Sentences with phrase «life on the planets because»

Scientists wouldn't be able to send spacecraft to find out if there was life on the planets because in the best case scenario, it would take 39 years just to get there.
The field protects life on our planet because it deflects charged particles fired from the sun (orange) known as «solar wind» (artist's impression)
The field protects life on our planet because it deflects charged particles fired from the sun known as «solar wind».

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«That's really Carl's vision of the future, and our hopes are that Rick can hear what he has to say and take that to heart, because otherwise there's not going to be anybody left to live on the planet,» Nicotero said.
You only want one because every single gadget - slinger on the planet is marketing them to you as an all - new, life - changing device that could turn your kitchen into a futuristic voice - controlled paradise.
God, heaven, whatever... man's attempt to live forever because we refuse to settle for the idea we are an animal species on this one planet, and when we die, it all ends.
You have to tell yourself that in order to feel good about using a crutch of a god in your life because you can't truly cope with the reality of living on this planet, dealing with others that don't view life as you do.
ddeev... because I would consider, and I do, that there might be other life forms on one of the 400 billion planets thought to be inexistence, does not mean that I would devote my life to that possibility.
D. Green, one «reason» why God allows human suffering is because nothing in this life is mortal, everything is fragile, life, human beings are the most sophisticated species on this planet, yet we easily perish via illness, disease, ect.
SMH — Don't think that just because you're living on a planet that might «seem» to be unique that it actually is.
Maybe because we've been able to check for life on one or two planets in our own solar system, and we haven't even been able to do that very thoroughly.
«Astronomers now find they have painted themselves into a corner because they have proven, by their own methods, that the world began abruptly in an act of creation to which you can trace the seeds of every star, every planet, every living thing in this cosmos and on the earth.
The fact that we have DNA in common with every single species of life on this planet is not a coincidence, it is because we came from a common source at some point or another.
We will never live on other planets because only one was designed to sustain human life... this one.
Because I think it is way more likely that life arose on one of the trillions of planets in the universe than it is that the Jesus story in the bible is true.
Simply because I exist on a Planet about a billion light years from any other currently living form of life, not chemicals, elements or gases, and how I don't see this as some random thing — there is something greater than you and I and the evidence is all around you.
Somehow, a belief system that teaches people that they are the center of all the universe, created in the image of the most perfect being imaginable, strikes me as a bit more of an ego trip than accepting that we aren't destined to live forever because of our «specialness», but that we live our short lifetimes and die like every other living thing on the planet, our bodies decomposing and ultimately entering the food chain once again, on a tiny speck of a planet in an ordinary, remote backwater of the universe.
Also - I have found that atheism is very comforting; because I don't believe in heaven or hell, I am living my life to the fullest while I am on the planet!
It's rough out there in nature, whether in the wilds of a rain forest or an urban jungle, partly because the earth is jammed with devout human predators unlike all others: we not only kill for food, we kill each other along with the natural forces nourishing life on this planet.
My position is that my life on earth is significant because of my friends, family, and the billions that I share this planet with.
No, thanks... I'll stick with the possibility that we are part of a higher intelligence known as God and that I have somewhere to go when I die pretty much because evolution is a by product of mankind and they haven't even ventured very far in the universe not have they even explained even the tiniest portions of the fossile records to support the diversity of life on this planet.
Rynn Berry: Good point and if they colonize other planets they are going to be compelled to live on plant based foods because they can't ship cows into outer space.
Being the 7th wealthiest club on the planet is not a matter of winning stuff for the fans but about maintains brand recognition and generating a reliable rent that keeps the board in a life style we are accustomed to so if Arsene delivers on the bottom line for the board that is how we judge his managerial competence because we are a business first and a football club second, as long as he achieves 4 th place and cl spot he has a guaranteed job....
I wonder whether some of our contributors live on planet Earth or Mars because their arguments seem so unreal that one wonders where to place them.
I happen to love men, and I certainly don't want to live on a planet like the one in «Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women,» a campy»60s sci - fi flick about a planet populated entirely by women (and some ugly lizard - like beasts because all sci - fi flicks have to have beasplanet like the one in «Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women,» a campy»60s sci - fi flick about a planet populated entirely by women (and some ugly lizard - like beasts because all sci - fi flicks have to have beasPlanet of Prehistoric Women,» a campy»60s sci - fi flick about a planet populated entirely by women (and some ugly lizard - like beasts because all sci - fi flicks have to have beasplanet populated entirely by women (and some ugly lizard - like beasts because all sci - fi flicks have to have beasties).
