Sentences with phrase «hurtling toward»

Stepping off the edge of an airplane and hurtling toward the ground at up to 200 km per hour takes courage.

China's defunct Tiangong 1 space station is hurtling toward Earth and expected to re-enter the atmosphere within the next day.

Within the next 24 hours, Japanese gamers will be hurtling toward shelves to pick up Monster Hunter 4 for 3DS.

We're all hurtling toward the inevitable singularity where technology and biology will be seamlessly integrated so we might as well get started, right?

By 2080, the climate model projects, dozens of avian species across the country could be hurtling toward extinction — and not just birds that are already in trouble.

If you've been following climate science, you know what I mean: the sense that we're hurtling toward catastrophe but nobody wants to hear about it or do anything to avert it.»

Given every charged particle hurtling toward, around or in to our atmosphere.

So many players on one screen seriously increases the challenge, and all 12 vehicles jostling for position and hurtling toward each corner makes it even more perilous and exciting.

The touchscreen method lets you tap or run your finger to the right spot, sending the tennis ball hurtling toward the location as soon as your finger lifts from the screen.

After an electrical failure sends the team's ship hurtling toward the planet, Jameson must try to make it off the desolate and unforgiving world alive.

Expect to see it hurtling toward you, lurching side to side down the Soissons valley.

One such story is of a golden retriever named Figo who put himself between his blind owner and a school bus when it came hurtling toward the pair.

An extinction - level asteroid is hurtling toward Earth, and the descendants of ancient Atlantis have returned from the stars in their silver ships to offer humanity help.

A super-massive black hole is hurtling toward Earth, but don't worry, it'll take about four billion years to get here.

But when Maria finally presses for a formal commitment, feelings long suppressed erupt in a tense endgame that sends both of them hurtling toward a dangerous resolution that will forever alter their lives.

A rainy night, an Amish father returning home with his three children, a speeding car hurtling toward them out of nowhere.

His debut novel, We All Looked Up, focused on a group of teenagers doing normal teenage things while confronting their own mortality, in the form of an asteroid hurtling toward Earth.

As time runs out, as Kehlmann's world feels it is hurtling toward a catharsis, one question looms above all others: What is the truth?

When you add the sf element of an asteroid hurtling toward Earth, everything changes.

Ignoring how we got where we are, however, or the realities of this moment, fails to address the future that is hurtling toward us.

A lot goes into an IIHS crash test even before the vehicle is sent hurtling toward a barrier.

PALM SPRINGS, California — Between the blind corners, scattered rocks in the road, and palm fronds hurtling toward me at 60 mph, I should be sweating bullets.

The finish line remains a long way off in a Congress bitterly divided over issues such as health care, hurtling toward the 2010 midterm elections, and still without a specific proposal from the Obama administration about how it would revise the ESEA, currently called...

Manny (Ray Romano), Sid (John Leguizamo), Diego (Denis Leary) and the rest of the herd must leave home after Scrat's (Chris Wedge) adventure in outer space sends an asteroid hurtling toward Earth.

Hurtling toward his country retreat, Woodcock encounters Alma (Vicky Krieps), a waitress at a roadside inn.

Those hamster balls look especially cool through planes of depth, and the action frequently sends the heroes hurtling toward the couch (meanwhile, crosstalk proves not to be a major concern).

Those hurtling toward mid-life crises will know that I am, of course, babbling about the spacesuit - clad star of Nodes Of Yesod, one of the finest games ever to grace the 8 - bit scene, and seemingly the core inspiration for Alientrap's exploratory platformer.

Meanwhile, Ripley teams up with a group of smugglers, including an advanced female android, to combat the rampaging aliens in a lab ship that's hurtling toward earth...

And yet, for a mega-budget popcorn flick about a bunch of astronauts tasked with landing on a giant rock hurtling toward the planet?

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is hurtling toward a cataclysm known as Infinity War, during which a very bad space man will use magic gems to end our existence.

While Manny overreacts and tries to sabotage their relationship, the rest of the characters fight to stop the asteroid that is hurtling toward Earth and about to cause their extinction.

Nevertheless, the film gets a little sloppy in continuity, especially as it races toward the end, such as a scene involving a robot getting drilled by V.I.N.CENT in one shot, then seen outside the ship in the next, hurtling toward the black hole.

This time the herd discovers a meteor hurtling toward Earth, thanks to Scrat and his obsession with acorns.

The film opens pleasantly enough, with voiceover narration by Emma Thompson accompanying an image of the Voyager I spacecraft, the furthest man - made object from earth, hurtling toward the edge of the solar system.

The interspecies friendship hits a very rough patch when a crisis at a privately owned space station sends three canisters hurtling toward Earth.

That arrangement sets the pieces in motion for a riotous buddy comedy in which the duo capture plenty of bounty before hurtling toward their final target, wealthy plantation owner Calvin Candy (Leonardo DiCaprio, over the top even by these standards), who keeps Broomhilda locked up in a dismal existence at the appropriately - titled Candyland.

That youngest generation is truly suffering in America and hurtling toward a health catastrophe.

Blue colors show regions where the stars are hurtling toward the observer on Earth, and red colors show regions that are moving away, in an overall pattern of coherent rotation.

When a meteor comes hurtling toward Earth, the high - pressure air in front of it seeps into its pores and cracks, pushing the body of the meteor apart and causing it to explode.

And if an asteroid is detected hurtling toward Earth, scientists and engineers are still working on ways to use spacecraft to alter its orbit.

Sagittarius A *'s immense gravity is accelerating the cloud dramatically: in 2004, the cloud was hurtling toward the black hole at 1200 kilometers per second; by 2011, the speed had nearly doubled, reaching 2350 kilometers per second.

To prevent disease, specialists must be able to pinpoint who is hurtling toward it.

By precisely locating the same stars in Andromeda in 2002 and then again in 2010, astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore have calculated how the galaxy has moved against the background of deep space — confirming that the galaxy's sideways motion is but a fraction of the speed at which it's hurtling toward the Milky Way.

Astronomers have just spied a black hole with a mass 1 billion times the sun's hurtling toward our galaxy.

They had inside intelligence that a chunk of rock and metal, roughly 1,300 feet wide, was hurtling toward a possible collision with the most populated swath of Earth — Europe, India, and Southeast Asia.

Andromeda is on a collision course, hurtling toward the Milky Way at 300,000 miles per hour.

The six crew members of the International Space Station prepared to abandon ship when NASA spotted a piece of space junk hurtling toward them at 29,000 miles per hour.

The probe, which Brownlee oversees from the University of Washington in Seattle, is hurtling toward a meeting with comet Wild 2 (pronounced in the German fashion as «vilt» 2).

U.S. Senate Democrats appeared to secure the votes necessary to filibuster the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch, sending the body hurtling toward a bitter partisan confrontation later this week.

Maybe it's because Lynch was born with the strength of two men, or maybe he just has more mass than a normal human being, but either one sure explains how two objects hurtling toward each other at approximately equal force can have such a one - sided result.