Sentences with phrase «like earth hour»

The focus on tiny emissions rates of change is, like Earth Hour, classic shell game distraction from where the pea really is, which is that your ludicrously expensive electricity is Snake Oil:

Not exact matches

Let us first be kind and set aside natural phenomena like a bolt of lightning, which is 1.7 million times faster than the car, or Halley's comet, which approaches Earth moving at some 240,000 km / hour.

Boeing Chief Executive Officer Dennis Muilenburg sketched out a Jetsons - like future at a conference Tuesday, envisioning a commercial space - travel market with dozens of destinations orbiting the Earth and hypersonic aircraft shuttling travelers between continents in two hours or less.

While I wanted to spend quality time with her, the invitation didn't feel convenient anymore; it felt like it was intruding on my sacred hour of peace on earth.

As for music; Tallest Man on Earth, Goldfish and Caravan Palace [both dancy but good], a bit of jazz and old stuff like Fred Astaire, I like podcasts too, The Thrilling Adventure Hour is fantastic if you like old time radio stuff [it's not actually old time, just the style and is also a little odd but great!]

We can tell that this came from space both because of the fusion crust you can see that formed from entering the Earth's atmosphere at something like 30,000 miles per hour.

The lack of enthusiasm stateside for Saturday's event could be cultural: From Earth Day to Earth Hour seems like downsizing, a concession to the less committed, Grist Magazine joked.

«TPF will look at each of the nearest few hundred stars for a few hours, and we'll know for sure whether or not there's an Earth - like planet around it,» says jpl scientist and senior project overseer Charles Beichman.

With JWST, a few hours of integration time will be enough to detect Earth - like levels of water vapor, molecular oxygen, carbon dioxide and other generic biosignatures on planets orbiting a white dwarf; beyond that, observing the same planet for up to 1.7 days will be enough to detect the two CFCs in concentrations of 750 parts per trillion, or 10 times greater than on Earth.

Two distinct sets of transit events were detected: 1) a 152 + / - 4 ppm dimming lasting 1.811 + / - 0.024 hours with ephemeris T [BJD] = 2454964.57375 + N... ▽ More NASA's Kepler Mission uses transit photometry to determine the frequency of earth - size planets in or near the habitable zone of Sun - like stars.

What might happen, for instance, if an Earth - like planet rotated on its spin axis very slowly (a full rotation in 128 days rather than 24 hours?)

I'm a down to earth, centered, open minded and well rounded guy, that's good looking, healthy and sane, I'm looking to chat with some one that's like minded has the same interests and values, and discuss our interests, maybe meet up for coffee or a happy hour drink first, then see if we want to...

Penetrate the skin, and you've got a serviceable game at the core, but a fifteen - hour journey to the center of what makes Bloodborne good feels more like a voyage to the center of the earth.

But at nearly three hours long, this bloated sea tale drags on and on, leaving some viewers feeling like they've been to the end of the earth and back.

