Sentences with phrase «of tiny planets»

The Barcelona - based artist's work sees architecture from Bauhaus, to contemporary and camping tents placed on every face of tiny planets.

In the Planetoid Mod, the world of Minecraft is completely changed from a flat surface to a collection of tiny planets.

«We can't see individual continents or people in this portrait of Earth, but this pale blue dot is a succinct summary of who we were on July 19,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Cassini's picture reminds us how tiny our home planet is in the vastness of space, and also testifies to the ingenuity of the citizens of this tiny planet to send a robotic spacecraft so far away from home to study Saturn and take a look - back photo of Earth.»

With such a diverse history, developers Gusto Games have a wealth of information included in this title, all from the excellent back catalogue of the National Geographic from geography to history with just about all aspects of our tiny planet covered.

As I see it, too many leaders understand quite well the precarious status of the tiny planet we inhabit; nonetheless, they adamantly refuse to acknowledge or speak openly about the distinctly human - induced predicament that looms ominously before the human community in our time.

At least to me, what is also evident is this: concerns like long - term human well being, biodiversity protection and the maintenance of the integrity of this tiny planet we inhabit are now at odds with a leviathan - like global political economy, the leaders of which relentlessly GROW at the expense of all else.

Futurelawyer observes that «while this view of our tiny planet is sobering, it also reminds us that we are in this together.

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Now, contemplate that an estimated 105 billion people have walked the planet, with only a tiny 5.5 percent of that number alive today.

From the late 1960s through the early»70s, the denizens of this tiny Pacific island were the wealthiest people on the planet per capita, due to the dense and valuable guano deposits left on the island by fish - eating seabirds over a period of eons.

That's just a tiny sliver of our planet's timeline.

You can not leave this tiny speck of a planet without life support.

the above are concepts from a bronze age philosophy... not an all knowing enti ty... and this is a tiny taste of the problems with this planet's religions.

The common «creation story» emerging from the fields of astrophysics, biology, and scientific cosmology makes small any myth of creation from the various religious traditions: some ten billion or so years ago the universe began from a big bang exploding the «matter,» which was infinitesimally small and infinitely dense, outward to create the untold number of galaxies of which our tiny planet is but one blip on the screen.

We're an upstart species on tiny planet, in a boring solar system, in an average galaxy among millions of galaxies.

God: Well, in one of those of galaxies, there's one tiny little star that has a few planets circling around it.

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).

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.

I don't want to think that God set out to populate this one tiny planet amongst a giant empty universe with a set list of lifeforms — that's boring!

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.

but in reality we are a very tiny planet in a sea of billions of galaxies which each galaxy has billions of stars and planets.

I have a limited perspective, from a tiny planet, part of a young species.

As the tiny microbe adapting itself into a human space traveler over the billions of years on this planet we have a far greater responsibility to keep this life moving than we would if it was just some supernatural beings universe where the deity already knows everything that is ever going to happen.

No, thanks... I'll stick with the possibility that we are part of a higher intelligence known as God and that I have somewhere to go when I die pretty much because evolution is a by product of mankind and they haven't even ventured very far in the universe not have they even explained even the tiniest portions of the fossile records to support the diversity of life on this planet.

It doesn't get you a personal god who concerns himself with one little planet and a very tiny fraction of living things on that planet..

In a few thousand years of recorded history, we went from dwelling in caves and mud huts and tee - pees, not understanding the natural world around us, or the broader universe, to being able to travel through space, using reason to ferret out the hidden secrets of how the world works, from physics to chemistry to biology, we worked out the tools and rules underpinning it all, mathematics, and now we can see objects that are almost impossibly small, the very tiniest building blocks of matter, (or at least we can examine them, even if you can't «see» them because you're using something other than your eyes and photons to view them) to the very farthest objects, the planets circling other, distant stars, that are in their own way, too small to see from here, like the atoms and parts of atoms themselves, detected indirectly, but indisputably THERE.

Is it to live a few miniscule years on this tiny planet among the immense universe to then go join God and do nothing the rest of eternity?

If you were God, would you make this big complex universe, then only focus on only one species on one tiny tiny planet way off on the edge of the immense universe, constantly inflicting them with disasters and disease and evil and war, just to see who obeys you based on your random, occasional help of some of them?

