Sentences with phrase «alien worlds such»

The team was able to deduce the number of exoplanets, as well as certain characteristics of these alien worlds such as their size, orbit, and composition, by identifying dips in the perceived light output of TRAPPIST - 1 as the planets passed between Earth and the star, blocking a portion of its light.

Not exact matches

The most expensive and technically ambitious film ever made, James Cameron's long - gestating epic pitting Earthly despoilers against a forest - dwelling alien race delivers unique spectacle, breathtaking sights, narrative excitement and an overarching anti-imperialist, back - to - nature theme that will play very well around the world, and yet is rather ironic coming from such a technology - driven picture.

Such an authority will necessarily be chaotic and tyrannical because the populations of the world certainly will resist it as its laws and regulations became increasingly alien and obnoxious.

Fair enough: decades of Communist tyranny set atop centuries of other, far more invincible tyrannies have effectively shattered the Orthodox world into a contentious confederacy of national churches struggling to preserve their own regional identities against every «alien» influence, and under such conditions only the most obdurate stock survives.

In the public relations game plan of responding, with the whole world watching, to relentless activists possessed by an insatiable appetite for vengeance (a.k.a. closure), the bishops adopted the alien vocabulary of «zero tolerance» and «one strike,» a vocabulary in which there is no place for words such as conversion, repentance, soul, and redemption.

Scientific method, though, can not reconcile itself to teleological perspectives and, therefore, must reject any such facile covenants of man with a world that is alien to his longings for ultimate meaning.2 Monod's position is reminiscent of innumerable others that see the reading of purpose into nature as analogous to our subjectively superimposing colorful secondary qualities onto starkly colorless «objective» and neutral primary qualities.

In that case, the prophet Jonah represents Israel, hating such alien peoples as Nineveh and reluctant to undertake the saving mission to the world at large which God intends.

In that case, «potentially» doesn't cut it — such a world would «likely» be home to alien life.

This awkward status as cosmic in - betweener means brown dwarfs are often overshadowed by their flashier counterparts, such as alien worlds or fiery supernovae.

Scientists have found nearly 2,000 alien planetssince the first such world was confirmed orbiting a sunlike star in 1995.

Such has been the success of the so - called scientific method as a means of rationalising and manipulating the world around us that the idea of extracting value judgments or moral standards from science seems totally alien.

MOFFET FIELD, CALIFORNIA — NASA's Kepler space telescope appears to have confirmed the existence of an alien world smaller than our own Earth — the first time such a planet has been discovered around a star like our sun.

It is a fascinating contrast to the politics of alien invasion films such as Independence Day and War of the Worlds (original and remake).

Then it becomes clear that the murderer is not of this world, leading to such witticisms as a running joke as to whether alien goo found at the scene feels like human ejaculate.

He was the first mixer in the world to use Dolby noise reduction on a film (A Clockwork Orange), and went on to mix such Dolby landmarks as Tommy, Lisztomania, and Alien.

A surprisingly solid, formalistically experimental genre piece from a guy who self - admittedly isn't a die - hard fan of such things, this harrowing tale of survivors negotiating a world overrun by killer aliens revolves around a gimmick of sorts: The cosmic predators track their prey via super-sensitive hearing («It's Sound!»

Written by David Scarpa and based on John Pearson's book «Painfully Rich: The Outrageous Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Heirs of J Paul Getty,» 80 - year - old director Ridley Scott's («Alien: Covenant») All the Money in the World tackles such an explosive story, the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer, «The Dinner»), grandson of oil tycoon John Paul Getty (Christopher Plummer, «The Man Who Invented Christmas»), and a billionaire said to be the richest man in the wWorld tackles such an explosive story, the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer, «The Dinner»), grandson of oil tycoon John Paul Getty (Christopher Plummer, «The Man Who Invented Christmas»), and a billionaire said to be the richest man in the worldworld.

But you are in fact watching Forbidden World, an Alien rip - off made by «legendary» B - movie producer Roger Corman in the early 1980s largely to reuse sets and props featured in some of his previous movies such as Galaxy of Terror and Battle Beyond the Stars.

When racial minorities do feature in such films, it's either as token characters whose ethnicity is never meaningfully commented upon (Lando Calrissian being the classic example) or in the form of analogies that themselves reek of racism (like the insect - like, ghettoized aliens in District 9, or the orcs in Netflix's Bright that inexplicably invoke Latinx and black stereotypes, even though those races also exist within the world of the film).

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- Some other Non-Resident Aliens, such as those who work for their governments in the US or for international organizations such as the World Bank, do not pay Social Security taxes.

Constructed in a 16 - bit world with an obvious reverent reference to older side - scrolling, platform - jumping games such as Metroid, Axiom Verge tells the story of a scientist who dies in an experiment gone awry, only to reawaken in an alien world with no knowledge of where he is, how he got there, and why the laws of physics do not seem to apply.

And when we say classics, we mean classics, with legendary titles such as Super Mario Kart, Contra III: The Alien Wars, F - ZERO, Mega Man X, Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper FIghting, Super Metroid, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Super Mario World, Donkey Kong Country, Final Fantasy II and more available to play.

As Gitaroo Man, he battles the alien as his bedroom turns into this warping, quasi music video of a child's nightmare world featuring random events such a giant dancing pig and a berserk flying train.

Alien saucers and a plethora of robots that wouldn't look out of place in films such as Lost in Space and War of the Worlds, march f...

One of the things that make the best games of the Metroid series such a joy to play after all these years isn't just the large map ripe for exploration, but also the sense of loneliness and danger the player feels when traversing a hostile, alien world.

She uses imagery such as Cochina dolls, nighttime skies, her passed Grandmother, eyes, the Tower of Babel, and as coined by Stephanie Young in Beautiful Decay «portraits of alien weirdos» to investigate and make sense out the world we inhabit.

In the ever hyper world of real time media, micro-celebrities and experts, fame and money are many times the definitions of «success», and though I do know at least a few people who have bucked that trend, it was heartening to read posts that told me that such thoughts weren't really alien.