Sentences with phrase «by the planet at»

(Theoretically, the spacecraft was captured by the planet at 8:38 P.M., about halfway through the burn, but confirmation did not come until later.)

Not exact matches

This fundamental realignment of the planets in the media universe is the topic of a massive new report from the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, authored by Tow director Emily Bell and University of British Columbia assistant professor Taylor Owen.

Although Saturn was visited by three spacecraft in the 1970s and 1980s, my fellow scientists and I couldn't have imagined what the Cassini space probe would discover during its sojourn at the ringed planet when it launched 20 years ago.

Mark Zuckerberg is taking on Planet Earth by drone, laser and satellite, pledging to connect the «whole world» to the Internet... One new Facebook user at a time?

Later in the afternoon, speaking at a Miami event sponsored by the U.S. - Cuba Democracy PAC, Romney said that if he becomes president, «it is my expectation that Fidel Castro will finally be taken off this planet.»

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.

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.»

The challenge in prompting change — broadening the classic definition of «infrastructure,» and investing in initiatives aimed at adapting to a turbulent planet — is heightened by partisan divisions over climate policy and development.

At its famous Herald Square store, the windows follow a child's imaginary journey through space via various planet landscapes, custom - designed toys, handmade elves and an interactive game, all accented by thousands of LED lights.

It should be managed at the UN level by the most nuclear capable nations on the planet fully cooperating to clean up and secure the site.

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick unveiled the company's 14 values on stage at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino, dressed in a white laboratory coat, according to The Upstarts, a recent book by technology reporter Brad Stone.

Changing water to wine Walking on water healing the sick drowning the world in an amount of water equal to five times the water on the planet fitting several of every animal on a boat that could not hold half of the animals and have enough to eat and drink the fidelity test in numbers making striped goats by having goats stare at stripes changing people into a pillar of salt plagues of toads

IF you were to look at creation it - self and how complex and in order things are surely after a few days of thinking about it you would have to say there must have be a creator in all of this stuff going on??? there is to much out there to say it all happened by chance or accicedent... you do nt have to go past the moon or the nearest planet to see what im talking aobut i will pray that God will reveal him self to you and you too can see what im talking aobut... you can emial me if you like randytherealtor7 at yahoo com

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.

Theo What did you imply by saying, «Just look at Stephen Hawking and how he believes that life ion this planet was seeded bt aliens.»?

Which is at least a bit strange, in that it was an artifact produced by the much - deplored military - industrial complex» the photographs of Planet Earth taken by the astronauts of Apollo VIII on their Christmas 1968 circumnavigation of the moon» that gave the new environmentalism its icon and something of its emotional power.

We don't have to mention to what length two nations went who were not primarily divided by religious differences but rather more rational economic and ideological differences, to turn this entire planet into a smoldering ruin glowing with radiation at the press of the «easy» button.

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.

If the church's theology were informed more by biblical expectations of a redeemed creation and less by general religious longings for ecstatic experience and timeless truth, Christians would find themselves at the very least congenial toward those who, with a passionate «loyalty to things» and a «cosmic act of allegiance,» struggle to unpack the secrets of life on this planet and to work with it toward a new day.

Precious Metals the Result of Meteorite Bombardment, Rock Analysis Finds Sep. 9, 2011 — Ultra high precision analyses of some of the oldest rock samples on Earth by researchers at the University of Bristol provides clear evidence that the planet's accessible reserves of precious metals are the result of a bombardment of meteorites more than 200 million years after Earth was formed.

To an alien life form living on another planet billions of light years from us the death of an 8 year old human, while tragic to us, might be linked by what Einstein called «s p o o k y action at a distance» to an alien birth making it one of their most joyous occasions.

Tell me when you are ready and I will be happy to show you why you are not on this planet by chance, why you were created to be at this time and place for a reason, your life is not meaningless... you matter...

@nonono - «Tell me when you are ready and I will be happy to show you why you are not on this planet by chance, why you were created to be at this time and place for a reason, your life is not meaningless... you matter...»

British physicist P.C.W. Davies has concluded that the odds against the initial conditions being suitable for the formation of stars, which are necessary for planets and thus life, is a one followed by at least a thousand billion billion zeros.

I'm not sure what is meant by «global loyalty» - perhaps it would become a virtue in the event of invasion from other planets - but I am sure that such jargon contributes little to understanding why so many thoughtful Americans are coming to a jaundiced view of the UN and other institutions created in support of an internationalism that is now unsupported by clear doctrine, or any doctrine at all.

Christians «are the most persecuted group on the planet,» said Alexandra Tompson, legal analyst at ADF International, after a December 14 discussion at Vienna, Austria, sponsored by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

Picking his way expertly through three centuries of scientific history, from Newton on gravity (the force that causes apples to fall and planets to stay in orbit is the same), through electricity and magnetism (aspects of a single reality), to the present search for a Grand Unified Theory, he argued that the coherence of the physical universe progressively uncovered by science points to a «unity principle» at its heart.

