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Thus a single-stage rocket is at a disadvantage because it must carry its entire vehicle mass to orbit, which in turn reduces payload capacity.
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Thus and single-stage
Thus, any single-stage photomultiplier is limited in gain.
Thus, with LIMDOW the Magneto-optical write process is a single-stage affair, bringing write times back up to where they should be-if not competing head on with a hard disk, at least out by only around a factor of two.
Thus and rocket
Thus a rocket would need about 6x more energy ; and allowing for the specific energy of rocket propellant being around one third that of conventional air fuel, roughly 18x more mass of propellant would need to be carried for the same journey.
Thus if a rocket burst is in the direction of the velocity, in the reversed case it is opposite to the velocity.
Thus to an observer, a clock on the rocket moves slower, as do the clocks in any reference frame that is not comoving with them.
Thus if a sky hook has been created, it can effectively convert waste asteroid or lunar material thrown to it, into high grade rocket fuel ( that is by replacing the fuel spent to maintain its own orbit ), by virtue of their kinetic energy.
Thus it would have potential applications beyond those of a direct launch rocket.
Thus Zarkov's rocket is the only means to escape certain death and they board willingly.
Thus and is
Thus, there is freshness not only in the individual movements of the dance but in the shape of their continuity as well.
Thus jazz is transmuted into something holy, the sacred road to integration of being.
Thus the fictional detective is much more than a simple businessman.
Thus the cocktail party would appear to be the ideal system, but there is one weakness.
Thus in both types attention is focused on the community itself, and its phenomenological life.
Thus, it is no mystical intuition, but an analyzable conception to say that man and his tradition can `` fall out of existence ''.
Thus human perception and human volition is the immanent cause of all social change and this most truly when the change reaches the civilizational level.
Thus, circular motion is itself one of the essential characteristics of completely perfect celestial existence.
Thus, in no ordinary sense of ' simplicity ' is the Ptolemaic theory simpler than the Copernican.
Thus Burns's `` My love is like a red, red rose '' and Hopkins' `` The thunder-purple sea-beach, plumed purple of Thunder '' although clearly intelligible in content, hardly present ideas of the sort with which we are here concerned.
Thus science is the savior of mankind, and in this respect Childhood's End only blueprints in greater detail the vision of the future which, though not always so directly stated, has nevertheless been present in the minds of most science-fiction writers.
Thus the copywriter in the world of the space merchants is the person who in earlier ages might have been a lyric poet, the person `` capable of putting together words that stir and move and sing ''.
Thus there is a clearer division of authority, administrative and legislative.
Thus, as a development program is being launched, commitments and obligations must be entered into in a given year which may exceed by twofold or threefold the expenditures to be made in that year.
Thus, the need for the B-70 as a strategic weapon system is doubtful.
Thus technical efficiency is achieved at the expense of actual experience.
Thus, there is an added incentive to stay on the job.
Thus, the Span of its ossification was shortened and the center's ability to `` catch up '' in ossification is demonstrated.
Thus T is not diagonalizable.
Thus Af is divisible by the minimal polynomial P of T, i.e., Af divides Af.
Thus, the study of the solutions to the equation Af is reduced to the study of the space of solutions of a differential equation of the form Af.
Thus in the three-dice example Af, Af, and the independence assumption imply that the probability that the three dice fall ace, not-ace, ace in that order is Af.
Thus we do not score the number of bull's-eyes, and the random variable is not the number of successes.
Thus if E is sufficiently small, there can be only one intersection of C and Af near Q, for if there were more than one intersection for every E then the difference between C and Af near Q would not be a monotone function.
Thus Af is also continuous at Af, and in a neighborhood of Af which does not contain a tangent point.
Thus and at
Thus Trevelyan repeats the story which pictured Victor Emmanuel as refusing to abandon the famous Statuto at the insistence of General Radetzky.
Thus, in the last few years, a number of programs which looked very promising at the time their development was commenced have since been completely eliminated.
Thus, the larvae of the intruder can develop at the expense of the rightful inhabitants and the store of beebread.
Thus, his estimate lies between Oliver's suggestion of at least 37 feet and the 50-foot `` monstrous freaks '' intimated by Heuvelmans.
Thus, in the aggregate, the odd-lot trader is one who buys at the tops and sells at the bottoms, notwithstanding occasional individual exceptions.
Thus, food so processed might reach more remote markets and permit the consumer to enjoy more produce at peak freshness and palatability.
Thus, in the immemorial way -- in the way of the right hand that knows and the left that does not -- was the stage set for tragedy at Bari.
Thus a man who is butting a stone wall at the office may become unusually aggressive in bed -- the one place he can still be champion.
Thus at the same time that William Henry Harrison was preparing to pacify the aborigines of Indiana Territory and winning fame at the battle of Tippecanoe, Anglo-Saxon settlement made a great leap into the center of the North American continent to the west of the American agricultural frontier.
Thus, if we are to observe American folklore in the twentieth century, we will do well to establish the relationships between folklore, nationalism and imperialism at the outset.
Thus, if what is at issue is whether `` All S is P '', it is indifferent whether `` Some S is not P '' or `` No S is P '', since in either case the judgment in question is false.
Thus, while altruistic persons may under some circumstances be outcompeted by less altruistic persons at the individual level, according to group selection theory the opposite may occur at the group level where groups consisting of the more altruistic persons may outcompete groups consisting of the less altruistic persons.
Thus, a well-planned adobe wall of the appropriate thickness is very effective at controlling inside temperature through the wide daily fluctuations typical of desert climates, a factor which has contributed to its longevity as a building material.
Thus at the first Council of Constantinople, AD 448, 23 archimandrites or abbots sign, with 30 bishops.
Thus the chief magistrate of the republic at Genoa was called.
Thus, at pH between 2. 2 and 9. 4, the predominant form adopted by α-amino acids contains a negative carboxylate and a positive α-ammonium group, as shown in structure ( 2 ) on the right, so has net zero charge.
Thus at Mobile the annual mean is 67 ° F ( 19 ° C ), the mean for the summer 81 ° F ( 27 ° C ), and for the winter 52 ° F ( 11 ° C ); and at Valley Head, in De Kalb county, the annual mean is 59 ° F ( 15 ° C ), the mean for the summer 75 ° F ( 24 ° C ), and for the winter 41 ° F ( 5 ° C ).
Thus throwing a rock at someone for the purpose of hitting him is a battery if the rock in fact strikes the person and is an assault if the rock misses.
Thus, if every historian were to claim that there was a solar eclipse in the year 1600, then though we might at first naively regard that as in violation of natural laws, we'd come to accept it as a fact.
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