What is "cubic kilometer"

Usage examples of "cubic kilometer".

But with half a cubic kilometer of the stuff, that's not likely to happen, ever, so what the heck.

The like- lihood of a spacecraft occupying the same cubic kilometer of space (except very near Earth itself) was much lower, and so was the calculated incidence of larger meteoroids—.

So when, one day, a tenth of a cubic kilometer of glowing liquid silicate was suddenly exposed to ocean bottom along the line between two spreading plates, the result was merely a linear-source sound wave.

Geographic, the largest movable object ever created by man, had carried its cargo of frozen human beings across ten light-years, expending a cubic kilometer of deuterium snowball along the way.

Ordinary space is mostly emptiness, yet there are almost always a few stray molecules of gas, sometimes in surprisingly complex chemical organization, per cubic kilometer.

Each freighter was large enough to transport half a cubic kilometer of materiel, consumables, and supplies, along with a thousand crew and passengers.

The steady state theory required a modification of general relativity to allow for the continual creation of matter, but the rate that was involved was so low (about one particle per cubic kilometer per year) that it was not in conflict with experiment.

The likelihood of a spacecraft occupying the same cubic kilometer of space (except very near Earth itself) was much lower, and so was the calculated incidence of larger meteoroids–.

That means that a single cubic kilometer of seawater has the energy equivalent of all the known oil reserves-on Earth.

I am vast by human standards: a cubic kilometer of silaceous cell matrices intricately and delicately interpenetrating.

It was no small job servicing a half cubic kilometer of high-energy physics machinery.

It is an enormous piece of hardware, this Sreen craft, a veritable artificial planetoid: the antiseptic bay in which our own ship now sits, for example, is no less than a cubic kilometer in volume.

There were more stitchers per cubic kilometer of sand sea in this area than anyone had previously encountered anywhere else.

He would find it, if he had to examine the entire crust of the planet, land and water alike, kilometer by plotted cubic kilometer!