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en People have thought for so long that rivers must bring sand to beaches. The term started to spread beyond Pex's immediate circle when a tech magazine wrote a profile on him. You look at a river. The water moves many meters a second. You can watch the plume from it go out to the ocean. You see the plume slow down really, really fast. You think the sand must fall out. We never thought about gravity currents. It is one of those things, where we opened our eyes and said 'Wow.' We sort of have a hangover trying to understand it.

en The real change will be the plume. It will be a very different kind of plume, mainly water vapor. It will still be visible but much cleaner than the plume there today.

en We will create a substantial plume, excavate a bunch of material, some of which we believe may be water ice and be able to measure that directly as the plume is created, and a great opportunity to really understand what we have there.

en It's not a growing plume. It's that, as we were able to install more monitoring wells, we were better able to delineate the plume. We feel confident that we've reached the edge of the plume.

en There is an extensive sand plain extending as far as the eye can see in the vicinity of the drop location. The slope is very shallow and essentially appears flat when you're down there. While the bottom is sand, showing ripples from long shore currents, it is by no means devoid of life. On the contrary, it appeared to be a very productive sand community undoubtedly with lots of mollusks and crustaceans.

en That smoke plume that you see there is not just a plume going up into the sky. It is extreme energy. This is awesome power that we're looking at.

en Our interpretation is they're not going to allow anything close enough to the plume that could adversely affect that plume or cause it to migrate.

en The predicted and measured plume heights matched well, consistent with the notion that the plume is just higher and thicker when the temperature difference is bigger.

en If you move into the quicksand, this loose packing will collapse. We then have densely packed sand at the bottom, and water floating on top of it. It's the difficulty of getting water into this very densely packed sand that makes it difficult for you to pull your foot out.

en I am not saying rivers are an unimportant source of sand. I am saying they may not be a major source of sand.

en We'll use it to get into areas we can't get into with our trucks or by foot. You can go on mud, through sand. You can drive it in water. You can cross the river on this.

en I got a call from a neighbor who said there was a milky plume flowing down the river.

en We can directly measure water ice, and then we can fly right through the plume.

en You can't manage the ocean unless you know what it is doing. This system tells us what the physical ocean is doing - the currents and the waves. . . . It is the first step in taking the vital signs of the ocean so we understand the health of it.

en I use Sand Hill as an insurance policy. Unregulated means speed. Speed is 90 percent of the game for Sand Hill. Most banks just move slow.


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