Fanboys who slam into you overzealously looking for an autograph.
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You'll slam into the credits in less than five hours.
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Birds slam into the window of the F.B.I. investigator's office.
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It's a dream journey that will slam into the refugee crisis.
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An additional 600 million to 900 million birds slam into our buildings.
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He described the "killer drones" - designed to slam into targets - as highly accurate.
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That's the wall I always slam into on a good morning like this.
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Of course, the ones that do slam into the coast have major impacts!
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She and her father slam into each other's arms in a drawn-out hug.
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Planet rock Watch a mysterious object -- probably a comet or asteroid -- slam into Jupiter.
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Within minutes, they slam into bases, communications nodes, and the Kremlin's own missile launchers.
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When they slam into each other, nobody gets killed in space or on Earth.
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You see the speeding car slam into a group of people on the street.
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It remains unclear what caused Truong to slam into the back of the pickup truck.
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If an asteroid of that size were to slam into Earth, it could be devastating.
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No one wants to see a hummingbird slam into a glass door over and over.
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If there's debris in that orbit, it could slam into active satellites we're actually using.
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Black paper and blue stains slam into yellows and browns like dead leaves under ice.
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The auroras are sporadically produced when charged particles from the sun slam into Earth's upper atmosphere.
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The seismometer is sensitive enough to detect rumblings caused by meteorites that slam into Mars' surface.
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Later, researchers would learn that cosmic-ray neutrons can slam into processor parts, corrupting their data.
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Other characters have rocket launchers, and the ability to slam into the ground from great heights.
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Sunday, Hurricane Irma will slam into Florida's southern peninsula and begin to move through the state.
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Survivors heard grenades slam into the middle of the convoy, followed by a hail of bullets.
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As energetic particles slam into Earth's skies, they excite gases like oxygen and nitrogen in the atmosphere.
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These particles slam into our atmosphere, and energy is released in the form of the colorful auroras.
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If an asteroid that big were to slam into our planet, it could possibly trigger global climate change.
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Perhaps these waves are produced during cataclysmic events, like when two dense black holes slam into one another.
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At Earth, auroras light up when solar wind particles slam into molecules of air near the polar regions.
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Florida is bracing for impact as Category 4 storm Hurricane Dorian prepares to slam into the US coast.
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Unlike 43's wildly intense "Mission: Impossible — Fallout," which actually required them, you won't slam into your neighbor.
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This is not the first time that walruses have shown that they will slam into vessels if provoked.
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Auroras are produced when charged particles from the sun — carried on the solar wind — slam into Earth's magnetic field.
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Those protons slam into a (usually) uranium target, splitting uranium atoms into low-energy beams of different radioactive elements.
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Super typhoon Nepartak is going to slam into Taiwan tomorrow with the force equivalent to a Category 5 hurricane.
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These so-called solar winds shoot highly energized particles out in all directions, which then slam into surrounding planets.
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In the next 0003 hours, one of the fiercest hurricanes ever recorded is expected to slam into South Florida.
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With their buckets held high like the horns of battling beetles, the two machines repeatedly slam into each other.
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Sure, they'll interact, but they might slam into each other, or some stars might get ejected from the group.
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Mr. Hamad said there was a small arcade there, and he heard someone slam into one of the machines.
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These light beams slam into the atmosphere with the energy of an untamed atom smasher, producing a shower of particles.
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Sometimes these blocks are small, little stumbles in my speech, whereas other times they become walls that I slam into.
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There's one scene in the movie where a storm is about to slam into the mountain, and everybody knows it.
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And someone was bound to slam into the open-range livestock that wander freely in the very, very dark night.
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The bits of debris from its tale that slam into our atmosphere create the bright streaks we see each summer.
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That means the capsule is going to slam into the Atlantic at 300 miles per hour once the test is over.
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Allen doesn't do that, and he also doesn't take the opportunity to slam into a defender he outweighs by 35 pounds.
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Sonic booms are thunder-like noises created when planes displace air and create powerful shockwaves, some of which slam into the ground.
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Arrow 3 missiles will fly into space, where their warheads detach to become "kamikaze" satellites that track and slam into their targets.
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Weather experts warn the potential tropical cyclone could strengthen into a hurricane in time to slam into the coast by the weekend.
