Sentences with phrase «as a planet ages»

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There are creatures on our planet, such as the lobster, whose cells show no signs of aging.

As for me, I can't believe in an human - like being that designed and jump - started the universe 13.8 billion years ago and set aside a planet for His special favorite creations, so He'd have someone to keep Him company and sing songs praising Him, then gave Bronze Age hermits a book of His orders to mankind that includes «thou shalt not round thy head nor cut thy beard» on penalty of eternal suffering... just CA N'T, any more than I can force myself to believe the world rests on the back of giant turtle.

They can begin to welcome — gingerly perhaps — the churches and other NGOs as consultants and partners in the process of formulating ideas and programs, and in mobilizing public opinion in support of proposals that may make it possible for humanity to survive and thrive on this planet in a nuclear space age.

FYI, the age of the planet and universe has been updated in the last 10 - 20 years as well, since we have improved upon the science and made more discoveries.

What else can this mean except that, as shown by the development of nervous systems, there is a continual heightening, a rising tide of consciousness which visibly manifests itself on our planet in the course of the ages?

Heaven is where our dear ones are now who have passed away, and the restored Earth takes place at the coming of Christ and ushers in what Scripture refers to as the coming age — kind of the next chapter in the story right here on the planet you love.

When GQ's Michal Hainey asked Rubio, in an interview released Monday, «How old do you think the Earth is,» the rising Republican star described the debate about the planet's age as «one of the great mysteries.»

Our star will continue to expand as it ages and eventually this planet will no longer be hospitable for life as we become more like Mercury.

Were YOU.I believe on your PLANET NUTCASE you still believe we have Herbert Chapman as the Manager.No mate this is wrong.Hes been dead for a while now and at the moment we have an aging Frenchman who is paid more per season than most people will earn in several lifetimes.He is taking this Club backwards.We are falling behind Clubs who we used to dominate as rivals.He has the majority of the fan base against him and his tired and outdated methods.We now ger beaten away from home by all the clubs facing relegation.We are no longer in the Champions League.We have a 60,000 seater stadium that is now embarrassingly full of empty seats.This is all down to Wenger.

Make your children animal lovers from a young age by exposing them to as many kinds of animals on our planet.

«The Pilbara deposits are the same age as much of the crust of Mars, which makes hot spring deposits on the red planet an exciting target for our quest to find fossilised life there.»

The craft also sought fresh insights into some of the world's longest - standing enigmas such as the length of the planet's day and the ages of its iconic rings.

One middle - aged star, known as HD 69830, appears to be surrounded by an asteroid belt that is 25 times as dense as the one in our solar system, possibly the remnants of a rocky planet that never formed.

As it stands, the people of the planet seem to be leaning toward a peak in population followed by a gradual decline — a 21st - century world of the aged, which can be seen today in Japan or parts of Europe — but there is still a good chance of continued growth in our numbers.

Collins and her team determined that KELT - 6b is a hot gas - giant planet orbiting a star about the same age as our sun.

Several studies have shown that around 10,000 years ago, as the planet came out of the last ice age, vast portions of volcanic summit cones collapsed, leading to enormous landslides.

When the planet's big ice sheets collapsed at the end of the last ice age, their melting caused global sea levels to rise as much as 100 meters in roughly 10,000 years, which is fast in geological time, Mann noted.

«This star is not acting its age, and having a big planet as a companion may be the explanation,» said Poppenhaeger.

Similarly - aged stars moving through space together in a group — described by astronomers as an association — are of great interest to researchers, because they are considered a prime target to hunt for brown dwarfs and free - floating planet - like objects.

There is some debate about when the «Little Ice Age» — the last time when global average temperatures were falling — ended, but it is well documented that glaciers started receding around that time as a result of the relative warming of the planet.

This graphic shows where a planet can be habitable and warm around our sun, as it ages over billions of years.

The planet, which is 1.25 times as massive as Jupiter, lies 2300 light years from Earth and orbits a bloated, ageing star slightly less massive than the sun.

He and his colleagues have conducted long - term studies of the dust disks around old stars and the changes in aged red giants such as Betelgeuse, and are preparing the telescopes to look for possible infrared laser signals from newly discovered planets circling nearby stars, in search of extraterrestrial civilizations.

But Baker suggested that the world also needs new proteins to meet new challenges that loom on the human timescale, such as the diseases of old age, dwindling energy supplies, and a warming planet.

Finally, in the third paper, the star «Kepler - 444», hosting five sub-terrestrial planets, was confirmed to be 10.5 billion years old, more than twice the age of our Sun and just a little bit younger than the universe as a whole.

Thus we have three stars and possible planets at markedly different stages of development, giving us the ability to take a deeper look into flare activity on M - dwarfs as they age, and to assess flare effects on planetary habitability, assuming Barnard's Star and Ross 154 do have planets.

