Sentences with phrase «only planet we know»

On July 20, 1969, four days after blasting off from the only planet known to have life, Neil Armstrong flew a Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) to the surface of the moon.
Since Earth is the only planet known to play host to life, Sun - like stars and their exoplanets are considered promising targets in the search for E.T.. However, simply discovering a rocky Earth - sized world orbiting a Sun - like star does not guarantee the existence of life.
It's worth repeating the closing statement from the recent American Meteorological Society Climate Change Statement: Prudence dictates extreme care in accounting for our relationship with the only planet known to be capable of sustaining human life.
The scientists must continue to gather more information to best understand what is going on on this one and only planet we know to have life on it.
Earth is the only planet we know of that can support life.
A Natural Greenhouse Earth is the only planet we know of that can support life.

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Jobson added: «William, after all, is the only person — apart from the queen and Prince Charles — on the planet who knows what it's like to be the direct heir in line to the British throne, and only he knows what is expected of him.
Getting humans to the red planet is a quest to satisfy our existential human desire to know if we are the only living beings in the solar system.
Which leads me to the question of WHY DO YOU FOLLOW a being known ONLY by a book called the bible in which he drowns EVERY animal and CHILD on the planet for no reason.
The only thing you need to know is that a new Star Wars movie is coming out, and everyone on the planet is going to pay money to see it.
People seem to think that they know when I'll be returning, and yes, they do tremendous damage, not only to themselves, with their Ego, but also to the Fellowship, this planet and Myself included.
- God, the Absolute - humanity, the human condition in its universal characteristics, - male and female, though different, equal in rights and dignity, - the cosmos, especially the planet earth available, with its limited resources, for all humanity - the planet's ecology as common essential source of life and hence of concern for all humans, present and future, - the human conscience guiding each one interiorly would be known only to each one personally, - the each group of humans has a history and a religio - cultural background of its own is a universal factor that makes for particularity and different contexts for theology, - the realization that the present increasing globalization of relationships, economy and culture impinge on theology and spirituality universally, though differently.
For theists and believers, the return of the Lord and the end of this planet is completely unknown, not even the angels in heaven know when it is, only and only God.
If telescopes make it clear that heavenly bodies are not perfectly spherical and furthermore reveal moons rotating around a planet, then the old notion of the æther, a refined fifth element admitting only the potentiality for perfect circular motion on the part of perfectly spherical bodies, no longer has a role to play.
You have basically stated that we are the only inhabitable planet, to say that is completely dishonest... we do know that other earth like planets have been discovered, what we don't know is whether or not they are inhabitable.
While the world we inhabit is confined to planet earth, we know that this is only the tiniest speck in a universe so vast that our minds can barely imagine it.
If other men on the planet already knew «god» before being exposed to any version of Judaic religion (as if that were the one and only true religion), then why bother spreading the message?
In global consciousness we know that, if we go far enough back in time, we share a common origin not only with people from very different cultural and religious backgrounds, but also with all forms of life on the planet.
This is such a huge subject that I must beg indulgence, therefore, if I give my space to but a small fraction of the historic faith — namely its main emphases on God, Christ, the Church, and eternal life — and consider only these in our modem context, in the effort to discover what values they may have for men and women who are tossed about in an unsettled world, with an uncertain future, and doomed — almost certainly it seems — to a doubtful truce of arms, at worst to a war which threatens to annihilate man as we have known him and in any event to leave us a bare existence such as we can eke out on a totally devastated planet.
I just ask a question that science is prevented from knowing due to barriers of time and distance, then pretend that it somehow means that the only possible explaination is an invisible all - powerful guy who pulls it out of his derriere while riding his unicorn and dividing the light into night and day before he invents the Sun and Earth, even though night and day only exist if there is a Sun and a rotating planet.
Humanity would then stagnate and most advanced species on the only known inhabited planet in the Universe would fail to fulfill our true destiny which is to go out among the stars and explore the Universe the way we should be doing.
We don't know how many do — we've only observed a couple hundred planets at all, and don't yet have the ability to observe most planets in enough detail to determine if they have life or not.
The typical Western man probably feels sure that angels, devils, and spirits do not exist in reality but only as figments in deluded imaginations, but he is not ashamed to admit that he does not yet know whether there are such entities as people on other planets.
