Sentences with phrase «for spaceship earth»

At the show's opening, visitors put on the inked shoes and were called one by one to step on the newsprint, printing the beginning of a quote from Buckminster Fuller's Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth.

This project was inspired by Buckminster Fuller's Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth.

Not exact matches

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.

The idea that everybody counts for one and nobody counts for more than one must now be applied to the realities and possibilities of Spaceship Earth.

This can provide the basis for the ecological consciousness and caring on which our collective survival or spaceship earth may well depend.

For more information about the article or the Future of Spaceship Earth report, please contact Tracy Oates - [email protected]

New, as of this past June, is «Beyond Spaceship Earth,» a permanent exhibit that gives a real sense of what life is like for astronauts living and working on International Space Stations.

Spaceship Earth needs a pilot — at Rio we will have to push for a global system of «environmental governance»

Inspiration Mars» mission architecture, as outlined by Tito, calls for two launches: one unmanned SLS launch for placing the Inspiration Mars spacecraft into low - Earth orbit, and a second crewed launch of one of the Commercial Crew transportation vehicles that are currently under development to deliver the crew to the Mars - bound spaceship.

A winged, arrow - shaped spaceship, the Pan American, dart - like space shuttle Orion [a phallic symbol or representation of «sperm»], soars from Earth through space toward the Moon, bound first for Space Station 5 - a wheel - shaped way - station for passengers traveling on to the lunar surface.

The good news is that his best friend, Ford Prefect (Mos Def) is an alien temporarily visiting Earth to do research for a series of Hitchhiker's Guides, and can use his magic ring to beam both of them up to a vast spaceship operated by the Vogons, an alien race that looks like a cross between Jabba the Hutt and Harold Bloom.

When one of these do - gooders crashes his spaceship on Earth and realizes death is near, he sends his ring, or a green ball of energy emanating from the ring — something green, anyway — to search for a worthy successor.

Beyond Skyline (R for graphic violence and pervasive profanity) Sci - fi sequel about a veteran LAPD detective (Frank Grillo) who mounts a daring attempted rescue of his son from an alien spaceship that vacuumed the entire population of Los Angeles off the face of the Earth.

Earth has sent a spaceship, Icarus (in Greek mythology, not exactly a name that bodes well for solar travel), carrying a powerful nuclear bomb that, if detonated inside the dying sun, will bring it back to life.

The Asgardian survivors, including Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Loki, Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson) and Heimdall (Idris Elba) along with the human Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo), are on a spaceship headed for Earth, but their journey is interrupted by an unknown ship.

Seven «Deleted Scenes» (SD) contain no increase in tits or splatter but rather seven more minutes of Dekker's juvenile, empty calories, while the «Original Theatrical Ending» quarantines the DC's rimshot in which a stupid - looking spaceship searches Earth for the mind - slugs twenty - plus years after losing them.

The plot involves a group of Federation troopers having to stop a spaceship filled to the brim with so - called «Bugs» — an arachnoid species that serve as cannon fodder for our one - dimensional heroes - from reaching the Earth.

When we get down to the very basics of human life we find that we arrive to take a ride on spaceship Earth for several decades and then we leave.

A biracial teen with autism living in Amsterdam prepares for an incoming comet that threatens to destroy all human life on earth by vying to get her family on a spaceship destined to leave the planet.

For instance, there are fans of science fiction who nonetheless hate post-apocalyptic writing, or who dislike stories with a romantic sub-plot, or who insist on scientific plausibility, in which case your novel about budding love between two stowaways who escape a ravaged Earth on a faster - than - light spaceship might not be well received.

The latest offering in the series takes the little critters to the final frontier (space for all of you that missed Star Trek) in a quest to fix their broken spaceship and return back to earth.

For the uninitiated here's a quick capsule review of the plot: Wall - E is the last of an army waste compacting robots left on Earth to tidy up while the rest of humanity flies around and gets fat in a big spaceship.

And for space travel, it can be a spaceship or u can use supersonic or supershadow to fly in space or on earth.

As you travel through the incredibly large and proto sandbox style of the game, you'll slowly be building your arsenal for your greatest challenge of all: Making your way into the alien spaceship itself and waging a one man war against the creatures which have plagued the Earth.

Following the example of so many other aware and thoughtful people, for a moment let us think about the Earth as if it is a spaceship, a bounded space, in which there are finite space and resources.

A global warming phenomenon in our spaceship is one of several unintended effects of the unregulated, swift increase of 1) absolute global human population numbers, 2) per capita consumption of limited resources, and 3) large - scale business activities that could be occurring synergistically and approaching a point in history when it will not be possible for the Earth's resource base and frangible ecosystems services to sustain life as we now know it to be.

For us to succeed on Spaceship Earth, each one of us will have to think — and act - like an astronaut.»