Not exact matches
That's
not so far from.90, and we're already seeing plenty of dramatic changes
around the
planet.
You can
not grow your stores or the
Planet Smoothie brand without re-creating your successes through building a great team
around you.
Not only have these organizations added increased profits to their bottom line by adopting the principles of social conscience, but they are changing lives
around the world, healing our
planet and lifting our spirit.
What's more, SpaceX was facing the problem of funding their initial mission to Mars: While reports in 2016 estimated that the cost to launch one Red Dragon to the Red
Planet would total
around $ 320M, SpaceX had
not announced actual mission costs or how the company intended to pay for this deep - space journey.
After further observation of the
planets, he came to agree with Copernicus» view that the earth revolves
around the sun and
not vice versa.
And by the way
planets are (reasonably) smooth and round because they turn
around all the time, and when the gases were forming together they obviously didn't create a box!
Oh, so in the vast known Universe, which reaches out for 15 BILLION light years in all directions, with over 100 BILLION galaxies, containing an average of 100 BILLION stars each, with most of those stars now thought to have multiple
planets orbiting
around them, you can't imagine that there would be at least ONE little
planet SOMEWHERE with the right conditions for life without divine intervention?
For example, William Paley, already in 1802, in his treatise Natural Theology, pointed out that if the law of gravity had
not been a so «called «inverse square law» then the earth and the other
planets would
not be able to remain in stable orbits
around the sun.
In the sixteenth century, Nicolaus Copernicus initiated the novel idea in astronomy that the
planets and the sun and the stars do
not revolve
around the Earth but that the
planets, including our own, revolve
around the sun.
--(1 Samuel 13:3)(Obviously, Saul could
not have blown a trumpet loud enough to be heard
around the entire
planet)
History has shown that religion is
not healthy for children, the
planet, freedom, innocent civilians, people of other religions, little boys who trust priests, justice for the poor, education, knowledge of the world
around us, social health, the arts...
And if your idea that God is perfect and he would
not allow imperfections in His Bible, then you have
not looked
around the
planet that much — His entire creation is full of imperfections.
This huge, blue
planet is in existance just so we can be born, live, make a living, have a baby, then die... no connection, no spirit, no soul, no more appreciating the beauty
around us, no more being astounded at the improbabilities, no more being amazed at the wonders of life... because none of that has any meaning any more, it's just a bunch of junk that happened accidently... who cares, we're just all going to fade away into nothingness... become one with the dirt, because we are actually no better than the dirt... I don't know about you, but I'm depressed now... but then that's what's great about our country, you can choose to believe or...
not... in this... country... that has... no particular meaning... in the grand scheme of thngs... oh, yeah, that's right there is no «grand scheme of things»... so never mind.
Simply because I exist on a
Planet about a billion light years from any other currently living form of life,
not chemicals, elements or gases, and how I don't see this as some random thing — there is something greater than you and I and the evidence is all
around you.
Our resurrection can
not be here or on any other
planet revolving
around some other sun.
I can explain climate change as a result of a natural cycle caused by the masses and orbits of the
planets, but I don't go
around calling believers in humans causing climate change idiots simply because I know what actually causes it.
If telescopes make it clear that heavenly bodies are
not perfectly spherical and furthermore reveal moons rotating
around a
planet, then the old notion of the æther, a refined fifth element admitting only the potentiality for perfect circular motion on the part of perfectly spherical bodies, no longer has a role to play.
I'm sure as hell
not going to go
around and share that secret with everyone else on the
planet.
But, my friend can we
not say that about the majority of folks
around the
planet?
So it seems to me that for those of us who call ourselves Christians, but who also have used the brain that God gave us to conclude that the
planet is more than 6000 years old and that the actions of Noah and his family saved all the then living things — that we can retain faith in a God who would
not joke
around with Abraham just to test him.
We can
not be sure that The Flood had no relationship to all flesh
around that area having «corrupted its way»... The very protection of mankind from natural disasters that were inevitable from the contingent, limited perfection of the
planet Earth as a habitat, might well have been mediated to human communities by great prophetic souls, even as Christ prophesied the destruction of Jerusalem as a consequence of his rejection, and because «in the day of your visitation, you did
not know the things that were to your peace».
That's
not even including the millions upon millions of individual victims of ethnic cleansing, religious intolerance and the centuries of human sacrifice practiced by cults
around the
planet.
And to
not only create the human species but to place us on a
planet that revolves perfectly
around a burning sun to give us seasons in which to grow food and harvest it to feed ourselves.
Lets
not forget when it was discovered that the Earth revolved
around the Sun along with the other
planets instead of everything revolving
around the Earth.
Indeed, this is what seems to be happening
around the
planet — garment workers in places like Mexico or Guatemala or Honduras find themselves having somehow to match the wages of Chinese or Vietnamese or Laotian employees,
not to mention the demand of Wal - Mart executives for ever - cheaper prices.
As a human race we have haven't been
around very long (relatively speaking) but already we have the ability to build artificially intelligent computers and travel to other
planets.
