The lack of enthusiasm stateside for Saturday's event could be cultural: From Earth Day to
Earth Hour seems like downsizing, a concession to the less committed, Grist Magazine joked.
Not exact matches
Well guys it is Hell already here on
earth endless killings worldwide... Back here where I am Ye is already heading towards that the whole country is on demonstrations demanding resignation of the ruler but he
seems unwilling to resign before the end of his ruling period on 2013, while the streets are demanding immediate resignation and that has caused bloodshed in every city in the country... the streets demonstrations has enforced civil strikes all over the country which is now paralyzed... no cash with the banks all money frozen in the central bank... My business is in the field of services therefore I find my self now obliged to dismiss part of my staff in order to be able to survive this unfortunate thing... Already have reduced working
hour to one shift to reduce running cost... so you see am now sitting alone in the whole building of our business office writing here as nothing can be done to carry on business even if there is business... Just I pray these unfortunate events passes over soon before it becomes out of control as had happened in Libya... we have nothing to say but (Ina - Lilah - WaIna - Alih - Ragoon) & (Alhmed - Lilah for every thing)... «Mankind has always been Hasty while God has always been the most Patient»...
Thus socialization, whose
hour seems to have sounded for Mankind, does not by any means signify the ending of the Era of the Individual upon
earth, but far more its beginning.
And it is ironic that Mohler, who has been a tireless advocate for young
earth creationism on the basis that «the straightforward and direct reading of [Genesis] describes seven 24 -
hour days,» does not
seem to think that a straightforward and direct reading of Jesus» teachings regarding violence is necessary.
What a strange pulsation there is to human life: as night comes on, active scenes are in a few
hours deserted; not a soul is in sight except the occasional watchman or late reveller, and whole cities lie silent — cities of the dead, it might well
seem, except that with the turn of the
earth and the dawn of new day they revive to another brief and hectic activity.
The candidates learn about products such as Google
Earth, a satellite imaging program; get an introduction to what's referred to as the company's Googley culture; and discuss a wide range of topics (atheism, Russian relations, Internet access in Africa) in
hour - long sessions that can
seem a long way from Iowa and New Hampshire.
If you were standing in Los Angeles and were able to suddenly levitate and remain at a fixed point while
Earth's surface slid by, any friends out stargazing with you would
seem to zoom into the distance at 869 miles per
hour.
On its surface, time
seems a simple notion, the passing days measured in seconds, minutes and
hours, but these man - made constructs are merely approximations of the
earth's rotation around the sun.
«Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's, Lucy's, who scarce seven
hours herself unmasks; The sun is spent, and now his flasks Send forth light squibs, no constant rays; The world's whole sap is sunk; The general balm th» hydroptic
earth hath drunk, Whither, as to the bed's feet, life is shrunk, Dead and interr'd; yet all these
seem to laugh, Compar'd with me, who am their epitaph.
They are trying; there is even a legitimate USA website this year, but it really does
seem to be lights out on
Earth Hour.
The Voyager 1 space probe was launched on September 5, 1977 and, after nearly forty years in space, has traveled roughly 20,227,475,000 kilometers (135.7 AU) from
Earth — while that may
seem like quite a distance, in terms of interstellar travel the hardy little probe has only traveled ~ 19 light
hours, not quite a full light day, and certainly nowhere close to a light year.