Sentences with phrase «hundreds of million years rather»

But «Oumuamua has a more neutral colour, suggesting it has only been impacted by cosmic rays for, at most, hundreds of million years rather than for the billions of years that our solar system has existed.

Not exact matches

Science can discern, in the hundreds of thousands (probably millions) of years (Since Mankind's behavior on the «tree of Life» is rather that of a flowering than of an ordinary shoot, it is possible that the estimate of several million years, based on the average longevity of animal forms, should be materially reduced to allow for the acceleration due to the totalization of the Noosphere.)

I get the feeling the board would be happy to avoid relegation every year rather than challenge for the top 4 trophy and save the hundreds of millions in player purchases and wages

It is rather early to speculate, but maybe Pluto captured Charon only a few hundred million years ago (rather than billions), and we are seeing the effect of the very strong tidal interactions that would have ensued.

More recent studies, however, have found evidence of speedy evolutionary change in animals — as well as hundreds of changes in the human genome that appeared within tens of thousands, rather than over hundreds of thousands or even millions of years.

Theory predicts that you'd have to go out hundreds of millions of light - years, where matter is spread randomly rather than finely structured, before the overall expansion should outgun localized motions.

Rather than resting on their laurels in the years since WPR was written, they've been evolving their once - fledgling business a little bit at a time: expanding to eight publishing imprints, 10 high - profile podcasts, a coordinated staff working behind the scenes, millions of words published, and hundreds of thousands of books in the hands of eager readers.

To answer this question, the scientists examined a hypothetical scenario in which the Big Five extinctions occurred suddenly, such that all of the species went extinct over just 500 years rather than over hundreds of thousands to millions of years.

Some spend hundreds of million a year on legal services, while many more expect to increase their expenditure next year rather than reduce it.