Blogger and embedded NASA reporter Teitel opens her gripping history
of leaving the planet (or trying to) with a bang — literally.
When National Security Advisor Theodore Galloway (John Benjamin Hickey) wages a heated campaign aimed at exiling the giant robots back into space, head Autobot Optimus Prime agrees to comply with the voice of the people, while warning them of the potential consequences
of leaving the planet unprotected.
Not exact matches
It's also helpful to remember the purple power stone is
left on the
planet of Xandar in the protection
of the Nova Corps at the film's end.
«That's really Carl's vision
of the future, and our hopes are that Rick can hear what he has to say and take that to heart, because otherwise there's not going to be anybody
left to live on the
planet,» Nicotero said.
But in sharing detailed images
of giant rockets, spaceships, fuel pods, and other crucial components
of his Interplanetary Transportation System (ITS), Musk
left out some important stuff, including where he plans to fit 100 to 200 passengers on each trip to the red
planet.
From the late 1960s through the early»70s, the denizens
of this tiny Pacific island were the wealthiest people on the
planet per capita, due to the dense and valuable guano deposits
left on the island by fish - eating seabirds over a period
of eons.
This is what extinction looks like: The only rhino
of his kind
left on the
planet gets 24/7 armed protection.
Tim Knight at Slope
of Hope might be the last bear
left on the
planet.
Our very solar system — sun and earth — are the
left over bit
of other stars and
planets that exploded billions
of years ago.
David Bowie has
left this
planet — though it never really felt like he was part
of it.
You can not
leave this tiny speck
of a
planet without life support.
We both have the ability to
leave permanent eternal impressions on future generations
of any number
of living things on this
planet.
I will have to live my whole life surrounded by a world filled with mental midgets who have fooled themselves that faith and belief in deities is the answer instead
of using their minds to work out problems, study science and figure out how we
leave this
planet when it becomes inhabitable in 4 billion years.
But I can imagine, the people with so much «love» to support this is the same that don't have any «love»
left to care for the rest
of the
planet.
These theological visions come from many sources, including: apocalyptic books
of the Bible from Daniel to Revelation; a nineteenth - century viewpoint on the end
of times known as dispensational premillennialism; and images
of the so - called «rapture» popularized in novels such as Hal Lindsey's The Late Great
Planet Earth (1970) and the more recent
Left Behind series.
Evolution has operated quietly on this
planet for hundreds
of millions
of years, and will continue to do so long after there are no people
left to not believe in it.
If you take the genomes
of any two animals on this
planet (yes, including homo sapiens - we are advanced animals), and plot out the corresponding similarities down to the very last letter, what you're
left with is a perfect hierarchy (or family tree).
Oh, forget this debate about religion and cheer up folks because NASA's Special Effects department keeps discovering alien
planets left and right and they're gonna build us some kind
of tin - can «Ark» to take us there just before we destroy this Earth...
Sending robotic explorers to our sister
planets leaves us well short
of a galaxy far, far away, but it's a step in the right direction.
I once spoke with a young woman who was raised in a very liberal mainline tradition who told me she
left the church because, «I wasn't learning anything there about tolerance, love, and good stewardship
of the
planet that I wasn't learning at my public high school, so what was the point?»
In December
of 1968, the crew
of Apollo 8 became the first people to
leave our home
planet and travel to another body in space.
Enskeline discovers that schismatics took the
planet's one starship a century before and
left — and took with them the Shroud
of Turin.
If a mother can be arrested for
leaving her child in a car, never out
of her sight, for three minutes on a freezing day while her other children put money in a Salvation Army bucket — well, if someone were to write a story, now, about children allowed to sail and camp alone for an entire summer, and stay out all night on the water, those children would have to possess supernatural powers or inhabit another
planet, and the story would be labeled «fantasy.»
Evolution has been quietly operating on this
planet for billions
of years, and will do so long after there are any people
left to not believe in it.
No, God has not
left His name etched onto the surface
of planets.
David Bowie has
left this
planet — though it never really felt like he was part
of it.A world without Bowie feels both sad and unthinkable....
If we do not accept the fact that we do have can have an adverse effect on the
planet by the way we conduct ourselves, and that we are the only ones
left who can change the future
of our
planet.
We may make the
planet uninhabitable for ourselves, but another species may evolve and adapt to the sh1thole
of an environment we
leave behind.
