Sentences with phrase «is an alien environment»

Yes, space is an alien environment for us, a place into which we must take everything necessary for our survival; that we are able to do so demonstrates our ingenuity.

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It's an opportunity to be in a completely alien environment without sacrificing safety.

Christ's entry into creation is not then an entry into an alien environment, but the culmination of all that creation is and means.

The point is to create a shared vocabulary and a shared understanding of policy and the political environment that will allow future candidates to talk to this group without sounding like space aliens.

It's life in an environment we used our knowledge and freedom to domesticate — or make less alien or unfriendly — with each of our lives, liberty, and even happiness in mind.

I was required in a business environment to take seriously clients who were searching for aliens.

It was the schooling in local self - government and the institutions so developed back in the hills and valleys of ancient Palestine that gave the uprooted Jews immediately a social organism able to withstand the shock of exile and to support and adapt the community in its struggle to live in an alien environment.

The «world» is an almost alien environment from which souls must be saved.

New York's «alien and demoralizing environment» was simply not conducive to a majority religion's performing its proper function.

Taking one so young from their home and thrusting them into a completely new and alien environment is often detrimental to the potential development of a player.

There is no good time to be absent but for Sandro, settling into a new country and adapting to an alien football environment, this was the most untimely and unwelcome setback.

When you enter the food industry, be it from education or another profession, you may find that it's a very different environment that could feel lonely and alien to you, but if you join the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) you'll find that together, we're stronger.

Jennie Williams, a primary school teacher from Rhondda Cynon Taf, said: «Children as young as six are being forced to sit down in a totally alien environment for rigid and structured testing that they are not used to.

In addition to guiding all aspects of NISC Secretariat operations, Jamie is currently providing the leadership necessary to develop an Arctic Invasive Alien Species (ARIAS) Strategy and Action Plan under the Arctic Council's Conservation of Flora and Fauna (CAFF) and Protection of the Marine Environment (PAME) working groups; produce a documentary on invasive species entitled, Protecting What Matters; establish an annual Innovation Summit to advance U.S. scientific and technical capacities to address the most pressing invasive species issues; and raise the capacity of other governments to more effectively institutionalize invasive species programs.

Holocene thinking rests on the assumption that there is this big, inexhaustible alien space out there that we call the environment, from where we can get our raw materials and foods and where we can dump our waste.

What's bad for Earth's environment could also invite an alien invasion.

The group, led by Benoit Beauchamp, director of the University of Calgary's Arctic Institute of North America, are examining strange, alien - like life forms living in the discolored snow and investigating the unique environment that sustains them.

They demonstrated the ability to spend hours in the water and work outside the habitat, all while undergoing physiological testing to make sure they weren't killing themselves by living in this alien environment.

Holocene thinking rests on the assumption that there is this big, inexhaustible alien space out there that we call the environment, from where we can get our raw materials and food and where we can dump waste.

Climate simulations hint at diverse alien environments that could be harsh but also potentially habitable.

Instead, it seems the pool of new aliens is far from dry» explained study co-author, Professor Tim Blackburn (UCL Genetics, Evolution & Environment, and Zoological Society of London).

Space is literally an alien environment.

When an alien species enters a new ecosystem, it can alter the environment in a number of ways: by eating native species (in its 50 years on Guam, the Australian brown tree snake has eliminated 9 of 13 native bird species); by spreading disease among them (introduced birds in Hawaii thrive in part because they are far less susceptible to the avian malaria parasite, also an introduced species, than native birds are); or by altering the environment in such a way that favors themselves (like melaleuca, an Australian tree that is spreading through the Everglades in part by changing the frequency and intensity of fires).

Industrial environments tend to have more rigid daily protocols that can be alien to an academic researcher used to lots of autonomy.

Once focused mainly on detecting radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations, the institute now employs scientists studying many factors important for the existence of alien life — from Kepler team members who are detecting and characterizing exoplanetary systems, to astrobiologists searching for life in the most extreme environments on Earth and in the solar system's exotic nooks and crannies.

For divers who venture into this alien and sometimes hostile environment, preparation is essential.

Definitively identifying traces is tough enough on Earth without factoring in the many unknowns of an alien environment.

Scientists have found life on Earth in extreme environments like this Yellowstone hot spring, but alien life might be more elusive.

In London next week, the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) of the International Maritime Organization will consider the findings of a survey that shows many countries are ignoring IMO guidelines designed to reduce the risk of importing alien organisms.

«Alien plants often gain advantages in their new environment because they lack natural enemies, and in this case the lack of strong competitors amongst alpine plants may be the key to success for generalist native species,» says ecologist Ann Milbau, assistant professor at the research station Climate Impacts Research Centre in Abisko, Sweden.

A new patent for this wearable technology could aid someone who is blind, deaf or needs to be guided through an alien environment

Anytime one goes to an alien environment, one must be cautious, but we're not concerned.»

The latest findings, published in a series of papers in the journal Nature, dive deep below Jupiter's famous atmospheric swirls and stripes and reveal an environment that's completely alien to anything our planet has to offer.

New types of bacteria have been found in one of the most alien environments on Earth: a subglacial lake buried beneath almost a thousand feet of ice.

Though there are certainly similarities with Earth, as this study proves, some of the dynamics on the surface of Saturn's largest moon are very alien — even if the sandcastle - building environment is thought to be the best in the solar system.

Trained as an astrobiologist at Stanford and Caltech, Loretta has been to the Canadian Arctic to study plant life in extreme environments and to the hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean with «Titanic» director James Cameron to film a 3D IMAX documentary, «Aliens of the Deep.»

The latest findings of microbial life flourishing in the extreme environment of subglacial Lake Whillans in Antarctica, which were detailed in the first part of this article, are further hinting at the possibility of life existing in a similar fashion as well in the mysterious, underground alien waters of Europa.

So one central argument against the existence of alien life — the «rare Earth» argument that environments to host it must be rare — has been more or less disproven.

Like Arrival, it's starkly beautiful, with an increasing emphasis on the alien aspects of its environments as the story goes forward.

The aliens who created this environment are not shown as the film ends on this very mysterious note, which has been a source of much commentary and has inspired meanings ranging from: it's all rubbish to something divine has happened.

The digital creations are impressive and give the alien environment a unique look and feel.

The game is set in an open world environment where after begin pulled down by a Wormhole you will land into a hostile world filled with alien zombies.

Hyperlight is an high intensity arcade action game in which you control a spaceship that fights against hordes of evil alien monsters in a virtual cosmic environment.

Life is evolving and seemingly crossbreeding with whatever alien force is feeding off the Earth's environment.

From the native aliens, which all have different markings and tusk sizes, to the contrast between stony environments and majestic metal palaces, the film's world is incredibly bold.

Stranded alongside two strangers, everyone is forced to work together in order to survive in this alien and potentially dangerous new environment.

The environments and alien creature designs are certainly captivating and wonderful to explore, but it's the «Skells» that really steal the show.

Making one compromise after enough in an effort to scrounge cigarettes or food, the corrupting force of the predators around him in an alien environment is eye - openingly gruelling, thanks to the film's compelling central performance.

Teams of up to four class - based dwarves will venture on first - person, cooperative adventures, mine through fully destructible and procedural environments and return with precious metals — if they aren't killed by hostile aliens.

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