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Examples
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It's just gone ... no stupid person, enemy out there would be so silly as to come at us with a minimum-energy trajectory.
Wired Top Stories Nathan Hodge 2009
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On the other side of the airlock, we expected it to be dark and cool, the minimum-energy mode we'd last left it in.
Forever Free Haldeman, Joe 1999
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'The Peacekeepers are coming on a minimum-energy trajectory.'
Moonwar Bova, Ben, 1932- 1997
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"That is, if we stick to our current minimum-energy course."
Warhorse Zahn, Timothy 1990
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The ship had barely sufficient propellant for the return to Earth, even if it left much later than Leonov and flew a minimum-energy orbit -- which would take almost three years.
2010 Odyssey Two Clarke, Arthur C. 1982
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Roy has spent his professional life working to create minimum-energy electronics.
The Purdue Exponent 2010
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Under those ultracold, low-energy conditions, the atoms formed a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) ¡V a strange state of matter in which most of the atoms in a group occupy the same minimum-energy quantum state, somewhat as if they collectively constituted a single "super atom."
innovations-report 2009
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These walls could as easily be the walls of a currently standing house as they could be made of straw bales, rammed earth, earth bags, adobe, or some other highly durable minimum-energy material.
Slashdot 2009
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Why not build a spacecraft that does a minimum-energy cycle between Earth and Mars orbits continuously, for shuttling crew back and forth?
Slashdot: Science 2008
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Why not build a spacecraft that does a minimum-energy cycle between Earth and Mars orbits continuously, for shuttling crew back and forth?
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