In a few thousand years of recorded history, we went from dwelling in caves and mud huts and tee - pees,
not understanding the natural world
around us, or the broader universe, to being able to travel through space, using reason to ferret out the hidden secrets of how the world works, from physics to chemistry to biology, we worked out the tools and rules underpinning it all, mathematics, and now we can see objects that are almost impossibly small, the very tiniest building blocks of matter, (or at least we can examine them, even if you can't «see» them because you're using something other than your eyes and photons to view them) to the very farthest objects, the
planets circling other, distant stars, that are in their own way, too small to see from here, like the atoms and parts of atoms themselves, detected indirectly, but indisputably THERE.
Apol... I know my reasoning is valid because snakes can't talk, 600 year old men can't build a boat and float 2 of every animal on the
planet around for a year, the Red Sea can't part, men can't rise from the dead, and a host of other nonsense that Christians believe just can't happen.
It seems a lot of people don't have any problem with God being violent, but if you consider how many evil folk are running
around on this
planet, even just at the moment, it seems God prefers peacefulness to blasting them away.
But to suggest the
planet is only 5000 years old is naive and egotistical,
not to mention ignorant of all the evidence
around that suggests otherwise.
Rovelli points out that humans have always observed that the stars, the moon, the
planets, etc, continually revolve
around us, so it should follow that «below us» is nothing; in other words, the sky is
not just over our head, it's also under our feet.
So why would He want to tell those folks about ALIENS from another
planet, let alone that the Earth revolved
around the Sun and
not the other way
around... And, according to the gold plates found by Joseph Smith, He DID visit other areas including the Americas where he appeared and taught natives there as well.
As a youth I felt the complete absurdity of everything occurring on our
planet, a nightmare that could
not end well — and in fact it found its perfect expression in the barbed wire
around the concentration camps and gas chambers....
Somehow, when he sees everyone start throwing
around words like «average» and «
not as good as Blake Bortles» it flips a switch in his brain and he turns into the best football player on the
planet.
The downside, if it is
not too late for you, is that you will think that the world revolves
around him and he is the greatest kid on the
planet (I am
not suggesting he is
not), and he will grow up expecting his dad to always be there for him.
And while you are showing your respect for the
planet, don't forget its people: when you purchase items from
around the world, look for fair trade products.
Thankfully, I have
not experienced ppd, but for mothers that have, I think holistic practices should really be taken under consideration more often... or even if just for a new mother's recovery and general health So many people have made negative comments about consuming their own placenta and comparing it to animals eating other dead animals and feces, but don't think twice about consuming food products produced using actual animals... cow's milk, goat milk, cheeses, burgers, bacon (pigs are considered one of the filthiest animals on the
planet — they defacate where they sleep, roll
around in it, eat rotted food, yet no one seems to think twice about eating any part of them).
We would be able to protect millions if
not billions of people
around the
planet who have been ravaged
not just by the drug war, crimes and the vicious violence but also by terrorist groups funded largely by this trade who continue to maim and kill
around the
planet too.»
Planet Albany, he said, is a place where «deadlines aren't met... there is no gravity and light bends
around the Capitol every time the sun shines.»
His rocket could also serve as a garbage truck, getting dead satellites and discarded upper - rocket stages out of their dangerous orbits
around our
planet (a job the larger chemical - fueled rockets can't perform efficiently because they use too much fuel).
Scientists currently can't use much of the information collected by geostationary satellites, which sit above a particular location on Earth, and polar - orbiting satellites, which swing
around the
planet's poles.
They found that groups of the objects cluster in different ways, suggesting that
not one but two giant
planets «shepherd» the smaller objects
around (arxiv.org/abs/1406.0715).
Spacecraft orbiting other
planets won't be any help this time
around for the same reason, but another set of instruments will step up: solar observatories like SOHO, STEREO and the Solar Dynamics Observatory, all of which are designed to stare straight at the sun's surface.
It didn't have to be the case — it could have been that these
planets were very, very hot on the dayside and very cold on the nightside, but apparently there are these very strong winds that can move energy
around to the cold side, so the nightside on those
planets is really quite hot.
Captured by Kepler's digital sensors, transformed into bytes of data, and downloaded to computers at NASA's Ames Research Center near San Francisco, the processed starlight slowly revealed a remarkable story: A
planet not much bigger than Earth was whipping
around its native star at a blistering pace, completing an orbit — its version of a «year» — in just over 20 hours.
The lead author of the new study, Guillem Anglada [1], from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC), Granada, Spain, explains the significance of this find: «The dust
around Proxima is important because, following the discovery of the terrestrial
planet Proxima b, it's the first indication of the presence of an elaborate planetary system, and
not just a single
planet,
around the star closest to our Sun.»
The answers will
not only help explain how Earth became an ideal place for incubating life; they will also tell a lot about the odds of finding similar habitable
planets around other stars.
But that doesn't stop him fantasising about easier ways: «Wish I had a friend on a
planet around a runaway star in the halo, sending me back a photo.»
«Ours isn't the only group looking for
planets around young stars, and my hope is that astronomers can find enough of them to shed light on some of the nagging questions about
planet formation,» Johns - Krull said.
«There are plenty of reasons to be optimistic that we will find hints of extraterrestrial life within the next few decades, just maybe
not on an Earth - like
planet around a Sun - like star.»