Sentences with phrase «earth over its history»

Applying this concept allows us to utilize mathematical concepts to determine the number of species that have lived on the earth over its history.

That's up to 9 kilometers per second slower than the average for bigger objects that have hit Earth over its history, says space scientist and asteroid specialist William Bottke of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

Not exact matches

Musk believes that over the four - and - a-half-billion-year history of planet Earth, a dozen or so events have truly mattered.

«Over the history of the earth there has been about a 10 degree dynamic range of temperature,» he explained.

At first sight, beings and their destinies might seem to us to be scattered haphazard or at least in an arbitrary fashion over the face of the earth; we could very easily suppose that each of us might equally well have been born earlier or later, at this place or that, happier or more ill - starred, as though the universe from the beginning to end of its history formed in space - time a sort of vast flower - bed in which the flowers could be changed about at the whim of the gardener.

«Chapter 37th,» a history of the Revolution published in 1782, began with the sonorous, «And it came to pass in the reign of George the king, who ruled over Albion, and whose empire extended to the uttermost parts of the earth.»

Remarkable and significant as is the emergence of self - conscious persons by natural processes from the original «hot big bang» from which the universe has expanded over the last 10 - 20 thousand million years, this must not be allowed to obscure another fact about humanity, namely its relatively recent arrival in the universe, even on a time - scale of the history of the Earth.

The issues of chief difficulty arise at the point of questions as to whether Jesus expected the Kingdom to come on earth or only in some realm beyond earthly history, and in the latter event, whether he expected earthly history to end very soon by a catastrophic divine intervention when he himself would return in glory to reign over a transfigured world.

So, if we know the number of speciation events that occurred over evolution's history, we could calculate the number of species that have lived on the earth.

nice question — there was indeed a global ocean in earths history and it was salt water — according to modern science when the plates moved and enclosed land creating a land locked ocean which over time turn to fresh water by leaking the salt into the bedrock... or something like that — i have rough understanding.

see what you have to understand about living in a real world — a world where god is just a story and not real — its a world based on scientific and physical laws that are proven to exist and their effects are measurable... us as humans, mere animals, hold no real power or control aside thru ingenuity which allows us to change our environment to suit us... stay with me here... at this point in human history we ceased to change to suit our environment and started changing it to suit us — thats destruction of the earth to suit one species — that should go over well...

Feb. 13, 2013 — The greatest battle in Earth's history has been going on for hundreds of millions of years - it isn't over yet - and until now no one knew it existed, scientists reported Feb. 13 in the journal Nature.

Feb. 13, 2013 — The greatest battle in Earth's history has been going on for hundreds of millions of years — it isn't over yet — and until now no one knew it existed, scientists reported Feb. 13 in the journal Nature.

As species, man produces the configurations of history, culture, society, technology, politics, economics, the arts and religion which serve as his «life - world» and represent his «dominion over the earth.»

Over the course of the Earth's four billion year history, billions of other species have evolved into existence and been rendered extinct by compet - itors or natural disasters, well before the current cast of characters appeared.

The belief systems that gave us Ishtar, Habakuk, Isis, Osiris, Zeus, Hera, Frigga, Thor, Jupiter, Mars, Vishnu, Shiva, Elohim, Yaweh, Allah, AND God (just to name a SCANT few over the course of Human history - but, then again, if you're the kind of Xtian that believes the Earth is only 6000 years old, then you won't have much of a favorable view of what the remainder of us refer to AS «history»).

The tabuns could also resolve the dispute over Solomon's power and reach, says Amotz Agnon, a Hebrew University geophysicist reconstructing the history of Earth's magnetic field.

Ivany says this kind of work has implications for the study of the evolutionary history of life on Earth, and may help explain why the metabolism of cold - blooded animals has changed over time.

Some geologists, however, think it is too early in our species's history to declare human dominance over the Earth.

Few reliable clues exist as to the early history of Earth's atmosphere and rocky surface because geologic activity has erased detailed evidence over time.

Mars» volcanoes show evidence for activity over a larger time span than those on Earth, but their histories of magma production might be quite different,» said Jacob Bleacher, a planetary geologist at Goddard and a co-author on the study.

Earth has known several mass extinctions over the course of its history.

But to study Earth's history over tens to hundreds of millions of years, researchers examine the chemical and biological signatures of deep sea sediment archives.

Over the course of time, it goes from being ubiquitous to repetitive to rare to absent — more evidence that we live at an unusual time in the history of Earth.

«It's possible that over the course of Earth's history, bacterial diversity increased massively with the development of mycelium - forming fungi.»

As photosynthesis favours the lighter isotope, carbon 12, over the heavier carbon 13, this «light» ratio finding suggests that organic material from biological sources may have been more abundant in diamond - forming zones early in the Earth's history than we find today,» explained Suzette Timmerman, lead author on the study.

The resulting graph of CO2 levels and temperature over Earth's history was remarkable.

There are contributions from interstellar matter, from the three - degree - Kelvin background radiation left over from the early history of the universe, from noise that is fundamentally associated with the operation of any detector and from the absorption of radiation by the earth's atmosphere.

Months after a request from a Virginia politician and a conservative think tank, the University of Virginia (UVA) has turned over documents related to embattled scientist Michael Mann's research into the history of Earth's climate.

