Sentences with phrase «of planet they inhabit»

If a human toddler is wiser than a planet of stone, but there are probably billions of planets inhabited by sentient beings, how can anyone assert that we are the «center of the universe,» or god's pet species?

We consider the entire spectrum of our species, all dimensions of the communities that surround us and all aspects of the planet we inhabit.

This kind of event reminds us of the spectacular, the sacred nature of the planet we inhabit.

I am not religious, but I often find myself in a state of awe and joy when contemplating the wonders of this planet we inhabit.

Citing the opening passage of Charles Dicken's A Tale of Two Cities, Lynas emphasized that humans will ultimately decide what kind of planet they inhabit by actively «using science and technology as [their] most potent tools for first identifying and then solving problems.»

Not exact matches

Elon Musk's far - fetched plan not only to get humans to Mars, but to inhabit it, has evidently driven interest in the Red Planet: A team of NASA scientists will talk about the challenges of living on Earth's neighbor, while Lockheed Martin and NASA will combine to talk about the interplanetary travel systems that will take us there.

What it's about: The highest - grossing movie of all time — by far — «Avatar» is a science - fiction epic where a paraplegic marine inhabits another body to live on the moon of another planet and ingratiate himself into another population.

They think they are more intelligent than the billions of other folks that inhabit this planet.

What the reader, or at least this reader, retains of the novel is not a pattern of Christian belief but descriptions of the three kinds of rational creatures who inhabit the planet and of the fantastic shapes and smells and pastel colors of the beautiful land.

The organic model we are suggesting pictures reality as composed of multitudes of embodied beings who presently inhabit a planet that has evolved over billions of years through a process of dynamic change marked by law and novelty into an intricate, diverse, complex, multi-leveled reality, all radically interrelated and interdependent.

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.»

Our bodily cells are only a tiny fraction of the subhuman individuals in existence; also each of us is but one of countless individuals on our own or perhaps higher levels (recall the billions of possibly inhabited planets that astronomers believe exist).

Of a state of existence in which surviving souls, condemned to live, crawl about scrofulously among the radiations of insidious poison, among emanations of noxious gases, on a planet unfit for habitation which they must nevertheless inhabiOf a state of existence in which surviving souls, condemned to live, crawl about scrofulously among the radiations of insidious poison, among emanations of noxious gases, on a planet unfit for habitation which they must nevertheless inhabiof existence in which surviving souls, condemned to live, crawl about scrofulously among the radiations of insidious poison, among emanations of noxious gases, on a planet unfit for habitation which they must nevertheless inhabiof insidious poison, among emanations of noxious gases, on a planet unfit for habitation which they must nevertheless inhabiof noxious gases, on a planet unfit for habitation which they must nevertheless inhabit.

There may very well be hundreds of other planets in other solar systems that are inhabited by intelligent life that is completely different from us.

Mormon theology teaches that God is only one of countless gods, that he used to be a man on another planet, that he became a god by following the laws and ordinances of that god on that world, and that he brought one of his wives to this world with whom he produces spirit children who then inhabit human bodies at birth.

Whites and blacks inhabit a common planet, and the possibility of doing so in peace and with justice begins with soccer on the sandlot.

If someone were to create this planet, universe, and all the life that exists, they wouldn't waste their time creating 350,000 different species of beetles, or 12,000 different species of roundworm, or the countless number of other species that have inhabited the earth.

«The arts may be not the luxury of the few, but the last, best hope of humanity to inhabit with joy this planet,» says Shaw, who sometimes refers to the liberal arts as the «conservative» arts because they are the things that really «conserve» us.

We believe that anywhere from 5 million to 100 million species inhabit the planet, of which science has identified about 2 million.

Neither can he, as an historian, embrace in his narrative what has taken place beyond the physical death of the billions who have inhabited this planet.

By the year 2040, experts predict that 8 billion people will inhabit our planet, creating intense demand for clean water and nutrition at the expense of all living things.

With over 250 species inhabiting our planet, this book explores the many different types of monkeys from the smallest Pygmy Marmoset to the largest Mandrill, and provides all the facts you wanted to know and more.

If life spreads between planets, inhabited worlds should clump in space like colonies of bacteria on a Petri dish.

These failed stars, or brown dwarfs, inhabit a peculiar gray area between large planets and small stars, and their split personalities are providing scientists with new ways to learn about both kinds of objects.