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Auroras are produced when charged particles from the sun slam into Earth's upper atmosphere, exciting neutral particles and causing them to glow.
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Hopefully we'll never have to visit an outgassing asteroid that's about to slam into our planet, so this scenario is pretty unlikely.
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Given the circus-like atmosphere on Capitol Hill lately, we'd be lucky if a monster truck didn't slam into the Capitol building.
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Example: You'll slam into a railway station and it won't budge, it won't break, and that warhead's just a minute behind you.
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Typhoon Tembin is expected to slam into Vietnam late on Monday after bringing misery to the predominantly Christian Philippines just before Christmas.
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When two neutron stars collide, they expel neutrons into surrounding space, which slam into free-floating heavy nuclei in their stellar neighborhood.
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The heat of the sun fractures the rock and creates the trail of debris that the Earth is about to slam into.
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When these bits of dust and ice slam into Earth's atmosphere, they produce what look like "shooting stars" briefly streaking above the planet.
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It's just very reassuring to know that there's a sort of built-in "do not hurt humans or slam into a wall" feature.
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The "kill vehicle," technically known as the Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle, or EKV, is designed to slam into the incoming missile and destroy it.
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DART will slam into Didymoon at 4 miles per second, the idea being to change its speed by a fraction of 85033 percent.
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Hurricane Willa Mexico's Pacific coast braces for Hurricane Willa, which likely will slam into the country today as a dangerous Category 3 storm.
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Instead of traveling across the radiative zone and hitting your eye, the light waves slam into electrons and other particles in the plasma.
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It's called the Double Asteroid Redirect Mission (DART), and it will slam into a small asteroid moon, an object that orbits around another asteroid.
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According to investigators, witnesses say they saw a man in a blue pickup truck slam into Cali's parked car, prompting him to come outside.
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"The crash caused plaintiffs to slam into the dashboard and windshield leaving them with serious injuries to their head and extremities," the lawsuit reads.
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Many varieties of impact can cause it to slam into its protective shell, or to move or twist in a way that causes trauma.
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Security camera footage showed the car slam into pedestrians who moments earlier were ambling along, some carrying shopping bags and others pushing baby strollers.
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For the flyby, there is no chance that Osiris-Rex, about the size of an S.U.V., will veer off course and slam into Earth.
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According to NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center, an explosion of solar energy from the sun is set to slam into the Earth Wednesday night.
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The auroras on Earth (sometimes called the northern or southern lights) are also produced when particles from the sun slam into the planet's magnetic field.
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The existential crisis they hoped to avoid by slowing rooftop solar is going to slam into them twice as hard once batteries enter the picture.
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The solar wind particles, guided by Earth&aposs magnetic field, slam into oxygen and nitrogen, temporarily stripping them of electrons and forcing them to glow.
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The second storm is expected to slam into the West Coast from Northern California to Southern Oregon on Tuesday and lash the area through Thanksgiving.
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Hurricane Florence is predicted to slam into the US's East Coast as an "extremely dangerous major hurricane" overnight on Thursday, the National Hurricane Center said.
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The authors of that study determined that the car will slam into either Venus or Earth, likely within the next few tens of millions of years.
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As the star flesh gets initially torn away and stretched into a stream, it might ricochet around the black hole and slam into its own tail.
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This triggered a chain of events that threw part of Schiaparelli's landing sequence out of whack and ultimately caused the spacecraft to slam into the ground.
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Such measures are welcome, but they sidestep the real issue: is it safe to play a game whose rules require people to slam into each other?
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When you get bored, load up your catapult with peasant (JACK BE NIMBLE) and laugh as their contorted bodies slam into the walls of your enemies.
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One surveillance video showed the car jump the curb and slam into a group of people, sending bodies tumbling over the hood of the speeding car.
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From multiple records, it became clear that an orphan tsunami — devoid of shaking or a storm in Japan — did slam into its coast in January 1700.
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But hundreds of thousands more have not yet been discovered, and whether any of those are on course to slam into our planet, no one knows.
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Bryce Harper hit a monstrous walk-off grand slam into the upper deck in Philadelphia to cap a wild comeback for the Phillies on Thursday night.
