Adam Savage

I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my 'Creative Projects' folder - it's a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in. Any time I have an Internet connection, there's a sluice of stuff moving into there, everything from beautiful rings to cockpit photos.

American Entertainer

Seth Shostak

This plucky NASA telescope is able to find planets en masse. If you compare planet hunting to prospecting for gold, then Kepler is equivalent to trading in your trusty pan for a diesel-powered sluice box.

American Scientist

Andrew Motion

I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am.

English Poet

Fred Allen

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.

American Comedian

A sluice in this context often refers to managing water levels, such as in dams, canals, or locks.

Flow Control

Sluices are crucial in lock systems allowing boats to travel between waters at different heights.

Water Navigation

As a verb, 'sluice' suggests a thorough cleaning with water, more than just a rinse.

Cleaning Action

In technical settings, a sluice deals with surplus water to prevent flooding or waterlogging.

Excess Water

Recognize 'sluice' as a technical term used in civil and environmental engineering.

Engineering Term

In mining, a sluice is specific equipment used to separate valuable minerals from sediment.

Mining Equipment

A sluice for gold mining makes use of gravity to help wash and sort the materials.

Gravity Use

Using 'sluice' as a verb in this sense involves processing something with water, typically for separation.

Action Process

 No no dodo skeleton for me. But the damage had been done. I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my "Creative Projects" folder -- it's a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in. Any time I have an internet connection, there's a sluice of stuff moving into there,

Adam Savage: My...

 ounces of gold from the freezing soil it has to be sluiced this year he digs up a narrow strip along the creek it's the only place he can everything else is frozen just a race to the finish it's a gamble the creek could break through and wash away all his pay dirt

Water Woes PIPE Yukon Gold

 much direction it has a lot to do with my dad being a big influence on Kyle and teaching him the same traits that I got he put in his time it's good having around this 30 ton workhorse is crucial it carries pay dirt to the sluice plant

Balancing With Bulldozer...

 in the river with the drought get you up High River all righty just looking for the spots instead of doing a bunch of digging to run it sluice box I just get right into the spots where the gold are I just started

California Drought...

 Others think the system of chambers and sluice gates used to drain the arena, were also used to fill it. These chambers could’ve been filled with water prior to the event and then opened to submerge the stage

The Romans flooded the...

 they'll have to shut down and excavate the rocks I'm just gonna take it down a little bit with the hall I don't know I'm sinking now it's gonna be soft it's like dough runoff water from the sluice

Sulphur Surfer PIPE Yukon...

 good to be back this is the last two connections from the pump to the sluice yeah we've converted everything now over the plastic line I'm really happy about

Gold or Bust PIPE Yukon Gold

 for Big Al and his crew they need to get the light set up the sluice in the dark we can put it up on here somewhere yeah that's up in the hill or way up on

Not A Bright Idea PIPE...

 heavier valuable material isolating the gold and trapping it in sections of the sluice dirt should flow off and the hopefully the gold is stay behind

Sifting Through the Dirt...

 sluicing over the past week has made a lot of money yet you know where is the big pay streak I guess in the end you