More than just a geologic curiosity, finding water on Mars has major implications for the search for life, because the presence of H2O greatly increases the odds that living organisms once thrived on the planet, and perhaps still inhabit it today.

The team analyzed the contours of the land where the stories were told and used scientific reconstructions of prehistoric sea levels to date the origins of each of the stories — back to times when fewer than 10 million people were thought to have inhabited the planet.

According to the study, speciation of the Iberian lynx could therefore be related to the special diet still followed by these specimens inhabiting our planet today, including the rabbit as their primary prey.

Simply put, is there enough energy that can be harnessed to provide a rewarding lifestyle to however many billion of us inhabit the planet?

Such gargantuan telescopes would build on the technologies now being developed by Breakthrough and other organizations, and would offer hope of detecting biosignatures and other gases in planets» atmospheres to reveal whether they are habitable — or even inhabited.

Co-written with his daughter Lucy, who conceived of the idea, and a second physicist, George's Secret Key to the Universe tells of kids faced with the choice of saving Earth from global warming or finding a new planet for humans to inhabit.

«The story of dust,» Bartholet writes, «is actually about the challenges of trying to figure out what is happening to the planet we inhabit.»

At the close of the 21st century, more than 11 billion people will inhabit this planet, according to the latest forecast from the United Nations» population division.

Barring the appearance of flying saucers, there are two broad possibilities: either we have a close encounter with our neighbours by visiting the planets and moons next door; or we make an interstellar phone call to creatures inhabiting much more distant planets that circle alien suns.

Once a number of these potentially inhabited planets have been identified, the next logical step in exploration is to send remote exploratory probes to make direct observations of these planets.

This has led to an explosion of knowledge about microbiomes, as scientists use these tools to catalog the stunning diversity of species that inhabit the planet and study their genes.

At this point it isn't clear just how many planets we'll be able to analyze — it might be a dozen, or it might be millions — but one thing's for certain: If we find methane or another biological marker on just one planet, it will completely redefine our understanding of the universe and the lifeforms that inhabit it.

By drawing on more than 27,000 samples of soil, tissue, and water from the Arctic to Antarctica, more than 300 scientists at scores of institutions worldwide have created the first reference database of bacteria inhabiting the planet.

As we gear up for missions like these, we have a responsibility to think deeply about what kinds of life may already inhabit the planet — and whether we have the right to invite ourselves in.

Advancements in portable scientific instruments provide promising avenues to expedite field work in order to understand the diverse array of organisms that inhabit our planet.

Astrobiology Roadmap Goal 1: Habitable planets Astrobiology Roadmap Goal 6: Life's future on Earth Studying the structure of the Solar System is important for astrobiologists because it can help them determine how our system is able to support the only inhabited planet yet known - the Earth.

Wornwood Studios has developed a great adventure game in retro style, based on the history of Horatio Nullbuilt v5 and his robotic creature, Crispin, living in a planet inhabited only by robots.

The life - form wants to inhabit the planet earth but first must rid the world of the virus that infects it and could kill it — man.

In the future, a group of astronauts embark on a journey to find a mysterious planet that is inhabited by beautiful women who exist to please men.

This 1954 tale not only creates a dual world of life - size and minuscule characters — i.e., the Whos of Whoville, who inhabit a city situated on a mote of dust as if it were a planet.

But when two mercenary crews are alerted to his location, they discover that the real threat isn't Riddick himself, but rather the race of alien predators that inhabit the planet.

«[Thanos] is from a planet called Titan that's no longer inhabited because of things that he thought he could help prevent, and he was not allowed to do that,» Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige said in an earlier interview.

The Boston accent is a notorious one, and this cadre of Brits (Cumberbatch), Aussies (Edgerton) and Americans not from Boston (everyone else; Peter Sarsgaard especially appears to be inhabiting another planet) run the gamut of actors whose full understanding of the accent is hearing impressions of impressions of impressions of John F Kennedy, the sort of gestalt entity that has become the Hollywood Boston Accent.

You start as a spirit who inhabits the body of an iconic Dragon Ball character — Goku, allowing him to fight against an army of clones threatening to wipe out the entire planet.

They discover a race of evil aliens looking to take over the bodies of the dead spacemen and find a new planet to inhabit.

As a motion - capture actor, as an actor, period, Serkis is second to none and he has never been better than in War for the Planet of the Apes as he fully inhabits Caesar's huge heart, revealing his grief, rage, pain, and also his valor and love and dedication to his ape family (and those he embraces as extensions of his family).