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In addition, the ellipsoidal shape is able to intensify sunlight only when the sun is low in the sky — when the light is not so strong — and the water itself provides cooling.

Apparently, rain cannot cause a forest fire « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2010

Water drops are usually ellipsoidal in shape and are less able than a sphere to concentrate light.

Apparently, rain cannot cause a forest fire « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2010

This says that the Weyl curvature, that portion of the Riemann curvature involved with tidal forces and the distention of material into ellipsoidal configurations, increases with time.

Death in the Sky: M31 Shreds its Satellites | Universe Today 2010

All that remained was a perfect ellipsoidal shape of melted stone.

A Corridor in the Asylum 2010

There were dozens of knives; ellipsoidal, stiletto, triangular, with or without blood gutters grooved nastily in their flanks, gem-encrusted little pig-stickers for argumentative ladies, trick knives concealed in eyeglass cases or boot soles ... all the deadly variety of which the honer was capable.

A Corridor in the Asylum 2010

*Comment: FK Coma Berenices variable stars are examples of probable stellar mergers, whose ellipsoidal envelopes are/ have merged together, and often show very fast rotation.

Merging White Dwarfs Set Off Supernovae | Universe Today 2010

Although in/on/within an outside-inside ellipsoidal earth doubly functioning as sky -- i.e., when the earth is the sky is the earth (and even when a wall is a floor is a ceiling is a floor is a wall in zero and near-zero gravity) -- one can certainly imagine less differentiated, more egalitarian self-organizing bee-line trajectories.

Asteromo 2006

Although in/on/within an outside-inside ellipsoidal earth doubly functioning as sky -- i.e., when the earth is the sky is the earth (and even when a wall is a floor is a ceiling is a floor is a wall in zero and near-zero gravity) -- one can certainly imagine less differentiated, more egalitarian self-organizing bee-line trajectories.

Archive 2006-02-01 2006

A shakespeare is an ellipsoidal light for theater.

Track your cycle maryrobinette 2008

A horn that Hutchinson felt in his bones as much as in his ears signaled their arrival at the stones, an ellipsoidal stretch of pave stones whose huge mass prevented them from being uprooted by the surrounding trees.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004