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The system then fires interceptor missiles at the incoming rockets that seem most likely to hit an inhabited area.
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Brian Barrett, WIRED, 14 Apr. 2024
Sources: Reasons to be Cheerful Tuvalu’s effort to create a digital nation is preserving heritage amid the sea levels that threaten it
Scientists say rising tides could render the small country of nine inhabited islands, located roughly halfway between Australia and Hawaii, uninhabitable by 2100.
—Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2024
The typical inhabited island is likewise rich in sunshine and warmth and has access to a shallow lagoon, palm trees and maybe a mangrove forest.
—Maahil Mohamed Elke Scholiers, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2024
Grand Isle Best known for its deep-sea fishing and birding habitat, Louisiana's Grand Isle is the state's only inhabited barrier island.
—Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 22 Mar. 2024
The pallet is the largest object ever thrown out from the ISS, but NASA had hoped that the entire thing would burn up upon reentry or that at least the debris would not hit inhabited areas.
—Passant Rabie / Gizmodo, Quartz, 2 Apr. 2024
As for the last inhabited place to ring in the New Year, that's the islands of Niue and American Samoa to the southwest of Kiribati in the South Pacific.
—Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2023
The Path Down The safest way to bring the ISS down to Earth, NASA officials say, is to dump it into the sparsely inhabited expanses of the southern Pacific Ocean to reduce the odds of harm.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 21 Nov. 2023
Meanwhile, a pair of the side boosters from the Long March 3B rocket used for the launch appeared to fall to the ground near inhabited areas in Guangxi region, downrange of the Xichang spaceport in Sichuan province, according to apparent bystander footage on Chinese social media.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 5 Jan. 2024
Brian Barrett, WIRED, 14 Apr. 2024
Sources: Reasons to be Cheerful Tuvalu’s effort to create a digital nation is preserving heritage amid the sea levels that threaten it
Scientists say rising tides could render the small country of nine inhabited islands, located roughly halfway between Australia and Hawaii, uninhabitable by 2100.
—Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2024
The typical inhabited island is likewise rich in sunshine and warmth and has access to a shallow lagoon, palm trees and maybe a mangrove forest.
—Maahil Mohamed Elke Scholiers, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2024
Grand Isle Best known for its deep-sea fishing and birding habitat, Louisiana's Grand Isle is the state's only inhabited barrier island.
—Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 22 Mar. 2024
The pallet is the largest object ever thrown out from the ISS, but NASA had hoped that the entire thing would burn up upon reentry or that at least the debris would not hit inhabited areas.
—Passant Rabie / Gizmodo, Quartz, 2 Apr. 2024
As for the last inhabited place to ring in the New Year, that's the islands of Niue and American Samoa to the southwest of Kiribati in the South Pacific.
—Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2023
The Path Down The safest way to bring the ISS down to Earth, NASA officials say, is to dump it into the sparsely inhabited expanses of the southern Pacific Ocean to reduce the odds of harm.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 21 Nov. 2023
Meanwhile, a pair of the side boosters from the Long March 3B rocket used for the launch appeared to fall to the ground near inhabited areas in Guangxi region, downrange of the Xichang spaceport in Sichuan province, according to apparent bystander footage on Chinese social media.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 5 Jan. 2024
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“Inhabited.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inhabited. Accessed 26 Apr. 2024.
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