«This is the first study that makes use of the idea that atmospheric pressure could have varied over Earth's history,» Li says.

«The mantle reservoir might affect the global cycle over Earth's history.»

The Earth has known several mass extinctions over the course of its history.

If you play the tape of Earth's history over again, you'd have different minerals.»

Asteroids and other space debris left over from the solar system's creation regularly slammed into Earth early in its history.

«Yet methane almost certainly would not have been detected by an alien civilization looking at our planet a billion years ago — despite the likelihood of its biological production over most of Earth history.»

His research seeks to understand the forms of coevolutionary selection created by interactions between species - plants and pollinators, hosts and parasites, predators and prey - and the importance of this selection over the evolutionary history of life on Earth.

In particular, we should make sure of our discoveries on life in various environments on Earth, our knowledge of how our planet and its life have affected each other over Earth history, and our satellite observations of Earth's climate.

The Space Transportation System (STS), as the Shuttle was officially known, flew 130 missions over 30 years, covering 542 million miles and making 21,000 earth orbits, according to a NASA history.

Over the past several years, however, thousands of planets have been discovered orbiting stars beyond our sun, allowing us to study our own Earth in the context of other worlds for the first time in history.

Detection of tremolite, a mineral created in the presence of water, could be used to ascertain how long any Venusian oceans lasted as a habitat for Earth - type life over the past 4.6 billion years of planetary history (more).

A new study in the April 22 edition of Science reveals that volcanic activity associated with the plate - tectonic movement of continents may be responsible for climatic shifts from hot to cold over tens and hundreds of millions of years throughout much of Earth's history.

a cosmopolitan cyber traveller with interests in history and culture of all people over our earth - seeking for a couch while traveling and going familiar with the cultures («couchsurfing» for oldies)- steppenwolf..

By using index fossils and relative dating, scientists are able to put together the Earths geologic history, and show how species have changed over time.

Thanks to the movies, Natasha Romanoff's exploits as the Black Widow are known by Marvel fans the world over — but her history, from Russian spy to American defector, to one of Earth's mightiest heroes, stretches back over half a century of comics.

Here's the full list of 142 films that featured on our contributors» ballots: (Disclaimer: Luc Besson's Lucy didn't get a single vote - I just like this image of Scarlett sorting through stuff) 71 1001 Grams 12 Years a Slave 20,000 Days on Earth 22 Jump Street 52 Tuesdays A Girl at my Door A Most Violent Year A Most Wanted Man A Touch of Sin Aberdeen Alleluia American Sniper Birdman Black Coal, Thin Ice Blind Blue Ruin Boyhood Calvary Captain America: The Winter Soldier Casa Grande Chef Citizenfour Climbing to Spring Cold in July Danger 5 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Der Samurai Duke of Burgundy Edge of Tomorrow Electric Boogaloo Enemy Fandry Force Majeure Frank Free Fall From What is Before Giovanni's Island Gone Girl Goodbye to Language Guardians of the Galaxy Haemoo Han Gong - ju Hard to be a God Horse Money Housebound Ida Inherent Vice Interstellar It Follows Jauja Jigarthanda Jodorowsky's Dune John Wick Killers Lady Maiko Les Combattants Leviathan Li'l Quinquin Life Itself Like Father Like Son Locke Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere Magical Girl Maidan Man From Reno Melbourne Memphis Mommy National Gallery New World Nightcrawler Norte, The End of History Nymphomaniac Of Good Report Only Lovers Left Alive Over Your Dead Body Pale Moon Peaky Blinders Pride R100 Red Army Seven Weeks Sils Maria Snowpiercer Song of the Sea Sorrow and Joy Spring Stand By Me Doraemon Starred Up Starry Eyes Stray Dogs Texas Chain Saw Massacre The Act of Killing The Babadook The Dam Keeper The Double The Editor The Grand Budapest Hotel The Great Beauty The Great Passage The Guest The Hobbit The Internet's Own Boy The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness The Lego Movie The Missing Picture The One I Love The Overnighters The Penguins of Madagascar The Raid 2 The Sacrament The Second Game The Secret Life of Walter Mitty The Snow White Murder Case The Tale of the Princess Kaguya The Terror Live The Tribe The Wind Rises The Wolf of Wall Street The Wonders The World of Kanako These Final Hours They Came Together Tokyo Tribe Tusk Two Days, One Night Under the Skin Wadjda We Are The Best!

Fossils Fuel Imagination: T Rex towers over the exhibits of the Kimball Natural History Museum, where the evolution and sustainability of life on Earth are the focus.

Designed by famed architect Bill Bensley, the resort reimagines Vietnamese design, history and myth to create a magical retreat over four levels - heaven, sky, earth and sea.

Geological History: Some of the largest lava flows on earth poured out over the Columbia Plateau to the Oregon Coast beginning approximately 17 million years ago.

The Park and Preserve protect over 9,000 years of human history and support the largest protected brown / grizzly bear population on Earth, numbering over 2,000.

If the Jihadists express their power by performatively destroying the past and flattening the earth and the power of tech - utopian westerners over heritage is expressed through digital technologies that allow them to reclaim and colonize objects before and after they are destroyed, Allahyari's project offers a third method to re-situate power and remark history and ownership.