Sentences with phrase «of alien structures»

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The more difficult question is whether we would ever be able to learn the internal structure of an alien language.

Suffering and mystery, to which Feuerbach attributed the existence of religion, are now seen more precisely as the sorrows brought about by enforced, unreasonable, incomprehensible and alien conditions of life (social structure).

The key is not to view the institutionalization of life, the extension of legal controls, and the multiplication of collective political structures as something in itself alien to the Christian ideal of love; rather, it is to discover the kind of political conditions under which the growth of love can be furthered.

Despite all our cultural differences, despite the structures in society and in the Church that obscure our confession of Christ, and despite our sinfulness, we affirm and confess Christ together, for we have found that he is not alien to any culture and that he redeems and judges all our societies.

But KIC 8462852 hit the headlines when Wright and colleagues suggested that the star would be a good candidate to search for evidence of a large manufactured structure built by alien life.

The 1996 discovery of carbonate structures in meteorite ALH - 84001 — which travelled to Earth from Mars more than 13,000 years ago — was hailed at the time as evidence that alien microbes once lived on the red planet.

«As information is passed from person to person, what begins as a chaotic and random association of aliens and attributes becomes simpler, more structured and easier to learn,» says Martin.

Metal is not part of any other known structure in the pyramid, and the discovery ignited speculation that the pins were door handles, keys or even parts of a power supply constructed by aliens.

The function performed by the imagined structures is to move alien vehicles using light sails, in which powerful light beams propel a reflective surface in the vacuum of space.

Many theories and speculations of different types have been proposed to explain the unusual light curve of the star, including a mega structure built by aliens orbiting around it.

«For this reason» infers Roi Alonso, a researcher at the IAC / ULL and another of the authors, «we know that the material which is interposed between us and the star is not opaque, as would be expected if it were a planet, or an alien mega structure».

To update these findings for the SETI age, the researchers asked 137 participants to scan aerial photos of interplanetary imagery and search for structures that appeared unnatural, built by humans (or aliens).

Updated Conspiracy site UFO Sightings Daily has already been quite busy in 2018, announcing that recent NASA photos of the surface of Mars have provided evidence of seashells along with numerous alien structures and statues including an Egyptian sphinx.

Despite a narrative structure that counteracts many of the horror elements, and an alien world that won't play by its own rules, «Annihilation» still presents noteworthy production design, eerily escalating tension, and intriguing science - fiction notions that all but demand post-viewing discussion.

The fantastic narrative structure jumps from a pre-historic era, when apes first discovered using bones as tools and as weapons, to a futuristic space - age when man discovers proof of intelligent alien life in the form of a gigantic black monolith on the moon.

After a brief prologue that suggests Oscar Wilde was brought to Earth by space aliens to father the glam - rock movement (this movie is nothing if not strange), Velvet Goldmine borrows its structure from, of all things, Citizen Kane.

His narrative structure inhibited an emotionally thorough attachment to the characters, but thanks to its outstanding soundtrack and a trio of rock - solid performances from its leads, the film is still a solid depiction of a time where glitter and gold was in, and hearing hard rock aliens on the radio was almost commonplace.

As for Scott, he continues to be one of the most consistently inconsistent directors around, veering from the confused structure and seeming disinterest of Alien: Covenant, through to this meticulously underplayed adult drama.

Players are invited to defend their home planet from wave after wave of alien attackers, whilst the titular voice commands are used to deploy defensive structures in specific quadrants or to deploy smart bombs and other secondary weapons.

That isn't to say the alien - invasion framework and neatly - bifurcated dystopian road movie / romcom structure are purely excuses to see how much mileage Kurosawa can get out of his generic indeterminacy.

Given the widespread existence of choice and competition in K - 12 education, it is demonstrably wrong to suppose, as Forum contributor Frederick M. Hess does («The Work Ahead «-RRB-, that «Efforts to cultivate competition may thus foster a culture of schooling that is alien to our educational heritage and may create an incentive structure that distorts educational priorities.»

The alien was supposed to invade, but he's incompetent, and soon, there's a group of his friends, all hanging out in the sitcom - like episodic structure.

The mixture of leverage, alien domiciled subsidiaries, reinsurance underwriting leverage, plus complex and novel securitization structures was pure poison.

This nightmarish realm is a surreal meld of disturbing, corrupted lifeforms and towering technological structures, left behind by an incredibly advanced alien race long ago.

You will go through deserts, ice - planets, jungles and ancient alien structures, with a lot of detail in each; you can practically feel the heat on one of the desert planets thanks to some convincing lighting effects.

An alien unfamiliar with EA's corporate structure might not realise The Sims Label exists; given EA's record of assimilating developers, you might assume it's just a logo on a box.

Pantropy is a first person sci - fi massive multiplayer online sci - fi survival shooter, where you and other players are thrown into an open alien world to gather resources and build structures / facilities as well as weapons and other tools / items, all for the purpose of advancement and survivability.

In Mutant Mudds Super Challenge, players will once again take on the role of the blonde - haired, nerdy, water gun - wielding Max as he stumbles upon a giant alien structure and is trapped inside.

A new video from the studio explains that much of the information that the game offers about the universe and the aliens that players interact with is integrated into the environments that they explore, including buildings or other created structures.

While the game doesn't quite reach the jaw - dropping heights of Bungie's latest shooter, its myriad interesting enemies and towering alien structures add an incredible level of scale and personality to each planet.

As you continue through the game you'll encounter strange structures, some of which are dangerous and alien - looking.

They show that we are the aliens... In abstraxi (2014), the structures intermingle to picture a place in the light of day — innumerable yarns as innumerable bits of terrestrial matter, and its reverse side some incidental gaseous state.

The darkness that looms in every shot only accentuates the grand nature of each structure, as they emerge from the shadows like some alien being.

Valkyrie Crown, a patchwork fabric structure by the Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos currently nesting like an alien life form in the upper gallery of Haunch of Venison, has a festive quality, like a massive piñata (until Nov 17; three stars).

Here Fitzmaurice displays a series of wall hung reliefs made from symmetrical automobile shells, headlights, and fenders that tend to resemble alien facial structures.

Taaffe's second show with this gallery finds him reasserting his powers of scale, complex Miró and Paleolithic pictographic structure meets Islamic design and alien worlds of floating shape, but as much as I adore some of these new works (especially Choir and Glyphic Field), I myself am missing the one last layer of the paperlike auras and palpable facture of his work from so long ago.

Dubbed the Ufogel (a combination of «U.F.O.» and the German «vogel» for bird), the structure is raised on stilts, making it resemble an alien craft or bird that has landed, with minimal impact on the ground.

Human rights cases provide an array of interesting procedural issues, including questions of personal jurisdiction.137 Several important cases brought under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) 138 could form the basis for interesting LRW problems involving corporate structures and personal jurisdiction or other procedural issues.