Sentences with phrase «many alien planets»

Oh, forget this debate about religion and cheer up folks because NASA's Special Effects department keeps discovering alien planets left and right and they're gonna build us some kind of tin - can «Ark» to take us there just before we destroy this Earth...

She knocks Thor on his divine derriere destroying his famous hammer in the process, and boots him to an alien planet called Sakaar — a place that looks to be influenced partly by Tatooine, partly by District 9, and a lot from famed Marvel comic book creator Jack Kirby.

Watching this movie, you're constantly reminded that the actors are looking at green screens instead of the alien planets, insane alternate dimensions and glorious vistas that you're seeing, and that essentially breaks the movie.

Not a real one, of course, but rather a virtual voyager, a computer model that plumbs the otherwise - inaccessible depths of Earth's anoxic past (or an alien planet's present), exploring the possible chemistry of gases in the atmosphere and ocean that could have occurred there.

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Bennett described how quantum experimentalists Alice and Bob could use quantum entanglement to erase the identity of a quantum particle at one location and restore it at a remote location — just like Captain Kirk disappearing in the Enterprise transporter and reappearing on some dangerous alien planet.

At last it will be possible to compare our sun directly with other stars, to put models of stellar evolution to concrete tests, to understand the detailed relationships between alien planets and their suns.

Among the 1,900 - and - counting confirmed alien planets found so far, we've seen everything from bizarro, jumbo versions of Jupiter in scorchingly tight orbits to exoplanets dozens of times farther out than Neptune, and even worlds circling two stars, like Tatooine in Star Wars.

If alien planets have canyons and mountains like ours, we may be able to catch a glimpse of them in an exoplanet's shadow as it passes in front of its star

We still have no idea whether any planet beyond Earth harbors life, but that could soon change too: Scientists are increasingly optimistic that they will find evidence of biological activity on an alien planet within the next few years.

Cocconi and Morrison argued that the best way to communicate across interstellar space would be by radio because it is practical to transmit and receive and can easily pass through Earth's (and presumably the alien planet's) atmosphere.

The alien planet is a rocky world circling a sun - like star at a distance that should allow it to carry liquid water

Imagine you find yourself on a raft in the middle of an ocean on an alien planet.

But in September, a truly exceptional find punctuated this steady drumbeat of discovery: the first alien planet that could host life on its surface.

Thousands to tens of thousands of new planets will be rolling in, and the verification of the first truly Earth - like alien planet — which will beg for a real name — is also likely right around the corner.

On an alien planet, ozone could be one piece in the puzzle that indicates the presence of oxygen - producing bacteria or plants.

«X-rays could sterilize alien planets in (otherwise) habitable zones.»

Scheduled for launch in early 2017, the roughly $ 1 - million mission could pave the way for a new class of instrument that can peer through the sun's glare or at distant alien planets, without requiring a massive single scope.

Comets whizzing beyond our solar system made a big splash last year when astronomers discovered that they could be as common as alien planets.

It will pick up the dim, highly reddened light emitted by the first stars in the universe and answer fundamental questions about galaxy formation, alien planets, and the geometry of the cosmos.

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The mystery Liu was trying to unravel — regarding the origins of animal movement — is central to solving the larger mystery of how that alien planet transformed into the natural world we all know.

«This means that some of the planets discovered by K2 will have orbits lined up with Earth's, a celestial coincidence that allows Kepler to see the alien planets, and Kepler - like telescopes in those very planetary systems (if there are any) to discover Earth.»

The spacecraft has spotted almost three - quarters of the alien planets scientists have identified to date.

The researchers said that alien planets present close to each other around the same parent star can help each other when it comes to supporting life, creating «multihabitable systems».

Now, a new research has claimed that these alien planets can help each other in their existence.

More than 1,900 exoplanets or alien planets are present around other stars.

NASA's Kepler Space Telescope is an observatory in space dedicated to finding planets outside our solar system, particularly alien planets that are around the same size as Earth in the «habitable» regions of their parent star.

They will walk across the surface of alien planets.

Autonomous telescope joins hunt for alien planets and has already found new planets around distant stars.

«This kind of unexpected result is why I really love exploring the atmospheres of alien planets,» Wakeford said.

If selected for development, the spacecraft will investigate at least 500 exoplanet atmospheres, providing detailed information about climate processes on distant alien planets.

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In our profound quest to discover strange new worlds, we've inevitably been trying to find alien planets that possess any Earth - like similarities.

The findings were headed by Bruce Macintosh, a professor of physics at Stanford University, and show the new planet, 51 Eridani b, is one million times fainter than its parent star and shows the strongest methane signature ever detected on an alien planet, which should yield additional clues as to how the planet formed.

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In the cult sci - fi horror flick Chronicles of Riddick: Pitch Black, anti-hero convict Riddick (Vin Diesel) crashes onto a rather unsettling alien planet infested with horrific flying bat - like creatures hell - bent on eating Riddick and the rest of the surviving crew.

Not to quibble about issues of plausibility in a story about a boy with superhuman powers who arrives on Earth on a spaceship from an alien planet, but the star of Smallville is just too beautiful to be believed.

Walter Pidgeon as the now famously named «Dr Morbius» who kinda looks like he should be in a haunted castle somewhere instead of an alien planet, is the only other big name really.

The alien planet was a great beginning.

Rodriguez and company took the Predator mythology and then crash - landed it on an alien planet.

It's bleak from the moment Royce crashes ass first on the alien planet.

First off, it seems foolish to set everything on an alien planet, especially when it turns out to be nothing more than Earth with a lot of indigenous issues.

These folks, all strangers to one another, find themselves dropped via parachute into a steaming jungle on what they soon realize is an alien planet.

A group of strangers, all with combat / killing skills are dropped onto an alien planet and swiftly figure out that there's something out there waiting for them, and it ain't no man.

The Predator franchise crossed over with the Alien franchise in a couple movies that was set in the city, but Predators in 2010 took the war back to the jungle, although this was on an alien planet.

On an alien planet, a mercenary and his ragtag band of fighters struggle to survive against an onslaught of fearsome warriors who hunt them for sport.

The title character - who has suffered through several tragedies of his own — must eventually decide whether or not he is willing to fight for the survival of this alien planet and its strange residents.

Democracy triumphed over Tyranny (and bug - kind) in the 5th Galactic War, while you relied on real heroes to die on alien planets.