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We are not in Martian Kansas anymore, we’re flying over the dried-up remnants of an ancient river that is filled with sand dunes, boulders, and rocks, and surrounded by hills that could have us for lunch. And while we recently upgraded the navigation software onboard to help determine safe airfields, every flight is still a white-knuckler. – Josh Anderson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
For me, hiking Sahara Convertible Pants primarily function to protect my legs, whether from an overgrown trail, poison oak, ticks or coarse boulders I may have to climb over. – Cris Hazzard	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Earth is nothing but phlegm spat out by the Sun, and our immediate solar system a whirlwind of boulders. There is no delicate balance. – A.E. Samaan	added by AlvaroSiman 1 year ago
From a distance, we can see car-sized boulders that were transported down from higher levels of Mount Sharp -- maybe by water relatively late in Mars' wet era, we don't really know what they are, so we wanted to see them up close. – Ashwin Vasavada	Found on CNN 2 years ago
If it were observable -- which, sadly, it won't be -- you would see a big flash, and dust and disintegrated rocket bits and pebbles and boulders thrown out, some of it for hundreds of kilometers. – Bill Gray	Found on CNN 2 years ago
When we get moderate to heavy rain over these recent burn scars, they can create ash or debris flows, what that means is mud, ash, and other debris such as trees, boulders and rocks can get picked up in a fast-moving flow( of water), and that can be really dangerous if people are caught in that. – Anna Wanless	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I believe there is a better answer than blocking that sidewalk. I don't like drug use and I don't like homelessness, but forcing these cats into the street is not the answer. That's not the way we do it in San Francisco. We've got to find a better answer, it shows how desperate we are. We don't know what to do. So we put up rocks -- we put up boulders on our sidewalk -- it's not right. – Greg Aherne	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We're at the drawing board now. We're definitely going to look at some of the things we have learned, it could be bigger boulders, it could be some kind of landscaping, it could be something different, but we're going to work with the neighbors on something they want. – Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru	Found on CNN 4 years ago
It was an hour drive out, then into the ranch. It's heavy brush out there and hardly any road, and huge boulders, so we had to go slow, by the time I got home it was almost two in the morning. – Jim Bob Barrera	Found on CNN 5 years ago
In the past two days the intensity of the rain was high and the water started coming down carrying boulders and roots which damaged the wall, the dam wall cracked and the water escaped. – Vinoj Kumar	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The steering wheel was shaking and we could feel boulders and rocks underneath us, the brakes didn’t work. My girlfriend was screaming ‘go go go.'. – Desionne Franklin	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Gobies are found in abundance among the rocks and boulders of our harbors and nearshore areas throughout much of the year. Foraging whitefish may be drawn to these nearshore areas when the temperature is right to feed on gobies or other prey, which increases their chances of encountering baited hooks of anglers fishing nearshore for perch, drum or other species. – Vic Santucci	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
It felt like pushing boulders up hills at the beginning, but once you got it to the top it was fantastic, and we struggled to hold onto it on the way down the hill as the momentum has taken over, the challenge now is : how does it encourage new funders to the table to make sure that we get over the line and do eliminate by 2020. – Tom Millar	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Best viewed at low tide, these beautiful boulders always make for interesting photographs. – Mike Hollman	Found on CNN 9 years ago
The river beating the stones made drumming sounds that kept growing. I heard the sound of the boulders rolling with the water. It felt like an earthquake. – Ganesh Thami	Found on CNN 9 years ago

We are not in Martian Kansas anymore, we’re flying over the dried-up remnants of an ancient river that is filled with sand dunes, boulders, and rocks, and surrounded by hills that could have us for lunch. And while we recently upgraded the navigation software onboard to help determine safe airfields, every flight is still a white-knuckler.

– Josh Anderson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For me, hiking Sahara Convertible Pants primarily function to protect my legs, whether from an overgrown trail, poison oak, ticks or coarse boulders I may have to climb over.

– Cris Hazzard

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Earth is nothing but phlegm spat out by the Sun, and our immediate solar system a whirlwind of boulders. There is no delicate balance.

– A.E. Samaan

added by AlvaroSiman
1 year ago

From a distance, we can see car-sized boulders that were transported down from higher levels of Mount Sharp -- maybe by water relatively late in Mars' wet era, we don't really know what they are, so we wanted to see them up close.

– Ashwin Vasavada

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If it were observable -- which, sadly, it won't be -- you would see a big flash, and dust and disintegrated rocket bits and pebbles and boulders thrown out, some of it for hundreds of kilometers.

– Bill Gray

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When we get moderate to heavy rain over these recent burn scars, they can create ash or debris flows, what that means is mud, ash, and other debris such as trees, boulders and rocks can get picked up in a fast-moving flow( of water), and that can be really dangerous if people are caught in that.

– Anna Wanless

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I believe there is a better answer than blocking that sidewalk. I don't like drug use and I don't like homelessness, but forcing these cats into the street is not the answer. That's not the way we do it in San Francisco. We've got to find a better answer, it shows how desperate we are. We don't know what to do. So we put up rocks -- we put up boulders on our sidewalk -- it's not right.

– Greg Aherne

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We're at the drawing board now. We're definitely going to look at some of the things we have learned, it could be bigger boulders, it could be some kind of landscaping, it could be something different, but we're going to work with the neighbors on something they want.

– Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It was an hour drive out, then into the ranch. It's heavy brush out there and hardly any road, and huge boulders, so we had to go slow, by the time I got home it was almost two in the morning.

– Jim Bob Barrera

Found on CNN
5 years ago

In the past two days the intensity of the rain was high and the water started coming down carrying boulders and roots which damaged the wall, the dam wall cracked and the water escaped.

– Vinoj Kumar

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The steering wheel was shaking and we could feel boulders and rocks underneath us, the brakes didn’t work. My girlfriend was screaming ‘go go go.'.

– Desionne Franklin

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Gobies are found in abundance among the rocks and boulders of our harbors and nearshore areas throughout much of the year. Foraging whitefish may be drawn to these nearshore areas when the temperature is right to feed on gobies or other prey, which increases their chances of encountering baited hooks of anglers fishing nearshore for perch, drum or other species.

– Vic Santucci

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It felt like pushing boulders up hills at the beginning, but once you got it to the top it was fantastic, and we struggled to hold onto it on the way down the hill as the momentum has taken over, the challenge now is : how does it encourage new funders to the table to make sure that we get over the line and do eliminate by 2020.

– Tom Millar

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Best viewed at low tide, these beautiful boulders always make for interesting photographs.

– Mike Hollman

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The river beating the stones made drumming sounds that kept growing. I heard the sound of the boulders rolling with the water. It felt like an earthquake.

– Ganesh Thami

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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