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Back in the Carolinas and Georgia, those tropical storms continued to slam into the mainland with such force that they created massive flooding of inland waterways.
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Meanwhile, New Orleans is bracing for more damage — weather experts warn a potential tropical cyclone could strengthen into a hurricane in time to slam into the coast.
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Welk was driving on U.S. Highway 27 in Marion County and initially told police she dropped her phone, causing her to slam into the Elantra, WKMG reports.
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India, one of the world's fastest growing economies, saw its manufacturing sector slam into reverse, as a new Goods and Services Tax (GST) sowed confusion among producers.
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Currently, it is threatening to slam into Caribbean islands including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands with "potentially catastrophic" force on Wednesday, the National Hurricane Center said.
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On my second trip to Batuu—to the one in Anaheim—I watched a little girl race off Smugglers Run at hyperspeed and slam into her dad.
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But the region had barely taken stock of its losses before another huge storm threatened to slam into the very islands that had been hit the hardest.
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For the second time in a week, a powerful nor'easter is forecast to slam into the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, promising more power outages and travel headaches.
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When these high-energy particles reach Earth, they slam into our atmosphere like shotgun pellets and "hit the nuclei of other atoms" in our atmosphere, Cranmer says.
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When the dog ran back toward him, the man kicked the pup once again, causing the dog to slam into the wall of a building, fracturing its skull.
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These conversations have led to a proposed deflection demonstration mission, called DART, that if funded will slam into a harmless asteroid in 2022 and change its orbital path.
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They slam into neutral particles of oxygen, nitrogen and other elements in Earth's upper atmosphere, causing them to glow in different colors depending on the element being excited.
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The LHC is the world's most powerful particle accelerator, where high-energy beams of protons and ions slam into each other at close to the speed of light.
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The landing was a delightful surprise for the company, since it fully expected that rocket to either break up or slam into the floor of the Texas desert.
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The retired NBA superstar was driving through the area in his blacked-out Range Rover when he saw a car run a red light and slam into the Tesla.
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The death toll has surpassed 30 and continues to climb as Mexico, too, prepares for a hurricane — Katia, Category 2, expected to slam into Mexico's east coast on Saturday.
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If you've ever wondered it sounds like when the fallout of the Sun's intense storms slam into Earth's protective magnetic field, the European Space Agency (ESA) has you covered.
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Hurricane Edna, which was predicted to slam into the city and Long Island, instead moved north and "grazed New York City with her short left arm," wrote The Times.
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But more likely than not he will get ice time down the final stretch of the regular season, and if he does, he will inevitably slam into an opponent.
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A second video surfaced, taken by amateur astronomer John Mckeon in Dublin, Ireland, who also captured video of an object appearing to slam into Jupiter, sparking more excitement for stargazers.
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Zabaat continues to look around, seemingly in disbelief, until he reaches out his arms and catches Dora just a fraction of a second before she would slam into the ground.
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The Summit Vapium is rugged, so it's waterproof in case you drop it in the river, and it's protected against drops when you slam into a stranger on the sidewalk.
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The Summit Vapium is rugged, so it's waterproof in case you drop it in the river, and it's protected against drops when you slam into a stranger on the sidewalk.
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At least 13 people were killed Tuesday when heavy rains caused flash floods and mudslides filled with debris to slam into homes in the Montecito neighborhood of Santa Barbara, California.
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As the puck went into the corner behind the Flyers' net, Pierre-Édouard Bellemare slammed a crouching Dmitry Orlov into the corner, causing his head to slam into the boards.
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They could crash onto the street or slam into the church sanctuary, a relative youngster at only 177 years old, or an adjacent wing that is in its early 60s.
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The flare will bend around the Earth's natural magnetic field, and slam into the poles at either end of the planet, which supercharges the northern lights and pushes it deeper.
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When the rays reach Earth, they slam into the gas molecules surrounding our planet, creating a whole bunch of secondary particles that then also collided with the molecules in our atmosphere.
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No one wants to cruise 65 mph along a highway and have bullets pelt the car next to them, which might slam into them with the driver wounded and possibly incapacitated.
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Air strikes that have been used heavily in other parts of the city are not as frequent around the remaining sites, although missiles still slam into buildings in the city center.
