Sentences with phrase «on planet mass»

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Their employees, the putative best and brightest, and surely the most self - interested people on the planet, were committing mass suicide.

If 12 - year old Victoria Grant can explain how banks that print our nation's currency and their puppet global banks are the most immoral criminal institutions on our planet responsible for oppression, mass suffering, and misery, shame on anyone else that is too lazy and / or too misanthropic to take the time -LSB-...]

Seriously, though, it is inappropriate and ludicrous to claim as you are doing that a mass murderer who has purportedly acted on a scale of brutally killing most of the creatures on a planet is «loving».

The radical secularization that has transformed Christianity's heartland into the most religiously arid half - continent on the planet has at least as much to do with the craven surrender of ministers of the gospel to theological and political fads, and their consequent loss of faith, as it does with the impact of urbanization, mass education, and the industrial revolution on Europeans» understanding of themselves.

The things I find most appalling about religion reach a new zenith in Islam --(i) a dulling down of individual thought and a dogmatic requirement to conform to the views of the masses; (ii) a stultifying ignorant education system in which anything inconsistent with the Qur» an is not just discouraged, but censored; (iii) the subjugation of women to the point of educating them to be nothing but mindless f * king, breeding machines for their insecure husbands; (iv) a political class that feeds off the religious - based ignorance it imposes on its populations; and (v) a general back - sliding against the rest of the planet because heads are buried in Dark Ages mythology.

I'm not talking about the gravity on this planet, as that would vary depending on the mass of the planet.

Gravity is different depending of the mass of the planet that you are on.

Your lifestyle directly causes misery on another part of the planet by supporting the corporations that spread misery to billions of people through the effects of industrialization, taking all natural resources from the masses, and herding humans into ever denser and easily manageable population centers.

There is no other «Christian Church» on the planet, only social centers copying the mass to a greater or lesser degree.

The immense mass of the earth attracts the relatively minute mass of our bodies, and so we stay on the surface of the planet even though it is whirling us around its center at about 1,600 kilo - meters per hour.

The weapons seem to be those of maximum imprecision, and their use in the present state of armament practically guarantees mass destruction, and the possibility of total destruction of human life on this planet.

Calculations indicate that in several ways it is quite an Earth - like planet: its radius is 1.2 to 2.5 times that of Earth; its mass is 3.1 to 4.3 times greater; and, crucially, its orbit lies within its star's «Goldilocks zone», which means its surface temperature is neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water - and therefore potentially life - to exist on its surface.

Consequently, political leaders and military men continue to advocate these new weapons of mass destruction without regard to their incompatibility with the international law of human rights, let alone the norms of civilized life on this planet.

The human mass, because on the confined surface of this planet it is in a state of continuous additive growth, in numbers and interconnections, must automatically become more and more tightly concentrated upon itself.

Both are roughly the same size and mass, and Venus lies close to the sun's habitable zone, where temperatures enable stable liquid water on a planet's surface.

But the study, published today in Earth's Future, finds that scientists won't be able to determine, based on measurements of large - scale phenomena like global sea level and Antarctic mass changes, which scenario the planet faces until the 2060s.

However, in the case of TRAPPIST - 1 the team was able to estimate masses by watching for a subtle gravitational effect on the planets» orbits.

The object, which the researchers have nicknamed Planet Nine, has a mass about 10 times that of Earth and orbits about 20 times farther from the sun on average than does Neptune (which orbits the sun at an average distance of 2.8 billion miles).

With knowledge only of the luminosity of the star (1/600 that of the sun), the mass of the planet (1.3 times that of Earth), and the length of its orbit (11.2 days), the team was able to predict that, with a variety of possible atmospheres, it would be possible for Proxima b to harbor liquid water on its surface.

However, more - massive stars penetrating the Oort cloud in the distant past might have triggered major comet showers that pummelled the planets and led to some of the mass extinction events on Earth, says Mamajek.

This is why the Bernese scientist chose an alternative approach for his study, which is published in the journal «Astronomy & Astrophysics»: Based on the mass and radius of a planet Yann Alibert was able to determine criteria that exclude the possibility of life as we know it.

«It was exactly what the field has been pointing toward, and as time goes on, we're finding lower and lower mass planets,» Laughlin says.

A planet's angular momentum equals the mass of an object multiplied by its distance from the Sun, and corresponds with the force that the planet exerts on the overall system's spin.

As the size of the planets we looked for decreased, the number that we found increased: We found more planets with 3 times the mass of the Earth than planets with 10 times Earth's mass, more planets 10 times as massive than 100 times, and so on.