This is mildly inflated as compared to models of irradiated giant planets at the $ \ sim $ 4 Gyr age of the system.

The planets orbiting the pulsar PSR 1257 +12 are good candidates for carbon planets; they may have formed from the disruption of a star that produced carbon as it aged.

«The impact of astronomical cycles on climate can be quite large,» explains Meyers, noting as an example the pacing of the Earth's ice ages, which have been reliably matched to periodic changes in the shape of Earth's orbit, and the tilt of our planet on its axis.

The eruptions were powerful enough to affect the global climate as the planet was recovering from an ice age.

Given the ample evidence that change over time is a crucial property of planets, including our own, of stars, of galaxies and of the Universe as a whole, it is important for the nation's school children to learn about the great age of, and changes in, astronomical systems, as well as their present properties.

Factors such as the sizes of the planet and the star, continental distribution, ocean depth, the amount of water present, tectonic activity, variability of the surface temperature, atmospheric composition, the magnetic shield, speed of rotation, axial tilt, eccentricity of the orbit, the type and amount of radiation received, the age of the solar system, and the possibility of panspermia within the system are all considered.

«The young age of the small scarps means that Mercury joins Earth as a tectonically active planet, with new faults likely forming today as Mercury's interior continues to cool and the planet contracts,» said lead author Tom Watters, Smithsonian senior scientist at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

Assuming that the frequency of observed habitable zone planets really is a result of stellar age, this begs the question of whether the planets currently observed in the habitable zone really formed there or whether they were brought into it as their star evolved.

Since planets cool rapidly as they age, GPI is most sensitive to young, hot planets at large orbital distances.

Haha I am the same way my birthday is just another day and I am also putting this idea on the boys little bit here and there too haha but as they are still kids and it wouldn't be fair to their fun ages to not cerebrate so I sure do have and give them what they need on their days as it as other kid does in this planet but not for me and my man has stop cerebrated his since he been with me!

; «War for the Planet of the Apes,» Gotterdammerung demise — well - deserved — of Homo sapiens as master species (Matt Reeves); «Logan,» the genuinely poignant passing of an aging superhero (James Mangold) 8.

Margot Kidder, the actress, who died last Sunday aged 69, was best known for her star turn as the intrepid Daily Planet reporter Lois Lane, the girl who won Superman's heart, in four blockbusters starring Christopher Reeve as the all - American Man of Steel; she later succumbed to what some described as the «curse of...

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Finalist in the 2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards and semifinalist in the 2015 Kindle Book Awards, Do Not Resuscitate is the firsthand account of Jim Frost, an aging misanthropist who witnessed the rise and fall of the United States as a world power, the digitalization of the planet, the advent of the water wars, and the near collapse of the global economy.

Just as there is consensus about the human role in climate change, the perception that our species is now piloting the planet has led scientists to declare a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene or the Human Age.

As a result of the end of the publisher's «Age of Ultron» event this week, the walls of reality between Marvel universes has broken down enough to let Galactus - Â the planet devouring threat created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby — cross into the Ultimate Universe.

During school breaks, Planet Tails hosts up to 30 children, ages seven to 13, who participate in activities such as baking dog treats, visiting an animal shelter and learning about various pet care topics from bite prevention to wellness.

As a former Lonely Planet writer, I have commented on this issue in a think piece for the Melbourne Age.

The Tongariro Alpine Crossing, named by Lonely Planet as one of the Top 10 World Parks, simmers with andesitic volcanoes, freezing crater lakes and retreating glaciers from the ice age.

Many challenges await players in this epic quest to save the planet's future, as long - lost secrets are revealed through time travel to different eras including the present, middle ages, the future, prehistory and ancient times.

The large installation was exhibited as a solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Zurich in 1995 alongside the publication of her first book, «Visit to a Small Planet», a script which spanned the years 1978 (when she saw the original film aged 10) to the present day.

These allusions, together with his descriptions of Roden Crater as a site created to connect viewers with the movements of planets, stars, and distant galaxies, have heightened critics» suspicions about Turrell's sympathies with New Age cultures such as those famously headquartered in Sedona, Arizona, not far from Roden Crater.

Clearly, students at Ruthlawn Elementary School in South Charleston, W. Va., (near one of the first American experiments aimed at pumping carbon dioxide from a power plant into the ground) are part of Generation E, as I've taken to calling folks of all ages who are pursuing ways to smooth the path toward a stable prospering human population on a bountiful planet.

On Thanksgiving (and Hannukah), here's a quick note — and song — of thanks to you for reading this blog, for attending to the issues and opportunities facing humanity as we come of age on a finite planet and, for those who comment here, trying to maintain a constructive approach.