Sentences with phrase «on earth every year»

Kargel is the international coordinator of Global Land Ice Measurements From Space, a satellite program dedicated to photographing each glacier on Earth every year.

Tons of comet detritus rains down on Earth every year.

These physicists say that if neutrinos were really as fast as the Gran Sasso data indicate, the neutrinos from the supernova, 168,000 light - years away, should have arrived on Earth some years before the photons from the supernova.

Some 40 thousand tons of extraterrestrial material fall on Earth every year.

Though the premise has the makings of a reasonable sci - fi movie — two guys stranded on earth years after civilization — somewhere along the line something has gone very, very wrong.

Considered the No. 1 most livable city on Earth this year, Melbourne earned an overall score of 97.5, with perfect 100s in three categories: education, infrastructure, and healthcare.

It won't take long to understand why travelers voyage to the WETTEST PLACE ON EARTH year after year.

Human activity is wiping out close to one percent of every other species on Earth every year, a global environmental report said Friday.

I'm sitting here wondering where on earth this year went, but I am SO excited that the holidays are almost here!

Not exact matches

«Buildings have been constructed from Earth for thousands of years including, according to recent evidence, the Pyramids,» the site reads on its FAQ page.

ASPIRING rare earths miner Arafura Resources is on a renewed push to progress its Nolans project in the Northern Territory and has set a date for mid-next year to decide whether to continue or walk aw

Which means if SpaceX does do something like 30 launches next year, it'll be approximately half of all orbital launches that occur on Earth.

The most recent competition, to land a module on the moon and have it travel 500 meters and transmit video back to Earth, ended without a winner after 10 years.

It's tough to know what happened on Earth thousands of years before anyone started writing anything down.

And he just booted Warren Buffett out of the Top 3 on Forbes» annual rich list, amassing riches faster than any other person on earth (US$ 19.5 billion last year).

It is a possible fuel for nuclear fusion that could solve energy demand on Earth for 10,000 years, at least.

Still, last year, environmentalists appeared to score a victory the biggest global agreement to address and combat climate change was signed on Earth Day.

From posting facts to chew on (Did you know the Earth receives more energy from the sun in an hour than the entire world uses in one year?)

Instead, Plait wrote in a post for SyFy, it's «going near Mars,» specifically in what's called a Hohmann transfer orbit, a highly elliptical path that goes out to Mars orbit and back to Earth orbit on a nearly endless loop - hence the «billion year» detail from Musk.

«I used to have hair,» he quipped on Earth Preserv's one - year anniversary.

So what are scientists to make of emerging data showing rapid climate change on earth 55 million years ago that looks just like what's happening today?

Or, as the paper put it: «If an industrial civilization had existed on Earth many millions of years prior to our own era, what traces would it have left and would they be detectable today?»

Their subsequent attempt to address both questions has yielded a provocative paper on the possibility Earth might have spawned more than one technological society during its 4.5 - billion - year history.

What have you mastered, with years if not decades more time on earth to hone your craft?

ASPIRING rare earths miner Arafura Resources is on a renewed push to progress its Nolans project in the Northern Territory and has set a date for mid-next year to decide whether to continue or walk away.

In a billion years, for instance, a swelling sun will scorch our food chain, boil our oceans and extinguish life on Earth as we know it.

For the very wealthiest, of course, there's little financial downside to the likelihood of five or 10 more years on earth.

Summer after summer, year after year, we fork over countless dollars to catch the latest iteration of an ancient story: the sky is falling; the Earth is dying; bring on the end of the world.

If humans have any hope of living forever, we should probably take a hint from the dozens of other animals on Earth that far outpace our measly 71 years.

Having worked at Disney World for over 20 years, he's seen the good, the bad, and the ugly of the happiest place on Earth.

For many years to come, therefore, India will have a much larger group of working - age individuals than any other country on earth.

They've been on Earth for 64 million years.

Last year it moved ahead of archrival Thomson Reuters to become the largest financial data provider on earth.

In the 4.4 billion years it took a species capable of space travel to form on Earth, Fermi proposed that the galaxy should have been overrun with intelligent, technologically - advanced aliens.

Earlier this year, Nestlé also placed its bets on conscious consumers with the purchase of Sweet Earth, a Californian - based maker of frozen vegan meals.

In less than five years, 65 percent of the eight billion people on Earth will be digitally connected.

And when you're tasked with building and launching spacecraft millions or even billions of miles from Earth, on missions that take several years, long - term planning is pretty critical.

Only astronauts are more exposed: Ten days in space delivers about 4.3 mSv to the skin alone, which is 4.3 years» worth of cosmic radiation on the surface of Earth.

From the first images of the earth from space, to the first landing on the Mars, it's been an incredible 70 years.

«Butter over the last three years has been a big mover, probably one of the most volatile commodities on earth,» said Robert Chesler, who follows the dairy sector at FCStone, a commodity risk management company.

By the year 2020, it's estimated that 1.7 megabytes of new information will be created each second for every person on earth.

The most populous nation on earth instated the ban in 2000 for fear of corrupting its youth, but will now allow for distribution of consoles in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone — a 29 - square - kilometer testing ground for new economic reforms established last year.

If you've been in business for ten years why on earth would the phone stop ringing?

«In general, the know - how acquired thanks to our projects has an immediate application not only in space but also on Earth,» he added, highlighting that the company could now produce space food with a shelf - life of three years.

About 7,500 light - years from Earth, two of our galaxy's most massive stars have engaged in a mysterious war that's raged off - and - on for millennia.

In a highly notable victory that potentially overshadowed being re-elected to the most powerful office on earth several seconds earlier, U.S. President Barack Obama gained serious respect on Nov. 6 when his simple three - word tweet, «Four more years,» became the most re-tweeted tweet ever.

What's more, the maps hint that shallow pools existed between about 3.5 billion and 3 billion years ago; in an older yet similar blink of a geologic eye, life on Earth may have appeared.

In just 10 years time, we have more people connected to the internet via a hand held computing device than existed on earth in 1900.

This means that every single person on this planet, from a newborn to the pre baby boomer generation, from the most advanced countries to the worst places on earth, from the top 1 % earners to homeless people have spent more than $ 3 on Apple products (and services) last year.

It's going near Mars,» Plait wrote, specifically in what's called a Hohmann transfer orbit: an elliptical path that goes out to the orbit of Mars and back to Earth orbit on a near - endless loop (hence the «billion years or so» detail from Musk).