Sentences with phrase «of life as you know»

And we think that oceans and water are necessary for the development of life as we know it, so perhaps, if these kinds of ocean worlds are common across the galaxy, and if that's where life most often develops.

God does build with miniaturized cellular universes to create all formations of Life as we know it!

We are the most complex form of life as we know it, on earth.

Hydrogen, which constitutes 74 per cent of the material of the universe and on which the origin of life as we know it was dependent, could not then have existed.

We are living on the turn of the end of life as we know it, so until Christ comes again, you still have time to repent.

The spring calendar grows busier and busier, the days grow longer and longer — then BAM — out of nowhere the kids are suddenly out of school and the routine of life as I know it gets hijacked by the unpredictability of summer.

The draft reaction will be manna from the heavens to some and the end of life as we know it for others.

We used to resist because occasionally a toy would get lost and that was (very nearly) the end of life as we knew it.

And there are scientists who believe the leaking radiation may have greatly altered the biology of life as we know it in irreparable ways that will not surface for years.

This is why the Bernese scientist chose an alternative approach for his study, which is published in the journal «Astronomy & Astrophysics»: Based on the mass and radius of a planet Yann Alibert was able to determine criteria that exclude the possibility of life as we know it.

With its sophisticated on - board chemistry lab, Curiosity is hunting for more robust signs of habitability, including organic compounds — the carbon - based building blocks of life as we know it.

«These changes to the continental character might have contributed to the Great Oxygenation Event on Earth — and, consequently, to the origin of life as we know it,» suspects Chowdhury.

Perhaps not: a simulation of conditions on Saturn's giant frigid moon shows that some of the key molecular precursors of life as we know it are likely to have formed there.

I don't know how many e-mails I have received from children who are terrified that 2012 will somehow involve the end of life as we know it, all because of an unfounded fringe religious prophecy that has received mass - market exposure with the release of a recent Hollywood movie.

Though most people are perhaps not familiar with this arrangement, it is the basis of life as we know it.

These complex carbon - containing molecules do not necessarily signal life — they float in the harsh environment of interstellar space, for example — but they do form the building blocks of life as we know it.

By the late 1990s Kurzweil emerged as the leading champion of the coming end of life as we know it.

This finding argues strongly against the presence of life as we know it.

The most important of these events for the evolution of life as we know it, was the Great Oxidation Event some 2.3 billion years ago.

Without an atmosphere, it would be impossible for a world to maintain liquid water on its surface, which is essential for the evolution of life as we know it.

It may not possess an atmosphere, or have any type of life as we know it, but as a solid surface on which to settle a new colony of individuals, it might be just the very best that you can possibly do.

From the point of view of life as we know it, that's appropriate.

Finding carbon dioxide isn't necessarily a sign of life as we know it.

The chemical is known as a prebiotic molecule and belongs to a family of chemicals that forms amino acids and peptides — the stuff that proteins are made of and, therefore, the backbone of life as we know it.

ATP is the battery power that we run on and is considered to be the energy engine of life as we know it.

They need to go back and undo whatever went wrong on the failed expedition or else it will be the end of life as we know it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In the existential Waking Life, Linklater uses rotoscoping to make for a trippy, talky jaunt through dreams and consciousness and pretty much everything that has to do with the meaning of life as we know it.

This is the end of life as he knows it.

A quintessential SXSW title, the latest from writer / director Brett Haley (The Hero) traces a failed musician turned record shop owner (Nick Offerman) as he latches onto inspiration during the last days of life as he knows it.

Maybe this exile to the sticks didn't have to be the end of life as I knew it.

The sound marks the end of life as you know it.

Our very existence, the future of life as we know it, rests on the successful conservation of the sea and its creatures.

With this exhibition opening less than two weeks before the already fraught spectacle of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, works like these channel the corruption and despair, the crumbling nostalgia, and the specters of disease, that are, despite their ominous undertones and overtones, inexhaustible sources of life as we know it now.

Despite all their widely shared and conventionally validated fantasies and soon to be unsustainable activities, Earth exists in space - time, is relatively small and bounded, and has limited resources upon which the survival of life as we know it depends.

Is the fulfillment of the insatiable wishes of unrestrained consumers a result of unbridled big business interests relentlessly pursuing a course of endless economic expansion, based upon the feckless consumption of the very resources needed for the survival of life as we know it?

We religiously promote our widely shared and consensually - validated fantasies of «real» endless economic growth and soon to be unsustainable overconsumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities, and in so doing deny that Earth has limited resources and frangible ecosystems upon which the survival of life as we know it depends.

Perhaps we can agree that if the human family keeps doing precisely the things it is doing now by recklessly overpopulating, relentlessly overconsuming and rampantly overproducing, and if we keep getting more of the same ol' stuff we are getting now, then a giant shadow could inadvertently be cast over the future of life as we know it and the planetary home we are blessed to inhabit.

On Venus, the feedback was of a different magnitude and there is, if not a catastrophic runaway, a feedback that has expanded beyond the ability of life as we know it to exist.

We religiously promote our widely shared and consensually - validated fantasies of «real» endless economic growth and soon to become unsustainable overconsumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities, and in so doing deny that Earth has limited resources and frangible ecosystems upon which the survival of life as we know it depends.

Would you agree that if the leaders of our culture choose to keep growing the global economy in the business - as - usual way they are doing now, then the future of life as we know it could be put at risk?

Regardless of the human - forced calamities — the ones derived from unchecked consumption, unbridled dissipation of resources bound up in the process of economic globalization, and skyrocketing global human numbers — that might befall coming generations, we live on in a patently unsustainable fantasy world (we call it reality) of idle comforts, effortless ease, conspicuous consumption, secret handshakes, exclusive clubs, exotic hideaways and thousands of private jets, having abandoned our regard for the less fortunate among us, for the maintenance of life as we know it, and for the preservation of the integrity of Earth.

When did you know your generation was inadvertently precipitating the massive extinction of life as we know it and destroying the Earth?

If you're relatively familiar with the climate «debate», you will know that the rapid cooling period from the 1940's to the 1970's led to climate «experts» (climate scientists) declaring the end of life as we know it, in the form of the «Global Cooling» scare:

Thanks to the most arrogant, avaricious and foolhardy among us, all of humanity as well as much of life as we know it are now inhabitants of a planet that is failing fast because of global overconsumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities of the human species.

That evidence now shows us that we face a stark choice, between a future with a little more climate change that we will still have to adapt to and cope with, and one with catastrophic climate change that will threaten the future of life as we know it.

It sounds like hyperbole, but on this task the future of life as we know it does in fact depend.President Obama and the Democrats are paradigmatically better than the Republicans on the issue of climate change, yet they to a dangerous degree understate and undervalue the criticality of the moment.

A «warming of several degrees Celsius» = the end of life as we know it (see «Is 450 ppm politically possible?

It was also the start of the «It isn't a prediction, it's a «projection»... When, a few years later, all their «end of life as we know it» doom and gloom running out of everything computer predictions didn't happen, they published «Limits the Sequel» or «Limits To Growth, the Rewrite» or whatever they titled it and have been squawking every since that they didn't actually make any real predictions so they couldn't be wrong.

I have just wasted two days commenting on Guardian environment, trying to get George to explain why it is ok for him to base his dire predictions of «the end of life as we know it» on research financed by Exxon, while we common mortals are frequently criticised for quoting sources funded by the same Exxon.

The tentacles of technology and its effect on privacy reach out and touch every aspect of life as we know it, and I don't think that's an exaggeration.