Sentences with phrase «on tiny planets»

The result may also suggest how life could survive on tiny planets or moons.

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

Visualise from a distance you all are just small critters on a tiny planet you call earth.

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?

We are tiny things on a tiny planet among millions of galaxies.

Not exact matches

Officials from 195 countries, from giants like the U.S. to the tiniest impoverished states, agreed on the world's first global climate - change deal on Saturday evening, committing the world to drastically cutting back carbon emissions and transforming the planet's energy mix over the next several decades.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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..

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.

I mean, these tiny little black seeds are among the most nutritious foods on the planet.

What planet are you and the tiny few thinking like you actually on?

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.

Ostracods, tiny crustaceans that have been on the planet for nearly 500 million years, are an exception.

To find smaller planets, which exert barely perceptible tugs on their parent stars, astronomers are developing instruments to detect ever - tinier motions.

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.

«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.»

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

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.

For months last year, the team kept a near - constant vigil on Proxima Centauri, looking for tiny wobbles caused by the pull of an orbiting planet.

For this, TESS is relying on follow - up studies by ground - based telescopes, which can watch for tiny periodic Doppler shifts in the frequency of a star's light caused by an orbiting planet tugging on it.

Together, they make up the vast majority of species on the planet, but until recently we were only able to study a tiny fraction of them.

Majestic, ringed Saturn little resembles the relatively tiny blue marble that is Earth, but the massive gas giant planet is home to at least one phenomenon that would be familiar to high - latitude dwellers here on Earth.

Based on the distance from the central star and the distribution of tiny dust grains, the baby planet is thought to be an icy giant, similar to Uranus and Neptune in our Solar System.

Meanwhile, Mars did make a tiny sacrifice according to our friends at SPACE.com — 180 million years from now, the Red Planet will be out of position by about an inch because of Dawn's effect on its orbit.

As this visualization shows, the icy moon may look tiny next to our own planet, but it's got 2 - to 3 - times as much H2O as we have here on Earth.

If there are any alien civilizations out there, they would only know about us if their planet is within that 200 - light - year bubble, or if they happened to be passing through our tiny portion of the Milky Way on a transgalactic journey.

«The amazing results from New Horizons have revealed that Pluto is not just a tiny ice ball on the edge of the solar system, but in fact it is a complex world of its own with vast, alien landscapes containing clues to the geological history of this dwarf planet,» he said.

Other newly translated excerpts included descriptions of a calendar unique to the northern Greek city of Corinth and tiny orbs — now believed lost to the sandy sea bottom — that once moved across the instrument's face in perfect simulation of the true motion of the five known planets, as well as a mark on the dial that gave the dates of various athletic events, including a relatively minor competition that was held in the city of Rhodes.

From the smallest microbe to the largest dinosaurs and from the tiniest spore to the biggest giant sequoia, biological research continues to uncover weird and wonderful secrets of the creatures with whom we share the planet with — and could soon extend to the study of life on bodies in the solar system beyond our home.

Understanding the biomechanics of this little snail could help engineers design some nifty sea - faring robots, and it could also help with ecological studies: Zooplankton like helicina move upwards to the surface of the ocean each night to eat (and avoid being eaten), and this mass migration of tiny organisms is one of the biggest biomass movements on the planet.

Since every human being on planet earth is so different and has a slightly different set of genetics and thus foods and compounds they can healthily consume, almost all natural topical treatments can cause allergies in a tiny minority of people.

very tiny bedroom ideas all the space saving ideas on the planet wont alter the laws of physics well actually it is a great idea its actually an extraordinary idea and very small bedroom storage ideas.

A wonderful merging of both PixelJunk Shooter and classic Metroid gameplay, players pilot a tiny, spherical pod separated from its robotic companions that's stranded on a strange alien planet.

The trailer is more focused on showcasing action clips, whether it's showing the U.S.S. Enterprise being torn apart by swarms of tiny spaceships (forcing its crew members to escape and land on a mysterious nearby alien planet) and / or highlighting the fighting abilities of the extraterrestrial character played by Kingsman: The Secret Service's Sofia Boutella - who, by the look of it, joins forces with Captain James Kirk (Chris Pine) after the Enterprise crashes and its crew members are separated.

As the planet Krypton is about to be destroyed, a scientist called Jor - El (Russell Crowe) fires his infant son Kal - El off into outer space in a tiny pod, which crashlands on Earth.

The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow - On (GRACE - FO) mission, shown in an artist's rendering, will measure tiny fluctuations in Earth's gravitational field to show how water moves around the planet.

It concentrates on the ocean's microscopic phytoplankton, describing how these tiny green plants supply half the planet's oxygen and form an essential part of the sea's food chains.

Along similar lines, Animal Planet's show, Must Love Cats, recently featured the filmmaking prowess of Cooper the cat, who wears a tiny camera on his collar as he roams the «hood.

Farm animals are the most abused animals on the planet, but they receive a tiny fraction of charitable donations.

Tir Na Nog was one of the first bars and restaurants on the tiny island of Gili Trawangan and the island is regarded as one of Indonesia's best prime holiday getaway spots and famous in travel guides such as the Lonely Planet and the Rough Guides.