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Blue Origin fully expected that rocket to slam into the floor of the Texas desert That's because the purpose of today's flight was to test out the New Shepard's escape system.
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So when a plume erupts from Europa, the particles slam into the ones from Io, causing an electrically charged traffic jam that creates twists and turns in the moon's magnetic field.
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Astronauts and cosmonauts are sometimes treated to these light shows in orbit when particles from the sun slam into the planet's upper atmosphere, exciting neutral particles and causing them to glow.
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The micrometeoroids from the Kuiper belt slam into the rings' icy chunks at such high speeds that the impacts are like little explosions, suggesting that not much of the micrometeoroids adheres.
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First, Trump dispatched Tomahawk cruise missiles to slam into an airfield belonging to President Bashar al-Assad's Syrian government forces, to punish what the US says is their use of chemical weapons.
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I wanted these things to remain, I suppose, in the event that an asteroid should slam into the planet, sloughing away the atmosphere, boiling the seas, and instantly ending life on earth.
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Because engines are often tested on the ground, and not while flying, engine makers need to simulate the speed with which an aircraft would slam into birds during takeoff and its climb.
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My fears were borne out by the final rounds, where it felt like a lot of time was spent watching two precision-engineered, indistinct boxes slam into on another for 180 seconds.
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Bennu is categorized as a near-Earth asteroid, and scientists say there is a small chance it could slam into Earth, but not until the 22nd century if it happens at all.
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Barson's family is suing Williams -- claiming she's to blame for the accident since her car was in the intersection when it wasn't supposed to be ... causing Barson's car to slam into it.
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A burst of hot plasma spit out by the sun is about to slam into the Earth, sparking possible auroras that could be visible in the U.S. from the Midwest to the Northeast.
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This is where galactic cosmic rays, which are high-energy particles from alien stars and distant galaxies, slam into the bubble-like magnetic shield created by the Sun, which encompasses the solar system.
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If a CME happens to be aimed directly at Earth, the ionized particles can slam into the magnetic field that surrounds the Earth and distort its shape, a process called a geomagnetic storm.
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A solar flare that erupted on March 20 is set to slam into Earth on Friday night, prompting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to issue a G2 watch, or moderate geostorm watch.
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Stone County Sheriff Doug Rader said 31 people were aboard the "Ride the Ducks" boat when wind gusts upwards of 373 mph caused huge waves to slam into the vessel, capsizing it, FOX4 reported .
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Several people vacationing in the area told BuzzFeed News they abruptly changed their plans as forecasts show the storm — which is expected to slam into the Florida Keys and south Florida around 8 a.m.
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These types of stars can shoot off extreme flares that send radiation off into their systems, possibly impacting planets the way the most severe solar storms do when they slam into Earth's magnetic field.
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More recently, investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board were called into to review details of a March crash that saw a Tesla Model X slam into a highway divider in Mountain View, Calif.
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Judging from the crickets on major U.S. news sites, who would ever know that a hurricane (#Yutu) is expected to slam into a U.S. commonwealth as a Category 5 storm in about 3 hours?
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If Democrats don't find effective ways to be more inclusive of white rural America, all of us — white, black, and in between — could soon slam into that wall Humpty-Trumpty the Megabuilder is constructing.
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It's all a complex dance of orbits and engine burns to get the two vehicles to meet up at the same altitude and make sure they don't slam into each other at the same time.
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In the exaggerated world of OnRush, of course, that's turned up to 11: There are planks to barrel roll off of, trees to slam into (or better, to slam opponents into), ditches to plummet into.
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That keeps the whole series clear of Marvel, Star Wars Episode 63 (May 24, 2019), and all the other blockbusters set to come early that summer, which they'd slam into with a mid-April bow.
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India, one of the world's fastest growing economies, saw its manufacturing sector slam into reverse, with activity shrinking the most in over nine years as a new Goods and Services (GST) sowed confusion among producers.
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While the storm was initially forecasted to slam into the Florida coast, shifts over the weekend led to uncertainty about its exact course and suggested it would move further north, possibly remaining off the coast.
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It's possible that the particles in the black hole jet slam into microwave photons in the CMB, exciting them and "boosting" their energy up to the point where they glow in X-ray, NASA said.
