Sentences with phrase «of the planet on»

The person who did think of the Earth Flag, a simple image of our planet on a blue background, was John McConnell, a charismatic peace activist who frequented the halls of the United Nations from the 1950s through the 1990s.

They «can properly imply that in some respects man is only a «plain citizen» (Aldo Leopold) of the planet on a par with all other species, but they are sometimes interpreted as denying that humans have any «extraordinary» traits, or that, in situations involving vital interests, humans have no overriding obligations towards their own kind.

WABA believes this is possible, now and for the future of this planet on which we live.

Only the planet's rough orbit is known, not the precise location of the planet on that elliptical path.

The basin was discovered during Messenger's second flyby of the planet on 6 October 2008, a manoeuvre that allowed the probe to photograph 30 % of the planet's surface not previously seen by spacecraft.

For starters, measurements of Jupiter's gravity, determined from the tug of the planet on the spacecraft, suggest that the planet doesn't have a solid, compact core, Bolton and colleagues report in one of the new papers.

If Barnosky has an Olympian overview of a planet on the cusp, Pretty starts from a very different perspective.

Ground - based telescopes will measure the gravitational tug of a planet on its host star to learn the planet's density, which is a clue to its composition.

So much methane accumulated in stagnant seas at the end of the Permian, he argues, that when it finally erupted, it ignited, setting most of the planet on fire.

But Saturn and Uranus live in a rougher neighbourhood: the gravity of the planets on either side of them yank Trojans away.

Fossil evidence also suggested that dinosaurs possibly originated in the northern part of the planet on the land mass known as Laurasia, in what is now the United Kingdom, instead of on the southern region known as Gondwana.

TESS is expected to launch in 2017 with its primary mission to monitor the 500,000 brightest and nearby stars for the signs of planets on orbits less than 30 days.

We find that this standard ansatz provides a reasonable lower bound on the outer boundary of the habitable zone, but the influence of obliquity and ocean fraction can be profound in the context of planets on eccentric orbits.

o understand our own solar system formation and composition in a galactic context, comparative climatology is needed with more detailed understanding of planets on an individual and grouped basis.

«The impact of astronomical cycles on climate can be quite large,» explains Meyers, noting as an example the pacing of the Earth's ice ages, which have been reliably matched to periodic changes in the shape of Earth's orbit, and the tilt of our planet on its axis.

So, how does this jibe with the idea of polar amplification, the idea that the poles will warm faster than the rest of the planet on average?

Much like the gravitational force of a planet on its star, neighboring planets can tug on one another causing one planet to accelerate and another planet to decelerate along its orbit.

(Many exoplanets have also been discovered using another technique called the radial velocity method, which looks for the gravitational influence of a planet on its star.)

But with the resiliency of the planet on our side, we can make small changes to our diets that will help to mitigate the impacts of agriculture on the environment.

All life on Earth has evolved to be in alignment with the 24 - hour revolution of our planet on its axis, and this alignment has caused us to evolve such that we are actually functioning as though we are two quite different creatures: one by day and a completely separate one by night!

It's a story that happens all over the world everyday but normally without the eyes of the planet on both the victim and the surviving family and we see Jackie in both her public role — battling with the administration to ensure that her husband receives a fitting funeral — and her private life — telling Carolyn and John that their daddy is now in heaven with their brothers & sisters so that they won't be lonely.

When you purchase your paperback or Kindle book of Planet on Purpose, you will receive an instant download of the first 3 chapters of the audio version, read by Brandon.

Surf, sail and snorkel your way through some of the most beautiful corners of the planet on these amazing active aquatic adventures.

But in a world where you can explore every nook and cranny of the planet on Google Earth, and where travelers in the most remote places can post instantly to Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, does travel writing still have a role to play?

Just like gears - of - war, this game falls short in attempts to deliver a wholesome view of a planet on the whole.

A display which will include objects and rare books across five centuries from Nicolaus Copernicus» revolutionary work on the movement of the planets On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres, of 1543 to Katie Paterson's recent work Timepieces.

That the Arctic is now a relic of a time gone by — the first major part of the planet on a countdown clock — should shock us.

In the twentieth century, humanity exploded in numbers, technological muscle power and consumption in a globalized economy, altering the physical, chemical and biological features of the planet on a geological scale.

How funny, yesterday I was «mowing», paying close attention to that part of my country existence, thinking, «wow, we haven't even explored the gas fueled lawn mower C02 emissions going on in the suburban areas of this planet on Dot Earth».

Postscript: I spent an hour on Thursday exploring the state of the planet on «Dr. Kiki's Science Hour» with Kirsten Sanford, a neurophysiologist and science writer and interviewer:

So, how does this jibe with the idea of polar amplification, the idea that the poles will warm faster than the rest of the planet on average?

It allows us to get a very detailed picture of our planet on a daily basis and provides crucial information for policy makers.

Not exact matches

That includes things that fly from other planets, which touches on one of Relativity's even more ambitious goals.

The sheer number of insects locked in the facility — the largest colony of cockroaches ever to have existed on the planet — conjures some nightmarish scenarios.

We will dig into all of this with some of the smartest people on the planet at our 2nd annual Fortune Brainstorm Health conference in just a few weeks.

Here's hoping that when the tech bubble inevitably bursts, the site will make another one comparing real - estate prices to the crummiest places on the planet, like perhaps this decrepit oil rig in the middle of the sea.

Not too sad, of course, given that it is still one of the most profitable TV networks on the planet.

You don't need something that everyone on the planet will want, but you do need enough of a customer base, or a recurring customer base, to make it worth your time.

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.

While the newest televisions and laptops often grab the most headlines, the show is also the home to some of the oddest tech on the planet.

Together, these brutal malignancies kill an estimated 250,000 people each year — many of them in the poorest countries on the planet.

Their combination of high - performance, quality materials, and precise engineering results in cars that people respect for being some of the best driving machines on the planet.

While it's unclear so far which group, exactly, will be leading the charge, Inc. has confirmed the existence of at least one: BayShare, which describes itself as an «advocacy organization in the San Francisco Bay Area whose mission is to make the Bay Area the best place on the planet for sharing.»

The campus is going to be home to one of the biggest on - site solar energy installations on the planet.

With a net worth in excess of $ 66 billion, Amancio Ortega is the second - richest man in the world thanks to his control of the Spanish fashion behemoth Inditex, which Ortega — who started out as a delivery boy for a local clothing store at 14 — turned from a small - town dress shop into one of the largest fashion empires on the planet.

It scored 97 out of 100 in Murray's review, and he described it as having «one of the most wonderful noses on this planet,» referring to the alcohol's aroma.

«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.

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.

Riding in Ubers requires a different set of dialogue chops: when banter lulls, be the first person on the planet to ask the Uber driver if it's fun to drive for Uber.

Chances of getting hit are less than one in a trillion, reports CNBC's Morgan Brennan, with a look at the growing threat of space junk landing on the planet.