Sentences with phrase «find than a planet»

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Her approach represents a middle way in which business success doesn't mean ignoring your community or leaving the planet worse off than you found it.

I guess I have never considered late Bronze Age regional Jewish mythology relevant to a country founded more than 1776 years later on the other side of the planet.

We find it easier to be fascinated by the possibilities of space travel than to be distressed by the plight of millions of refugees living in misery on our own planet.

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.

Precious metals the result of meteorite bombardment, rock analysis finds Date: September 9, 2011 Source: University of Bristol Summary: Ultra high precision analyses of some of the oldest rock samples on Earth 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.

if humans had just fell in line with religious teachings and never asked questions other than «god did it»... then people would still be dying in child birth, the common cold, small poxs etc etc etc. i find that we survived a s a species to become the alpha predator of this planet and the achievements we have made since then to be amazing; attributing everything humans have achieved to a god just cheapens the value of our achievements as a species.

Essentially, in the twofold irresistible embrace of a planet that is visibly shrinking, and Thought that is more and more rapidly coiling in upon itself; the dust of human units finds itself subjected to a formidable pressure of coalescence, far stronger than the individual or national repulsions that so alarm us.

If I were born into a faith organization that was a solid socialist oligarchy having fair flat tax, budget surpluses, welfare without shame, culturally sensitve worldwide outreach, and promise to rule over a planet of my own, I would find sticking around to be a good bet, and all the myths to be no more bizarre than those found in other faith traditions.

We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history... As atheists... we face up to the fact that... we must make the most of our short time on this planet and... make this planet as good as we possibly can and try to leave it a better place than we found it».

The heart of all real religions is an affirmation that human life on this planet is only part of something very much greater; that «human values» are determined by an authority higher than human beings themselves; and that man neither finds happiness nor discovers his true self until his worship, his loyalty and his love are given to Someone infinitely greater than any man or group of men.

For more than sixty years the Institute has been committed to researching the best practices for organic farming and sharing findings with farmers and scientists around the world, advocating for policies that support farmers, and educating consumers about how going organic is the healthiest option for people and the planet.

At the same time, the company plans to leave the planet in a better form than which it was found.

For more than sixty years, we've been researching the best practices of organic agriculture and sharing our findings with farmers and scientists throughout the world, advocating for policies that support farmers, and educating consumers about how going organic is the healthiest option for people and the planet.

What makes Planet Rice different than the traditional rice that you can find at the store is that they take the extra time to allow the seed to sprout.

Plants on other planets are bound to be even weirder than the strangest ones we find on Earth — if they even exist.

A round - the - world tasting, The World's Best Drinks: Where to Find Them and How to Make Them (Lonely Planet / $ 14.99 / March 2016) features more than 60 authentic recipes including cocktails, delicate tea brews and zingy apertifs.

Just have a look at LVG, He had Angel Di Maria in the squad but couldn't find a place for him as he'd rather hoof long balls and crosses to Fellaini than take a few risks and utilize one of the most dangerous players on the planet.

The report found that using washable nappies, hailed by councils throughout Britain as a key way of saving the planet, have a higher carbon footprint than their disposable equivalents unless parents adopt an extreme approach to laundering them.

It's about being a greener county, greener environment, leaving the planet and our county in a better place than we've found it for the next generation.

TESS is expected to perform an all - sky survey focused on finding transiting rocky planets around nearby stars, planets that could then be studied in further detail by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which would launch no sooner than 2018.

Lighter - toned bedrock that surrounds fractures and comprises high concentrations of silica — called «halos» — has been found in Gale crater on Mars, indicating that the planet had liquid water much longer than previously believed.

This week scientists reported new findings of water on the Red Planet that bring us closer than ever to finally answering the question.

The first and second planets from the dwarf star are probably less than 15 percent water by mass, still far wetter than Earth, the researchers found.

New calculations of the composition of TRAPPIST - 1f, the fifth planet from the star, suggest a relatively thin layer of water (still far deeper than anything found on Earth) gives way to ice VI and ice VII, two different forms of ice that can form under high pressures.

«I would like to be surprised — and I'm hopeful — but I'm not sure we'll find planets closer to Earth twins than the objects we present in our paper.»

The group of five planets, all smaller than Neptune, was found by citizen scientists scouring data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, which measures light from distant stars.

