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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

  • 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

  • 'The Peacekeepers are coming on a minimum-energy trajectory.'

    Moonwar Bova, Ben, 1932- 1997

  • "That is, if we stick to our current minimum-energy course."

    Warhorse Zahn, Timothy 1990

  • 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

  • Roy has spent his professional life working to create minimum-energy electronics.

    The Purdue Exponent 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Why not build a spacecraft that does a minimum-energy cycle between Earth and Mars orbits continuously, for shuttling crew back and forth?

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2008

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