Sentences with phrase «earth than the event»

More - stringent tests will be possible if and when LIGO detects black - hole mergers that are larger than this one, or that occur closer to Earth than the Event's estimated distance of 1.3 billion light years, and thus give «louder» waves that stay above the noise for longer.

Not exact matches

For this year's Earth Day — the annual event celebrated on April 22 worldwide by more than 193 countries — we might pause to consider two perspectives on water policy.

Having examined evidence such as Big Bang cosmology (yup, I'm what you'd call an «old earth» creationist), the Cambrian explosion in the fossil record, the problems of abiogenesis, and textual criticism of the Bible, I've found that the Bible describes historical events and other aspects of reality much more plausibly than any other faith system.

I asked her in class what she thought made the earth if she didn't believe the official story, and she said,» I don't know; I just feel it had to be more than a random event».

Though the traditional reading is what the text seems to say on the surface, the revelation we have received in Jesus Christ challenges us to look beneath the surface of these deep and troubled waters to discern something else going on in the flood event than a violent God foolishly seeking the near - extermination of everything that breathes on earth.

First celebrated in 1970, Earth Day events in more than 193 countries are now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network.

Chances are, the event was less earth - shattering than it sounds.

The Convergence has more than 200 events in over 50 cities planned from Earth Day to May Day.

Earth's atmosphere may be more sensitive to carbon dioxide than previously thought, which means that extreme weather events could become more frequent

The rotations suggested that, at the event horizon, the field is hundreds of times stronger than Earth's magnetic field, and strong enough to produce the jets that slow the hole's chomping.

«All the elements that exist — that are here on Earth — that are heavier than iron were either made in supernovas or other cataclysmic events in astronomy,» says physicist Clarence Virtue of Laurentian University in Sudbury, Canada.

For comparison, the event horizon of a black hole like this is about 13 times bigger than the sun, and the accretion disk formed by the disrupted star could extend to more than twice Earth's distance from the sun.

More than 60 telescopes on Earth and in space watched the event, many of them also monitoring the comet in the weeks before and after the impact.

Earth has experienced more than a dozen mass extinction events, when the great diversity of life on Earth disappeared and was replaced by a flora or fauna often entirely unlike what had come before.

Slow slip events are similar to earthquakes, as they involve more rapid than normal movement between two pieces of Earth's crust along a fault.

The date of the impact, estimated at slightly less than 66 million years ago, converges with the hypothesis that worldwide climate disruption in this period caused a mass extinction event in which 75 % of plant and animal species on Earth suddenly became extinct, including all non-avian dinosaurs.

Of the more than 2,600 microlensing events the OGLE team observed and analyzed, six were «ultrashort,» lasting less than half a day — suggesting they were caused by objects somewhere between one and 10 times the Earth's mass.

«Because our sensitivity to such short events was very low, free - floating Earths should be very common, perhaps more frequent than stars.

More than 70 percent of all volcanic activity on Earth occurs on the seafloor, but details of these events are largely hidden from view by seawater.

People around the world shared more than 1,400 images of themselves as part of the Wave at Saturn event organized by NASA's Cassini mission on July 19 — the day the Cassini spacecraft turned back toward Earth to take our picture.

But he added that space weather scientists are paying closer attention to this event than might otherwise be warranted because two back - to - back CME events, both directed at Earth, is a bit more unusual, and because it's possible that the two could interact on their way to Earth.

New Chandra images of Sagittarius A * (Sgr A *), which is located about 26,000 light - years from Earth, indicate that less than 1 percent of the gas initially within Sgr A *'s gravitational grasp ever reaches the point of no return, also called the event horizon.

We've posted the full video of our Washington, D.C. event exploring the lure of Europa, the moon of Jupiter with more liquid water than the Earth.

Never mind that the U.S. «lower 48» represents less than 2 % of the Earth's surface area in any event, or that past attempts to show U.S. cooling have been proven utterly wrong.

Known as «superflares,» the space weather events were thought to be roughly 10 times more powerful than any solar storm that has struck Earth since the advent of modern civilization.

First celebrated in 1970, Earth Day events in more than 193 countries are now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network.

Those Earth segments — which feature the husband of one of our lead scientists encountering monsters and hiding out in a bunker — accomplish little than to distract viewers from the far more interesting events unfolding in space.

According to Ruffalo, Bruce Banner returns to Earth with way more knowledge about Thanos than any of the other characters, likely a result to whatever happens to him in the Asgardian spaceship following the events of Thor: Ragnarok.

Whilst the plot concerns events of titanic proportions — Langdon out to stop the spread of a virus that will annihilate a good portion of the Earth's population — the film feels even more contained than Angels & Demons.

This year, more than a billion people are expected to take part in Earth Day events around the world.

More than 1 billion people participate in Earth Day activities, making it the largest secular civic event in the world.