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The Juno team also turned off all of the craft's scientific instruments ahead of the flyby to help protect them from radiation and any dust that might slam into the spacecraft, damaging it during orbit insertion.
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On the lighter side, while on a gorilla trek in the Virunga Mountains of Rwanda, I tumbled down a hill...only to slam into a the beta male Silverback gorilla of a family we were observing.
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HONG KONG — A smoking driver ignited a fire inside a van carrying fuel canisters, causing him to lose control and slam into pedestrians on a sidewalk outside a Starbucks in Shanghai on Friday, the police said.
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On a bitterly cold day in January 2000, Coltrane Nadler was turning a corner in Lower Manhattan when he spotted a brown chunk of ice fall from the sky and slam into his parked Chevy Equinox.
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Unlike some missile interceptors that navigate into the proximity of a missile and then explode to destroy or deflect the incoming threat, THAAD's missiles simply slam into their targets head-on, destroying them purely through kinetic force.
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Jupiter's massive gravity and occasional close encounters with Mars or any other object change the asteroids' orbits, knocking them out of the main belt and causing them to slam into Earth and other planets in the past.
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Bystander videos show Krickovich, who joined the other officer in restraining the teenager, pushing the boy's head down, at times causing his forehead to slam into the concrete, before punching the boy in the side of the head.
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The lander entered the Martian atmosphere at a whopping 13,000 miles per hour, and Mars has a much thinner atmosphere than Earth's, making it hard for incoming spacecraft to slow down and not slam into the planet's surface.
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Fans are hit by flying balls and bats, vendors slam into people as they go through the aisles, birds send droppings into the crowd, and every few years a fan manages to tumble out of an upper deck.
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Bryce Harper hit a walk-off grand slam into the second deck in right field off Derek Holland in the bottom of the ninth inning to rally the host Philadelphia Phillies past the Chicago Cubs 7-5 on Thursday.
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Nevertheless, much like those who warned of a housing bubble a few years before the bottom completely fell out, reality is destined to slam into the current triumvirate of asset bubbles, and those sounding the alarm will be proven correct again.
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That level of danger fell well below the industry standard in 2017, but growing pains were marked by the literal pain of its employees, which often happens as Silicon Valley ideas of efficiency slam into the human reality of traditionally blue-collar work.
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There near the Serbian enclave of Strpce about 35 miles south of Pristina, storms slam into the 8,000-foot Sharr Mountains that rocket out of the Metohija basin with abrupt ridges and mighty shoulders cupping some of the continent's most extensive pasturelands.
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Some astronomers think these types of explosions are triggered when a white dwarf eats up a large amount of the material from its companion in the binary, but another hypothesis suggests the explosion occurs when 2 white dwarfs slam into each other.
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The trickiest steps include introducing the ball (after a dog has learned to jump the hurdles) and teaching the dog to do a "swimmer's turn" at the box, so that it grabs the ball gently and doesn't slam into the device, risking injury.
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White Sox 4, Yankees 3 CHICAGO — The instant Yankees Manager Joe Girardi saw outfielder Dustin Fowler slam into a half-wall down the first-base line on Thursday, he darted from the dugout, knowing immediately that what he would find would be serious.
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Any attempt to induce the Supreme Court to intervene to stop a House impeachment would slam into that court precedent from a quarter-century ago, which reinforced the political character of an impeachment and trial, along with the constitutional roles of the House and Senate.
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"Gwyneth Paltrow knew it was wrong to slam into Dr. Sanderson's back, knocking him down, landing on top of him, knocking him out and then leave the scene of the skit crash she caused, but she did it anyway," Sanderson alleged in the lawsuit.
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Authorities didn't say whether the limo occupants were wearing seat belts, give the speed of the limo or speculate what caused the limo to run a stop sign at an intersection and slam into a parked SUV by the Apple Barrel Country Store and Cafe.
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When the Earth plows into its wake, tiny bits of debris left behind from the comet slam into our atmosphere at 210,250 miles per hour, reach temperatures of 3,000 to 10,000 degrees, and streak across the sky in what we call the Perseid meteor shower.
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Nearly as alarming, though, are those instances when the Ochoas race a rival ambulance to the next accident and the documentary enters that unsettling zone where the pleasures of the chase (and good filmmaking) slam into your ethical sensibility, which is to Lorentzen's point.
