Sentences with phrase «influence of all other planets»

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Rather than sitting here trying to calculate the end of our planet based on religious ideals, I think people really need to stop trying to influence others to think and do what they think and do.

Though that remains to be determined, Batygin suggests that the planet may have been ejected from the neighborhood of the gas giants by Jupiter, or perhaps may have been influenced by the gravitational pull of other stellar bodies in the solar system's extreme past.

Ordinarily, those transits will occur at regular intervals, like celestial clockwork, but oddities in Kepler 19 b's transit times suggest the influence of the other half of the pair — a larger, unseen planet also orbiting Kepler 19 and perturbing the motion of its neighbor.

This new generation of telescopes will allow huge advances in studies of the early universe, of Earth - like planets around other stars, and of the mysterious dark matter and dark energy that influence the structure and expansion of the universe.

Since the mid-1990s environmentalists, politicians, researchers and others have often used a concept called the ecological footprint to quantify the relative health of the planet under the influence of human activity and industry.

According to Weaver, the size of our sun, the region of the galaxy in which it formed, even how long it took for the planets to form — all these characteristics are different in other star systems and may influence the chemical inventory available to any Earth - like planets orbiting there.

Dr Petra Schwendner, University of Edinburgh, corresponding author of the study said: «Until now, little was known about the influence of long - term confinement on the microorganisms that live inside habitats that may one day be used to travel to other planets, and whether the structure of the microbiota changes with time.

In terms of the gravitational influence it feels from other objects, Chiang notes, «Sedna sits right in between the solar system planets and the «shore» of the galaxy.»

Microbiomes should be part of every study in which scientists are studying the performance of animals, plants, people, oceans or other ecosystems, because microbes have a major influence on all aspects of the planet.

Astronomers previously predicted the presence of the planet Kepler - 88 c based on its gravitational influence on other planets in the system, even though they couldn't see it.

What's more, their work indicates the potential presence of an enormous planet, perhaps up to 10 times the size of Earth, not yet seen, but possibly influencing the orbit of 2012 VP113, as well as other inner Oort cloud objects.

I have most of the Predator's comics, and it would be cool to see their home planet, culture and other mysterious creatures that influence who they are.

The influences are many, from Flash Gordon, to Buck Rogers, to King Kong, to Forbidden Planet, to The Day the Earth Stood Still, to Star Wars, to Raiders of the Lost Ark, and many other films that captivated the minds of young boys growing up watching science fiction and adventure films.

(Other movies that influenced «Black Panther» included Oscar - nominees «Timbuktu» and «Embrace of the Serpent,» as well as «Planet Earth.»)

Volatile weather patterns we see on the other side of the planet may wind up influencing the weather that's forecasted for your neighborhood.

We are calling the present the Anthropocene, we have come to have a huge influence of the planets environment, not just by a CO2 spike, but in many other ways, including enhanced erosion.

Other planets of the Solar System, especially Jupiter, Mars and Venus, influence the Earth's tilt and the shape of its orbit, in a more - or-less cyclic fashion, with significant effects on the intensity of sunshine falling on different regions of the Earth during the various seasons.

On the other hand, humanity is unique among the literally countless number of species that have inhabited this planet through the ages, in that we have the capability to push back... to exert influence on our surroundings... to actually DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!

[UPDATE, 2:30 p.m.:] One other thing to note about this paper, as Dot Earth contributor George Mobus just pointed out in an email, is that it shows scientists» willingness to keep testing their assumptions and pushing to refine understanding of the many forces influencing conditions on the planet.

8:59 p.m. Updated As I wrote the other day, the technological ingenuity that has made humanity a planet - scale influence in a handful of generations is also explosively increasing our ability to track and study environmental conditions and events at planetary scale.

While laying out several important wild cards (expanded farming of biofuels among them), Ausubel and his co-authors see a reasonable prospect for conserving, and restoring, forests and other stressed terrestrial ecosystems even as humanity exerts an ever greater influence on the planet.

Part of me, the nostalgic part that cherishes the biosphere I grew up with, laments that humans are not yet willing to fully consider their influences on other inhabitants of the planet.

Brooke C. Medley, a postdoctoral fellow with NASA who contributed to one of the new papers on Antarctic ice loss, said the findings demonstrate that the planet's large ice sheets, which were once thought to be stable, are responding to global warming and other influences at a rapid rate.

An international team of researchers report in Nature Communications that they made a computer model of the planet's atmospheric conditions: they included natural and human - triggered aerosols, volatile organic compounds, greenhouse gases and other factors that influence temperature, one of which is albedo: the scientist's word for the capacity of terrain to absorb or reflect solar radiation.

«More than two - thirds of all authors of chapter 9 of the IPCC's 2007 climate - science assessment are part of a clique whose members have co-authored papers with each other... the majority of scientists who are skeptical of a human influence on climate significant enough to be damaging to the planet were unrepresented in the authorship of chapter 9.»

You can create a model of six planets whose orbits produce eccentricities in each others» paths, because we have well - formulated laws of the motions of bodies in space and the influence of gravity, and we can actually see planets and know their position, velocity and mass.

Protecting plant and animal diversity — Humans have an enormous influence on the habitability of the planet for the millions of other species with which we share it.

There is a great reluctance to consider the influence of other astronomical objects on planet Earth, perhaps a fear of some rational basis for astrology?

In 1995, the IPCC had already concluded — based on work by Ben Santer and other leading climate scientists working on the problem of climate change «detection and attribution» — that there was already now a «discernible human influence» on the warming of the planet.

This was a taller cliff for Niose to fly off because of one other anti-intellectual assertion of his: the insinuation about corporate influence, or as it is better known around the planet, illicit money paid to skeptic scientists and skeptic organizations in exchange for knowingly spreading misinformation.

The extinction of small and large, plant and animal is a daily event now, as climate change increasingly joins the other anthropogenic influences on the species of our planet.

At their most basic level, glacial cycles are caused by gravity: the gravity of other planets in the solar system, which influence Earth's orbit around the Sun.

Kathy DiLorenzo, Director of Court Reporting, was interviewed by Ari Kaplan about the creation of Planet Institute, the trends that influenced its creation, the goals of the program, and where the court reporting industry is headed, among other topics.