Sentences with phrase «around the planet while»

He embarked on a spiritual and philosophical quest that took him around the planet while he explored the answers the various world religions and most famous philosophers had to offer.

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What's more, SpaceX was facing the problem of funding their initial mission to Mars: While reports in 2016 estimated that the cost to launch one Red Dragon to the Red Planet would total around $ 320M, SpaceX had not announced actual mission costs or how the company intended to pay for this deep - space journey.

We live on a planet that rotates on its axes while rotating around the sun and neither are support by anything we can see.

And while you are showing your respect for the planet, don't forget its people: when you purchase items from around the world, look for fair trade products.

If the light shifts towards red wavelengths it is moving farther away, while blue shift light is moving closer and thus we can see that the three planet - forming discs are almost «tumbling around» and are skewed relative to each other,» explains Christian Brinch.

Although we share strong superficial physical similarities, we have been able to use our incredible mental abilities to construct civilisations and manipulate our environment to our will, allowing us to take over our planet and walk on the moon while the chimps grub around in a few remaining African forests.

They have been looking for signs of planets around other stars, but also discarding false signals while keeping an eye out for anything genuinely strange.

The sun and moon tug on the planet, while the drift of continents, changes in ocean currents, and the rebounding of the crust since the retreat of ice age glaciers all shift mass around, altering Earth's moment of inertia and therefore its spin.

The worlds are aptly named «circumbinary planets» («circum» meaning around, and «binary» referring to two objects), and in this type of binary system, the two stars orbit each other while the planet orbits the two stars (pictured above).

Norman Myers, a marathon runner in his spare time, takes the reader several times around the planet to support his thesis with regional case studies, while considering how problems such as population, mass migrations and the massive extinction of species are related.

While other techniques are best at finding planets around nearby sun - like stars, gravitational microlensing can study any star up to 20,000 light years away.

While scientists find ever more planets around other stars and contemplate missions to probe the far reaches of our own solar system, researchers are looking to the extremes of the Earth for clues about what kind of organisms could exist in the brutal conditions elsewhere.

But astronomers have always wondered about the paucity of close - in brown dwarfs: While many giant planets have been found in small orbits, whirling around their sunlike stars in just a few days, the more massive brown dwarfs appear to shun these intimate relationships.

NASA's Kepler spacecraft made an unexpected catch in 2011: While looking for planets around other stars it also happened to snap a brace of supernovae, allowing astronomers to observe the shockwave that triggers them for the first time in detail.

The planet, about four times the mass of Jupiter, orbits around one star in the system while the other two stars move farther out.

TESS is a NASA mission scheduled for launch in 2017, while PLATO is to be launched in 2024 by the European Space Agency; both will search for transiting terrestrial planets around nearby bright stars.

But while Earth travels around the sun at about 30 kilometres per second, this planet zooms around its star at 250 kilometres per second.

While the toxins are likely to be most abundant in the air around lakes, they exist all over the planet, even in deserts.

«While the current state of the technique can not detect Earths around stars like the Sun, with Keck Observatory it should soon be possible to study the atmospheres of the so - called «super-Earth» planets being discovered around nearby low mass stars, many of which do not transit,» Blake said.

A star with multiple planets around it is gravitationally stable, according to the theory, while a star that is part of a close - knit system of stars would have a more unstable system because of each star's massive gravity.

«While this is not the detection of life on another planet,» lead author Dr. John Southworth, an astrophysicist from Keele University in the UK, said in a statement, «it's an important step in the right direction: the detection of an atmosphere around the super-Earth GJ 1132b marks the first time that an atmosphere has been detected around an Earth - like planet other than Earth itself.»

For example, while still in its scientific checkout phase, scientists using ALMA have found evidence for Earth - mass planets around nearby stars; as it nears its full complement of 66 antennas, ALMA will deduce the presence of many more exoplanets and study the chemical composition of the planetary nurseries.

The Sun is located on the lawn of Keck Observatory, while the outer planets are found around a bend in space (aka the Mamalahoa Highway), with the farthest objects at the headquarters of the CFHT.

