- Framing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Aerial Quotes
Perspectives from the air, real and imagined
These quotes span framing a shot from a helicopter to engineering a quadrotor drone that flips in half a second, each finding something new in an aerial view. Our Always page offers a different kind of steady perspective.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Possible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our nano-quadrotor robots are made to be as lightweight as possible: less than a fifth of a pound and palm-sized. They can do an aerial backflip in half a second, accelerate at two Gs, and fly rotor blade to rotor blade in three-dimensional formations - and they do all this autonomously.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
From aerial robotics to big data analytics, technology presents the opportunity to expedite and magnify the impact of humanitarian relief efforts through greater efficiency and responsiveness: reaching more people, sooner, more cost-effectively, and saving more lives.
- Fog
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- Nov 07, 2020
Congress has an obligation to clear the legal fog by passing my bill to require the federal government to obtain a warrant if it wants to conduct aerial surveillance.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Archaeologists have used aerial photographs to map archaeological sites since the 1920s, while the use of infrared photography started in the 1960s, and satellite imagery was first used in the 1970s.
- Military
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- Nov 07, 2020
Archaeologists gave the military the idea to use aerial photographs for spying and field survey. We are fortunate that the spatial and spectral resolutions of the imagery available to us are so broadly useful for archaeology.
- Drones
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gaza itself is subject to constant aerial surveillance by drones and is rife with informers and collaborators with Israel.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now in the 1980s, I happened to notice that if you look at an aerial photograph of an African village, you see fractals. And I thought, 'This is fabulous! I wonder why?' And of course I had to go to Africa and ask folks why.
- Circular
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the African ones were fractal. And if you think about it, all these different societies have different geometric design themes that they use. So Native Americans use a combination of circular symmetry and fourfold symmetry.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw singer Pink doing aerial flips during one of her performances at Grammy Awards. It got me inspired, and I started doing it, too. It has made me very flexible. I couldn't even touch my toes a few years ago, but now I find myself to be extremely fit.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have three things I really, really want to do. I want to do aerial trapeze, I want to do martial arts, and I want to learn Russian. And, because of my life, I'm not able to do any of these.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obama's drone program, in fact, amounts to the largest unmanned aerial offensive ever conducted in military history: never have so few killed so many by remote control.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of aerial military surveillance dates back to the Civil War, when both the Union and the Confederacy used hot-air balloons to spy on the other side, tracking troop movements and helping to direct artillery fire.
- Reading
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- Nov 07, 2020
After the war, I went to the BBC monitoring service in Caversham, a suburb of Reading. It was a big aerial system to listen to radio programmes all over the world.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teams full of talent and top-flight experience know when to engage a tackle at crucial times, when to compete in an aerial duel or seize on a chance - often resulting in the net rippling.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just don't do the treadmill; I hate that. I do Pilates and yoga. I've recently joined aerial Pilates; you're in the air and with straps. It's crazy fun.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.
- Emigrate
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- Nov 07, 2020