Sentences with phrase «about life on other planets»

Giordano Bruno, the wandering monk who influenced Spinoza and Liebniz, was burned in 1600 as a heretic, for (among other things) speculating about life on other planets, much like scientists do today.
After decades of speculation about life on other planets, the people of Earth discover that they are not alone in the universe when destruction rains down from the stars on 12 major cities all across the globe.
Yes, we have some amazing inventions thanks to space exploration, and we're curious about life on other planets.
Learning about life in Lake Whillans could thus inform us about life on other planets.
Waukesha, WI — The March 2014 issue of Discover magazine speculates what we might learn about life on other planets by exploring Earth's most extreme landscapes, investigates the unexpected medicinal possibilities of nicotine and profiles the energy firms turning pig waste into sustainable power.

Not exact matches

«The idea of being able to use biology to design and engineer living things that can do things like cure disease or eliminate organ waiting lists, or even revert climate change, or help us live on other planets — that's more what was exciting about it,» he says.
You have to tell yourself that in order to feel good about using a crutch of a god in your life because you can't truly cope with the reality of living on this planet, dealing with others that don't view life as you do.
Next they will wonder if he believed in aliens living on other planets... or what he thought about space / time travel... etc. etc...
what about the other life forms on this planet?
As others have pointed out, he was talking about panspermia, the idea that «life could spread from planet to planet, or from stellar system to stellar system, carried on meteors.»
The other goes something like this: Is there anything one could reasonably call a god that cares one whit about anything that transpires on this planet or in any of our lives?
However, in what is probably the oldest book of the Bible, Job, living in an ancient culture that knew nothing about space or planets, asserted that God hung the earth on nothing (1500 B.C.) or, in other words, the earth free floats in space.
For example, I'm agnostic about the existence of life on other planets.
Look at the age of fossilized bones, look at DNA evidence and all the other mountains of evidence about the LONG - TERM DYNAMICS of LIVING ORGANISMS on this planet over the span of BILLIONS of years.
Simply because I exist on a Planet about a billion light years from any other currently living form of life, not chemicals, elements or gases, and how I don't see this as some random thing — there is something greater than you and I and the evidence is all around you.
And readers of Deception Point had seen televised NASA rocket launches and knew about the search for life on other planets.
It means that the earth on which we live is not the center of the physical universe, but a comparatively small planet revolving round a very average - sized star, which in turn is but one of a hundred thousand million others forming the galaxy we call the Milky Way, and that part of the universe that our existing telescopes have so far penetrated contains about a hundred million star systems or nebulae, similar to our galaxy.
Our Mindful Life: Mindful Life is about paying attention to what it is that we do on a day to day basis and how we impact each other and the planet.
But, he wonders, are people as gung - ho about the prospect of finding live microbes on other planets or aboard meteorites?
Look back through history and you can find writings from the Greeks that talk about life on planets orbiting other stars.
Maybe 10, certainly 20, years ago — if you talked about looking for life on other planets, then you were kind of nutty, right?
«If we understand how early Mars operated, it could tell us something about the potential for finding life on other planets outside the solar system.»
If we are going to search for life on other planets, we need to think about how the entire spectrum of life works.»
Astrobiologist Chris McKay travels to the world's harshest landscapes to search for clues about the potential for life on other planets.
This, however, raises fascinating and problematic questions about the possibility of life occurring on other planets.
Thus, «giant chunks of space debris clobbering the planet and wiping out life on Earth has undeniably broad appeal,» Meltzer says, whereas «no one in Hollywood makes movies» about more nuanced explanations, such as Clovis points disappearing because early Americans turned to other forms of stone tool technology as the large mammals they were hunting went extinct as a result of the changing climate or hunting pressure.
Environmentalists, biologists and others concerned about the health of the planet and its inhabitants recognize the key role wetlands play in life on Earth.
Questions about how massive stars function, the possibility of life on other planets, human significance, and human resourcefulness are inevitably broached, and people must consider what these topics might say about the purpose of billions of stars, the relationship between humans and non-human species, and limits of science.
Dr Petra Schwendner, University of Edinburgh, corresponding author of the study said: «Until now, little was known about the influence of long - term confinement on the microorganisms that live inside habitats that may one day be used to travel to other planets, and whether the structure of the microbiota changes with time.
