick fog.
And it's too much because we need a thick uterine lining for a very specific reason.
So we have this thick uterine lining and now it's got to come out, and how do you stop bleeding?
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