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Recent Examples of movelessThis made us—with all our human, mortal limitations—rather like the God of all those past centuries of belief, or should that be credulity: the God who retained and stored away everything in his motley, moveless time, in which nothing was new or old, remote or recent.—Margaret Jull Costa, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
Ambush hunting enables energy conservation while minimizing the risks associated with pursuit; remaining motionless in water for hours also costs comparatively little.
Microfiber actually traps it, thanks to a static charge that pulls particles in and holds onto them.
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Angela Haupt,
Time,
3 June 2026
In 2016, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at Launch Complex-40 exploded during the same type of static hot fire test that New Glenn was undergoing, and facilities there didn't support another launch for a year.