Sentences with phrase «of life on other planets»

Developments in artificial intelligence may help us to predict the probability of life on other planets, according to new work by a team based at Plymouth University.

Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets.

Gaia's founding scientist James Lovelock formulated Gaia theory while working for NASA seeking chemical signatures of life on other planets.

However, one that certainly caused me to sit back and rethink some of my ideas re life on Earth, the possibility of life on other planets and what it costs in human relationships to search for that life is «The Sparrow» by Mary Doria Russell.

Her breadth, vision and fearless attitude toward research set her on the path to search for signs of life on other planets while investigating colorful bacteria and plants of Hawai`i.

The NSF explains that subseafloor ecosystems may represent both the cradle of life on Earth and a model for the exploration and discovery of life on other planets.

Speaking of the possibility of life on other planets, Amber Turner, a first - generation UNLV senior majoring in geology, began working alongside Lisa Danielson, UNLV Graduate Col - lege Alumna of the Year and geoscientist, at Jacobs / NASA this spring to explore whether or not humans might someday have a relocation option.

With that, he said as scientists begin to explore the universe and wonder about the existence of life on other planets, they will consider planets and regions that possess magnetospheres since they are more likely to support life.

Such a haze — potentially being re-created today — helped to trap the young sun's heat, making life comfortable for microbes — and may offer a signal of life on other planets as well.

It also reveals that once life emerges, it is surprisingly resilient and difficult to destroy, opening the possibility of life on other planets.

«If you want to understand the possibility of life on other planets, it takes more than just finding one in the same size and orbit as Earth and trying to study it,» Bennett says.

This suggests XNAs might form the basis of life on other planets, where different environments led to different chemistry.

Questions about how massive stars function, the possibility of life on other planets, human significance, and human resourcefulness are inevitably broached, and people must consider what these topics might say about the purpose of billions of stars, the relationship between humans and non-human species, and limits of science.

Many a scientist dreams of finding evidence of life on other planets.

For example, I'm agnostic about the existence of life on other planets.

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«The idea of being able to use biology to design and engineer living things that can do things like cure disease or eliminate organ waiting lists, or even revert climate change, or help us live on other planets — that's more what was exciting about it,» he says.

At SpaceX, his steering a company whose mission is to «revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.»

Musk founded the aerospace company in 2002 in order «to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets,» according to the company website.

Consequent to the announcement of NASA that seven exoplanets have been discovered, a new study has argued that life forms on one planet can seed life in other planets by riding on space debris to reach other planets.

Second: The Creation tale is simply a way for early humans to explain mans creation and «fall» from God's predetermined path... The old testament is full of stuff more related to philosophy and health advice then «Gods word» However, this revelation has not made me less of a christian... In Contrast to those stuck in «the old ways» regarding faith (not believing in neanderthals and championing the claim that earth is only 6000 years old), I believe God created the universe on the very principle of physics and evolution (and other sciencey stuff)... Thus the first clash of atoms was the first step in the billionyear long recipe in creating the universe, the galaxies, the stars, the planets, life itself and us.

Life on other planets has a huge impact on religion, none of it good.

You have to tell yourself that in order to feel good about using a crutch of a god in your life because you can't truly cope with the reality of living on this planet, dealing with others that don't view life as you do.

On the flip side, what if we found life on other planets or, even more, life found us and they looked incredibly human and shared a crazy amount of similarities with our dnOn the flip side, what if we found life on other planets or, even more, life found us and they looked incredibly human and shared a crazy amount of similarities with our dnon other planets or, even more, life found us and they looked incredibly human and shared a crazy amount of similarities with our dna.

ddeev... because I would consider, and I do, that there might be other life forms on one of the 400 billion planets thought to be inexistence, does not mean that I would devote my life to that possibility.

Can you prove that orbiting a few thousand of those trillion trillion stars there aren't other planets on which he has also created life?

The Universe is never ending, as well as the possibility for life on other planets outside of the Milky Way.

The other goes something like this: Is there anything one could reasonably call a god that cares one whit about anything that transpires on this planet or in any of our lives?

It's almost as literal an incarnation of a mental «knee jerk reaction» to thoughts and feelings no other living creature on this planet has.

However, in what is probably the oldest book of the Bible, Job, living in an ancient culture that knew nothing about space or planets, asserted that God hung the earth on nothing (1500 B.C.) or, in other words, the earth free floats in space.

