Sentences with phrase «more terrestrial»

Mark Moore, a 30 - year veteran of NASA, has left the aeronautics agency for a seemingly more terrestrial business: ride - hailing giant Uber.

If, however, their death was caused by something a bit more terrestrial like a car accident or simply old age, the life insurance benefit would pay like any other persons» typical term life insurance policy.

Setting aside 30 percent of the oceans as no - take MPAs would mean more terrestrial food production, he argued, and the extra forests converted to farmland and livestock would generate a significantly larger carbon footprint than fishing.

As a surface for some of Klee's paintings, burlap provided a certain charm and underscored the artist's animating sense of invention, while the burlap scraps that made up Burri's earth - toned collage patchings exuded more terrestrial airs.

More terrestrial than extraterrestrial, obduction means when one oceanic tectonic plate heaves up and laps over a continental plate.

The growth of Basil Jones, then, reflects an adaptation with a more terrestrial focus.

Central Java's royal city of Solo (Surakarta) has long cultivated its reputation as the heartland of refined Javanese culture, home to princes and poets, sacred and mystical dances performed by elegant beauties, and shadowy tales of the wayan kulit reflecting the heavens and more terrestrial affairs.

Fashion of the more terrestrial sort can be found in the pedestrianised area of Via dei Fiori Chiari (by the Brera museum) and in Via Solferino.

Probably the most common of the giants is the Argentine horned frog (Ceratophrys ornata), a more terrestrial species that also benefits from having vivid and ornate bars and spots of black, lime green and brown.

The sci - fi premise of Another Earth sounds like something that must have been explored long before now: without explanation, a second planet appears in the sky that resembles our Earth in every way, as SETI tries to make contact with this anomaly, a far more terrestrial drama unfolds in the forefront between a MIT student and Harvard professor.

Following on from the success of Pale Red Dot, our team are now searching for more terrestrial rocky worlds around nearby red dwarfs.

More wave action can also cause more coastline erosion, adding more terrestrial sediment into the ocean.

He originally suspected that the amino acid came from meteorites crashing into the moon, but now he wonders whether it might have a more terrestrial origin story.

These patterns are not unique to space but are also seen in more terrestrial elements.

For more terrestrial fare, try our USDA Prime «The Duke» Filet Mignon or our Classic Cheeseburger with freshly ground chuck steak.

But Goldsmith's interests now that his time with the brand is up, are more terrestrial.

Not exact matches

Metzger points out that there are far more asteroids near Earth than could ever be explored solely through scientific funding, and highlights the role terrestrial mining operations have played in expanding geologic knowledge.

Is streaming a more credible threat than terrestrial radio or iPods were, given that streaming services also offer curated - style playlists and «stations,» like you do?

Internet connectivity is delivered to planes either by expensive ground - based cell towers or via even more expensive satellite relays, which means there will always be a significantly higher cost for this sort of access than there is for the terrestrial equivalent.

It's a pity you didn't know more about the human anatomy in both its terrestrial and its celestial stages.

Many biologists, intent upon scientific objectivity, are reluctant to see in the development of terrestrial life anything more than an unlimited proliferation of forms, all on the same level.

God likes aquatic animals more than terrestrial animals.

He had watched the sacred New Year procession; he had seen, for the pious but benighted Babylonian, a profound mystery taking place under the eyes of the beholder as Marduk and Nabu went out in solemn pilgrimage to the Akitu house, there to settle the fates of the incoming year; he had witnessed the annual festival in which Marduk triumphed over all his foes, cosmic and terrestrial, and himself died that life might once more return to the world.

A new substance has recently appeared in the heart of the thinking «magma» — a new element, not yet catalogued but of supreme importance: We might call it Homo progressivus, that is to say, the man to whom the terrestrial future matters more than the present.

If Mankind were destined to achieve its apotheosis, if Evolution were to reach its highest point, in our small, separate lives, then indeed the enormous travail of terrestrial organization into which we are born would be no more than a tragic irrelevance.

