Sentences with phrase «for life as we know»

The overwhelming evidence in support of evolution as the explanation for life as we know it will never be enough for the willfully ignorant.

But they did know that their creator told them not to do it and they did it anyway and that set the wheels in motion for life as we know it.

The coincidence of a series of chains of physical events that are necessary for life as we know it seems to some to put too great a burden on chance.

Where did the dense ball of matter that exploded in the big bang and contained all elements for life as we know it come from?

Previous experiments for detecting existing life on Mars, such as the one on the 1976 Viking missions, focused on finding organic carbon, which is necessary for life as we know it but can also be produced by non-biological processes.

Red dwarfs are a popular place to hunt for small exoplanets in the habitable zone — but the stars» radiation bursts might fry chances for life as we know it.

So does the realization that the habitable zone (the region around a star where a planet could have liquid water, essential for life as we know it) is a lot broader than anyone had thought back in 1960.

They also turned our planet into a tolerable environment for plants and animals and thus their activity paved the way for life as we know it today.

«Enceladus may have all of the ingredients needed for life as we know it to currently exist right now, at this very second,» says Curt Niebur, Cassini's program scientist at NASA Headquarters.

Water vapor is indicative of liquid surface water, which is necessary but not sufficient for life as we know it.

The Solar System Habitable Zone One of the guiding tenets in the search for life as we know it (the only kind we can meaningfully speculate about) is that it requires water.

For life as we know it to develop on other planets, those planets would need liquid water, or oceans.

Such worlds orbit stars in so - called «habitable zones,» regions where planets could hold liquid water that is necessary for life as we know it.

The only hope for life as we know it, and it's an exceedingly slim one, is that water mixed with ammonia may get warm enough deep below the surface to liquefy.

The team estimates its temperature to be 220 degrees Fahrenheit, too hot for life as we know it.

Anything outside that range, which tends to occur on planets that are in a «Goldilocks zone» of 102 million to 140 million miles away from their stars (Earth is about 93 million miles away from the sun), could be devastating for life as we know it.

When the planet K2 - 18b was first discovered in 2015, it was found to be orbiting within the star's habitable zone, making it an ideal candidate to have liquid surface water, a key element in harbouring conditions for life as we know it.

But at the same time, they had a long - term beneficial effect in stabilizing surface temperatures and delivering key elements for life as we know it,» said Dr. Simone Marchi, a senior research scientist at SwRI's Planetary Science Directorate in Boulder, Colo..

These atoms include carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and all the other elements that are essential for life as we know it.

The habitable zone is the belt around a star where temperatures are ideal for liquid water — an essential ingredient for life as we know it — to pool on a planet's surface.

Kepler - 186b, Kepler - 186c, Kepler - 186d, and Kepler - 186e, orbit every three, seven, 13, and 22 days, respectively, making them very hot and inhospitable for life as we know it.

Physicist and futurist Freeman Dyson says we should search for extraterrestrial life where it is easiest to find, even if the conditions there are not ideal for life as we know it.

Biomarker found in space complicates search for life on exoplanets 02 October 2017 A molecule once thought to be a useful marker for life as we know it has been discovered around a young star and at a comet for the first time, suggesting these ingredients are inherited during the planet - forming phase.

Once they confirmed that the objects in question are planets, Kipping explains, the team checked whether they fulfilled two basic criteria for life as we know it: Are they within the habitable zone of the star they orbit?

After roving for approximately a Mars year (almost two Earth years) and sampling dust, sand, rocks and atmosphere at the Gale Crater landing site, Curiosity has found the strongest evidence to date that the very early Mars environment could have provided a suitable habitat for life as we know it.

Though this planet is very un-habitable for life as we know it (as it's very close to its star), there could be other undiscovered planets in the system.

«The discovery of native molecular hydrogen (H2) completes the set of what I would call the «basic» requirements for life as we know it: Liquid water, organic molecules, minerals, and an accessible source of «free» energy.

Liquid water is essential for life as we know it, and understanding the distribution and behavior of liquid water beyond Earth can help scientists understand where to search for habitable environments, both within our Solar System and beyond.

Of course, this doesn't mean that these planets will actually be habitable — that depends on whether they're made of rock and iron, have protective atmospheres and ingredients like water and other chemical building blocks for life as we know it.

A star is too extreme an environment for life as we know it — it's an enormous ball of hot plasma and even if it had a solid surface to stand on, which it doesn't, life forms like us would get crushed under the star's tremendous gravitational pull.

Nearly 95 % of them are smaller than Neptune, and four of them are in their star's habitable zone, the region where liquid water — a necessary ingredient for life as we know it — could exist.

The space physicists noted that the stellar wind that blows from stars could deplete the atmosphere of such planets over hundreds of millions of years, eliminating liquid water that is vital for life as we know it.

The European ALMA Programme Scientist, Leonardo Testi, explains the significance of band 5: «The band 5 receivers make it much easier to detect water, a prerequisite for life as we know it, in our Solar System and in more distant regions of our galaxy and beyond.

These larger planets are thought to be too big to have a rocky composition, which means they would not be suitable for life as we know it.

«Goldilocks worlds» — not too hot, not too cold, but just right for life as we know it.

This year is meant to be the beginning of something huge, something major, something on fire for life as we know it.

In a climate of rising temperatures and shifting rainfall, amid debate about whether fire disasters are natural or man - made, what does the rise of mega-fires mean for life as we know it?

If human - induced global warming, among other factors such as human - driven pollution and human - forced overpopulation, serve decisively to precipitate the massive extinction of biodiversity, the irreversible degradation of Earth's environment and the reckless dissipation of its resources, so as to make our planetary home unfit for life as we know it, then is no one to bear responsibility for such a colossal wreckage as we could help to perpetrate in these early years of Century XXI?

come what may for our children, coming generations and for life as we know it on Earth.

The implication of this statement is that there seems to be negative feedbacks dominating rather than positive feedbacks and that the Earth is still functioning well as a repository for life as we know it.

Without it, the surface would be far too cold for life as we know it to exist.

Natural greenhouse effect The natural level of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, which keeps the planet about 30C warmer than it would otherwise be - essential for life as we know it.

Some of these planets may be habitable at their surfaces, in the sense that they are warm enough to sustain liquid water, a necessary ingredient for life as we know it.

Not exact matches

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As a twenty - six year old who partnered with my parents in building our company after college and who is now a mom myself, I am beginning to realize some of the parenting habits my parents consciously or unconsciously practiced in raising my brother and I that set me up for a life in business (whether I knew it or not at the time).

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