Granted, there is a thin shield of self-mocking irony, because the narrator is quoting from his own book review (a pompous and judgmental one, just like the reviews I was writing for this newspaper at the time), but still, it's hard not to hear that lofty pronouncement, at more than 15 years' distance, as a clear statement of the author's personal ambitions.
The new design is useful to achieve low spherical aberration in axially thin shielded solenoids.
The results indicated that the new thin shield with 7 mm in thickness has a good protection capability.
It means that the absorbance of laser radiation by the NP is sharply decreased at formation of thin shielded vapor shell and then it is weakly changed for thick shells.
We here report a new design of a double air-slot or pole-gap type, axially thin, shielded solenoid with lower spherical aberration than conventional single pole-gap type solenoids.
This is the conventional notion of shielding, but it is not applicable to human spaceflight since the particles in the GCR tend to be too energetic to be stopped in the relatively thin shielding that is possible within payload mass constraints.
The electrodes were fixated with tape (Fixomull stretch) and connected through thin shielded cables to a datalogger (Nexus10, Mind Media, Netherlands) that was placed in a flexible belt to ensure unrestricted mobility during the test.
The electrodes were fixated with tape (Fixomull stretch) and connected through thin shielded cables to a datalogger (Nexus10, Mind Media, Netherlands) that was placed in a flexible belt to ensure mobility for the worker throughout the working day.
A test matrix incorporating shielded thin plates, shielded vessels under no pressure and shielded vessels under internal pressure is developed to take advantage of knowledge gained in earlier tests.
There's a very thin plastic shield covering your face, a few millimetres thick: that's your visor.
