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On Mars-orbiters - radiation is not an issue if you live inside a meter-thick water wall. (yes it's heavy but it's perfect shielding and we all need water) The advantages are exactly that of oceanic ROV ops - you get to study the environment extensively in realtime.
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Tall doors in meter-thick walls at this Mexican colonial hacienda, open onto a wrought iron balcony.
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The long lines of capsules moved toward the earth and concrete emplacements protecting the launching mirror; they reached them; and seconds later, each capsule vanished at 300 gees, shoved upward by a meter-thick column that was nothing more than light, but which looked like a great green growing plant.
Archive 2009-01-01 Fred Kiesche 2009
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The long lines of capsules moved toward the earth and concrete emplacements protecting the launching mirror; they reached them; and seconds later, each capsule vanished at 300 gees, shoved upward by a meter-thick column that was nothing more than light, but which looked like a great green growing plant.
The Lensman's Children Fred Kiesche 2009
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It is typically a meter-thick concrete and steel structure.
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Masons are drilling holes and injecting concrete into the performance hall's meter-thick brick bandshell to reinforce it.
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Besides, shouldn't a 300-year-old village home with meter-thick walls be dark?
French Word-A-Day: 2005
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Besides, shouldn't a 300-year-old village home with meter-thick walls be dark?
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Besides, shouldn't a 300-year-old village home with meter-thick walls be dark?
French Word-A-Day: 2005
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Besides, shouldn't a 300-year-old village home with meter-thick walls be dark?
French Word-A-Day: 2005
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