Blue Origin just announced that it is scrubbing this morning’s New Shepard suborbital rocket test flight, so that means SpaceX will be the only company launching anything from Texas today.
A new era of gravitational-wave astronomy, which uses gravity to examine the universe in the same way that conventional astronomy uses light, is dawning. Watch this space. Or spacetime https://econ.st/3NU6U9a
Image credit: NASA/GSFC/Jeremy Schnittman & Brian P. Powell
With coded references to "eating melons" and "that person", Chinese social media users are getting creative to discuss tennis star Peng Shuai online as censors race to scrub all mentions of her sexual assault allegations.
scrub1
/skrʌb/
verb
- 1.rub (someone or something) hard so as to clean them, typically with a brush and water."he had to scrub the floor"
- 2.informalcancel or abandon (something)."the first two races had to be scrubbed because of blustery winds and rough seas"
noun
- 1.an act of scrubbing something or someone."give the floor a good scrub"
- 2.a semi-abrasive cosmetic lotion applied to the face or body in order to cleanse the skin."don't use facial scrubs if your skin is sensitive"
gravitate towards/to sth/sb
UK phrasal verb (US gravitate toward sth/sb) to be attracted by or to move in the direction of something or someone: Susie always gravitates towards the older children in her playgroup.
gravitation
noun [S or U]
The gravitation of country people to/towards the capital began in the 1920s.
intr.v., -tat·ed, -tat·ing, -tates.
- To move in response to the force of gravity.
- To move downward.
- To be attracted by or as if by an irresistible force: “My excuse must be that all Celts gravitate towards each other” (Oscar Wilde).
[New Latin gravitāre, gravitāt-, from Latin gravitās, heaviness. See gravity.]
沒有留言:
張貼留言