As it has countless times in the past and present, (the Holocaust, the Bubonic Plague, the World Wars, countless natural disasters, (floods, storms, earthquakes, etc), the Sky Myth was on vacation when, on a tiny speck of a planet, on a boring arm of the galaxy, in an average galaxy cluster among billions, a bad thing happened.

In the light of that experience, we have read history again, noting the rise and fall of nations and cultures in cycles which in the perspective seem as short and are apparently as final and futile as the life - span of a man, evil manifesting itself continually in the same hideous forms, good winning its victories but also suffering its defeats, as century follows century and our tiny planet is hurled on its precarious way among the stars.

In 2007, the tiny Comet Holmes grew and expanded so much that the gassy diameter of the comet's coma, or atmosphere, became larger than the diameter of the sun, with particles reaching all of the planets.

When a planet orbits in front of its host star, it temporarily blocks a tiny portion of starlight, and these dips will be recorded by TESS» four ultrasensitive cameras.

«The diamonds have delivered these well - preserved materials to us at the surface,» says study co-author Steven Shirey, a geochemist at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C. «They're a classic example of how the tiniest bits of material can tell us big things about our planet.»

Tiny pockets of sulfur and iron (yellow) inside a diamond (blue) inside a meteorite suggest the meteorite was once part of a long - lost planet in the early solar system.

Planet Labs ultimately wants a fleet of 100 of the tiny satellites — enough to refresh its imagery of the entire planet once a day, says Arin Jumpasut, a Planet Labs imaging engPlanet Labs ultimately wants a fleet of 100 of the tiny satellites — enough to refresh its imagery of the entire planet once a day, says Arin Jumpasut, a Planet Labs imaging engplanet once a day, says Arin Jumpasut, a Planet Labs imaging engPlanet Labs imaging engineer.

Astronomers have identified over 2,300 new planets in Kepler data by searching for tiny dips in a star's brightness when a planet passes in front of it.

Last summer, a team of astronomers tried three times to catch the tiny shadow of a distant world as it raced across our planet, like a tiny eclipse, at 60,000 mph.

Oceans might not be thought of as magnetic, but they make a tiny contribution to our planet's protective magnetic shield.

Chris Nadeau is studying a species of water flea whose tiny, easily replicated and manipulated rock pool habitats make them ideal test subjects for predicting how climate change affects the planet's most vulnerable species.

Astronomers knew the initial solar system was full of tiny rocks, and somehow they grew into planets, asteroids and everything else.

To look for effects that can be due to things that on earth would mean nothing — the rebound due to the light, tiny little gas leaks potentially, gravity of other planets — it's very, very small.

A meteorite chipped from the surface of the Red Planet some 15 million years ago appeared to contain the fossil remains of tiny life - forms that indicated life had once existed on Mars.

As disappointing as the news was, it was par for the course; picking out the tiny signatures of planets within trillions of bytes of data is notoriously difficult.

They could be anything from tiny dust grains to big chunks of rock the size of asteroids or planets.

The latest such planet, announced here on 6 January at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society, sets not just one but three benchmarks: farthest from Earth, tiniest orbit, and the first revealed by a promising new technique.

The planets were discovered by the transit method, which detects potential planets as their orbits cross in front of their star and cause a very tiny but periodic dimming of the star's brightness.

Here is the collage of images uploaded by people across the planet for NASA's Cassini «Wave at Saturn» event on July 19th 2013, while Cassini snapped Earth in turn, as a teeny, tiny dot of -LSB-...]

An exoplanet discovered 340 million light years away may shed some light on how Mercury got to be such a weird world — a tiny planet made mostly of an iron core

Measuring the brightness of a star over time, he reasoned, would require a much smaller space telescope than trying to take a picture sharp enough to resolve a planet or a tiny loop in the star's trajectory.

Fast - moving flows of interplanetary dust that continually bombard our planet's atmosphere could deliver tiny organisms from far - off worlds, or send Earth - based organisms to other planets, according to the research.

The planet — Proxima b — was discovered by astronomers who spent years looking for signs of the tiny gravitational tug exerted by a planet on its star, after spotting hints of such disruption in 2013.