While Von Grosse's claim that Fermi was actually producing protactinium was quickly tested and disproved, Noddack's proposal that the uranium had been shattered into two or more much smaller fragments was simply ignored by most because existing nuclear theory did not include a way for this to be possible.
And here's one shattered into four, like a Dutch cheese sliced into wedges.
When Jason Giambi singled in the third inning last night, his bat shattered into three pieces.
The jetliner, a Boeing 737 operated by the Colombian carrier Aires, shattered into three pieces on impact.
"I've seen guys get stepped on, and their helmet is shattered into five pieces," Freeman said.
In his scheme, the bulk of California shatters into seven separate territories, including "Shasta," "Mendocino," "Tule," and "Temecula," while North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and most of the population of Colorado smush into one irregular rectangle called "Ogallala".
Weighing 1,250 pounds, the craggy rock was shattered into three pieces by the stress of the excavation, which required divers, a winch and a colorful tangle of ropes and cords.
And, finally, since people are getting all "fact-checky" on me, I should just confess that my life did not, in fact, shatter into a million little pieces.
Such regimes are successful in the sense that they manage, as long as they last, to make people do what they are told; but once they fall, such polities can shatter into a thousand pieces.Beyond good and evilNor is there anything simple or Manichean about the standoff between the state on the one hand and its would-be wreckers on the other.
And no wonder, too, that when the worst happens in this deceptively understated and finally ferocious film, Philippe seems to shatter into a thousand pieces, much like a stone dropped from a very great height, much like a man whose mask has finally and irrevocably been forced from his face.