Current observatories could also help reveal what makes spinning neutron stars called pulsars tick, mapping their starquake - shaken interiors and any centimeters - high «mountains» (which would weigh roughly the mass of a planet because of neutron stars» extreme density) that could pop up on their surfaces.

If the planet is only one Earth mass, Jenkins says, any life there might be near its end; the world would be on the verge of a runaway greenhouse effect, with gravity too weak to prevent its life - giving water from boiling off into space due to rising surface temperatures.

Evidence left at the crime scene is abundant and global: Fossil remains show that sometime around 252 million years ago, about 90 percent of all species on Earth were suddenly wiped out — by far the largest of this planet's five known mass extinctions.

Although theirs is perhaps the best - known mass extinction on Earth, by the author's account, the dinosaurs» reign was a massive success story — they thrived on the planet for more than 150 million years, and their descendants are the more than 10,000 species of birds that occupy almost every corner of the world today.

Depending on its exact composition, it could have a mass of anywhere between one to five times that of our own planet, which would powerfully influence its environment and fate.

Alternately, the planet can accumulate mass slowly as bits of dust collide and become pebbles, which collide to become boulders, which collide to become asteroids, and so on, until a rocky planetary core develops.

The sun and moon tug on the planet, while the drift of continents, changes in ocean currents, and the rebounding of the crust since the retreat of ice age glaciers all shift mass around, altering Earth's moment of inertia and therefore its spin.

Follow - up observations at the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo, an Italian telescope on the Canary Islands, provided the planet's mass: roughly 12 times that of Earth.

On the rare occasion mass shifts and causes a planet to relocate on its axis, scientists refer to the phenomenon as «true polar wander.&raquOn the rare occasion mass shifts and causes a planet to relocate on its axis, scientists refer to the phenomenon as «true polar wander.&raquon its axis, scientists refer to the phenomenon as «true polar wander.»

Schaefer used computer simulations to see if this recycling process would take place on super-Earths, which are planets up to five times the mass, or 1.5 times the size, of Earth.

«We put Planet Nine at a whole different slew of locations — all different possibilities on the sky, different distances, different masses — and tried to find out whether that constrains things even more,» says Payne.

We know how far a person standing on the surface is from the planets center (about 6,371 kilometers), so all we need to know is his mass, and then we can calculate Earth's mass.

If there's gas around and the bodies get large enough, perhaps something on the order of 10 Earth masses or so, then you can start pulling some gas in on top of your rocky core and make something that looks like a gas giant planet, like Jupiter.

As Charon's gravity pulls on Pluto, it would pull proportionally more on areas of higher mass, which would tilt the planet until Sputnik Planum became aligned with the tidal axis.

Brown - dwarf buddies: Astronomers still can't agree on what to call brown dwarfs: Are they failed stars, without enough mass to kick - start the nuclear reactions of typical stars, or are they supersize planets?

About 1.8 billion years ago, the cores of modern North America, Baltic Europe and Siberia collided and went on to form part of a supercontinent called Rodinia, which accounted for most of the planet's land mass.

What they found through their analyses was that the relatively «dry» inner planets (labeled «b» and «c» on this image) were consistent with having less than 15 percent water by mass (for comparison, Earth is 0.02 percent water by mass).

Future observations may yield more - precise information on the masses and hence the composition of the three planets.

The total mass of microbes living beneath the seafloor has been estimated at as much as a third of all the living stuff on the planet.

Using a new computer technique that accounts for the planets» gravitational tugs on each other, astronomer Simon Grimm of the University of Bern in Switzerland and his colleagues calculated the seven planets» masses with five to eight times better precision than before.

And so far, the exoplanet, named Proxima Centauri b, is shaping up to be quite Earth - like, roughly the mass of our planet and in just the right place where, if it has an atmosphere, liquid water could exist on the surface.

«Being able to measure the mass and density of K2 - 18b was tremendous, but to discover a new exoplanet was lucky and equally exciting,» says lead author Ryan Cloutier, a PhD student in U of T Scarborough's Centre for Planet Science, U of T's Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Université de Montréal Institute for research on exoplanets (iREx).

HARPS is an instrument that measures the wobble caused by a planet's gravitational tug on its host star, so it can be used to estimate planetary mass.

They deduced that a large planet, roughly 10 times the mass of Earth, was lurking on the other side of the sun, its gravitational pull sweeping any smaller stuff out of the way.

In combination with mass measurements from the ground, that should provide a better fix on planets» densities.

They then calculated the size, position and mass of K2 - 229b by measuring the radial velocity of the star, and finding out how much the starlight «wobbles» during orbit, due to the gravitational tug from the planet, which changes depending on the planet's size.