Here's the full list of 142 films that featured on our contributors» ballots: (Disclaimer: Luc Besson's Lucy didn't get a single vote - I just like this image of Scarlett sorting through stuff) 71 1001 Grams 12 Years a Slave 20,000 Days on Earth 22 Jump Street 52 Tuesdays A Girl at my Door A Most Violent Year A Most Wanted Man A Touch of Sin Aberdeen Alleluia American Sniper Birdman Black Coal, Thin Ice Blind Blue Ruin Boyhood Calvary Captain America: The Winter Soldier Casa Grande Chef Citizenfour Climbing to Spring Cold in July Danger 5 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Der Samurai Duke of Burgundy Edge of Tomorrow Electric Boogaloo Enemy Fandry Force Majeure Frank Free Fall From What is Before Giovanni's Island Gone Girl Goodbye to Language Guardians of the Galaxy Haemoo Han Gong - ju Hard to be a God Horse Money Housebound Ida Inherent Vice Interstellar It Follows Jauja Jigarthanda Jodorowsky's Dune John Wick Killers Lady Maiko Les Combattants Leviathan Li'l Quinquin Life Itself Like Father Like Son Locke Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere Magical Girl Maidan Man From Reno Melbourne Memphis Mommy National Gallery New World Nightcrawler Norte, The End of History Nymphomaniac Of Good Report Only Lovers Left Alive Over Your Dead Body Pale Moon Peaky Blinders Pride R100 Red Army Seven Weeks Sils Maria Snowpiercer Song of the Sea Sorrow and Joy Spring Stand By Me Doraemon Starred Up Starry Eyes Stray Dogs Texas Chain Saw Massacre The Act of Killing The Babadook The Dam Keeper The Double The Editor The Grand Budapest Hotel The Great Beauty The Great Passage The Guest The Hobbit The Internet's Own Boy The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness The Lego Movie The Missing Picture The One I Love The Overnighters The Penguins of Madagascar The Raid 2 The Sacrament The Second Game The Secret Life of Walter Mitty The Snow White Murder Case The Tale of the Princess Kaguya The Terror Live The Tribe The Wind Rises The Wolf of Wall Street The Wonders The World of Kanako These Final Hours They Came Together Tokyo Tribe Tusk Two Days, One Night Under the Skin Wadjda We Are The Blike this image of Scarlett sorting through stuff) 71 1001 Grams 12 Years a Slave 20,000 Days on Earth 22 Jump Street 52 Tuesdays A Girl at my Door A Most Violent Year A Most Wanted Man A Touch of Sin Aberdeen Alleluia American Sniper Birdman Black Coal, Thin Ice Blind Blue Ruin Boyhood Calvary Captain America: The Winter Soldier Casa Grande Chef Citizenfour Climbing to Spring Cold in July Danger 5 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Der Samurai Duke of Burgundy Edge of Tomorrow Electric Boogaloo Enemy Fandry Force Majeure Frank Free Fall From What is Before Giovanni's Island Gone Girl Goodbye to Language Guardians of the Galaxy Haemoo Han Gong - ju Hard to be a God Horse Money Housebound Ida Inherent Vice Interstellar It Follows Jauja Jigarthanda Jodorowsky's Dune John Wick Killers Lady Maiko Les Combattants Leviathan Li'l Quinquin Life Itself Like Father Like Son Locke Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere Magical Girl Maidan Man From Reno Melbourne Memphis Mommy National Gallery New World Nightcrawler Norte, The End of History Nymphomaniac Of Good Report Only Lovers Left Alive Over Your Dead Body Pale Moon Peaky Blinders Pride R100 Red Army Seven Weeks Sils Maria Snowpiercer Song of the Sea Sorrow and Joy Spring Stand By Me Doraemon Starred Up Starry Eyes Stray Dogs Texas Chain Saw Massacre The Act of Killing The Babadook The Dam Keeper The Double The Editor The Grand Budapest Hotel The Great Beauty The Great Passage The Guest The Hobbit The Internet's Own Boy The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness The Lego Movie The Missing Picture The One I Love The Overnighters The Penguins of Madagascar The Raid 2 The Sacrament The Second Game The Secret Life of Walter Mitty The Snow White Murder Case The Tale of the Princess Kaguya The Terror Live The Tribe The Wind Rises The Wolf of Wall Street The Wonders The World of Kanako These Final Hours They Came Together Tokyo Tribe Tusk Two Days, One Night Under the Skin Wadjda We Are The BLike Father Like Son Locke Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere Magical Girl Maidan Man From Reno Melbourne Memphis Mommy National Gallery New World Nightcrawler Norte, The End of History Nymphomaniac Of Good Report Only Lovers Left Alive Over Your Dead Body Pale Moon Peaky Blinders Pride R100 Red Army Seven Weeks Sils Maria Snowpiercer Song of the Sea Sorrow and Joy Spring Stand By Me Doraemon Starred Up Starry Eyes Stray Dogs Texas Chain Saw Massacre The Act of Killing The Babadook The Dam Keeper The Double The Editor The Grand Budapest Hotel The Great Beauty The Great Passage The Guest The Hobbit The Internet's Own Boy The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness The Lego Movie The Missing Picture The One I Love The Overnighters The Penguins of Madagascar The Raid 2 The Sacrament The Second Game The Secret Life of Walter Mitty The Snow White Murder Case The Tale of the Princess Kaguya The Terror Live The Tribe The Wind Rises The Wolf of Wall Street The Wonders The World of Kanako These Final Hours They Came Together Tokyo Tribe Tusk Two Days, One Night Under the Skin Wadjda We Are The BLike Son Locke Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere Magical Girl Maidan Man From Reno Melbourne Memphis Mommy National Gallery New World Nightcrawler Norte, The End of History Nymphomaniac Of Good Report Only Lovers Left Alive Over Your Dead Body Pale Moon Peaky Blinders Pride R100 Red Army Seven Weeks Sils Maria Snowpiercer Song of the Sea Sorrow and Joy Spring Stand By Me Doraemon Starred Up Starry Eyes Stray Dogs Texas Chain Saw Massacre The Act of Killing The Babadook The Dam Keeper The Double The Editor The Grand Budapest Hotel The Great Beauty The Great Passage The Guest The Hobbit The Internet's Own Boy The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness The Lego Movie The Missing Picture The One I Love The Overnighters The Penguins of Madagascar The Raid 2 The Sacrament The Second Game The Secret Life of Walter Mitty The Snow White Murder Case The Tale of the Princess Kaguya The Terror Live The Tribe The Wind Rises The Wolf of Wall Street The Wonders The World of Kanako These Final Hours They Came Together Tokyo Tribe Tusk Two Days, One Night Under the Skin Wadjda We Are The Best!