For whatever reason people choose to attend the Frankfurt Book Fair, an event that practically overtakes the entire city for a week each fall, rest assured that there is no more book - centric spot on Earth at that time than the city of Frankfurt.

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Here's your chance to get back to nature.The fourth annual Earth Day Celebration will take place Saturday at Jaycee Beach on Lake Minneola in Clermont.Sponsored by the South Lake Animal League, the festival marks the 25th anniversary celebration of the first Earth Day.More than 5,000 people are expected to attend the daylong event featuring environmental exhibits, eco-oriented products, Earth Day crafts and children's activities.Exhibits, crafts booths and food concessions will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.Among those on hand will be Smokey Bear, Pollyanna the Clown and members of the Keep Lake County Beautiful Committee, which has supported resolutions declaring April as Environmental Awareness Month.

And in more ways than one — the 18th World Route Development Forum is the largest global event of its kind, determining the future of air services; while Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, is one of the most forward - looking, centrally located and easily accessible cities on Earth.

Some have argued it's the largest public art event on earth, with nearly a half - million attendees and more than $ 500,000 in cash and other...

There's also a number of interesting applications in the evolution of Earth's atmosphere that branch off from the runaway greenhouse physics, for example how fast a magma - ocean covered early Earth ends up cooling — you can't lose heat to space of more than about 310 W / m2 or so for an Earth - sized planet with an efficient water vapor feedback, so it takes much longer for an atmosphere - cloaked Earth to cool off from impact events than a body just radiating at sigmaT ^ 4.

Not only is our mass extinction event faster than ever before, it will also be the biggest one in all 4 billion years of earth's history.

«We now have evidence from the Earth's history that a similar event happened fifty - five million years ago when a geological accident released into the air more than a terraton of gaseous carbon compounds... we have already put more than half this quantity of carbon gas into the air... and as a consequence the Earth is now returning to the hot state it was in before, millions of years ago, and as it warms, most living things will die.»

This is a much more serious scenario than «regular» anthropogenic GW, because the warming could be amplified, eventually thawing methane clathrates, and the warming could then really spiral to an massive extinction event level (as happened 251 million years ago when up to 95 % of life on earth died).

This year marked Earth Day's 40th Anniversary, but the celebration was about more than the annual event.

It is also faster than during 4 of earth's biggest mass extinction events during the last 300 hundred million years — faster than even the great Permian mass extinction event where 95 % of life on earth vanished 250 million years ago.

Its «Future Earth» hall explains that «the planet is changing at a faster rate than anything that's been recorded through the geological record, other than a catastrophic event, like the meteor that took out dinosaurs,» said Martin.

- Notice, during the current cold phase, there has been permanent ice caps in Antarctica for only 10 million years and at the North Pole for less than 5 million years (demonstrating that ice caps are a rare event in Earth's history, which shows we are in a cold phase)- Notice that the planet has had no ice caps — therefore it has been much warmer than now — for about 80 % of the past 500 million years.

In fact, the world's interconnected ocean as a whole is sliding into the Holocene Mass Extinction, the geological event that some scientists use to divide the boundary of the Holocene and the Anthropocene epoch, the one that's named after us — and that may still be visible in the Earth's geological record hundreds of millions of years from now, because species of fish, shellfish, crustaceans and other marine life, that were abundant on this planet for millions of years — suddenly, in less than the blink of a geologist's eye, vanished — for good.

The energy outflow in this form is even more negligible than the energy inflow from the Earth losing its internal heat, though — in any event the two have the opposite sign and are both even more negligible together than either one alone.

Sea levels are rising in the Northeast at a faster rate than almost anywhere else on Earth, and climate change is already adding about a foot to each coastal flooding event, as it will with this one.

We could, of course, hit some bifurcation in the system where we lose all the summer Arctic sea ice or the Amazon forest, which is bad enough, and could possibly transition the climate to a different «solution» on a hysteresis diagram... this to me would represent more of a step-wise jump (akin to a larger bifurcation that you get in a snowball Earth as you gradually reduce CO2 or the solar constant); but ultimately these represent different behavior than «the interannual variability of the large scale dynamics will increase» or that for some reason the climate should be susceptible to more «flip flops» (as in the glacial Heinrich / D - O events), of which I am aware of no observational or theoretical support.

If the Earth's true emission temperature (which occurs somewhere at altitude in the troposphere) is less than the 255 K predicted by theory (assuming an albedo 0.306), then the Planck parameter may well be considerably less than the IPCC's value, in which event on this ground alone climate sensitivity may be well below its central estimate of 3.26 K per CO2 doubling.

Bonus Question Fly in Google Earth to the Pantheon (in Rome), and determine whether even the top of the Pantheon's famous dome will remain above the ocean - waters, in the event of sea - level rise far milder than Hansen's predictions.