Sentences with phrase «new planet becomes»

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«For our civilization to become a new kind of entity on the planet, we need to live comfortably, over the long haul, with world - changing technology,» David H. Grinspoon, an astrobiologist at the Library of Congress, said Dec. 12 here at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

A new report from Wood Mackenzie predicts that the Permian Basin, the hottest shale play on the planet, will bump up against some constraints as the field has become too crowded.

Stars, well known, have disappeared, new ones have come into view, comets, in their incalculable courses, may run foul of suns and planets and require renovation under other laws; certain races of animals are become extinct; and, were there no restoring power, all existences might extinguish successively, one by one, until all should be reduced to a shapeless chaos.

Much like a dying star doesn't actually die but becomes the ingredients for new life, new planets, new humans in fact as both you and I and everyone on the planet are walking talking sacks of star dust.

The bunch have all become a cult they do not want a new face to take over, well we d fans in other parts of d planet r appealing to fans in England first n others in neighboring countries to boycott matches till d end of d season then an oil block money that loves football, n has a winning mentality will buy our beloved Arsenal.

The more I read about the connection between our industrial food system and global warming (See especially Anna Lappe's new book, Diet for a Hot Planet), the more I become convinced of the tremendous importance of changing the way we feed our children at school.

«This is becoming the new «normal» in the business world, proving that a low - carbon economy is not only vital for consumers and the planet, but also for future - proofing growth,» Lila Karbassi of the U.N. Global Compact said in a statement.

In March, four months before New Horizons made it to Pluto, NASA's Dawn probe entered Ceres» orbit, becoming the first to see a dwarf planet up close.

With planets orbiting M dwarfs quickly becoming the darlings in the search for life beyond our solar system, a new generation of observatories are poised to discover hundreds of worlds around these stars.

Choosing the right approach is vital as the scale of human impact on the planet becomes so large that scientists are calling this new epoch in Earth's history the Anthropocene (when human activity alters global climate and ecosystems).

We're aiming at a new method that will become a primary source of freshwater on the planet.»

Other Sloan researchers have identified a new class of white dwarfs, the cores left over after sun - size stars die, and have sighted elusive brown dwarfs, objects too big to be planets but not quite massive enough to ignite fusion reactions and become stars.

The record - breaking temperatures and greenhouse gas levels are likely to become the new normal, with dire consequences for the planet, according to researchers.

«This new ability to explore matter at atomic scale pressures, where extrapolations of earlier shock and static data become unreliable, provides new constraints for dense matter theories and planet evolution models,» said Rip Collins, another Lawrence Livermore physicist on the team.

Almost everywhere on the planet where combustible green cover exists, wildfires are becoming a bigger risk, new research has found.

Pluto becomes just another «plutoid» Opponents of Pluto's 2006 demotion from planet to «dwarf planet» status have a new reason to be peeved at astronomy's official name - issuing organization.

GJ 1132b is the first in a new class of rocky planets close enough to study in depth with today's technology — signalling that exoplanet studies are about to become more than mere stamp collecting.

Forward's laser sailing becomes much cheaper when the spacecraft merely need to be large enough to contain a «seed probe,» a robot capable of landing on an asteroid or planet in the target solar system and building up a new civilization from scratch.

As new sea routes open and sea - level rises at increasing rates, it becomes ever clearer that amplified climate change in this remote corner of our planet will impact the lives of many around the world.

Beneath Jupiter's massive weather layer, there's an abrupt transformation where the atmospheric gases become so thick that the planet rotates like a ridged body — a new mystery that will need more research.

Bodies such as Ceres, Pallas, and Vesta, which had been classed as planets for almost half a century, became classified with the new designation «asteroid.»

At the meeting of the American Astronomical Society in early January, a team led by University of Illinois researcher Dominique Segura - Cox used data from the VANDAM survey to shed new light on the nature of dusty disks and the process by which they form and eventually become planets.

It takes several generations of star birth and star death to liberally seed a galaxy with heavy elements, which then get taken up in the next generation of stars and become the building blocks of new planets.

Modal noise become significantly more important as the wavelength increases and presents a risk to the new generation of near - infrared precision radial spectrographs under construction or being proposed to search for planets around cool M - dwarf stars, which emit most of their light in the NIR.

I focused and my thighs became so humongous they filled the whole gym, my pain was on a new, higher level of semi-conscious muscle planet, where only results count and temporary discomfort is immaterial.

And Victor becomes Doom, a supervillain out to destroy our world in order to protect his new home on Planet Zero.

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Until about this point Soldier is vaguely interesting, but things take a sharp downward turn from there on: on the planet he is taken in by a group of refugees who becomes the target of the new genetically engineered troops who are out on a practice run.