But while we know that planets are plentiful, we still have plenty to learn about the process by which planets form from dust that swirls around their suns.

It is suprising that no papers (that I KNOW of, correct me if I'm wrong) came out regarding CME direct hits of Mercury and Venus while spacecraft were in orbit around these planets.I assume this is because neither planet has a magnetic field, and the strength of such CME's can be INFERRED from hypothetically equivalent hitting Earth's magnetic field.

The spacecraft has recently entered its last year of operations, conducting more than 3,000 orbits around the planet, while transmitting more than 200,000 images back to Earth.

While zipping around Earth several hundred miles above the planet's surface, European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano drove a 220 - pound (100 kilograms) rover across a moon - mimicking landscape here at NASA's Ames Research Center, even ordering the robot to deploy a simulated film - based radio telescope antenna.

How something forms is of crucial importance to understanding whether something is a planet or not, since planets tend to form from disks around stars, while stars form from the centers of the disks themselves.

While a large impact on Uranus when it was still surrounded by a protoplanetary disk would have eventually produced moons in retrograde orbit around the planet, two or more smaller collisions had a much higher probability of generating the moons with the orbital direction observed today (Europlanet press release; and Phil Plait, Bad Astronomy Blog, Discover, October 7, 2011).

While most of the big cities in the US and around the world have bars that tend to lesbians, meeting new female friend who would be interested in sapphic friendship and dating is still a very hard thing to do, but with Planet Sappho those needs are well serviced.

Neon Heights is another good one, Mid Boss: Fire Bro.Stage Boss: Koopa Kid.Koopa's Tycoon Town (driving on the road now instead of walking on the sidewalk) is another good one, Mid Boss: Goomba, Stage Boss: Red Koopa (again)(note: Goomba and red koopa boss battles will have you racing them to collect the most coins and deposit them to own the most hotels before time runs out) Eternal Star should be the best board, Mid Boss: Lakitu (defeat him by using star power from blocks) Stage Boss: Rosalina (this is more like a donkey kong and diddy kong mini game, except no bananas or barrels.You will be in outer space walking on planets then you can go in the launch star when you're done collecting star bits and you will be flying in space and you can move anywher to collect star bits you can even land on a planet while in space then collect star bits from there and you'll see rosalina floating around some places.Whoever collects the most star bits win and rosalina is not fighting you.)

2, Kurt Russell played a charming man with a beard who traveled around the universe presenting gifts to women, and while he wasn't literally Santa Claus, the connection seems fairly clear — as long as you ignore the stuff about him being a living planet that dreamed of intergalactic...

People around planet earth were excited to see what the new Millennium would bring; while big companies panicked that the Y2K bug would kill all their hard work and shut down the -LSB-...]

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, while still a pale comparison to the 1968 masterwork, is a respectable effort at a sequel nonetheless, and should meet well for those who've stuck around through the second and third films without getting turned off to further adventures.

And while Phil was famous for his sold - out engagements at leading venues like Carnegie Hall, he was also known to make impromptu appearances in support of the oppressed not only in the U.S. but in Africa, South America, and anywhere else around the planet he thought could help.

Around this part of my review, I usually give you a synopsis of the plot, but half the fun of Planet of the Apes is trying to figure out it's origin, so I hope I don't spoil anything while at the same time letting you know what it's all about.

«Travelers can now pack as many Lonely Planet guides as they want into Kindle's 10.2 ounces and download new guides wirelessly while travelling around the world.»

While the inunction is temporary, it is possible that, if the judge finds Sony guilty of patents infringement, Sony could be in deep legal and financial trouble being forced to pay LG damages for every PS3 console ever sold around the planet.

While most of us will be looking up at the eclipse August 21, you may also want to look around and take a close listen, because something unusual could be happening with the animals on our planet — at least, we think it could.»

That first night opened up into a tropical downpour while I walked the side streets around my Lonely Planet hotel with a camera and thick spiral notebook and got wet and lost fast.