It is part of the cultural life of almost every single person on this planet, whether it's because they watch Downton Abbey, or follow the Premier League, or listen to the Rolling Stones.
«How color is imparted and how we characterize it in fossils are important, because they inform us about a very specific aspect of the history of life on our planet,» Summons said.
Life thrives on this planet partly because it is protected by the powerful magnetic field generated in the outer core.
«The only reason we have a well - oxygenated planet we can live on is because of oxygenic photosynthesis,» Planavsky said.
More than just a geologic curiosity, finding water on Mars has major implications for the search for life, because the presence of H2O greatly increases the odds that living organisms once thrived on the planet, and perhaps still inhabit it today.
Bada's experiment could also have implications for life on Mars, because the Red Planet may have been swaddled in nitrogen and carbon dioxide early in its life.
«Our research also has major implications for the search for life on Mars, because the red planet has ancient hot spring deposits of a similar age to the Dresser Formation in the Pilbara.
If life could arise in two different places in our solar system, it could presumably do so a million times, or a billion, on planets throughout our galaxy — because, again, life misses no opportunity.
And those five problems are climate change, petro - dictatorship — the rise of Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela — energy and natural resource supply, and demand constraints, and we see that from food to fuel today, biodiversity loss, the fact that we are right now in the middle of the sixth great extinction phase in the Earth's history that we know of; and finally something I call energy poverty, the 1.6 billion people on the planet we [who] still have no on - off switch in their life because they've no direct grid electricity.
Prospects for Venusian life have been dismissed because of harsh conditions on the planet's surface: there is no water, temperatures reach 477 °C and the atmospheric pressure is 92 times that on Earth's surface.
Because comets contain material from when the sun and planets formed, Rosetta can answer questions about the evolution of the solar system and the origin of water (and possibly life) on Earth.
Thus, «giant chunks of space debris clobbering the planet and wiping out life on Earth has undeniably broad appeal,» Meltzer says, whereas «no one in Hollywood makes movies» about more nuanced explanations, such as Clovis points disappearing because early Americans turned to other forms of stone tool technology as the large mammals they were hunting went extinct as a result of the changing climate or hunting pressure.
As a result, NASA's strategy for searching out life on other planets has generally been to «follow the water,» looking for life similar to that on Earth, Porco said, because that's what we know how to find.
You also have a really interesting piece by Robert Hazen, about the fact that the mineral diversity on earth is unique, well unique, as far as we know; because as it turns out so much of that diversity is the result of life itself on earth [itself] creating the minerals that we find on the planet.
This chemical reaction, known as «methanogenesis» because it produces methane as a byproduct, is at the root of the tree of life on Earth, and could even have been critical to the origin of life on our planet.
We live on one solid planet, but because of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, Earth's core is actually 2 - and - a-half years younger than the surface, Science News reports.
«Because borates may play an important role in making RNA — one of the building blocks of life — finding boron on Mars further opens the possibility that life could have once arisen on the planet,» said Patrick Gasda, a postdoctoral researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory and lead author on the paper.
Finding water on Mars is important not only because it might point to the presence of life on the Red Planet — it is also helpful for sending humans there.
Planets occupy a special place in the human psyche, probably because we live on one.
The presence of methane on Mars is equally intriguing, not the least because it evokes visions of life on that planet.
Based on all we now know, there are sound astrophysical and astrobiological reasons to suspect that planets are in fact more worthy of names than almost anything else in the universe, because they stand alone as the fundamental pathway for names to exist at all, through the genesis of life and the evolution of sentient beings — the little, self - aware pieces of the cosmos privileged to name all the rest.
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.
Under red dwarf stars, plant - type life on land may not be possible because photosynthesis might not generate sufficient energy from infrared light to produce the oxygen needed to block dangerous ultraviolet light from such stars at the very close orbital distances needed for a planet to be warmed enough to have liquid water on its surface.
Still other scientists think there is no life on Mars because the planet has no liquid water today.
Because these planets are light years away, and because the reflected light is incredibly dim, the James Webb Space Telescope will only be able to do this for large planets that orbit red and white dwarfs — but still, it's incredibly exciting to think that we might be able to identify signs of life from all the way over here on our little blue Because these planets are light years away, and because the reflected light is incredibly dim, the James Webb Space Telescope will only be able to do this for large planets that orbit red and white dwarfs — but still, it's incredibly exciting to think that we might be able to identify signs of life from all the way over here on our little blue because the reflected light is incredibly dim, the James Webb Space Telescope will only be able to do this for large planets that orbit red and white dwarfs — but still, it's incredibly exciting to think that we might be able to identify signs of life from all the way over here on our little blue marble.
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