Physical Barriers
As physical obstacles, we can enumerate all those physical barriers that block the action and prevent the progress or the achievement of a concrete goal. Examples:
- architectural barriers that hinder access to people with reduced mobility;
- doors, gates, and access control systems, designed to keep intruders or attackers out;
- large objects, fallen trees or collapses through passageways, paths, roads, railroads, waterways or airfields, preventing mobility;
- sandbanks, rocks or coral reefs, preventing free navigation;
- hills, mountains and weather phenomena preventing the free traffic of aircraft;
- meteors, meteorites, micrometeorites, cosmic dust, comets, space debris, strong electromagnetic radiation or gravitational field, preventing a spacecraft from navigating freely in space.
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Famous quotes containing the words physical and/or barriers:
“The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But the science of ethics will always console me for the ignorance of the physical sciences.”
—Blaise Pascal (16231662)
“The majority of women, they have half-a-glass too much and let down their barriers a little. Then they wake up in the morning, riddled with guilt and think they can reclaim their virtue by saying, I dont remember.”
—Blake Edwards (b. 1922)
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