If the incoming projectile were a white dwarf—a superdense star that packs the mass of the sun into a body a hundredth the size—the residents of Earth would be treated to quite a fireworks show.
The bacterial (prokaryotic) replisome works about 10 times faster, with Okazaki fragments 700-1000 bases long and the incoming DNA rotating at 10,000RPM.
Before freshman year, all incoming undergraduates are assigned to one of the twelve residential colleges by the individual college deans with two considerations in mind: compatibility and diversity.
Either a low urgency like a Facebook notification, a medium range urgency like a check engine, and finally, a high level urgency, like an incoming collision warning.
The choice between a prestigious school with a hefty price tag and a lesser-known name with a smaller financial burden is one many incoming college students faced.
Then one day, while we were still in that period of decision making, I was invited to a cocktail party at Harvard for potentially incoming law students where I met a famous law professor.
I read in my Financial Times this morning that there is no incoming leader, no incoming leader has ever faced such a daunting set of circumstances, it said.
While one colleague is busy translating incoming speeches in real time, the other gives support by locating documents, looking up words, and tracking down pertinent information.
Other options for missile defense could include lasers deployed from drones that would destroy incoming weapons and a system that's now in place uses interceptor missiles to blow up ones that are in flight.
That means that they communicate with batteries of missiles on the ground and they fire those and those fly up and get as close as they can to that incoming threat.
" Patience" , as University President Kingman Brewster Jr. told incoming members of a Yale college class, " is not come by easily in a world for which survival is a serious question."
A nation might want to want a weapon like that because in theory, it would fly fast enough to get through missile defense systems, which are designed to shoot down incoming projectiles.
Forecasters warned people in the Virgin Islands in the U.S. commonwealth of Puerto Rico that Irma could bring tons of rain and dangerous storm surges, ocean water driven ashore by an incoming hurricane.