Let's
leave aside the differences in theology (that God was once a man, just like you and me; that there are millions
of gods with their own
planets throughout the universe; that faithful Mormons become gods with their own
planets and multiple goddess wives procreating together to populate their
planet with worshippers, etc.) Let's
leave aside Mormons» myriad and obvious non-Christian beliefs.
It reminds me that, today, there are sparrows falling from trees and
planets coursing through space, that a great cloud
of witnesses has come before me and will come after me, that I have sinned by what I have done and what I have
left undone, that all I really need is my daily bread, that, with or without me, the glory
of God persists, «as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be.»
If what you interpret Paul as saying is that before creating all the myriad galaxies and star systems God decided that They would put some humans on the third
planet from an insignificant star on a little arm
of a middling galaxy and that the first hominids chosen role would be to perform pretty much to spec and do something silly and rebellious (arguably without sufficient information as to consequences for themselves and their off spring, oh, and for serpents) and cause affront to the tripartite godhead warranting separation
of Gods grace from all their offspring; then we are
left with people being chosen from way back before the Big Bang to do some terrible things like killing babies or betraying Jesus who was chosen on the same non date (time didn't exist before creation) to die in a fairly nasty fashion and thereby appease the righteous wrath
of himself and his fellow Trinitarians by paying a penalty as a substitute for all future sins (
of believers?)
This is such a huge subject that I must beg indulgence, therefore, if I give my space to but a small fraction
of the historic faith — namely its main emphases on God, Christ, the Church, and eternal life — and consider only these in our modem context, in the effort to discover what values they may have for men and women who are tossed about in an unsettled world, with an uncertain future, and doomed — almost certainly it seems — to a doubtful truce
of arms, at worst to a war which threatens to annihilate man as we have known him and in any event to
leave us a bare existence such as we can eke out on a totally devastated
planet.
Is it not conceivable that Mankind, at the end
of its totalization, its folding - in upon itself, may reach a critical level
of maturity where,
leaving Earth and stars to lapse slowly back into the dwindling mass
of primordial energy, it will detach itself from this
planet and join the one true, irreversible essence
of things, the Omega point?
Not at all, but here I am looking for a job to pay off the financial debt I made thinking I am sort
of called, to eventually f (o) und family, and going starting tomorrow on a full - time two week course on how to write job applications, so me explaining the sinfullness
of suicide, and regarding many persons on this
planet me motivating them to endure whatever crappy situation (often for profit and / or gain
of someone else) even tho they would be better off
leaving such situation / s if possible (kind
of Moses), seems rather pointless.
If I have been deprived
of a heartfelt expectation
of the Lord's return, I blame Hal Lindsey and Tim LaHaye, with their blockbusters The Late Great
Planet Earth and the
Left Behind series.
Taking care
of one another and our
planet, maybe
leaving it a better «heaven» for our future generations.
The informing vision
of this important and subtly argued book is that man is not
left to himself; there is no place on the
planet, period
of history, domain
of conduct, or region
of the mind where he can be separated from the relentless providence
of God.
Land developers burn forests in Latin America to feed the cattle that fill the cavernous appetites
of fast food chains in the United States — and the entire
planet gradually warms,
leaving even the experts in doubt about the future
of our global ecology.
But she might still be
left with a minor, less psychologically disorienting barrier to her acceptance into the full range
of human rituals — the fact that she dropped in from another
planet.
After all, the best «selling nonfiction book
of the past thirty years is Hal Lindsey's The Late Great
Planet Earth (1970), and the
Left Behind books are the all «time best «selling works
of Christian fiction.
< > God
left humans in charge
of the
planet and taking care
of all things on it, including themselves and others.
We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history... As atheists... we face up to the fact that... we must make the most
of our short time on this
planet and... make this
planet as good as we possibly can and try to
leave it a better place than we found it».
in that flood story, there were only eight good people
left on the whole
planet and an incalculabe number
of bad animals?
Sometimes they are thought to be conserved in the influences we
leave in the ongoing stream
of life upon this
planet.
If there only were a way that the «not -
of - this - earth» religious zealots could go somewhere and absent themselves from discussions concerning saving the
planet,
leaving them to us long - termers.
How about you christians and muslims pick a nice neutral place to slaughter each other and
leave those
of us who dwell in reality to propagate the
planet.
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of spreading the vital message that we have to start farming and eating with the
planet in mind is
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