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12 unusual facts about Surface


Jay R. Ferguson

His notable television roles include Taylor Newton in four seasons of the CBS sitcom Evening Shade, Dr. Todd Hooper on Judging Amy, Rich Connelly in the 2005 NBC television series Surface, Agent Warren Russell on the Showtime series Sleeper Cell and most recently Stan Rizzo on the AMC series Mad Men.

MIM-46 Mauler

The General Dynamics MIM-46 Mauler was a self-propelled anti-aircraft missile system designed to a late 1950s US Army requirement for a system to combat low-flying high-performance tactical fighters and short-range ballistic missiles.

No. 30 Squadron RAAF

On 11 January 1961, No. 30 Squadron was re-formed at RAAF Base Williamtown as a Surface-to-Air Guided Weapons Squadron equipped with Bloodhound missiles.

Rockets Galore!

In the cold-war era of post-WW2 Britain, the government decides to establish a guided missile base on the Hebridean isle of Todday.

Saturation attack

Thus, SAMs and CIW resources will have to be expended to defend the target.

Stanley R. Mickelsen

During his career the Army moved from air defense based on guns to advanced anti-aircraft missiles and anti-ballistic missile systems.

Surface

For example, the surface of the Earth is (ideally) a two-dimensional sphere, and latitude and longitude provide two-dimensional coordinates on it (except at the poles and along the 180th meridian).

Surface-barrier transistor

On January 31, 1958, the United States first artificial Earth satellite was launched at Cape Canaveral in Florida, which was called Explorer 1, and was developed by the California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

SERS can be used to target specific DNA and RNA sequences using a combination of gold and silver nanoparticles and Raman-active dyes, such as Cy3.

Surface-mount technology

The design approach first demonstrated by IBM in 1960 in a small-scale computer was later applied in the Launch Vehicle Digital Computer used in the Instrument Unit that guided all Saturn IB and Saturn V vehicles.

Surface-supplied diving

Compressor diving is the most common method used to fish for Caribbean spiny lobster (Panulirus argus) in the Caribbean.

Surface-to-surface missile

The International Institute for Strategic Studies also does not define a range for LRBMs, and defines SRBMs as having somewhat shorter ranges than the definition of the Department of Defense.


2009 ASB Classic

This was consistent with the surface change that was also implemented at the Australian Open.

Allomerus decemarticulatus

Once an insect lands on the plant, the closest ant will immediately surface and grab on to a leg, antenna, wing, or some other appendage of the prey.

Anemone trifolia

The rhizome, found directly below surface is whitish, and tends to form dense clonal colonies.

Antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity

The most common Fc receptor on the surface of an NK cell is called CD16 or FcγRIII.

Durjoy-class corvette

The LPC are armed with a single 76.2mm NG-16-1 automatic cannon, two twin 25mm cannon mounted amidships, four C-704 surface to surface missiles (SSM) mounted aft, and two forward-mounted six-barreled RDC depth charge rocket launchers.

Ernst G. Bauer

Medard W. Welch Award of the American Vacuum Society (1992) - "for his contributions to the fundamental understanding of thin film nucleation and growth and for his invention, development and use of multiple surface characterization techniques to study those thin films."

Frances Brooke

In 1985, the International Astronomical Union's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature honoured Frances Moore Brooke by naming a crater after her on the surface of the planet Venus.

Game creation system

Some packages, such as Mark Overmars' Game Maker and Conitec's Gamestudio, include a more comprehensive scripting language under the surface to allow users more leeway in defining their games' behavior.

General Aircraft Fleet Shadower

The concept of a fleet patrol aircraft was superseded by the wartime development of effective Air to Surface (ASV) radar that could be fitted in long-range patrol aircraft such as the Consolidated Liberator I.

Hans Rotmo

He was a supporter of the revolutionary communist movement AKP(m-l) in his younger years, and many of the lyrics of his songs, especially those from the Vømmøl period, are influenced by the thoughts of Mao Zedong and Karl Marx, although the surface content of most of these songs concern the population of rural Norway, the industrial progress that followed World War II, and the effects of the latter on the former.

High Bridge Branch

1990s: Columbia Gas Transmission of West Virginia construct a gas line under the former rail bed, and the surface rights for the former High Bridge Branch line are transferred to the Hunterdon County Department of Parks and Recreation and Morris County Parks and Recreation for use as a recreational trail, known as Columbia Trail.

Jagjivanpur

These plaques were probably used to decorate the outer surface of the stupa like Paharpur & Mainamati.

Joy Mining Machinery

Joy Mining Machinery is a manufacturer of surface and underground mining machinery based in Warrendale, Pennsylvania, United States.

Karel Doorman-class support ship

All sensor systems are housed in an integrated mast, provided by Thales Nederland, called the I-Mast 400, comprising a SeaMaster 400 SMILE air warning radar, a SeaWatcher 100 active phased-array surface detection and tracking radar and the GateKeeper infra-red/electro-optical (EO) warning system.

Kerala Hitech Industries Limited

KELTEC is a single stop work centre with multidisciplinary capability such as Conventional and CNC Machining, Metal Forming, Auto TIG and Electron Beam Welding, Vacuum Brazing, Heat Treatment, Surface Treatment etc.

Kleinella

This genus nearly resembles Actaeon, but without any fold on the columella; the umbilicus, moreover, is wide and deep, and the surface of the shell is cancellated.

