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  • In 2005 they used high-power ‘Luxeon’ LEDs, i.e. non-coherent sources, combined with a large Fresnel lens to collimate the non-directional light emitted, and managed two-way audio communications over a distance of 160 km (100 miles!) between mountaintops in Tasmania.

    Long-range optical communication… how much would you pay? « Skulls in the Stars 2008

  • Anchors prefer to drone on and on about Michael Jackson (yes, he was no doubt the king of pop, but come on) and Palin's non-coherent rant about quitting while she's behind (thank goodness not behind a culled Turkey this time).

    Patricia DeGennaro: Buying, Selling and Producing Mind Numbing News 2009

  • But quantum mechanics applies perfectly well to non-coherent states.

    Quantum Hyperion Sean 2008

  • So if this is your position, then why endorse the teaching of the “design” non-consistent non-coherent non-evidence-supported non-explanation for diversity of life on earth, as you seem to be doing at the top of this thread? jason spaceman

    Iowa Lieutenant Governor candidate supports intelligent design - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • So if this is your position, then why endorse the teaching of the “design” non-consistent non-coherent non-evidence-supported non-explanation for diversity of life on earth, as you seem to be doing at the top of this thread?

    Iowa Lieutenant Governor candidate supports intelligent design - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • He was making the point that you can't have a bunch of little Bantustans, or the whole West Bank chopped up into non-coherent, non-contiguous pieces, and say this is an acceptable state.

    CNN Transcript Jun 6, 2004 2004

  • Coherent light could be compared with a marching military troop - where the soldiers correspond to the photons - while non-coherent light in this model could be compared with people on a busy shopping street on a Saturday morning.

    The Nobel Prize in Physics 1981 - Presentation Speech 1981

  • This remark seems non-coherent and requires, I am afraid, some explanation.

    Corea or Cho-sen The Land of the Morning Calm Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

  • It is awkward and embarrassing to have to keep referring to notes; and besides it breaks up your speech and makes it ragged and non-coherent; but you can tear up your pictures as soon as you have made them -- they will stay fresh and strong in your memory in the order and sequence in which you scratched them down.

    What Is Man? and Other Essays Mark Twain 1872

  • You were stringing seemingly random words together into non-coherent sentences, then turning them into questions by adding inflection at the end.

    Gizmodo Kyle Wagner 2012

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