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.

-- 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.

Mormon theology teaches that God is only one of countless gods, that he used to be a man on another planet, that he became a god by following the laws and ordinances of that god on that world, and that he brought one of his wives to this world with whom he produces spirit children who then inhabit human bodies at birth.

And in addition, you can't tell me definitively that the yellow, black, and white striped 1000 year old, and 100 foot tall polka dotted vampire lady in black stockings isn't alive and doesn't exist, speaking perfect English even though she has never visited our planet, on the dark side of the moon, and has never been seen by the golden crown of creation, god's highest achievement, man, who dwelleths at the very epi - center of the universe, surrounded on all four sides by the heavenly spheres and angels, and overseen by god in heaven bless her extensive gold threaded wardrobe.

Yet the collisions or near misses dictated by these theories are inherently very improbable, perhaps only ten for the entire life of our galaxy during the past five billion years.32 With so few planets in existence, we could hardly assume that there would be much life elsewhere, at least not in our galaxy.

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?)

How were the firstborns to die — tangible murder, or a disease brought about by poor birthing conditions engineered by the medical community of the time, or by a pulse from the Anananunki planet that could be attributed to a weak, ineffectual god assigned to this sector of the universe and passed off as omnipotent because He thought he was, or knew he had to pretend to be, to give humans Any Hope AT ALL?

And any man who at the age of 80 has that to answer for is by no stretch «the luckiest cat on the planet»».

At least seven immense, interdependent threats to the quality of life on spaceship earth continue to escalate: the population explosion; the widening gulf between rich and poor nations; massive malnutrition (caused mainly by economic injustice, which produces maldistribution of available food); environmental pollution and degradation; the depletion of the irreplaceable resources of our finite planet; the growing threat of nuclear terrorism and eventual holocaust (with the equivalent of one and a half million Hiroshima - sized bombs in the arsenals of the world); and the worldwide tendency for the fruits of science and technology to be used without ethical responsibility.

Christianity, for example, teaches that the world was made in seven days by a magical being that can conjure up planets at will.

Oh, and by the way, I made the universe in 6 days, put the stars in the heavens just for your enjoyment at night, and put in subjection all the other creatures on the planet.

A recent study from researchers at Oxford University published in the medical journal The Lancet looked at how changing weather patterns will affect the planet's ability to grow enough food to adequately feed the global population, and the results are terrifying: They predicted that because of large scale agricultural changes, 247,970 could die in China alone by the year 2050.

But the cosmic adventure, on our own planet at least, has been extended in a special way by the religious journey.

«These people,» Solzhenitsyn remarks, «who had experienced on their own hides twenty - four years of Communist happiness, knew by 1941 what as yet no one else in the world knew: That nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning and ingenious than the Bolshevik, the self - styled Soviet regime.»

By following that logic I must therefore assume that gravity did not exist untill the apple hit Newton on the head and evidently the other planets did not exist till Galileo invented a telescope and turned it towards the sky and at that precise moment the rest of the planets spontenously appeared?

No, Louise, you won't go to another planet, but the essence of that which is you, unencumbered by the stuff you accumulated at this level, including your physical body, will live on in another dimension.

At Big Tent Christianity last month Marcus Borg was asked how to avoid getting overwhelmed by kingdom work — that is, pursuing reconciliation, caring for the planet, spreading the gospel, loving neighbors, loving enemies, working for justice, celebrating beauty, and advancing peace.

As a result, he reports, he has freed up more family resources for his daughter, prevented the conversation at home from being dominated by kids, and generally found it easier to be a parent, all out of a spirit of generosity for the planet (and not the selfishness of the contraceptive mentality).

Most common people never even thought about it at all (not remotly relevant to farming or smithing etc.) The geocentric theory was actually mathematically «proven» by Ptolemy of Egypt, so belief in geocentrism was acceptable (it used epicycles where planets would make loops and such.

Sep. 9, 2011 — Ultra high precision analyses of some of the oldest rock samples on Earth by researchers at the University of Bristol provides clear evidence that the planet's accessible reserves of precious metals are the result of a bombardment of meteorites more than 200 million years after Earth was formed.

The sun makes daylight, not only on our earth, but also on the other planets; and daylight is of the utmost utility to us; for by its means we can commodiously carry on those occupations which in the night - time would either be quite impossible, or at any rate impossible without our going to the expense of artificial light.

Winners will also be treated to the «Swim with the Fishes» experience at RumFish Grill — where they can snorkel in the 33,500 gallon aquarium built by Wayde King and Brett Raymer of Animal Planet's hit series, «Tanked.»