Sentences with phrase «by the planet as»

«The whole atmosphere is kind of being dragged by the planet as the planet rotates, so all this air has some ambient angular momentum,» O'Neill explains.

Kepler, which launched in 2009 and ended data collection for its primary mission in 2013, precisely measured the brightness of many stars simultaneously in order to find the dimming caused by planets as they cross in front of their home star.

When an extrasolar planet (exoplanet) moves in front of it's parent star, a portion of the star's light is blocked out by the planet as it crosses the face of it's star.

After six years of observation involving millions of stars, they concluded «that stars are orbited by planets as a rule, rather than the exception.»

Not exact matches

Several other Silicon Valley start - ups, such as Planet Labs and Masten Space Systems, have been making headlines recently as they enter the space exploration market, an endeavor long associated with, and controlled by, the government.

As part of the series — produced by Darren Aronofsky and narrated by superstar Will Smith — several astronauts give personal anecdotes and perspectives about the planet based on a place few humans who have actually visited outer space.

But as demonstrated by the massive die - offs at the largest reef system in the planet, these sorts of efforts won't be enough to save the world's reefs without dealing with the larger carbon emissions problem.

But if enough people feel SpaceX is threatening what they value (such as the environment — here or there), or disadvantaging them in some way (for example, by allowing rich people to move to another planet and abandoning the rest of us here), they'll make life difficult for the company.

While Musk is clearly smart enough to have considered all this already (or at least to pay someone else to consider it), Maynard ends with a word of caution for the SpaceX team: «If enough people feel SpaceX is threatening what they value (such as the environment — here or there), or disadvantaging them in some way (for example, by allowing rich people to move to another planet and abandoning the rest of us here), they'll make life difficult for the company.»

When she's not dreaming of visiting the red planet, Caret is also working to ensure the smooth operation of Boeing satellites, which are relied on by both the U.S. government for data collection, and consumers for myriad smartphone functions, such as GPS and location - based apps.

Since then, NASA has explored other alien surfaces like, Mars and Saturn's moon Titan, as well as flown by every planet in our solar system.

According to a big chunk of ocean surface temperature recorded by boat, the oceans were not warming nearly as quickly as the rest of the planet.

Solar power is becoming an increasingly important part of the planet's energy mix, as evidenced by the recent publication of the Solar Foundation's 2017 National Solar Jobs Census.

Science fiction paints us as petrified by our own creations; fears of a bot planet have influenced everything from Asimov's «Laws of Robotics» to HAL 9000's homicidal impulses to Skynet's global genocide.

He can acquire companies around the planet, overpay by as much as he likes, and there is effectively nothing that his shareholders or his board can do to stop him.

Also planet is cooling and green / warmist drag on moving ahead will have been exposed as a big fib by then.

If the planet is to avert the worst scenarios for climate change, the optimistic long - run forecasts for oil demand growth put forward by energy giants such as Exxon can be thrown out the window.

As soon as I opened Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green Winning Strategies to Improve Your Profits & Your Planet, by Jay Conrad Levinson & Shel Horowitz, with Forward by Stephen M.R. Covey, I dove iAs soon as I opened Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green Winning Strategies to Improve Your Profits & Your Planet, by Jay Conrad Levinson & Shel Horowitz, with Forward by Stephen M.R. Covey, I dove ias I opened Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green Winning Strategies to Improve Your Profits & Your Planet, by Jay Conrad Levinson & Shel Horowitz, with Forward by Stephen M.R. Covey, I dove in.

Those who continue to cling to the fatally flawed infinite economic growth within a resource finite biosphere won't have much to cling to as we witness the outcome of the laws of basic arithmitic, physics, and chemistry on this planet overwhelmed by artificially supported human population and resource exploitation.

NASA's Insight lander was built by Lockheed Martin Space Systems facility in Denver and delivered to Vandenberg Airfare base in California on February 28, and will probe the deep interior of the Red Planet to gain a better understanding of the processes that have shaped rocky planets such as Mars and Earth.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

By breaking down solar panel ownership to a single cell we reduce the cost of going solar by two orders of magnitude and we're utilizing empty roof space in some of the sunniest cities on the planet, such as Dubai and Johannesburg.&raquBy breaking down solar panel ownership to a single cell we reduce the cost of going solar by two orders of magnitude and we're utilizing empty roof space in some of the sunniest cities on the planet, such as Dubai and Johannesburg.&raquby two orders of magnitude and we're utilizing empty roof space in some of the sunniest cities on the planet, such as Dubai and Johannesburg.»

An image taken by the Curiosity Rover has turned viral after a video posted by a group insisted that the image was the vestige of an ancient Martian tree on the planet as an assertion of life on Mars.

Believers and non-believers alike, united by a common concern for the future of the planet, have high hopes that someone who chose to name himself after that great lover of creation, Francis of Assisi, will say something truly transformational, for as a Canadian Council of Churches document lamentably observes, transformative change has not «found traction within political processes.»

i wonder why «god» conveyed a «day» as we see it from this planet, which is now written as a 24 hour period of time; unless what was written was written by people that lacked understanding of there being various methods to measure time.

«In essence, it is a synthesis of the results obtained by Greek astronomy... On the motions of the Sun, Moon, and planets, Ptolemy again extended the observations and conclusions of Hipparchus — this time to formulate his geocentric theory, which is popularly known as the Ptolemaic system» (15th edition, 1975, Macropaedia, Vol.

An astronomer does not «see God» in science by finding some new and rare piece of data that proves God exists as if God were like an alien visiting from another planet, which would be a childish and materialistic understanding of what God is.

Well seeing as only 33 % of people on this planet believe in your version of a god, that means 4.6 billion people (and counting) are going to be burned in hell by your god.

