Schweickart noted that, as NASA finds more NEOs, "we're going to have to make more and more decisions about whether to try to deflect without knowing much about what we're deflecting — not only what a NEO is, exactly, but where".
Other important safety devices used on automobiles and other vehicles include safety glass, the newer types of which deflect without breaking under severe stress; improved door locks that keep doors closed under severe conditions; and collapsible steering columns that telescope under impact, absorbing energy.
But if the bubble was blown from ordinary air, with bellows, the flame was merely deflected without being extinguished.
Prior to the test it had been expected that the beam would lay down a static charge on the cloth and be deflected without damaging the cloth.
The trick is to deflect adroitly without landing in an undignified puddle of overwrought remorse.
In her view, however, most advances, including unwanted ones, are a compliment, and a girl should have enough street smarts to deflect them without making it "a federal offense".
Unfortunately, this hasn't happened due to more customer service reps being hired – instead, it's been achieved by instituting do-it-yourself FAQs, "lite" search widgets, automated email responses and other tactics that deflect customers without providing a personalized experience.
In patients in whom the laser fiber reduces ureteroscopic deflection, precluding reentry into the lower pole, a Nitinol basket or grasper is used to displace the calculi into an upper pole calix for easier fragmentation.The Nitinol device can be passed into the lower pole through the fully deflected ureteroscope without any loss of deflection.
The concrete is so strong that a 25-metre bridge beam that is one metre thick can be deflected 30cm without breaking.
Reducing Regulatory Burdens: Reduce or eliminate regulations that increase administrative costs, impede research productivity, and deflect creative energy without substantially improving the research environment.
If the drug benefit becomes a big issue in fall campaigns, more Republicans may embrace the idea as a way to deflect Democratic attacks without changing the structure of the new program.
