The Nine Inch Nails album The Downward Spiral has several nihilistic themes and concepts throughout the overall storyline, with the narrator rejecting the world and the concept of God and attempting to forge his own versions ( with lines such as " God is dead / And no one cares / If there is a Hell / I'll see you there ").

* The opening sounds of " Mr. Self Destruct " on the Nine Inch Nails 1994 album The Downward Spiral is a sample from THX 1138 in which a man is being beaten by a prison guard.

Downward comparison is when an individual compares themselves to someone who is considered beneath them.

Downward displacement ( or gravity-type ): As steam enters the chamber, it fills the upper areas first as it is less dense than air.

It is in fact thought that the lack of FTI toxicity may be due to a failure to fully inhibit Ras: FTIs actually target normal cells but alternative pathway allow these cells to survive ( Downward J, 2003 ).

Downward rotation would be prevented by co-contraction of other muscles that elevate the spine, the upper fibers of the trapezius, which is an upward rotator.

Alternatively, the home of the Dvergar is called Niðavellir or the ' Downward Fields ' ( Völuspá 37 ).

Downward to the Earth is a 1970 science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg.

Downward social comparison is a defensive tendency that people use as a means of self-evaluation.

Adho mukha śvānāsana, adho mukha shvanasana ( ; ; IAST: Adho Mukha Śvānāsana ), Downward-Facing Dog Pose, Downward Dog, or Down Dog, is an asana.

Downward movement of tubing ( tripping in ) creates a pressure that is exerted on the bottom of a well.

Others attempt the task, but none succeed like Leonard Welsted ( who had satirized Pope, Gay, and Arbuthnot's play Three Hours after Marriage in 1717 ), for he goes in swinging his arms like a windmill ( to splash all with mud ): " No crab more active in the dirty dance ,/ Downward to climb, and backward to advance " ( II 296-7 ).

Joining the band Nine Inch Nails upon graduation from college, Brian lived with Trent Reznor in New Orleans for a while, working on the EP Broken before the band relocated to Los Angeles, or more specifically, the Sharon Tate house to record The Downward Spiral.

Downward the earth was dug, until I reached rock in the earth.

" On the ' Downward Control ' of Extratropical Diabatic Circulations by Eddy-Induced Mean Zonal Forces " Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences Volume 48, Issue 4 ( February 1991 ) pp. 651 – 678.

* Belzagor — A planet colonized by Earth, whose natives are the elephant-like nildoror, in Downward to the Earth by Robert Silverberg.

( Margaret Kartomi, 2011, Upward and Downward Classifications of Musical Instruments-musicology. ff, cuni. cz )

* Downward counterfactuals: We compare our situation with those even worse ( e. g., " Yes, I procrastinated and got a B-in the course, but I didn't fail like one other student did .").

While writing The Downward Spiral, Reznor lived in the Tate mansion where the Manson family murders took place.

* Industrial band Nine Inch Nails covered the song " Memorabilia " in 1994 which appeared on the " Closer " single and on their 10th anniversary re-release of The Downward Spiral during 2004.

In 1994, he worked again with Nine Inch Nails, this time on The Downward Spiral.

Downward they destroy another object.

Downward compression reduces loud sounds over a certain threshold while quiet sounds remain unaffected.

This was only shown once during the original broadcast, was edited out of all repeats, and generally seen as a sign that the long-awaited follow-up to The Downward Spiral would be released early in 1999.

Non-standard egress systems include Downward Track ( used for some crew positions in bomber aircraft, including the B-52 Stratofortress ), Canopy Destruct ( CD ) and Through-Canopy Penetration ( TCP ), Drag Extraction, Encapsulated Seat, and even Crew Capsule.

Early models of the F-104 Starfighter were equipped with a Downward Track ejection seat due to the hazard of the T-tail.

2, 3: ' Downward ', PlayStation, & 4 ) – The host of the German volumes.

* YDKJ Vol. 3: ' Downward – carbon copy of U. S. Vol. 4 (" The Ride ") in German

It is the gait of the human who must run to live: arms dangling, legs barely swinging over the ground, head hung down and only occasionally swinging up to see the target, a loose motion that is just short of stumbling and yet is wonderfully graceful.

Further, change is a form of motion, it occurs as the act of a being in potency insofar as it is in potency and has not yet reached the terminus of the change.

Now what is perfect motion??

Circular motion, however, since it is eternal and perfectly continuous, lacks termini.

It is never motion towards something.

Thus, circular motion is itself one of the essential characteristics of completely perfect celestial existence.

This is clear when one distinguishes the types of motion appropriate to both regions.

But the natural condition for the heavenly bodies is neither rest, nor rectilinear motion.

I refer to the notion that the structure of society is a microcosm of the cosmic design and that history conforms to patterns of justice and chastisement as if it were a morality play set in motion by the gods for our instruction.

Wyatt and Whipple, 1950 ), which is a retardation of the orbital motion of particles by the relativistic aberration of the repulsive force of the impinging solar radiation, causes the dust to spiral into the sun in times much shorter than the age of the Earth.

The mass scale used in Table 5-1 was derived on the assumption that the motion of the glowing trail is related to the momentum transfer to the trail by the meteorite, permitting the calculation of the mass if the velocity is known ( Cook and Whipple, 1958 ).

The restrained gyro-stabilized platform with reasonable response characteristics operates with an approximate equation of motion, neglecting transient effects, as follows: Af where U is a torque applied about the output axis of the controlling gyro.

Obviously, the heading accuracy is lessened by such techniques since errors are introduced because of motion of the stand.

Of the two, Porter is justly the better known, for he went far beyond the vital finding of fiction for films to take the first step toward fashioning a language of film, toward making the motion picture the intricate, efficient time machine that it has remained since, even in the most inept hands.

The time of the motion picture is fixed absolutely.

Time is built into the motion picture, which cannot exist without time.

A portable kerosene range designed for use aboard boats is sold with a special railing to keep it from moving with the motion of the vessel.

The most common method of presenting animation is as a motion picture or video program, although there are other methods.

The emphasis is given in anatomy, and it is one of the first attempts to represent a kind of motion, and beauty relative to proportions, which appear mostly in post-Archaic art.

This might be the proper standard of review, for example, if the lower court resolved the case by granting a pre-trial motion to dismiss or motion for summary judgment which is usually based only upon written submissions to the trial court and not on any trial testimony.