Sentences with phrase «number of aliens»

The difficulty and number of aliens allowed in the tank also rise as time progresses.

For plants, mammals, and fishes, the proportion of newly emerging alien species has remained constant during the last 150 years but the total number of alien species has increased.

Indeed, one of the big surprises to invasion biologists is the large number of alien species that any given ecosystem can harbor.

Dr Hanno Seebens from Senckenberg, Germany, first author a new study on the topic has an answer now: «For all groups of organisms on all continents, the number of alien species has increased continuously during the last 200 years.

The soil in Britain for example, already provides a home for vast numbers of aliens imported by the invaders and explorers of past generations.

But the great thing about a universe as big as the one in Star Wars is that there's room to introduce any number of alien species.

Not to mention, the number of alien films released in recent years — a handful of which proved to be mediocre or worse — make it harder to get enthused about yet another blockbuster that feature extraterrestrials in an apocalyptic scenario (the end - of - the - world sub-genre is, likewise, starting to feel over-saturated at this point).

There are a diverse number of alien star crafts that's out to get you as well as large planets that you have to drill through.

As you move through the areas you will be hitting enemies with the wrench or blasting them away with a very satisfying shotgun and, much like Arkane's other game, Dishonored, you can upgrade Morgan with a number of alien powers that will help you explore the world or take on the enemies in creative ways.

Up to 8 players battle wave after wave of ever increasing numbers of aliens.

Not exact matches

For investors and corporate leaders in an ever - increasing number of industries, Amazon.com resembles nothing so much as The Blob — the alien antihero in the classic 1958 movie with the tagline «It eats you alive!»

The number of arrests of illegal alien employees fell from 17,552 in 1997 to 445 in 2003, a drop of 97 percent.

Which things being without number in our mind itself, (the nature of which mind is incapable of being seen,) not to mention others, the very faith whereby we believe, or the thought whereby we know that we either believe any thing, or believe not, being as it is altogether alien from the sight of those eyes; what so naked, so clear, what so certain is there to the inner eyes of our minds?

Anything beyond that is speculation, but since YOU think there is an afterlife, prove it, since it is but one of an endless number of possibilities... For instance, after you die, you will slip into another dimension where your soul will power an alien races soft ice cream machine.

My conservative friends and colleagues often adopt a strict and perhaps harsh tone in any evaluation of our problem relating to the growing number of illegal aliens and undocumented workers.

The considerable number of Muslims who had settled in China had laid a secure foundation for Islam, but during those seven hundred years the Muslims had retained their alien status as a special class which preserved its own language, customs, and manners and was never fully integrated with the Han people.

So in offering the first fruits of harvest, he said, «You shall make this response before the LORD your God: «A wandering Aramean was my ancestor; he went down into Egypt and lived there as an alien, few in number, and there he became a great nation, mighty and populous.»»

While it's true that there's no direct connection between the number of participants who play a sport and the spectator success of that sport, it's nonetheless a fact that Americans won't support games that are alien to their recreational community.

It's hardly as if this is alien to Liverpool — they've done it a number of times this season, but far more often, the team focusses on attacking centrally, rather than using wide spaces.

The judge read the «alien number» of an 11 - year - old boy from Guatemala, clad in a soccer shirt that said «All day, every day,» and then of his little brother.

In an effort to update the 1961 Drake Equation, which estimates the number of detectable, intelligent civilizations in the Milky Way, physicist Claudio Grimaldi and colleagues calculated the area of the galaxy that should be filled with alien signals at a given time (SN Online: 11/1/09)...

We were excited by a number of features of the Alien Gear Cloak Mod, including this: the company carries holsters for over 50 models of guns!

Dreamed up in 1961 by astronomer Frank Drake, the equation provides an estimate of the number of detectable alien civilisations in the Milky Way.

The study shows that the number of newly emerging alien species — those never before encountered as aliens — continues to rise, posing a significant challenge to biosecurity interventions worldwide.

In every region, with the exception of a number of positive examples where lessons can be learned, biodiversity and nature's capacity to contribute to people are being degraded, reduced and lost due to a number of common pressures — habitat stress; overexploitation and unsustainable use of natural resources; air, land and water pollution; increasing numbers and impact of invasive alien species and climate change, among others.

So Shostak — who has advised Hollywood on a number of feature films, including 1997's «Contact» — thinks this year's surge may just be part of Hollywood's regular cycle, which tends to feature waves of alien movies from time to time.

