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cosmic

mod. excellent; powerful. This pizza is absolutely cosmic!

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The general blurring and shifting of Fraunhofer's lines of the spectrum point, in my opinion, to a widespread cosmic change of a subtle and singular character.

Where do we see any signs of this poisonous cosmic disturbance?

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Geology and astronomy now gradually compelled all thinking people to realize the unthinkable duration of the cosmic processes and the comparative littleness of our earth in the vast extent of the universe.

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His large and daring cosmic theories advertised his austere life and innocent, if somewhat frigid, morality; he held something of the position of Darwin doubled with the position of Tolstoy.

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Life is the cheapest thing in Caspak, as it is the cheapest thing on earth and, doubtless, the cheapest cosmic production.

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Congratulations on your recent posting of the most important story, that ETs are real, and information on the cosmic presence that will transform reality in the 21st century

Mass alien contact imminent, says expert

Actually, cosmic rays are high-energy sub-atomic particles - nuclei of elements from hydrogen to iron, which means they are positively charged.

Milky Way Ruled Out As Origin Of Powerful Cosmic Rays

The Local Group lies in a filament of a much larger cosmic structure.

Void "repels" milky way's galaxy group

Cosmic JS Founder Tony Spiro attributes the recent growth of Cosmic JS to several items:

Cosmic JS Users Hit 500,000 API Requests

Cosmic Connections Live is an album recorded live during the 2014-2015 world tour of Deva Premal & Miten with Manose, featuring a glorious concert of tanpura, keyboard, guitar, wood flute, and dulcet singing.

Cosmic Connections Live

Cosmic rays are high-speed atomic nuclei with a wide range of energy -- the most powerful race at almost the speed of light.

United States : Microscopic "Timers" Reveal Likely Source of Galactic Space Radiation

UPDATE: The galaxy is teeming with cosmic rays--and we now know a lot more about these subatomic particles that tear through space with tremendous energy, up to roughly 100 billion billion electron volts.

Major energy cosmic?

My impression is that the murder has links to the cosmic room, whose headquarters are in the GE[micro]lbaE-y district of Ankara.

Dink family lawyer: Dink murder clues point to cosmic room

The results showed that the model with the COSMIC measurements more precisely simulated the track of Gonu, with COSMIC estimates of upper-troposphere temperature and lower-troposphere moisture proving particularly valuable in forecasting the storm's track.

GPS could aid in forecasting tropical storms

There have also been suggestions that when the Sun is particularly active, it blocks cosmic rays, thought to encourage the formation of clouds which then reflect the Sun's rays, leading to further temperature increases.