And like Tony Stark, Strange spends his two - hour introduction climbing from the bottom, crippled and resisting anything outside his medical purview, to the top, the magic - wielding «Sorcerer Supreme,» Earth's only hope for defeating Kaecilius (Hannibal's Mads Mikkelsen), a spellcaster with a chip on his shoulder.

Men with names like Tom Builder (from HBO's The Pillars of the Earth) and Dr Jacob Hood (police procedural Eleventh Hour), and Zen, the cool Italian detective from the Michael Dibdin books adapted for the BBC.

Moments like those, while not earth - shattering events, are the true balm for the many hours teachers devote to their students.

Amateur archaeologists will love the fascinating two hour Landscapes of Change interpretive walking trail, past deep gorges and permanent waterholes, and learning what the landscape was like when megafauna walked the earth, including the giant wombat.

Located in a sheltered and picturesque sandy bay you can relax in our restaurant, gaze out across the sea to Lembeh island and feel like you are at the end of the earth despite being only an hour and a half from Manado international airport.

You would have a good point if daytime on the Moon lasted 12 hours like it does on Earth.

Consider the possibility that not just millions, but billions face disastrous consequences from the likes of (including but not limited to): Sandy (and other hybrid and out - of - season storms enhanced by the earth's circulatory eccentricities and warmer oceans); the drought in progress; wildfires; floods (just last week, Argentina had 16 inches of rain in 2 hours *); derechos; increased cold and snow in the north as the Arctic melts and cracks up, breaking up the Arctic circulation and sending cold out of what was previously largely a contained system, and losing its own consistent cold, seriously interfering with the Jet Stream, pollution of multiple kinds such as in China, the increase of algae and the like in our oceans as they heat, and food and water shortages.

Seen from space, the earth should be «shining» less, as less Watts an hour are being emitted into space (sattelites like CERES are in fact just checking this).

Earth Hour has made him more conscious of things he can do — like recycle more and reduce power use every day.

If you're going to buy an SUV anyway then sure, make the more responsible choice to at least buy a hybrid one, like one of the guys I interviewed during Earth Hour in Nashville, TN did (it's the 2nd video in that post).

The grid has been a scourge for people of rank, who would like every hour to be Earth Hhour to be Earth HourHour.

Like celebrating Earth Hour in exciting urban venues?

[Like these candles, for example, from the WWF sponsored Earth Hour home page — Anthony] Guest essay by Viv Forbes We should spend Earth Hour giving thanks for warmth.

A spicule is like a pipe as wide as a state and as long as the Earth, filled with hot gas moving 50,000 kilometers per hour.

Just like the surface temperature at any point on the Earth peaks several hours after local noon.

Like the Blue Earth, it incorporates a solar cell that can gather about 5 minutes of talk time from about an hour's worth of sunlight.

Anyway, I don't need ribbons or lots of affirmations, and I don't like swag because i think it's usually junk that's bad for the earth and ends up in a landfill, but it's probably true that i'm better at managing multiple tasks than focusing on a single one for hours, and I can't believe that people pay money for cable TV when there's WiFi.

The Voyager 1 space probe was launched on September 5, 1977 and, after nearly forty years in space, has traveled roughly 20,227,475,000 kilometers (135.7 AU) from Earth — while that may seem like quite a distance, in terms of interstellar travel the hardy little probe has only traveled ~ 19 light hours, not quite a full light day, and certainly nowhere close to a light year.