Theo Phileo, There is a large differnce between believing «that life on this planet was seeded by aliens», (as you stated on July 17, 2014 at 11:57 am) and believing that it is possible that life here was seeded by aliens.

They are «stardust» and were brought here (and to other planets as well) by comets, meteors, and other debris.

A degree of kinship between human beings and the rest of physical creation has always been clear to an extent, but the depth and detail of our interrelationship with the rest of life on the planet is being confirmed over and over again in breathtaking detail by new scientific advances such as genetic studies and molecular biology.

I have described how I was myself affected by my new awareness of what was happening to the planet as a whole.

Lewis» most successful novel, I believe, is the first part of his science - fiction trilogy, Out of the Silent Planet, in which a Cambridge don named Ransom is kidnapped by two diabolical characters, the scientist Weston and the entrepreneur Devine, and transported via rocket ship as a sacrificial victim to the inhabitants of another planet called Malacandra (MarPlanet, in which a Cambridge don named Ransom is kidnapped by two diabolical characters, the scientist Weston and the entrepreneur Devine, and transported via rocket ship as a sacrificial victim to the inhabitants of another planet called Malacandra (Marplanet called Malacandra (Mars).12.

Of course if anyone looks up, «No man knows my history» by Fawn M. Brodie, or «Under The Banner of Heaven, or Secret Ceremonies: A Mormon Woman's Intimate Diary of Marriage and Beyond,» as well as google different questions about mormon secret names, White Horse Prophesy, Mormons becoming Gods, God was once a man on another planet, mormon bigotry against Blacks, Joseph Smith and his 14 year old wife (WHILE he was still married to his living wife Emma) Helen Mar Kimball... I could go on.

The organic model we are suggesting pictures reality as composed of multitudes of embodied beings who presently inhabit a planet that has evolved over billions of years through a process of dynamic change marked by law and novelty into an intricate, diverse, complex, multi-leveled reality, all radically interrelated and interdependent.

We are no longer tortured by the dreadful limitations of man's life on this planet, and while as lovers of God and lovers of man, we are bound to do all that we can to spread the invisible Kingdom here on earth, we know that both the foundation and the fulfillment of that Kingdom lie beyond the confines of our present situation.

Because the odds of «dangerous» ideas espoused by a carpenter walking around, preaching in an occupied land peacefully overtaking the Roman Empire (the most powerful man - made force on the planet at the time) and shaping civilization, Western and beyond, are almost as remote as the odds of you forgoing your delusional confidence in your ability for rational thought or facts, giving him credit for being exactly who he said he was.

Religion however has tried to supersede our humanity and tell us it's okay to kill those other humans because they aren't like you, they don't worship the same God as you, they don't have the same hope for an afterlife, they aren't special and «chosen» by God like you... that is the true face of evil on the planet, the one that tries to make you forget your humanity with bribes and extortion.

Smith and Denton have an urgent message: stop defining adolescence as «a social problem» and adolescents as «alien creatures, strange and menacing beings, perhaps even monsters driven by raging hormones, visiting us from another planet.»

All semantics aside, they do not believe in One God, they believe in 3 distinct gods of this planet, that there are planets all over the universe being celestially reproduced by other gods... and the various wives each god has... that we will become gods one day as god was once a man... sorry ladies, you can only be a godess if you please your celestial husband and he calls you up.

As told by Helen Thomas Those group were able to pass on their agenda and propaganda by enforcing the belief that their nation is the only victemized nation on this planet earth and all through history old and new, and she added that they like it this way acting as victimized as it makes it easier for them to cross the boarders, blackmailing all those nationAs told by Helen Thomas Those group were able to pass on their agenda and propaganda by enforcing the belief that their nation is the only victemized nation on this planet earth and all through history old and new, and she added that they like it this way acting as victimized as it makes it easier for them to cross the boarders, blackmailing all those nationas victimized as it makes it easier for them to cross the boarders, blackmailing all those nationas it makes it easier for them to cross the boarders, blackmailing all those nations.

As part of the process of de-garrisoning the planet and liquidating our empire, we would have to launch an orderly closing - up process for at least 700 of the 737 military bases we maintain (by official Pentagon count) in over 130 foreign countries on every continent except Antarctica.

She is certainly right that our human notions of justice do not seem to be backed by the laws of nature as we know them and the way things happen on this planet.

I can explain climate change as a result of a natural cycle caused by the masses and orbits of the planets, but I don't go around calling believers in humans causing climate change idiots simply because I know what actually causes it.

-- The Earth was formed by this giant explosion which took place millions of years ago and somehow ended up in this perfectly rotating planet that has perfectly precise, repeatable days, months and years and rotates at the perfect angle so as to enable defined changes in climate and weather to have predictable seasons.

The universality of the appeal and of the effect of Jesus has been demonstrated by experience as has that of no other being who has ever lived on this planet.

Just as our physical bodies have evolved to suit the particular conditions on this planet and that of no other known to us, so our minds and spirits have been shaped by our experience to be at home in the particular historical period in which we live.

For Megyn Kelly to argue that either Jesus, as embraced by Christians as the Son of God, or Santa, as the infinitely generous being who lives at the North Pole and delivers presents to every well - behaved child on the planet on Christmas Eve (What other possible understanding could she be advocating?)

In his breathtaking conceptualization of planetary life, he saw the emergence of the human species and the subsequent globalization of the planet not in terms of the conquest of the globe by Christianity but as the logical consequence of an ongoing evolutionary process.

It reminds me that, today, there are sparrows falling from trees and planets coursing through space, that a great cloud of witnesses has come before me and will come after me, that I have sinned by what I have done and what I have left undone, that all I really need is my daily bread, that, with or without me, the glory of God persists, «as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be.»