The disproportionately high number of nonresident alien S&E workers effectively lowered wages and stipends, which lowered research costs and wages, according to a report by Alan Fechter and Michael Teitelbaum5 and another report by David North.3 (Fechter is president of the board of the Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology and Teitelbaum is vice chair of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform.)

When an alien species enters a new ecosystem, it can alter the environment in a number of ways: by eating native species (in its 50 years on Guam, the Australian brown tree snake has eliminated 9 of 13 native bird species); by spreading disease among them (introduced birds in Hawaii thrive in part because they are far less susceptible to the avian malaria parasite, also an introduced species, than native birds are); or by altering the environment in such a way that favors themselves (like melaleuca, an Australian tree that is spreading through the Everglades in part by changing the frequency and intensity of fires).

Besides revealing whether we're alone in the universe, putting a figure on the number of dead aliens could tell us how long we've got to live.

Given the growing number of Earth - like planets of which astronomers are now aware, it is increasingly extraordinary that aliens that look and behave something like us have not been found, he suggests.

«As the date of first record is not available for most alien species, these numbers are clearly underestimating the full extent of alien species introductions,» says Dr. Franz Essl from the University of Vienna, Austria, senior author of the study.

ALIEN INVASION Burmese pythons, just one of the invasive reptiles now found in southern Florida and discussed in a new book, are consuming large numbers of mammals in the Everglades and nearby ecosystems.

He found that even if half of our galaxy was full of alien noise, the average number of signals that we would be able to detect from Earth is less than one (Scientific Reports, doi.org/b562).

Most methods for calculating the likelihood of detecting alien signals start with an expected number of sources.

But some researchers take umbrage: Grimaldi's method still requires you to plug in numbers for how far alien signals could be detectable and how long they last — neither of which is known.

Imagine that an alien civilization built large numbers of energy - collection panels and that the panels had a range of sizes and orbits around the star.

In Carl Sagan's science fiction novel Contact, aliens in the vicinity of the star Vega beam a series of prime numbers toward Earth.

Which itches will you be able to direct the alien to in a finite amount of time (that is, by saying up and down a finite number of times)?

Just as you can write rational numbers as infinitely repeating decimals, you can designate any nondyadic, rationally placed itch by directing the alien with a unique, infinitely repeating string of ups and downs.

Nowhere is safe, and while not all alien species run riot at the expense of the locals, their sheer number and variety makes it likely that some will.

The team was able to deduce the number of exoplanets, as well as certain characteristics of these alien worlds such as their size, orbit, and composition, by identifying dips in the perceived light output of TRAPPIST - 1 as the planets passed between Earth and the star, blocking a portion of its light.

«In our modern world where people are regularly taking antibiotics and other pharmaceutical drugs, where food is laced with chemicals alien to the human physiology, an increasing number of people have damaged, abnormal gut flora dominated by pathogenic [disease - causing] microbes.

Godfather III, Lethal Weapon 3, Jaws 3 - D, Alien 3, Matrix: Revolutions, the third X-Men movie Box - office numbers to the contrary, no one seems particularly thrilled with the recent Spider - Man 3, and the naysayers are not exactly yo - ho - ho - ing at the prospect next week of a longer and even more convoluted third Pirates of the Caribbean.

This particular fact raises a number of questions that are difficult to answer, such as how they have remained undetected for so long and why the aliens only placed the tripods here the first -LRB-?)

The first half of the film builds suspense by putting the group through a number of classic hunting situations — from the perspective of the prey — being flushed out by dogs [though these alien «dogs» have all kinds of horns, spine razors and bad attitudes]; a booby - trapped companion; wandering into deadfalls, and the like.

It's not as action - packed as «Predator» (it's actually more comparable to «Prometheus» and «Alien: Covenant»), nor as incomprehensible as «Under the Skin» (with which it shares a number of similarities), nor as aloof as «Arrival,» but it's one of those rare drama / horror hybrids that hopes to encourage audiences to think — at the same time that they're cowering.

By calling the film Predators the filmmakers are evoking the relationship between the original Alien film and its sequel Aliens by implying that Predators is the rightful follow - up film to Predator and promises to up the ante in terms of action and the number of creatures for the human characters to contend with.

If it's lightweight, it's certainly heartfelt, and gives any number of famous folk the chance to speak well of the real man as well as the fictional half - alien.

Now entrenched behind the scenes of Capitol Hill, Laurel discovers two things: that the government has stopped working, and alien spawn have eaten the brains of a rising number of congressmen and their staff.

Things I liked about «District 9 ″: — Initial premise of dealing with a large number of compliant, «despicable» aliens.