We have no proof, no evidence, that any of the billions of other planets have life on them.

From this beginning came all that followed, so everything that is is related, woven into a seamless network, with life gradually emerging after billions of years on this planet (and perhaps on others) and resulting in the incredibly complex, intricate universe we see today.32 To think of God as the creator and continuing creator / sustainer of this massive, breathtaking cosmic fact dwarfs all our traditional images of divine transcendence — whether political or metaphysical.

Yet no other life ever lived on this planet has been so potent in the affairs of men.

I mean the burning passion of lived awareness that we occupy a precarious existence on this planet together with the soil and its flowers, the water and its fishes, the air and its birds, the fire and energy sources; that our fellow human beings are truly brothers and sisters with whom it is better always to make love - justice than war; and that gentleness lasts longer and touches more deeply than other kinds of power.

Look at the age of fossilized bones, look at DNA evidence and all the other mountains of evidence about the LONG - TERM DYNAMICS of LIVING ORGANISMS on this planet over the span of BILLIONS of years.

What you are wasting is a lot of time and energy on being angry at others, hating anyone who isn't JUST LIKE YOU, and waiting to die so you can gather your reward in heaven... all the while you are missing out on a wonderful life, right here, on this planet.

Who knows, there might be other life forms out there on planets with differnt types of suns, other types of atmosphere, maybe even based on something other than carbon... Religion can't answer those questions, but science, ever so slowly, is plugging away at the answers.

There are hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy, each with planets, that large of a number even if a tiny fraction had an atmosphere and even if a fraction of them had water (as we know it is required, but life may not require it on other planets) it would be amazing if there wasn't a carbon based lifeform somewhere else in our galaxy, let alone in the universe with billions of galaxies each with billions of stars and trillions of planets.

While all we know life can live on is earth like planets, there's nothing to rule out life living on other types of planets.

Simply because I exist on a Planet about a billion light years from any other currently living form of life, not chemicals, elements or gases, and how I don't see this as some random thing — there is something greater than you and I and the evidence is all around you.

The problem of evolutionary determinism is often brought up in relation to the hypothetical extraterrestrial life on hypothetical planets in other solar systems.

Somehow, a belief system that teaches people that they are the center of all the universe, created in the image of the most perfect being imaginable, strikes me as a bit more of an ego trip than accepting that we aren't destined to live forever because of our «specialness», but that we live our short lifetimes and die like every other living thing on the planet, our bodies decomposing and ultimately entering the food chain once again, on a tiny speck of a planet in an ordinary, remote backwater of the universe.

I have lots of self - esteem, but I don't place myself so far above all other life on this planet by thinking my species is «special» and master over all else.

It was just by «random chance» that the sun is the perfect distance from the earth so we don't get baked or frozen, that the moon is the right distance and size so the tides don't flood us, that the earth rotates so we are evenly heated, that water - which is absent on other planets and vital to our life - is present here, that there is a balance of living things to keep each other in check.

The atoms and molecules from which life has been fashioned are universal; life itself exists in myriad forms on this planet and may exist on myriad other planets in this galaxy and in countless others, but a conscious mind capable of thinking and feeling is unique on Earth and may be unmatched in the whole of the universe.

It's like Mormons adding a book contrary in message, with god the father living on a planet..., works - righteousness, a prophet who can have as many and any wives he chooses, even those of other men, can burn printing presses, etc. and insist on calling themselves «Christian».

4s) then photons erupted from this energy cloud (detectable today as the microwave background radiation) 5s) photons and other particles form the bodies of the early universe (atoms, molecules, stars, planets, galaxies) 6s) it rained on the early earth until it was cool enough for oceans to form 7s) the first life form was blue green bacteria.

The universality of the appeal and of the effect of Jesus has been demonstrated by experience as has that of no other being who has ever lived on this planet.

Christian thinkers have reflected on these boundaries with respect to their fellow human beings in other cultures, and even with respect to the other animals which share our planet, but rarely with respect to the rest of life populating the universe.

Just as our physical bodies have evolved to suit the particular conditions on this planet and that of no other known to us, so our minds and spirits have been shaped by our experience to be at home in the particular historical period in which we live.

For Megyn Kelly to argue that either Jesus, as embraced by Christians as the Son of God, or Santa, as the infinitely generous being who lives at the North Pole and delivers presents to every well - behaved child on the planet on Christmas Eve (What other possible understanding could she be advocating?)