Lake Pickering

The lake surface rose until it overflowed southwards and cut an exit between the Howardian Hills and the Yorkshire Wolds at Kirkham Priory between Malton and Stamford Bridge, so creating the River Derwent.

Lego Mars Mission

It was a harsh struggle for a long while, with both sides on a stalemate, until one of the Astro machines, named the Crystal Reaper, accidentally stumbled across the cracks forming the surface of the Alien Hive on Olympus Mons.

Less Than Hero

Leela makes a visit to CitiHall, and procures a special one-day surface pass for her mutant parents from the sewers.

Lined catshark

The lined catshark or banded catshark (Halaelurus lineatus) is a species of catshark, family Scyliorhinidae, found from Beira, Mozambique to East London, South Africa between latitudes 19° S and 31° S, from the surface to 290 m.

Luna 15

Astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin had already set foot on the Moon when Luna 15 fired its main retrorocket engine to initiate descent to the surface at 15:47 UT on 21 July 1969.

Mass

It is even more dramatic when done in an environment that naturally has a vacuum, as David Scott did on the surface of the Moon during Apollo 15.

Miami and Erie Canal

The surface was later paved over to form Central Parkway as funds ran out before the Cincinnati Subway was completed.

Namib Desert beetle

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have emulated this capability by creating a textured surface that combines alternating hydrophobic and hydrophilic materials.

Nanohaloarchaea

The reconstruction of two highly unusual archaeal genomes by de novo metagenomic assembly of multiple, deeply sequenced libraries via multi-locus phylogenetic analyses, from surface waters of Lake Tyrrell, a hypersaline lake in north-west Victoria, Australia, has led to the creation of a major novel euryarchaeal lineage, distantly related to halophilic archaea of class Halobacteria.

Oriented strand board

It may have a rough and variegated surface with the individual strips of around 2.5 × 15 cm (1" x 6"), lying unevenly across each other.

Ottawa Soccer Stadium

The field would have had a natural grass surface built to MLS and FIFA specifications.

Pacific Missile Test Center

Among the missiles developed and tested there include the Sparrow family and the Phoenix air-to-air missiles and the Regulus surface-to-surface missile in addition to numerous prototypes of military rockets and sounding rockets.

Palmerston Park

Jocky Dempster later said in an interview that among his reasons for signing for Queens was, "I liked the park at Queens. As you know it’s a good park, a good surface." Crawford Boyd said, "It was a lovely park, it was a treat to play on that park, a lovely playing surface."

Parides bunichus

Parides bunichus damocrates (Guenée, 1872) (Argentina, Uruguay) Much paler; the head and palpi are black, and the submarginal spots on the upper surface of the hindwing are not bright red.

Peter G. Schultz

Along with Richard Lerner, he was one of the critical players in the development of phage-display libraries, and surface-library chips.

Radarsat-2

To carry out this new project, the satellite's owner MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) of Richmond, B.C., was awarded $25-million contract to carry out upgrades (called project Polar Epsilon) to enhance the satellites capabilities to detect surface ships.

Shadow Divers

In 1991, a group of divers, including Richie Kohler and John Chatterton, set out on Seeker to explore an unknown object lying 230 feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean and discover an apparent historical impossibility: a World War II German U-Boat off the coast of New Jersey.

Single Class Surface Combatant Project

The navy had investigated adopting the Active Phased Array Radar, leading observers to suggest that APAR and the associated SMART-L would equip the Single Class Surface Combatant or upgraded Halifax-class ships during the FELEX project.

Smallmouth velvet dogfish

The smallmouth knifetooth dogfish, Scymnodon obscurus, is a harmless sleeper shark of the family Somniosidae, found in the central Atlantic between latitudes 65°N and 36°S, from the surface to 1,450 m.

Soviet support for Iran during the Iran–Iraq war

Also part of the Kharg Island air defenses were shoulder-fired Strela SA-7 surface-to-air missiles.

SS-45

SS-45 Missile, a surface-to-air missile of the Union of India Army

Tefibazumab

MSCRAMM (microbial surface components recognizing adhesive matrix molecules)

Telus Field

surface = FieldTurf (infield) 2005 to present
Astroturf (infield) 1995 to 2004

The School for Scandal

John Gielgud played Charles Surface in a legendary season at the Queens Theatre in 1937 and repeated the role under his own direction in a 1963 Broadway production.

Thematic image

Thematic images are usually image products of classification processing of multispectral images of the earth surface.

Thermohaline circulation

Wind-driven surface currents (such as the Gulf Stream) travel polewards from the equatorial Atlantic Ocean, cooling en route, and eventually sinking at high latitudes (forming North Atlantic Deep Water).

Tongariro Power Scheme

State Highway 41 travels over the top of the bridge, with the Tokaanu Stream, an important trout spawning stream, running under the road surface.

University Hall Turf Field

The Turf Field features a blue surface similar to the one used at the Riverbank Arena in London and was used by the United States women's national field hockey team prior to the 2012 Olympics for this reason.

Valentin Taifun

:Later production variant with a 17 metre wingspan and a Limbach flat-four engine or can be retrofitted with a Rotax 914, hydraulically operated landing gear, double panel Schempp-Hirth type airbrakes on the upper wing surface.

Van Allen Probes

The Van Allen radiation belts swell and shrink over time as part of a much larger space weather system driven by energy and material that erupt off the Sun's surface and fill the entire Solar System.

Vroman effect

The Vroman effect, named after Leo Vroman, is exhibited by protein adsorption to a surface by blood serum proteins.