Sentences with phrase «alien cultures on»

It suggests the possibility of a string of alien cultures on a single planet which are literally fuelled by the bodies of the predecessors.

Not exact matches

Aliens may be the most immediate pop - culture example of mechanical limbs in action, but the best description of the apparatus» impact on lethality actually comes from Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers, in my opinion.

Islamic culture has been affected by the cultural, social, and political conditions in which it existed and by the challenge which the Muslims faced, a challenge which stimulated them to meditate on their Faith and to present it in its genuine form, free of alien interpolations.

It would be a mistake to see this as entirely inflicted on the immigrant groups by an alien American culture.17 Some form of it is what lured many to these shores in the first place.

Concluding our six - part series on the Spring Harvest 2005 theme, Steve Chalke focuses on the occasions when Daniel learned to compromise and others when he chose to stand his ground - vital principles for you and me who also live in a an alien and sometimes hostile culture.

No longer a persecuted minority religion dependent on the culture of an «alien» world, Christianity now itself became a wellspring of culture.

«Chopra's speculation on the «God consciousness» of Jesus imports a very alien worldview into the Jewish - Hebrew context and culture of Jesus, and means his language is distorted completely.

It is a result of the sheer energy that it has taken for Catholics to improve their position in a new country and in an alien culture, and it also reflects some social resentment for past disabilities on the part of people who have won social power.

Ideology, seen from within, has no outside; in this sense one does not transgress its outer limits as one crosses a geographical boundary... It is impossible to come to its frontiers from within... in discovering its demarcations, ideology discovers its self - dissolution; it can not survive the «culture shock» consequent on its stumbling into alien territory adjacent to itself....

Needless to say, anti-immigration debates continue to be loud, and are largely informed by a worldview at odds with itself, in which host communities are pitted against a deluge of immigrants — a burden on the economy and a marching in of an inflexible and alien culture.

Fourthly, it is also germane that the Security Services had made it clear in March 2005, through a report from the Intelligence and Security Committee, that «they operated a culture that respected human rights and that coercive interrogation techniques were alien to the Services» general ethics, methodology and training» (paragraph 9 of the first judgment), indeed they «denied that [they] knew of any ill - treatment of detainees interviewed by them whilst detained by or on behalf of the [US] Government» (paragraph 44 (ii) of the fourth judgment).

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.

In episode 103, Penn & Teller spend three days at a UFO convention and visit an alien - abduction group therapy session as they explore the psychological explanations for - and the influences of pop culture on - the typical abduction story.

District 9 is not only an action thriller, but a thought provoking critique on our own culture that can't be ignored as the Aliens or Prawns (derogetory term given to them by the humans) play a much larger emotional and dynamic role in the film than the trailer or bits of viral marketing let on.

But the whole «everything's like this, except when it isn't» thing is an excellent characterization of the general awfulness of the entire movie: the aliens, walking around in their Eddie Murphy robot spaceship body, either understand humans and Earth culture, or they don't, depending on which would be «funniest» (none of it is actually funny, natch).

A highly intriguing but incredibly flawed action / adventure film that bases its story on the notion that Ancient Egypt was created by an alien named Ra, who took over the body of a young boy and developed the culture of that region.

If you were an alien economist who focused on entertainment consoles and had no perspective into culture in this world, you would be saying «why the flying fuck are people buying this console?»

If Doom was an Aliens game instead, perhaps it wouldn't have had such a profound impact on popular culture and the video game industry.

It first appeared on Xbox 360 and the PC way back in the summer of 2006 via 2K Games with a fresh mix of Native American culture and aliens.

Raymond Pettibon Raymond Pettibon's No Title (They are become) too riffs on desert and border culture with an ominous reference to the preponderance of aliens on the horizon and in the night sky.

In a UK premiere of DISCOTROPIC Alien Talk Show (2015), niv Acosta seizes on an elementary medium of intimate exposure — television and the confessional culture of the talk show — to explore the relationships between science fiction, disco, astrophysics and the black American experience.

Tony Oursler: Unidentified Alien Art By Genie Davis Through April 1st Running through April 1st at Redling Fine Art, Tony Oursler's Unidentified is a witty and disconcerting take on American UFO culture, from it's rather benign beginnings to its darker, abduction mythology.

As the director and curator of Carnegie Mellon's Miller Gallery she curated Keep It Slick: Infiltrating Capitalism with The Yes Men, the first solo exhibition of the internationally renowned culture - jamming group; Whatever It Takes: Steelers Fan Collections, Rituals, and Obsessions, which explored sports fanaticism as a significant form of cultural production; and Alien She, a traveling exhibition on the lasting impact of the global punk feminist movement Riot Grrrl, among other exhibitions.

By suggesting that the failure of ECS estimates to converge casts meaningful doubt on the scientific case for AGW, JB and DDS merely reveal how alien they are to the modern culture and practice of the Earth Sciences.

Pop culture capitalizes on all things alien.