Sentences with phrase «advanced civilisation»

Why, they're going to ask in hushed tones, would an otherwise advanced civilisation with superior tool handling skills, why would they need to employ a yellow piece of plastic to slice such an innocently soft fruit as the banana?

However Peru has many more ancient sites that shed light on how truly advanced this civilisation was.

Just as Dug starts to ponder the world outside, that world comes crashing into their hunter - gatherer idyll, in the form of a more advanced civilisation.

- Unimaginative visual aesthetic for Wakanda, the most advanced civilisation on Earth.

At the time, they were the most advanced civilisation in the world.

The farmers who brought advanced civilisation to Europe got there by sailing between the many islands strewn across the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, according to a new genetic analysis.

But if some systems have a truly empty slot, could a sufficiently advanced civilisation build a planet and park it in orbit?

But as we do not know the character of any aliens out there, and as it is difficult to put a value on the benefits to science, culture and technology of finding an advanced civilisation, de Vladar varied the reward of finding aliens and the cost of hostile aliens finding us.

Our advanced civilisation is built on easily exploited coal, oil and gas.

There's only one planet we know of that sustains advanced civilisation: Earth.

In fact, given the amount of computing power advanced civilisations are likely to have at their fingertips, it will probably have been done a vast number of times.

Egypt is the cradle of one of the world's oldest and most advanced civilisations, and is home to some of the world's most spectacular cultural sights.

However, what is clear is that they were one of the most advanced civilisations in South America's tropics.

Not exact matches

We have no right to haul up the technological ladder our civilisation has climbed to advance itself materially.

Marsh «very passionately» supports euthanasia, describing it as «a sign of deeply advanced and civilised society: Two markers of civilisation are the number of people riding bicycles and the presence of euthanasia.»

As Darwin said in The Descent of Man (1871): «As man advances in civilisation, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend his social instincts and sympathies to all members of the same nation, though personally unknown to him.

Some might even suggest they may be messages from advanced alien civilisations but many experts have predicted that the bursts are emitted when jets of particles are thrown out by massive astrophysical objects, such as black holes.

Shostak has recently shown that a civilisation even slightly more advanced than ours could use its sun as a «gravitational lens».

Civilisations far more advanced than ours may already be shuttling back and forth through a galactic - wide subway system constructed from wormholes.

But any civilisation advanced enough to build the wormhole in the first place, Li argues, ought to be able to build such a mirror.

In theory an advanced alien civilisation could produce a lot of waste heat and still maintain a stable climate by using geoengineering to counteract waste - heat warming.

Boyden stresses the significance of military power; civilisations develop in parallel with the advance of military innovation, each propelling the other towards some sort of domination, whether it is of the local environment, other people or the globe.

If that is where is came from, it would have had to be a pretty powerful astronomical event — or an advanced alien civilisation using an astonishingly large and powerful transmitter.

When you combine this motivation with the more advanced cognition of our ape brains, you begin to have the propagation of the complex skills that have marked human civilisation, van Schaik claims.

At key points in human history, civilisation has advanced as people discovered a new way of exploiting nature.

The possibility, however remote it might have seemed, didn't escape the attention of the SETI Institute which swiftly focused the Allen Telescope Array on KIC 8462852, in the search for any radio signals of artificial origin that could have potentially been emitted by an advanced alien civilisation native to the neighboring star system, with initial results finding no such detection to date.

Underneath lies the remnants of an ancient civilisation, so advanced, so magnificent it challenges the myth of human authenticity.

From inspiring innovative inventions to advancing human lives to saving entire civilisations, here are five furkids that have made history.

The game is currently in development for PC and will offer players new ways to interact with the world, expand their empires, advance their cultures and compete against history's greatest leaders to build a powerful, long - standing civilisation.

Even its juggernauts, the like of Civilisation V for example, don't have the wide ranging appeal enjoyed by many other genres, although admittedly its layers go far beyond the likes of Advance Wars or Final Fantasy Tactics.

In Hyper Light Drifter, you are put in the role of the Drifter, a character with advanced technology from a long forgotten civilisation.

In this book, reviewer Christopher Masters states, Dorazio advanced his belief, perhaps with surfeit of optimism, that «abstract art could change the world... that just as science and technology were destroying the barriers between different cultures, so the new «universal style» would lead to a «universal civilisation».»

Until recently Professor of Art History, Visual Culture and Cultural Studies at the Advanced Institute of the Arts of Toulouse, France, Morad Montazami has a Masters degree In English literature and civilisation (LLCE) from the University of Nanterre, Paris and is about to complete his PhD in History and Theory of Art at the École des hautes études en science sociales (EHESS).

The article describes the Garamantian society, which developed «a phenomenally advanced system of water extraction that kept their civilisation going for 1,000 years as the land was drying up around them.»

Energy costs are critical to modern civilisations and their abilities to advance whilst providing adequately for their citizens, especially the poorest, so anything that significantly affects such costs or indeed energy availability is of the utmost importance.

They put an innocent question: if there had been an advanced technological and industrial civilisation on Earth several hundred million years ago, how could anyone know?

they have done more than anything else to advance mankind, and civilisation and wellbeing.

Against overwhelming odds, you must embark on a compelling, emotional journey to uncover the secrets of a forgotten civilisation, the ancient artifacts they left behind, and to learn more about the advanced technologies that will determine the fate of the planet — and of human life itself.»