Sentences with phrase «meteor strikes»

If you have some alternate explanation why the earth's temperature has stayed within ± 3 % for half a billion years despite meteor strikes and millennia - long volcanic eruptions and wandering continents, what is that explanation?

Willis wrote «If you have some alternate explanation why the earth's temperature has stayed within ± 3 % for half a billion years despite meteor strikes and millennia - long volcanic eruptions and wandering continents, what is that explanation?

The earth has been going along just fine for billions of years and even made it through a few high powered meteor strikes....

If periods of horrific volcanic activity and horrendous meteor strikes barely budged global temperature from its cyclic course of transitions between Ice Ages and Warm Periods, man's puny efforts are surely lost in the noise.

Even a cursory glance at what we know about the geologic past reveals that this lovely little planet has been through much, MUCH worse than anything we can throw at it; massive meteor strikes, super volcanoes, radical climate shifts to both extremes of hot and cold, and yes, several mass extinctions.

The red planet will throw meteor strikes, dust clouds and electrical storms at the player as they attempt to colonise its beautiful but dangerous landscape.

When the world is clouded in horror in panic after a meteor strikes down in San Francisco (Dante's hometown), he decides to use his transporter to remove him and six others from the chaos and into space.

Beware of disasters, as your city will eventually face doom in the form of fires, earthquakes, meteor strikes, UFO attacks, monsters and more!

The DLC introduces natural disasters to the game, such as meteor strikes, earthquakes, and forest fires, which can occur randomly, or be triggered deliberately by players.

This cult movie is loosely based on the comic book of the same title and revolves around life on Earth after a meteor strikes.

To me, this is like a car commercial that uses special effects to catch your attention then has an official disclaimer like «car should not be driven underwater» or «does not imply resistance to meteor strikes.»

Some meteor strikes in Mars's past were powerful enough to propel pieces of the planet's crust at speeds greater than escape velocity, some 3.1 miles per second.

Today's culprits are the same gases, although their increased presence is not the result of the meteor strikes or volcanoes that caused earlier catastrophes.

No meteor strikes this time.

From the origin of the universe (big bang), to the origin of the moon (big collision), to the origin of lunar craters (meteor strikes), to the demise of the dinosaurs (asteroid impact), to the numerous sudden downfalls of civilizations documented by Jared Diamond in his 2005 book Collapse, catastrophism is alive and well in mainstream science.

Suppose that a meteor strikes the Capitol building in the middle of the night.

Have you ever pondering for once in your life that if a large enough meteor strikes the earth driving us to extinction would mean the end of all religion?

FT: — USAA sells first meteor strike «cat bonds».

Its all nice and fun to pretend that perhaps a meteor strike caused life to begin but you still fail to tell me who created that meteor, who created everything that was needed for life to exist... really... that had to of been a start to it all somewhere and I would love to see an atheist stumble on explaining only «what they claim to know» while refusing to believe what they don't know and can't see.

It is our ancestor, a survivor of the meteor strike which decimated the dinosaurs and allowed us to take over the planet.

@really Sodom was destroyed by natural event meteor strike.

If we're going to survive nuclear war, meteor strike or radiation event, there is no doubt we'll have to live underground for months or even years as the planet recovers.

If most of us expect to live possibly indefinitely in good health, there is a strong motivation to help protect humanity from long - term risks like extinction from a new pandemic, the exhaustion of key nonrenewable resources, global nuclear warfare — or a meteor strike.

The second flash is the meteor strike on the moon.

On the one hand, we have money being spent on petty projects designed to defend «targets» that are more at risk from a meteor strike than a terrorist attack, like the town of Madisonville, Texas.

Boslough was among the first western scientists to arrive in Chelyabinsk, where he did field research and accompanied a production crew filming Meteor Strike for NOVA.

Thanks to the opening shot, we know the expanding, planet - threatening phenomenon nicknamed The Shimmer is the result of a meteor strike three years ago — and Garland, cinematographer Rob Hardy and production designer Mark Digby have created a world that's beautiful, intricate and subtly wrong, with creamy pastels infiltrating the natural green - brown palette of swamps and glades.

Somewhere on the Gulf Coast, a meteor strike has produced a glowing orb of light — they call it the Shimmer — that has been steadily growing.

The film's second half takes place almost entirely inside the Shimmer, where the team encounters the strange mutations that the meteor strike has caused on the surrounding environment as they press inward toward a lighthouse that they believe holds the answers they seek.

Both films center around a carefully guarded zone that has been mysteriously affected by a meteor strike and has at its center a location that may or may not explain its mysteries.

Violence: Characters experience moments of peril when meteors strike the planet causing damage and fire.

As the film expands, the meteor strike that never was turns out to be a footnote rather than a headline.

«Annihilation» breeds tension — from an opening scene meteor strike to the final, somewhat creepy shot.

Actually, it's a kind of reverse Krypton: An ancient meteor strike brought the miracle substance vibranium to the area, enabling Wakandans to build the most advanced civilization on Earth and cloak it under an invisibility shield.

«There is nowhere more alone than the Farallon Islands,» Geni writes in The Lightkeepers, «The rest of the world might disappear — the human race wiped out by a pandemic, a meteor strike, a zombie uprising — and we would be the last to know anything about it.»

(Also known as «Advance Wars: Dark Conflict» in the UK / EU) After a cataclysmic meteor strike exterminates 90 % of the population, the survivors must battle barbarians, disease, and strongmen who seek only to secure their own power.

Even if used indoors, Meteor Strike will still remove you from play.

Now, when I saw this message for the first time, I thought it was rather straightforward, saying that the meteor strike will happen on «Day 5 of the 4th month in 2018».

During his hero ability (Meteor Strike), Doomfist will leap to a great height before propelling himself to the ground, causing heavy damage to any nearby enemies.

Fans have been clamoring for a new map in Epic Games» free - to - play portion of the sandbox survival title for a while, which has seen the studio alter various areas with such events as a recent meteor strike that changed Dusty Depot to Dusty Divot, but the company has yet to offer an actual new map.

You start off being the only survivor from a meteor strike and are sent on a journey to investigate how it happened.

The setting will be familiar to all those who enjoy sci - fi movies, TV shows and books: after a meteor strike hits Earth, aliens emerge and ravage the planet.

After a meteor strike on a planet known as Urth, spelt with a «U».

Dinosaurs used to live the good life, superior to the small mammals who also inhabited the planet, until one day a gigantic meteor struck the planet, destroying the dinosaurs.

Much as I sypathize with your frustration Ms Goldman, I think that the meteor strike of 60 million years ago (along with whatever the cause of the other half - dozen mass extinctions) qualifies as a worse thing that human excess — at least so far.

What if there's a meteor strike?

Bobzorunkle says: «In the past, various theories were put forward on the causes of earthquakes: the Gods are angry; herd of elephants; meteors striking the earth; volcano activity; plate tectonics; elastic rebound theory; etc., etc..

Just as it is probably worth going to work and ignoring the possibility of a meteor strike on one's car.

Ok so how does nature deal with meteor impacts and volcanoes, i'm sure its not something nature predicts in its natural cycle of exactly how much Co2 leaves a volcanoe or meteor strike.

A kind of reverse meteor strike or methane volcano in which frozen methane trapped in clathrate beneath the thawing permafrost warmed enough to destabilize.