I know it seems like a small gesture when it's only you, but just think about if everyone was to pitch in, then it would become a global initiative and make one happy planet.
America's beverage companies are committed to being responsible stewards of the environment because we know that not only is it important for our planet...
Not only does it keep me hydrated throughout the day, I know I'm contributing to a more sustainable planet by supporting a company with eco-friendly values and practices.
Budd it don't take a genius to work out how much we had in the bank all you need is basic accounting knowledge, every club in the planet knows how much we had, it's only us fans who don't know
It is not only the Germany international star that needs to pull his socks up for Arsenal and put in the sort of performance we know that he can, but as he is among the club's top earners, if not the very top as some sources have suggested, as well as having the reputation of being one of the best creative footballers on the planet, you can understand why people expect more from Mesut Ozil.
The whole world and even aliens in other planets know that we have needed a DM and CB for ages but only now have we been able to get them in.
Fresh produce may be the only food on the planet that all diet gurus agree on, but did you know that you may be getting a chemically - applied dose of a known carcinogen every time you eat a piece of «fresh» fruit?
Soon they'll go on gap years — no longer backpacking round India or Thailand without a mobile phone and with only a Lonely Planet guide to help, but turning up at the plantation or orphanage their parents have paid five grand for them to go and «work» at.
«It seems to me we're only, as far as we know, on this planet once.
Gove said he «deeply regretted» the US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord, adding: «The world's second biggest generator of carbon emissions can not simply walk out of the room when the heat is on... It's our planet too and America needs to know that we can only resolve this problem together.»
That began to change when one of Piazzi's rivals, the astronomer William Herschel, noted that Ceres only appeared as a point of light in his telescope rather than a resolved disk, like the other known planets.
There's only one planet we know of that sustains advanced civilisation: Earth.
Only the planet's rough orbit is known, not the precise location of the planet on that elliptical path.
Earth is the only planet in our solar system that has active plate tectonics — and the only place we know of that harbours life.
Until a few years ago we only knew of the existence of rings around the giant planets; then, recently, our team discovered that two small bodies situated between Jupiter and Neptune, belonging to a group called centaurs, have dense rings around them, which came as a big surprise.
This would in turn allow a better determination of the mass of the Proxima b planet, which is currently known only as a lower limit.
Or to know that Earth was truly unique in that it was the only habitable planet would affect how many people view their place in the universe.
Larsen, along with virtually every physicist on the planet, knew that was implausible: Fusion requires enormous temperatures and pressures, which is why it occurs only in stars and bombs.
Extraterrestrial life is life that may exist and originate outside the planet Earth, the only place in the universe currently known by humans to support life.
Professor Dan Lunt, from the School of Geographical Sciences and Cabot Institute at the University of Bristol said: «Because climate models are based on fundamental scientific processes, they are able not only to simulate the climate of the modern Earth, but can also be easily adapted to simulate any planet, real or imagined, so long as the underlying continental positions and heights, and ocean depths are known
Before this discovery, researchers knew of only one other four - planet system, Mu Arae, and several three - planet systems.
As far as I know, we're the only people who have ever seen that on this planet.
«If you only see this planet with one of the telescopes, you'll scratch your head and wonder if it's an artifact [of instrumental error]; if you see it in both, you'll know it's real.»
«There is a certain ironic satisfaction in seeing a study funded by the Koch Brothers — the greatest funders of climate change denial and disinformation on the planet — demonstrate what scientists have known with some degree of confidence for nearly two decades: that the globe is indeed warming, and that this warming can only be explained by human - caused increases in greenhouse gas concentrations,» he wrote.
«This is only one planet, and we don't yet know whether it is actually habitable or not, but it still is an extremely big deal because it will rapidly push the field into new frontiers,» says Olivier Guyon, a planet - hunting astronomer at the University of Arizona.
Only one other moon in the solar system, Neptune's largest moon, Triton, is known to be moving closer to its planet.
The only truly Earth - like planet we know of — ours — takes more than 150 times as long as HAT - P - 7 b does to circle its star, so collecting data on similar planets across multiple orbits will take years.
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