Ours use compressed air, which can be stored -- that makes a big difference if your fountain goes bang into the sky only once every 15 minutes.
These hermit crabs strike fear into the hearts of seated airline passengers whenever they board, because their shells invariably bang into innocent shins all the way to their seat.
Will the Big Bang theory last into the next century or even the next decade?
The most troubling incident I saw on a video clip was the deployment of a flash-bang grenade directly into a small group of people.
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This Christmas season seemed to bang another nail into Microsoft's coffin.
Kang wrote more than 10 versions of his screenplay trying to work a political message into a bang-up thriller.
Last week, the market kicked off September with a bang as new money flooded into equities.
April 1 marks the start of Japan's fiscal year and the day that the first of the "Big Bang" financial reforms went into effect.
Short of actually starting a Big Bang and letting it grow into a new universe, this is probably the closest we can get to studying the flow of time in an experimental fashion.
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Scientists hope to see new particles in the debris of these collisions that could reveal insights into the "Big Bang" and the nature of the Universe.
If Japan's Big Bang manages to inject more competition into the financial-services industry and make it more transparent, the products on offer should become more tempting.
That's the theory of the poet who takes groups of men into the woods to bang drums and helps us get in touch with our proud, warlike selves.
Having frustrated Steyn further by guiding him wide of the slips for four, Anderson's ride was over when a full, fast and straight delivery crashed into his pads, bang in front of middle stump.
From the Big Bang to the present and forward into the future, Space gives a vision of the birth, evolution and end of the phenomena that make up the universe as never seen before.
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Dr Penrose's version of events is that the universe did not come into existence at the Big Bang but instead passes through a continuous cycle of aeons.
Ironically, one consistent positive point on the GS4 was a the fact that you could turn all of these whizz-bang features off, and push the phone into Easy Mode.
If matter and antimatter were truly symmetrical, then they would have come into existence in equal amounts during the Big Bang and thus annihilated each other.
Sternberg, meanwhile, has turned the Tampa Bay Rays into a perennial playoff team by getting a big bang for the buck from his player payroll.
This should hopefully help it add to the work of Hubble, peering deep into the universe to help better understand the big bang and investigate alien planets.
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By studying waves from galaxies that have taken millions of years to reach earth, the telescope could also shed new light on how the universe was shaped in the aftermath of the Big Bang by enabling astronomers to observe events just 300 million years into the estimated 13.7 billion-year life of the universe.
They maintain that the big bang legislation promised by Labour in every manifesto since 1974 has turned into a damp squib.
One day Scott wanders into Thacker's shop and a bing, and a bang, and a boom.
Then there may be a bang and a clatter, or a snapped branch and dark shapes plummeting into a clearing in front of you.
With risk-taking coming back to most markets, investors in the riskiest asset classes are being forced to channel their funds into different sectors and instruments in their attempts to get the most bang for their buck.
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And I think if you have invested a lot in a really rotten character like Bang Abbott, the paparazzo, if you really put your heart and soul into bringing this guy to life, you owe it to your readers to have a poetic and satisfying end to his side of the story.
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But the desire to stuff the City back into the narrow streets and poky buildings to which it was confined before Big Bang is at odds with the requirements of another kind of rebalancing: for exports to fire the economy at a time when government and consumers are tackling their debts.
The LHC accelerates two beams of subatomic particles to nearly the speed of light and then deliberately collides the beams into one another to re-create the conditions that existed just milliseconds after the Big Bang.
Beyond its obvious visual appeal, data like this should give physicists at the DOE's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory insight into the nature of neutrinos (some of which are said to have been issued from the Big Bang) and, by extension, the origins of our ever-expanding universe.
His explosions tap into a primordial human attachment to fire and to what he sees as our genetic memories of the Big Bang.
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