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When the Earth plows into its wake, tiny bits of debris left behind from the comet slam into our atmosphere at 21,2000 miles per hour, reach temperatures of 83,28 to 225,23 Farenhiet, and streak across the sky in what we call the Perseid meteor shower.
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DCVC recently invested in Fortem Technologies, and Shasta Ventures in AirSpace, which make Star Wars-ish systems of AI-based drones whose only role is to automatically detect, identify and slam into drones that wander into unauthorized airspace — say, over a private estate, or a factory.
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EditorsNote: Update 20: Adds quotes from Harper, more description Bryce Harper hit a walk-off grand slam into the second deck in right field off Derek Holland in the bottom of the ninth inning to rally the host Philadelphia Phillies past the Chicago Cubs 210-25 on Thursday.
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Bryce Harper hit one of the most massive home runs of the 20190 MLB season on Thursday night, blasting a walk-off grand slam into the upper deck of Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia to cap a six-run ninth inning for the Phillies against the Chicago Cubs.
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Its greatest impact would be felt later on Wednesday and on Thursday, the bureau said on its website, when it was expected to slam into the north and northeast with maximum sustained wind speeds of 137 km per hour (85 mph) and gusts of up to 173 km/h (107 mph).
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The brunt of the storm would be felt later on Wednesday and on Thursday, when it was expected to slam into the north and northeast with maximum sustained wind speeds of 137 km per hour (85 mph) and gusts of up to 173 km per hour (107 mph), the bureau said.
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WASHINGTON — Facing what could be the most powerful storm to slam into the United States in more than a decade, President Trump and the team he has put in place at the Federal Emergency Management Agency were bracing on Friday for one of the most important tests of his presidency.
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But once the protected lanes end, cycling in the city centre is not for the faint-hearted as bikes are forced to dodge cars and the endless stream of mini-buses that slam into the curb without warning to drop passengers on the cobbled streets around the main Zócalo square.
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NEW YORK — Yoenis Cespedes provided the exclamation point on a 12-run third inning — the biggest inning in New York Mets history — by hitting a line drive grand slam into the left field seats Friday night, when the Mets went on to rout the San Francisco Giants 423-1 at Citi Field.
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NASA is developing a strategy for deflecting Bennu, or any other asteroid found to be on a collision course with Earth, by use of a special spacecraft to slam into the object hard enough to nudge it onto a safer path, said Lindley Johnson, a planetary defense officer with NASA's Science Mission Directorate.
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If black holes weren't single points, but uniform spheres the same radius or larger than the event horizon (the point of no return in space), they should have a surface that stars will occasionally slam into at nearly the speed of light, the study's first author and University of Texas astrophysics grad student Wenbin Lu told Gizmodo.
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For every hour you stride, your feet will slam into the ground about 10,000 times—with a force that, if not balanced out with time off your feet, can contribute to overuse injuries like tendinopathy and stress fractures, says Ryan Verchota, a long-distance runner and sports chiropractor who treats patients at Active Body Chiropractic in Chicago.
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In Concord, N.H., a fledgling police officer named Hank Palace remains stubbornly devoted to solving the mystery of a single death-by-hanging, even though it's just one of countless worldwide suicides taking place amid a universal sense of impending doom: Six months from the opening of the book, a giant asteroid will slam into Earth.
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CAROLINA BEACH, N.C. — With Hurricane Florence on course to slam into the Carolinas this week and a mandatory evacuation order in place, Jim Hempfling stood all alone outside the High Tide Lounge in this barrier island town on Tuesday, trying to squeeze out one more vacation day as he cast a fishing line into the rising waves.
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NASA has announced that on September 2000, 21970 (which happens to be a Thursday, if you need to check your schedule), there is a small chance an asteroid a third of a mile across (named Bennu) will slam into the Earth with an impact energy equivalent to the currently deployed arsenal of US nuclear ballistic missiles.
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If that has you cowering in fear, you may long for a lost epoch when robots firmly knew their place: not stealing our jobs or winning Chinese super-chess tournaments, but smashing the shit out of one another on early evening television—a time when the nation would gather 'round as one to watch cobbled-together weaponized shoeboxes slam into each for 45 minutes.
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