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* The Grapple Beam from the Metroid series, which allows the player to attach to and swing from special points or surfaces, as well as the Charge Beam from Metroid Prime and its sequels, which allows the player to draw power-ups in from a distance.
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Among these are the Morph Ball, which allows Samus to roll into narrow passages and drop energy bombs, and the Grapple Beam, which works similarly to a grappling hook by latching onto special hooks, called grapple points, and allowing Samus to swing from them across gaps.
" New weapons are introduced to the Metroid series in Super Metroid, including the Grapple Beam, used to latch a laser beam onto the ceiling.
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The island is chiefly notable for its " mysterious " prehistoric ruins, its once-extensive deposits of phosphatic guano ( exploited by Australian interests from c. 1860-1927 ), its former use as the site of the first British H-bomb tests ( Operation Grapple, 1957 ), and its current importance as a protected area for breeding seabirds.
The Chorus appears again, seeking support for the English navy: " Grapple your minds to sternage of this navy " he says, and notes that " the ambassador from the French comes back / Tells Harry that the king doth offer him / Katherine his daughter.
With the experience and knowledge gained from the first Grapple tests, the weaponeers had developed a new H-bomb design with a 50 percent more powerful fission primary stage and a simplified thermonuclear secondary.
The design of Grapple Y was notably successful because much of its yield came from its thermonuclear reaction instead of from the fast fission a heavy uranium-238 tamper-hence making it a true H-bomb, and also because its yield had been closely predicted — indicating that its designers understood what they were doing.
Grapple Z sought to develop lighter nuclear warheads as well as weapons that were radiologically hardened-meaning they would not detonate prematurely if they were exposed to nuclear radiation from other nuclear explosions.
* AWE ( UK government Atomic Weapons Establishment ) page on Grapple including picture of Grapple Y mushroom cloud ( formerly at http :// www. awe. co. uk / main_site / about_awe / history / timeline / 1957 / index. html but now only available from archive. org )
* Parliamentary Reply states that 106 New Zealand veterans from Operation Grapple are receiving War Disablement Pension ( 2006 )
In the episode " To The Last Will I Grapple With Thee " ( Season 8, Episode 17, originally broadcast Sunday, March 15, 1992 ), Jessica receives a birthday cake from her friend, Sean Cullane, earlier in the day, and celebrates her birthday with him that evening at Fenian's Chase Irish Pub, where Jessica has the Tuesday Special for dinner.
It was always envisaged that a Mk. 2 version would be available later fitted with a true thermonuclear warhead derived from the Granite type tested at Grapple, or an American type made available after the 1958 Anglo-US Bilateral Agreement.
* Operation Grapple ( Yugoslavia ), codename given to the deployment of British forces in Bosnia from 1992
* Grapple ( Transformers ), an Autobot from the second season of The Transformers TV series
A Green Bamboo assembly was subsequently taken to Christmas Island for Operation Grapple, but was deleted from the test series to save money.
He participates in the Great Grapple tournament in order to fund his self-made environmentalist organization and protect the African wildlife from poachers.
In any event, United Kingdom had initial difficulty in its development of it, failing in its first attempt in May 1957 ( its " Grapple I " test failed to ignite as planned, though much of its energy did come from fusion in its secondary ), though succeeded in its second attempt in its November 1957 " Grapple X " test ( which yielded 1. 8 Mt ).
It can be inferred from " The Grapple " that U. S. and Confederate broadcasters use a channel separation of 10 kHz instead of the 9 kHz used in Europe and Asia.
Grapple and series
Subsequent test series in 1958 ( Grapple Y and Z ) took place above or near Christmas Island itself.
This was a four-bomb test series, and the largest of the four in the Grapple series.
The last bomb in the Grapple Z series was the very last nuclear explosion carried out in the atmosphere by the U. K.
* Photos taken by the journalist " Cassandra " during the Grapple test series
* Settling Accounts: The Grapple ( 2006 ) ; third book in the series and tenth in the overall timeline.
* Operation Grapple, a series of United Kingdom nuclear weapon tests
* Settling Accounts: The Grapple, the third book in the Settling Accounts series by Harry Turtledove
Grapple and which
During the British Grapple X test of 8 November 1957 which took place directly above the southeastern tip of Christmas Island, yield was stronger than expected and there was some blast damage in the settlements.
** Operation Grapple: At Malden Island in the Pacific, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb, which fails to detonate properly.
First successful British Teller – Ulam design | H-bomb test – Operation Grapple X Round C1, which took place over Kiritimati
Nonetheless, Jobson's playing won him a place in Curved Air, though the group disbanded after just one album, 1973's Air Cut, which brought Jobson little commercial success beyond what he'd had with Fat Grapple.
The British Royal Navy built a seawater processing plant on Christmas Island early during Operation Grapple, and this which provided freshwater for drinking and cooking, and semisaline water for bathing.
First British H-bomb test-Operation Grapple X Round C1, which took place over Kiritimati.
The module has three redundant ports that are currently not scheduled to be used, although there is a Power Data Grapple Fixture reserved for the Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator, which is located on the zenith berthing location.
The plan resulted in a number of modifications to the OBSS, now known as the Enhanced ISS Boom Assembly, including the addition of a Power Data and Grapple Fixture which enables mating to the robotic arm on the end of the boom with a Canadarm2-compatible grapple fixture to favor station use.
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* 1957 – At Malden Island in the Pacific, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple.
* 1957 – Operation Grapple X, Round C1: Britain conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific.
The MBS is equipped with 4 Power Data Grapple Fixtures, one at each of its four top corners.
Grapple X was spectacularly successful, exceeding its predicted yield of one megaton by about 80 percent.
* Grapple truck, a truck that has a grapple loader mounted to its frame
The Grapple Cannon is an improvement on the A-Bomb by having a speedy projectile, but on the downside, it takes the longest to reload of any weapon, and it is the only weapon that will not provide a random weapon if it destroys its target during a hyper jump.
It was signed after the UK successfully tested its first hydrogen bomb during Operation Grapple.
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In this movement, it is limited only by the number of Power Data Grapple Fixtures ( PDGFs ) on the station.
At that point he joined the band Fat Grapple, playing locally in venues such as Redcar Jazz Club.
Operation Grapple, and operations Grapple X, Grapple Y and Grapple Z, were the names of British nuclear weapons tests of very-early hydrogen bombs.
The unproven H-bomb designs being developed by British weaponeers required full-scale testing of their capabilities, hence Operation Grapple was carried out as a massive military operation in the Central Pacific, and this the largest British military operation carried out since World War II.
The preparations for Operation Grapple, including building the necessary structures on Christmas Island, began at the end of May 1956.
While Christmas Island was the main base, three other islands supported Operation Grapple.
Air deliveries of cargo for Operation Grapple were generally sent via Hickam Air Force Base ( of the U. S. Air Force ) in the American Territory of Hawaii, where a transport group of the Royal Air Force was assigned.
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