With that, he said as scientists begin to explore the universe and wonder about the existence of life on other planets, they will consider planets and regions that possess magnetospheres since they are more likely to support life.
«This new understanding about how life can still exist in physically extreme and nutrient - starved environments like Antarctica opens up the possibility of atmospheric gases supporting life on other planets,» adds Ferrari.
But he wonders whether people would be as gung - ho about finding live microbes on other planets or meteorites?
This is further shown by ANI and Sister's conversational tones and moments of contemplation, while on the other side of the aisle is TR - 2 being more concerned about maintaining proper labels and sucking the life out of the planet by the exploitation fleet.
I tried Baku nightlife on two evenings, and even though I probably only scratched the surface, I'm writing this short guide about the best bars and Probably someone bribed Lonely Planet editor to have Baku in the top 10 best night life cities:), cause I can't think of any other explanation.
Here's the list of the 128 new movies Inside Llewyn Davis Grudge Match Drew: The Man Behind the Poster Her Safety Not Guaranteed Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues Thanks for Sharing Cutie and the Boxer On the Waterfront That Awkward Moment Warm Bodies Lone Survivor Ride Along Eraserhead Dirty Wars Badlands Labor Day The Lego Movie 3 Women About Last Night Remember Me RoboCop (2014) The Square 20 Feet From Stardom Non-Stop Bottle Rocket The Monuments Men The Grand Budapest Hotel Mulligans Everything or Nothing Veronica Mars Bad Words Elaine Stritch Shoot Me Divergent Muppets Most Wanted Noah Sabotage Captain America: The Winter Soldier Draft Day The Railway Man Transcendence Heaven is for Real Suspicion The Other Woman Short Term 12 Eating Raoul The Amazing Spider - Man 2 Le Week - End Neighbors Million Dollar Arm Godzilla X-Men: Days of Future Past How to Survive a Plague The Normal Heart The Killing Chef A Million Ways to Die in the West Maleficent The Fault in Our Stars Edge of Tomorrow 22 Jump Street How to Train Your Dragon 2 Jersey Boys Transformers: Age of Extinction Tammy Life Itself A Hard Day's Night Begin Again Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Carrie (2013) Sex Tape Snowpiercer Boyhood I Origins You're Next A Most Wanted Man Guardians of the Galaxy The Hundred - Foot Journey Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Only Lovers Left Alive 42 The Giver If I Stay Sin City: A Dame to Kill For Let's Be Cops Sinister Get On Up The Trip to Italy The Drop This Is Where I Leave You The Maze Runner Hector and the Search for Happiness Breathless The Equalizer Gone Girl Annabelle The Sacrament The Judge Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Fury In a World... Men, Women & Children The Last Time You Had Fun V / H / S: Viral Just Before I Go St. Vincent Birdman Kumiko The Treasure Hunter The Imitation Game Wild Whiplash Nightcrawler Foxcatcher The Orphange Interestellar Big Hero 6 Rosewater Dumb and Dumber To The Theory of Everything The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 Into the Woods Exodus: Gods and Kings Big Eyes The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Stranger By the Lake Top Five The Babadook Annie (2014) Unbroken The Interview
While Malick was busy pondering the very beginnings of life on this planet, two other films set about envisioning the end.
I've been busy with other things, and besides, like Microsoft's Steve Clayton told me a while back, «It already has a life of its own, so there's no need to...» That being said, every now and then I'll come across someone in the Microsoft ecosystem, either via email, Twitter or in person, who'll tell me a funny story about it e.g. like how they were in somebody's office on the other side of the planet, and there they saw it, hanging on the wall.
What about human birth control (and I am NOT, NOT, NOT referring to sterilizing poor people or promoting more births within wealthy socio economic societies); I'm referring to one child policies (for a while) not taking more than we need; compromise; simplification and minimalism, and respect for other life on this planet.
It does NOT mean we should not care about the other life forms on this planet or the environment... in fact it does the reverse because we all need to be even more aware and connected to nature and STOP messing the place up!
A British engineering team went to Antarctica this October for the first stage of a scientific mission to collect water and sediment samples from a lake buried beneath three kilometres of solid ice, and attempt to uncover clues about the evolution of life on Earth and other planets, and about the Earth's past climate.
The great thing about sustainability related projects is that no matter what role you play - intern, volunteer, concerned citizen, paid employee — what you do makes a difference and can have a positive impact on the lives of others and our planet.
I think that rational self interest means I have an obligation to care about the planet I live on and the people and other creatures who do to.
Gate Hub Second best Ripple Web wallet on the planet Because it has there are many features including Live Ripple Price chart, Trade volume, Payment volume and other details about Ripple coin it's all about Ripple coin.
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z