Sentences with phrase «bombardment which»

According to the study, that would ensure that Earth would be re-seeded with life, following big, cataclysmic events like the Late Heavy Bombardment which happened approximately 4 billion years ago when the space environment around the Earth was dominated by untold numbers of big asteroids in the aftermath of its formation.

Not exact matches

It is entirely possible that a random triggering event or series of events (lightning or some form of electricity charging a primordial soup of methane, ammonia, etc.; bombardment by cosmic radiation and other hypothetically random occurrences) was the occasion through which a whole new dimension, that of the biosphere, flooded onto the terrestrial scene.

Unexploded bombs have been discovered in a Christian village in Nigeria, just three months after the Nigerian Air Force's bombardment of six communities in the region, which left at least 86 people dead.

Gen. Beauregard had ordered the bombardment of Fort Sumter which began the nineteenth century's bloodiest war.

Residents in Tudun Wada area of the state, said the protesters were demanding the release of Ibrahim Zakzaky, their leader, who was detained by the Nigerian Army, after a heavy bombardment of his house, which lasted several hours midnight Saturday.

That pattern is consistent with implantation via solar wind — the constant bombardment of protons from the sun, which can form hydroxyl and molecular water once emplaced.

Furthermore, Schultz's work suggests fragments from these giants could account for a many of the impacts that occurred during a period called the Late Heavy Bombardment, which occurred from about 3.8 billion years ago to around 4 billion years, when scientists think most of the craters we see on the Moon and Mercury were formed.

Early organisms apparently survived the Late Heavy Bombardment — which may have made our planet a much comfier place to live.

Strict federal regulation governs the handling of irradiated materials, from core components to PC boards, which can turn radioactive from particle bombardment.

Professor Kamber added: «The intense bombardment of the early Earth had destructive effects on the planet's surface but it may also have brought up material from the planet's interior, which shaped the overall structure of the planet.»

That episode, called the Late Heavy Bombardment, may have been connected to the migrating orbits of some of the planets, which exiled Pluto to its current position and shook loose a barrage of giant comets.

How quickly they would darken depends on the bombardment rate, which has been uncertain.

Counting the number of these cones per square millimetre gives the intensity of the bombardment to which the lens has been exposed.»

A better understanding of the structure of Earth's inner core would clarify its role in locking the planet's magnetic field in its north - south position, which has the effect of insulating terrestrial life from a lethal bombardment of cosmic rays.

«This early heavy bombardment could have been responsible for the large greenhouse effect needed to maintain warmer conditions, which may have been conducive to the early start for life on Earth,» said Marchi.

«If all life on Earth died during this bombardment, which some scientists have argued, then life must have restarted quickly,» said Patrick Boehnke, a co-author of the research and a graduate student in Harrison's laboratory.

But in Bosnia, which UNIDO has yet to visit, the bombardment of industrial towns has been much heavier.

There's a lot we still don't fully understand about these little guys but it looks like we may now be able to form a more coherent story of Earth's early years — one which fits with the idea that our planet suffered far more frequent bombardment from asteroids early on than it has in relatively recent times.»

As far as habitability goes, the researchers themselves point out another problem: due to the massive debris disk surrounding tau Ceti, the outer two planets are likely subject to intense bombardment via comets and asteroids, which would pose obvious issues for life.

Studies suggest that resveratrol can strengthen muscles and restore muscles which are wasting away — and such wasting often occurs due to bombardment by out of control inflammation.

If acne is created by your immune system attacking p.acnes bacteria with too much power (which most are) then this bombardment also damages the surrounding tissues.

Maybe due to effects (brain drain) of continual bombardment with memory / recall tests in which one is not actively learning and can not really learn.

He also kindly indulged my penchant for getting philosophical with a question about how we perceive media by musing on the generational differences in attitudes towards the bombardment with which modern live is gifted / cursed.

Finally, on the Moon all structures have to be placed inside energy shields which prevent them from being destroyed by asteroids or terrorist bombardments.

Wilcox's work is characterized by a fascination with personal narrative and the ways in which history is always under construction, woven from fact, myth, memory, associations, and the bombardment of information we all receive on a moment - to - moment basis.

As Paolo Baratta, the show's president noted, the main exhibition curated by Christine Macel benefitted from «a growing desire to personally and directly discover the vitality of art in relation to the daily bombardment of sounds and images to which the world is subjected.»

Murray Guy is pleased to present the US premiere of Electrical Gaza, a new film by Rosalind Nashashibi, which takes place in Gaza in 2014, immediately preceding the most recent bombardment, Operation Protective Edge.

Earth is dying and even now most of the global population remains completely oblivious thanks to the constant bombardment of distractions from the government controlled mainstream media machine of deception which the majority of people are still all too wiling to embrace.

The fast - neutron reaction first converts fertile material — including nuclear waste, uranium, plutonium and thorium — to fissile material which then splits under neutron bombardment to produce heat and lighter elements.

The county courts are currently under bombardment from an unprecedented volume of claimants after the return of charges debited to their accounts over the previous six years (inter alia) on paying out on cheques which were drawn without authority.