These cone-shaped outflows have denser ridges corkscrewing around their surfaces much like strings of lights wrapped around Christmas trees.

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Funnel clouds look like cone-shaped or thin rope-like protuberances which hang down from the cloud base, and often do not last very long.

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V3Solar proved that point when it unveiled its new spinning, cone-shaped solar panels, which can generate 20 times as much energy as flat panels.

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According to Chernobrov, Huang Di came in a cone-shaped UFO.

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To the south is Israel - whose nearest settlement is Metulla, built defiantly on the northern side of a cone-shaped hill topped with antennae, right next to the border.

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But the structure floats on a one-story wall of glass and the high interior space is beautifully shaped by a small forest of cone lamps descending from the roof to just above table height.

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