Sentences with phrase «landed on a different planet»

Once you have a baby it can feel like you've landed on a different planet — one that your childless friends just can't relate to.

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McKibben: That's right — that without knowing it, we've, sort of, taken a voyage and landed on a planet that's superficially and in certain [ways] similar to the one we grew up on, but in certain other ways quite different.

«It's going to be a huge step forward,» says Steve Squyres at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, lead scientist for the Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity, which landed on different sides of the planet in 2004.

If comparatively more bluish or reddish light reaches a planet's surface than on Earth, photosynthetic plant - type life may may not be greenish in color, because such life will have evolved to different pigments in order to optimize their use of available and so color the appearance of the planet's land surfaces accordingly.

Nonetheless, with rising sea level and environmental refugeeism compounding the increased demand on water, food, and land of a growing population (albeit one likely to level out mid 21st century), the combined impacts of climate change and global population increase could potentially yield a world that doesn't look that different from the one portrayed in the movie — indeed, as Jim Hansen puts it, «a different planet» — by century's end.

For instance, the two worlds in John Sayles's The Brother from Another Planet (1984)-- the home planet of the alien, where slavery still exists, and Harlem of the 1980s, where he crash - lands after escaping his owners — represent two different points in African - American history, and allow for a thoughtful (and comedic) reflection onPlanet (1984)-- the home planet of the alien, where slavery still exists, and Harlem of the 1980s, where he crash - lands after escaping his owners — represent two different points in African - American history, and allow for a thoughtful (and comedic) reflection onplanet of the alien, where slavery still exists, and Harlem of the 1980s, where he crash - lands after escaping his owners — represent two different points in African - American history, and allow for a thoughtful (and comedic) reflection on both.

You start out in the lush green hills of Dream Land, but as you go on, you venture into space and platform on different planets and other intergalactic objects.

It is the year 2287 and a human colony ship has crash landed on the planet Maria in an entirely different star system.