The first will consist of 72 - square metre ocean view rooms with a panoramic view suite on the top floor, complete with a plunge pool, while families can opt for a room or suite in one of three family - designated buildings featuring water slides, pool access and the brand signature Planet Trekkers Programme, which allows families to explore the world together and cultivate a deeper understanding of the world around them.

If you dream of carefully constructing a new rollercoaster that loops around two pirate ships locked in battle while a kraken sneaks up on them and then goes underground, Planet Coaster is for you.

- as Captain Olimar is making his way home, an asteroid onslaught forces him to land on a nearby planet - Sparklium is the fuel for Olimar's Dolphin III ship - with the ship's fuel depleted, you have to find items on this planet which can be turned into fuel - collect everything from seeds to large scale treasures - you need 30,000 Sparklium to make your way home - you are eventually required to find a lost ship part at the end of the game - levels are more linear and puzzle based, and include specific goals / goodies to collect - move Captain Olimar with the Circle Pad, while all other interactions use the touchscreen - blow your whistle, throw Pikmin and also touch certain objects - worlds are called Sectors, with six areas altogether - find all the treasure and look for new passageways to complete a sector 100 % - passageways can grant you access to secret spots or additional levels highlighted with the letter X - the first world is called Brilliant Garden, which has lush forest environments - Yellow Pikmin can easily reach the upper screen, where you can sometimes collect goodies and pull down vines - there's a level where you use yellow Pikmin as a source to connect two wires - connecting the wires lets you see enemies and platforms that were hidden in the shadows - Winged Pikmin can be flung at high speeds, and they can pick up Olimar and help him descend down into new areas - in a later level, you need to use red Pikmin to stomp out fire and clear the way for you - Rock Pikmin are the strongest ones of the bunch and can break crystals - blue Pikmin can swim and fight well underwater - the maximum amount of Pikmin you can have in a stage is 20 - blow your whistle to call over the correct Pikmin for a task or puzzle - Ravaged Rustworks offers a unique industrial environment where you climb on pipes - Loney Tower has you climbing to the top of a tower without any help of Pikmin, and instead use pipes and Olimar's jetpack - Valley of the Breeze, found in the Leafswirl Lagoon sector, relies complete on Winged Pikmin - Barriers of Flame is in the Sweltering Parchlands sector - here you «lll be forced to improvise with Yellow and Rock Pikmin to get around fire - every world ends with a boss stage - one boss fight puts you up against a Fiery Blowhog, where you use Red Pikmin to pick up / feed bombs to the boss - beating bosses gives you treasures worth 1,000 Sparklium each - supports amiibo in the Splatoon, Super Mario and Animal Crossing lines - amiibo can be scanned in to grant you access to secret spots - these are one room puzzle challenges where you collect a statue - these bonus rooms will also get you 200 Sparklium every time - you are limited by how many amiibo you can summon to each secret spot - one of the treasures you will find is an NES cartridge for Ice Climbers, which carries the name «Revenge Fantasy».

However, while Stardust offered players the freedom to navigate around spherical planets, movement in RESOGUN is far more restrictive.

The game goes beyond Gotham by offering not only The Watchtower, the space station home of the Justice League in orbit around Earth, but also each of the Lantern planets, which, while scaled down in size, allow you to ride, fly, and explore.

Themes revolving around the planet or Mira range from alien to oppressive to mesmerising, while tracks relating to the human population of New Los Angeles adopt a more industrial feel.

It doesn't get boring, but it does get frustrating, and my reason is two words: the Nomad (the six wheeled transport you drive around while planet side).

While Rogue Planet promised over 100 hours of gameplay, Transformers will come in with around 27 levels lasting two to four hours total.

Other games have you running around a few square miles of Afghanistan or somewhere, while Elite Dangerous gives you a full 1 - to - 1 re-creation of the entire Milky Way Galaxy with billions of stars and planets and space stations to visit.

Around 300 planets of the Inner Sphere will be open for business, letting you travel between the Great Houses while taking increasingly demanding contracts and building reputation with each faction as you also manage your lances of warriors and supporting technicians.