«We find no evidence of the orbit clustering needed for the Planet Nine hypothesis in our fully independent survey,» says Cory Shankman, an astronomer at the University of Victoria in Canada and a member of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS), which since 2013 has found more than 800 objects out near Neptune using the Canada - France - Hawaii Telescope in Hawaii.

The meteorite, dubbed Northwest Africa (NWA) 7034, contains a concentration of water by weight about ten times higher than in any of the other 100 or so known Martian meteorites — those rare rocks that get ejected from the Martian surface into space when an asteroid hits the planet, and eventually find their way to Earth.

The good news is that Kepler's latest results include 117 candidates at or below the size of Kepler - 10 b and 23 smaller than Earth, strongly suggesting that the planet - hunting probe should soon find small, rocky exoplanets in kinder climates.

By the way, we're finding some rocky planets that are even denser than Earth.

Planet hunters have found more than 130 extrasolar planets, but nearly all are bloated gas giants like Jupiter.

Among the 1,900 - and - counting confirmed alien planets found so far, we've seen everything from bizarro, jumbo versions of Jupiter in scorchingly tight orbits to exoplanets dozens of times farther out than Neptune, and even worlds circling two stars, like Tatooine in Star Wars.

Kasting adds that far - out planets will be fainter and harder to see than close - in planets, so finding these distant worlds will be more difficult, as will studying their atmospheres.

Such «transits» are how Kepler found the vast majority of its planets; but many things besides planets can cause stars to slightly dim, leading to far more false alarms than discoveries of new worlds.

After years of scrutinizing the closest star to Earth, a red dwarf known as Proxima Centauri, astronomers have finally found evidence for a planet, slightly bigger than Earth and well within the star's habitable zone — the range of orbits in which liquid water could exist on its surface.

Researchers have discovered more than 3,000 planets around other stars and expect to find tens of thousands more within the next decade.

More than just a geologic curiosity, finding water on Mars has major implications for the search for life, because the presence of H2O greatly increases the odds that living organisms once thrived on the planet, and perhaps still inhabit it today.

RR245 is the largest discovery and the only dwarf planet found by OSSOS, which has discovered more than five hundred new trans - Neptunian objects.

That means Earth - size planets could be found all over the galaxy instead of just round stars with plentiful supplies of «metals», elements heavier than helium.

In that time they and their colleagues have found thousands of exoplanets — planets orbiting stars other than our sun — and have statistically surmised that hundreds of billions more await discovery in our galaxy alone.

They found that our planet's tilt varied between only 10 and 50 degrees, a much smaller range than implied by the earlier study.

«We may find other candidates perhaps even better than this one, but for now Proxima b offers a best - case scenario for imaging and studying a potentially Earth - like planet within the next decade.»

Earlier this year, MIT astronomer Sarah Ballard re-calculated how many planets TESS might find orbiting the cool, plentiful stars known as M dwarfs — and predicted some 990 such planets, 1.5 times more than earlier estimates2.

Unencumbered by human frailties, Curiosity — like the rovers Spirit and Opportunity, which survived on the Red Planet years longer than expected — will be free to hunt for E.T. «If we find evidence for life on Mars, boy, are we just gonna go wild with speculation about how common it is in the universe,» says Lou Friedman, a former scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and cofounder, with Carl Sagan, of the Planetary Society.

As the size of the planets we looked for decreased, the number that we found increased: We found more planets with 3 times the mass of the Earth than planets with 10 times Earth's mass, more planets 10 times as massive than 100 times, and so on.

A FAULT on NASA's Kepler spacecraft means it may take a little longer than we had hoped to find an Earth - like planet.

At a NASA press conference today that also unveiled more than 500 other new candidate planets, Kepler's mission scientists announced they have finally found and confirmed what looks to be the mission's long - sought holy grail, a near - twin of Earth called Kepler 452 b.

The findings suggest that microbes may be even more versatile landscapers than researchers had previously realized, and further study of these processes may even aid the search for evidence of life on Mars and other planets.

They have found giant planets several times the mass of Jupiter, orbiting their star at more than twice the distance Neptune is from the sun — another region where theorists thought it was impossible to grow large planets.

Since then, planet searchers have found more than 400 new worlds, and it has been one surprise after another.