Sentences with phrase «average earthlings»

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Nevertheless, Earthlings would not mistake Gliese 581g for their home planet — in addition to its so - called super-Earth dimensions, it orbits a star far smaller and dimmer than the sun, and its average surface temperatures would vary dramatically, from well below freezing on its night side to scorching hot on the day side.

With understated fatalism rather than Titanic - size hysteria — at once slapstick and ice - cool — McKellar tracks a handful of average but bizarre Canadian earthlings as they prepare in small, banal, personal ways for extinction, then links them in a bigger human whole.