Sentences with phrase «of rogue scientists»
My idea of a thriller novel, with at least the plot potential of State Of Fear, has for years been a group of rogue scientists who drill down to near the magma of a volcano on a remote Indonesian island and drop a nuclear bomb down there to break things loose and start a real volcanic reaction — leaving us with lots of sulfates in the atmosphere.
http://www.realclimate.org/ Not exact matches
Scientists think that a perfect combination of events may be responsible for generating rogue waves.
To get a feel for what scientists are up against, start with the photos, a gallery of rogues that poison their enemies — such as the dinoflagellate Alexandrium tamarense — or stab them to death — including a Chaetoceros species that plunges its serrated spines into the gills of fish.
Clery's story of privately financed, back - room efforts to achieve ignition is a fun read, featuring rogue scientists and «steampunk» machines.
Scientists have improved their ability to detect underground nuclear explosions set off by rogue nations, a development sure to be of interest as the Nuclear Security Summit kicks off its 2016 meeting in Washington D.C. today.
Scientists begin tests of an enzyme that seems to destroy the prion, or rogue protein, that is believed to cause mad cow disease.
The United States military has made a revolutionary breakthrough in time travel technology, and now it's up to one special agent to ensure that a dangerous rogue scientist doesn't destroy the future of our entire civilization.
A straight - faced updating of the 1950s space monster formula, film stars Charlie Sheen as the rogue scientist who battles E.T.s, uncovers government conspiracies and, most impressive of all, suppresses giggles when confronted with some of the silliest alien effects in memory.
But having the year's top - grossing movie led by a female character has become downright commonplace over the past few years: The «Star Wars» prequel spin - off «Rogue One,» starring Felicity Jones the daughter of an Imperial scientist who the Rebel Alliance and leads a team determined to steal the Death Star plans, was the highest grossing film of 2016, according to BoxOfficeMojo.com.
Characters who initially seem poised to become significant supporting players — among them Army Rangers James Badge Dale and Matthew Fox and rogue CIA operative David Morse — prove expendable, either by becoming food for the encroaching zombie horde, or simply by virtue of the pic moving on to another locale: first a ghostly military base in South Korea that might be the source of the outbreak; then to Israel, where a senior Mossad agent (well played by Dutch filmmaker Ludi Boeken) may hold some additional clues; and finally a WHO research lab in Wales, where — in the pic's most elegantly crafted setpiece — Gerry and a handful of uninfected scientists enter into a careful cat - and - mouse game with the otherwise zombified staff.
Academy Award ® nominee Jake Gyllenhaal (Best Supporting Actor, Brokeback Mountain, 2005), Rebecca Ferguson (Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation) and Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool) star as a team of scientists aboard the International Space Station who discover a rapidly evolving life form that threatens the crew and all life on Earth.
But also, in December, he co-stars in «Rogue One: A Star Wars Story» as Galen Erso, a brilliant scientist and the father of heroine Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones).
The script, somehow written by four people, teams Davis with a bitter rogue scientist (Naomie Harris, looking faintly embarrassed) and also a smarmy federal agent played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan, seriously just doing a friendlier version of Negan, his congenial - bastard villain from The Walking Dead.
* Seems that in 1959, a rogue alien scientist drops a canister of mind - controlling worms (which bear a strong resemblance to the sex pickles from Cronenberg's Shivers) on an unsuspecting college town the same night an escaped axe murderer stalks Lover's Lane.
Just as Carter is settling in, a rogue scientist triggers a fresh invasion of Fireflies that swarm a swanky gated community.
Her debut novel, The New and Improved Romie Futch, is a wholly original story of a depressed Southern taxidermist who receives experimental «brain downloads,» becomes a genius, obsesses over hunting a mutant hog and is hounded by rogue scientists — and that's just the beginning.
One week ago Lewis was vaulted to celebrity status by conservative and contrarian Web sites and commentators when he disseminated his letter of resignation from the 48,000 - member American Physical Society over its support for what he called «the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave.»
But the prospect of widespread finger - wagging by scientists would almost certainly be enough to stop any rogue geoengineer in his or her tracks.
Among the rogues gallery of leading climate change deniers are (from left to right, top to bottom): Congressman Joe Barton (R - TX), fossil fuel shill Steve Milloy, media mogul Rupert Murdoch, self - styled «Skeptical Environmentalist» Bjorn Lomborg, scientist - turned - denier - for - hire Fred Singer, the inimitable Sarah Palin, conservative funders Charles and David Koch (aka the Koch Brothers), and «swift - boat» architect Marc Morano.
«When I joined the American Physical Society sixty - seven years ago it was much smaller, much gentler, and as yet uncorrupted by the money flood... the choice of physics as a profession was then a guarantor of a life of poverty and abstinence... How different it is now... the money flood has become the raison d'etre of much physics research, the vital sustenance of much more, and it provides the support for untold numbers of professional jobs... It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave.
«The global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave.
For reasons that will soon become clear my former pride at being an APS Fellow all these years has been turned into shame, and I am forced, with no pleasure at all, to offer you my resignation from the Society.It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave.»
«Professor Emiritus Hal Lewis as he Resigns from American Physical Society: It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave.
Now NASA's image has been tarnished on the day of one of its greatest triumphs by a rogue scientist with unsupportable ideas and a global media megaphone.
Official responses to the Climategate emails and documents that surfaced in Nov 2009 destroyed any illusion that deception in government science was only the work of a few rogue scientists.
It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave.
Because of course Paris will not be cancelled, nor will Obama come out with a statement that perhaps there's good new after all on the «climate change» front, nor can we expect any of the usual rogues gallery of establishment climate scientists to step back even slightly.
Its hard to believe that a rogue group of scientists conspired, on their own, to to create an AGW scare.
It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS [American Physical Society] before it like a rogue wave.
The media's bungled handling of a single rogue scientist's extraordinarily dubious «discovery» of a link between autism and the MMR vaccine is the most widely cited example of science journalism misfiring.