It isn't often that the landscape of a motion picture becomes as integral as the acting, writing or direction, but in the newest Ridley Scott («Prometheus») outer space adventure, The Martian, the planet's crimson hues, frozen nights and horrifying sand / dust storms bring the story of an explorer stranded there with little help of survival to full life.

To improve learning as well as the planet, K - 12 schools have become front - runners in greening a new generation of school buildings.

In this installment of what will become a trilogy, Commander Gabriel is again facing an uncertain mission but with a crew of new faces; his success depends on returning to an outer planet and open old wounds of losing his squad.

Although New York City has had science fiction & fantasy bookstores in the past (and has a comics shop, Forbidden Planet, that also sells some SF), Singularity is the first one in a while, and it's taking steps to become an active part of the city's speculative fiction fandom.

When a new and potentially planet - killing contagion is discovered, Moon Shadow, an isolated resort town located in Alaska's primitive and rugged interior, becomes the focus of a military - style incursion.

Become part of a new generation of private astronaut - experience the thrill of acceleration to over 3 times the speed of sound and see our beautiful planet from the blackness of space at over 360,000 feet.

New powers include the magenta rhythm (Sonic becomes a music note to bounce across predetermined gaps), indigo asteroid (Sonic becomes a levitating planet that can pull pieces of the level and enemies into its gravity), and crimson eagle (Sonic can fly along new paths in the leveNew powers include the magenta rhythm (Sonic becomes a music note to bounce across predetermined gaps), indigo asteroid (Sonic becomes a levitating planet that can pull pieces of the level and enemies into its gravity), and crimson eagle (Sonic can fly along new paths in the levenew paths in the level).

Along the way alien species moved to my planets thanks to opening my borders up to allies, and I even began researching policies that would allow other space - faring races to become available for leadership positions within my empire, granting new bonuses.

Forge powerful MECHS, assemble your ultimate SQUAD, unlock new devastating SKILLS and fight TITANIC real time battles to rule over the planet EDEN.FORGE combines real - time strategy combat with addictive RPG mechanics: only the strongest will become true masters!

With the help of his robot companion «Rover» and his new friend Lem, Chuck must navigate his way through the dazzling, but bewildering, landscape of Planet 51 in order to escape becoming a permanent part of the Planet 51 Alien Invaders Space Museum.

As the planet became uninhabitable, the new Sirians have ventured into deep space,...

Players can discover and survey new ecosystems and planets, engage in space combat, or become a fugitive chased by interstellar law enforcement.

The conflicts for territorial control spread throughout the world, and each time they become more violent, while they confront local communities with financial giants and transnational industries searching the planet for new sources of profit.

His exhibitions highlights include: «The Third AIM Biennial,» Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY, FIAC International Art Fair, Galerie du jour, Agnes b., Paris France, Cindy Rucker Gallery, «What Becomes of a Broken Heart,» New York, NY, Rush Arts Gallery, «The Happening: Kinesics as Art Object» New York, NY, Powerhouse Memphis, Everywhere, Nowhere, Somewhere, Memphis TN, Bronx Art Space, «BEAT,» Bronx, NY, Aljira A Center for Contemporary Art «Dreamtime overtones from a fantastic brown planet,» Newark, NJ, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL.

Some species can take a while to take hold and mature, but hopefully soon enough there will be new homes for monarch caterpillars to start their majestic caterpillar lives and go on to become some of the most remarkable insects on the planet.

A new translation of his essays, «Geochemistry and the Biosphere» (Synergetic Press) is worth scanning for more of his prescient thinking, which took the idea forward toward what he called «noösphere,» or Earth becoming a «planet of the mind» (some see hints of the World Wide Web and Google Earth in all of this).

During the 2010 congressional elections, denial of man - made climate change became a litmus test issue; not a single new Republican Member of Congress will say (at least publicly) they accept that human activities are dangerously overheating the planet.

Thanks to a Tumblr post by Cem Aridag, a Turkish journalist in my new Blogging a Better Planet course at Pace University, I became aware of a creative approach to conveying the plight of endangered wildlife — a mock Facebook chat involving a tiger, panda, rhinoceros and other species facing various threats: Read more...

The conferences bring together climate change skeptics to, as the New York Times described, «challenge what has become a broad scientific and political consensus: that without big changes in energy choices, humans will dangerously heat up the planet.»

A new study from researchers at the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford has warned that a fifth of current global power plant capacity is at risk of becoming stranded assets under a scenario in which the planet reaches its climate goals of halting warming at 1.5 to 2 °C above pre-industrial levels.

He sums it up this way: «The climate science establishment is so focused on the fight to reduce CO2 emissions that it has ignored the bigger picture: that the Earth System is hurtling towards a new climate regime for the planet, led by abrupt changes in the Arctic as it becomes seasonally free of sea ice.

A single species that has changed the climate, become the greatest earth - moving force on the planet, and ushered in a new geological era, may also be about to become more aware of its physiological limitations.