Sentences with phrase «most advanced civilizations»

The Maya Empire was among the most advanced civilizations in the world for more than 2,000 years, and the epicenter of the civilization was located in Belize.

The most advanced civilizations will be reduced to huddling around the last flickering embers of energy — the faint Hawking radiation emitted by black holes.

Since they assume that ours is the most advanced civilization in the history of this planet, they are blind to any evidence that civilizations higher than our own once existed (pp. 28, 73).

Wakanda is the most advanced civilization and culture in the world, but it has an understandable distrust of other countries.

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.

Not exact matches

Most of us instinctively assume that technology relentlessly marches forward, but there have been times before now in human history — after the Egyptians built the Pyramids, for instance, or after the multiple advances of the Roman Empire — when the civilizations that followed could no longer do what had been done before, and perhaps there's a complacency and arrogance in assuming that this won't happen again.

But you have to admit that most of your rituals and beliefs (garments, afterlife polygamy, extraterrestrial gods, two major advanced civilizations in America, etc.) extend well beyond your Christian foundation.

What we are pleased to call Western civilization — and most of the time those who use the phrase intend the culture with which we are familiar, with its ideas and «ideals» of «the good life in community» — seems now to be in an advanced state of disintegration.

At the dawn of civilization, clothing incorporated the most advanced technology on the planet.

In the 1960s he conceived of Dyson spheres — structures manufactured by advanced civilizations that would completely surround stars, capturing most of their energy.

Since this may be the only way for advanced civilizations to reach most of the galaxies within their future light cone and they have little incentive not to try it, we should be highly suspicious of any transmissions from extraterrestrials!

As we learn, Wakanda appears to the outside world as an impoverished East African country, but in fact, its mountains are rich with a precious metal called vibranium, making it the most technologically advanced civilization of all time.

A quick primer: Boseman plays T'Challa, king of the fictional African nation of Wakanda — the richest and most technologically advanced civilization on Earth.

But the book is one of the most important pieces of technology ever invented, and has advanced civilization immeasurably.

At a time when long - distance travel averaged little faster than a man could walk — railroads were appearing in the most advanced countries, and promised to revolutionize transport, but for now they were primarily local or regional affairs — California was about as far from the centers of Western civilization as a land could be.

i'm sad to see that andy has not asked the most fundamental (and terrifying) question: can technology alone substitute for the cheap and abundant energy of fossil fuels on which advanced industrial civilization has become utterly dependent?

The tribes were small in most locations as there were few major advanced civilizations such as the Incas and Aztecs.

Ironically, however, the most promising marker of humanity's presence as an advanced civilization is a by - product of one activity that may threaten it most.