In origin this is a material force, that of terrestrial compression acting on a rapidly growing population composed of elements whose field of action grows even more rapidly.

As to whether intelligent alien life exists, certainly Holloway found that idea «thrilling» but there is already more than enough to consider concerning terrestrial life, its evolution and the nature of the human self to warrant its discussion here.

The U.S. and Canadian NGO ForestEthics reports that «Canada's boreal forest (alone) stores 23 percent of the planet's terrestrial carbon - more carbon per acre than any other ecosystem on earth, including tropical forests.

Boss dedicated his paper to the late Sandra Keiser, a long - term collaborator, who provided computational and programming support at Carnegie's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism for more than two decades.

«While not every developing protostar may experience this kind of short - term gravitational disruption phase, it is looking increasingly likely that they may be much more important for the early phases of terrestrial planet formation than we thought,» Boss added.

In fact, terrestrial microplastic pollution is much higher than marine microplastic pollution — an estimate of four to 23 times more, depending on the environment.

«All ants and termites are social, and they are ubiquitous across terrestrial landscapes, with thousands of described species and probably even more that we haven't yet found.»

Two recent models for the formation of the Moon, one that allows exchange through a silicate atmosphere (top), and another that creates a more thoroughly mixed sphere of a supercritical fluid (bottom), lead to different predictions for potassium isotope ratios in lunar and terrestrial rocks (right).

«The general idea is that the closer to the terrestrial source, the more color the carbon will have,» Cory says.

While some invertebrates had transitioned from marine to terrestrial environments millions of years earlier, even more came ashore during this period, along with the tetrapods.

A new study of Messenger's data suggests the waves are stronger than thought — two to three times the strength of their terrestrial counterparts — and occur 10 to 30 times more frequently too.

The monster in this horror - film scenario is a coconut crab, the world's largest terrestrial invertebrate, which has a leg span wider than a meter and can weigh more than four kilograms.

«This extreme variability is increasingly imprinted on these freshwater, terrestrial, and marine systems, and this has caused them to become more synchronous with one another with a number of implications for fisheries, drought, snowpack, and tree growth.»

Even strapped to a treadmill with bungee cords, an astronaut running in space bears no more than 60 percent of his terrestrial weight.

Tropical forests convert more carbon from the atmosphere into biomass than any other terrestrial ecosystem on Earth.

Only 10,000 marine compounds have been isolated so far, he points out, compared with 150,000 from terrestrial sources, so that you're much more likely to come up with a brand new molecule if you look in the oceans.

However, with further study, the researchers found no evidence of the survival of any leaf miners over the Cretaceous - Paleocene boundary, suggesting an even more total collapse of terrestrial food webs than has been recognized previously.

A terrestrial - ecosystem biologist at Iowa State University in Ames, Russell visited India in 1996 and again in 2005, spending more than 2 years altogether in the rural state of Kerala with her husband and two daughters.

Today, even if the population were to decline substantially or land use to become far more efficient, the extent, duration and intensity of human activity has altered the terrestrial biosphere sufficiently to leave an unambiguous geological record differing substantially from that of any prior epoch.

Even though we still haven't found the exact origins of land animals, this brings us closer to a more robust understanding of the transition from aquatic to terrestrial lifestyles, says Daeschler.

«We developed a new, improved search algorithm... and identified more than twice as many terrestrial gamma flashes than originally reported,» said Østgaard.

We need more conservation groups and social organizations to lend their expertise and funds if we are to prevent the tragic devastation of indigenous communities along with terrestrial, marine and freshwater biodiversity and resources in Central America.

Today, computers are faster, and terrestrial seismologists have developed far more powerful analytical techniques, so lunar researchers have taken another crack at the Apollo seismic data, which were recorded by the five sensors and radioed back until the mid-1970s.

Since 1500, more than 320 terrestrial vertebrates have become extinct.

The extinct early mammal had some other unusual features, including more vertebrae than any terrestrial mammal alive today.