The Jets, informed that toilet paper in London was terribly thin, shipped 350 rolls of America's finest ply-age across the pond, along with other necessities (like cereal).
The latest concepts suggest a better idea might be to build long thin ships, where the engine is several hundred metres away from the habitation modules.
A mirror box is a thin, cardboard shipping box traditionally utilized for mailing mirrors, but fits artwork also.
The objective of the research presented in this paper was to improve the design process of complex thin-walled ship structures through an application of surrogate modeling on this type of a problem.
The study focused only on Netflix, however, which ships thin, lightweight DVDs or sends content electronically.
In 2008, only 3.7 million thin clients were shipped, compared with 300 million PCs, according to IDC.
In the case of ships, such thin films progressively become thick, increase the weight of the ship, corrode the metal and produce a foul smell.
So it's thin and it's shipping, but is it really that great?
An underwater extension of the iceberg sliced through the ship's thin metal skin so smoothly that the passengers noticed no impact.
The spilled oil and chemical dispersants have nearly all been washed out to sea -- there is only a thin sheen around the ship -- so the ecological urgency to move it was gone, he added.
It is very unlikely that we'll figure out that the real cause is that Japanese microwaves ship with thin single-language instruction manuals, rather than the thick multi-language leaflets that come with European and North American purchases.
