Sentences with phrase «of advanced civilizations in»

This is the famous Drake equation from the 1960s to estimate the number of advanced civilizations in the galaxy.

Depending on your initial assumptions, the number of advanced civilizations in our galaxy according to Drake's equation could range from virtually zero to a whopping 36.4 million.

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.

Call me Linda Blair, but enough of religion in politics... it didn't work and it SURE won't work in 4 years when civilization is that much more advanced.

Nearly a half - century later, Jacques Barzun echoed these sentiments in his Mellon Lectures when he said that the artifacts and ideas of advanced civilizations had become a «dreadful clutter,» the antidote to which was to move towards «some form of primitivism.»

There is little civilization or advanced culture in this region because of the poverty, ignorance, and fanaticism which flourish under an imperialist power.

They do so in the name of maintaining national security, defending Christian civilization, advancing the revolution of the proletariat.

Only such a way of life can supply the directives and energies for regenerating and advancing civilization, the meanings required for healthy life individually and in association, and adequate foundations for teaching and learning.

It has been reckoned that, in addition to the 87 million lives taken in the wars of this century, an additional 80 million were deliberately killed or starved to death in Hitler's death camps, Stalin's labor camps, Mao's cultural revolution and the «killing - fields» of Cambodia.2 So much for the advanced civilization of the twentieth century.

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).

If both of these occur regularly, spontaneously, then we should expect the universe to be populated with myriads of planets sustaining life, many of which could be technical civilizations far in advance of ours.

World War II was itself a sign that Christian civilization was in an advanced form of disintegration.

Since the heart of liberalism was its endorsement of the best in modern culture, scientifically based free inquiry, together with its technological benefits, would automatically advance Christian civilization.

They believed that the fairy tale of a God was all that was necessary in order to advance as a civilization.

Impoverished people in underdeveloped agrarian societies, newly aware of the abundance enjoyed by the people of advanced industrial societies with a long history of civilized development, are demanding at once the benefits of civilization without creating the instruments necessary to produce them.

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.

Advances in civilization were never throwbacks to some garden of Eden with a restoration of primitive innocence.

In Inherit the Wind, Drummond gives a tough - sounding speech about the tradeoffs of progress, instructing the jury that every advance of civilization requires that something be surrendered: «Darwin moved us forward to a hilltop, where we could look back and see the way from which we came.

The inference is that our Western civilization is well advanced in the process of decline.

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.

an advanced civilization arose and flourished in parts of El Salvador but after AD.

Long before the space age, humans looking at Mars thought they saw evidence for the presence of water, in the form of giant canals built by some very advanced, very thirsty civilization.

Some believe that an advanced civilization might be able to grab one of these holes in the foam and stretch it, giving us a wormhole that may connect two points in space and time, although this is still speculative.

Each balmy summer brings a swarm of volunteers, many wearing identical yellow T - shirts, who strip away soil and vegetation from the hillside while throngs of tourists hover at the edges, eager for a glimpse of what is said to lie beneath the dirt: the world's oldest and largest pyramids, more vast and ancient than those in Egypt, built by a mysterious and highly advanced civilization that has been long forgotten — until now.

If such movements gain traction they will begin to undermine the underpinings of western civilization who's advances in the last 3 centuries have been chiefly due to suopport for and advances in science.

Back in the 1960s, for example, the physicist Freeman Dyson suggested that advanced civilizations would build shells around their suns to trap and utilize every bit of energy.

Topics ranged from the political (Vienna - based astrophysicict Mazlan Othman, who may have the best business card in the world as she is the director of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, discussed her duties and called for an international protocol on dealing with the possible detection of life in outer space) to the philosophical (theologian Ted Peters of University of California, Berkeley, discussed the significance of the discovery of extra-terrestrial life for the world's religions) to the positively apocalyptic (astrophysicist Frank Drake, the original champion of the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence efforts, pondered whether a technologically advanced civilization would inevitably use its power to annihilate itself.).

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

In the 1960s physicist Freeman Dyson postulated that advanced, energy - hungry civilizations might enshroud their home stars in solar collectors — later called Dyson spheres — to absorb practically all of a star's lighIn the 1960s physicist Freeman Dyson postulated that advanced, energy - hungry civilizations might enshroud their home stars in solar collectors — later called Dyson spheres — to absorb practically all of a star's lighin solar collectors — later called Dyson spheres — to absorb practically all of a star's light.

We are confident that a civilization a million years more advanced than our own would find our concept of number intelligible (and we, theirs), but our jokes would have them scratching their heads in puzzlement.

Spiral galaxies such as the Great Nebula in Andromeda are obvious candidates, but the elliptical galaxies are much older and more highly evolved and could conceivably harbor a large number of extremely advanced civilizations.

If you look at the history of humanity there have been cases where two civilizations have come in contact for the first time, one of these civilizations with a slightly more advanced technology, and that group has ended up subjugating the other group.

By comparing historical changes in 12 bodies of water worldwide, a new study highlights the extent to which civilization's advance has led to ecological degradation.

I distinguish between the harsh climate regime in which homo sapiens would have been forced to acquire the skills of intellect and compassion for adaptation (~ 50,000 to ~ 20,000 years ago), and the benign climate regime which allowed these skills to flower into advanced civilization.

According to researchers at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), we might soon be able to detect hints of technologically advanced alien civilizations by measuring high levels of polluting gases in the atmospheres of distant exoplanets.

In 1961, American astronomer Frank Drake proposed a formula that could be used to roughly estimate of the number of intelligent and technologically advanced extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky WaIn 1961, American astronomer Frank Drake proposed a formula that could be used to roughly estimate of the number of intelligent and technologically advanced extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Wain the Milky Way.

The premise behind SETI, an acronym for Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, is that technologically advanced civilizations want to make their existence known to their less - capable kin (i.e. us) and go about it by producing signals that might be detected in the course of our routine scientific observations.

In other words, while the construction of such transmitters is definitely a daunting task from an engineering and technological point of view, it is firmly within the realms of possibility that, say, an advanced Type I or Type II extraterrestrial civilization could build one.

Breakthrough Listen initiative, announced Monday, will scan the nearest million stars, plus stars in 100 other galaxies, for signs of an advanced civilization.

It is for further exploration of our evolutionary cycle, as we make contact with extraterrestrials who are in all probability more advanced than our civilization is.

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.

Charlie Hunnam and Robert Pattinson star in the true - life story of British explorers seeking an unknown, advanced civilization in the Amazon.

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

James Gray's personal epic of magnificent obsession in the Amazonian rainforest tells the story of a British explorer's dogged search for proof of an advanced civilization deep in the wilderness, and the lengthy pursuit that will consume him.

The Lost City of Z: Director James Gray turns the story of real - life British explorer Percy Fawcett — and his repeatedly thwarted attempts to discover an advanced civilization in the Amazon jungle — into a meditation not just on colonialism, but on an entire culture's inability to see past the assumptions built into labels.

This flies in the face of the fact that Africa had for centuries enjoyed a very advanced civilization well in advance of the arrival of the European.

As well, the Katakamuna people brought about their civilization based on the soul of language from the Mu continent which flourished in Asia according to a systematized and advanced cosmo - physics [vii].

It took the peoples of Western Europe and America almost three hundred years to develop this kind of civilization; it was a highly complex process, that involved advances in several fields and on various fronts at the same time.

Put Jocelyn in the alpha position and you have the makings of an advanced civilization.

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.