Sentences with phrase «other earth processes»

Eventually other earth processes offset these positive feedbacks, stabilizing the global temperature at a new equilibrium and preventing the loss of Earth's water through a Venus - like runaway greenhouse effect.

Not exact matches

In addition, human beings are remarkably different from every other animal on earth, suggesting a departure from naturalistic processes.

Through the patient work of Sir Charles Lyall and others, geology proved that the earth was millions of years old, and that it had been formed through a slow process.

Furthermore, a metaphysical outlook, being other - worldly, is unable to show the modem world a Christian outlook which values the things of earth and sees the world as in process of spiritual redemption and transformation and presents salvation as taking place here on earth.

We need not anthropocentrically imagine the evolutionary process to culminate in man, for it is quite conceivable that in time it might bypass man and the entire class of mammals to favor some very different species capable of a greater complexity than man can achieve; if not here on earth, then in some other planetary system.

Even if we suppose that, by prolonging its existence on a scale of planetary longevity, the human species will eventually find itself with a chemically exhausted Earth beneath its feet, is not Man even now in process of developing astronautical means which will enable him to go elsewhere and continue his destiny in some other corner of the firmament?

We need no further evidence, in my view, to prove scientifically that the social in - folding which we are undergoing is nothing other than the direct and logical extension, over our heads, of the process of cosmic in - folding which gave birth to the first cell and the first thought on earth.

It is the journey of primordial matter through its marvelous sequence of transformations — in the stars, in the earth, in living beings, in human consciousness — toward an ever more complete spiritual - physical intercommunion of the parts with each other, with the whole, and with that numinous presence that has been manifested throughout this entire cosmic - earth - human process.

We are in the process of «turning green» here (as my husband likes to put it) and Im always looking for tips and others who are already earth concious!

I don't know personally know very many people who have being a grand multipara as their primary goal for their time on earth, but if I were to get onto some of those NCB boards for some other reason — trying to find out more about what my mother was ranting about, for instance — I imagine I would become exposed (directly or indirectly) to some of their thought processes pretty quickly.

Not only that, but the pesticides used are some of the most hazardous ones out there and all of the earth - destructing chemicals used to grow conventional cotton fabric, they are often further processed with other destructive agents.

Now, he and his team, as well as other scientists, may be able to get a better handle on processes taking place in Earth's atmosphere and nearby space.

These and many other anomalies are of fundamental importance in countless natural and technological processes, such as the Earth's climate, and the possibility of life itself.

Such craters provide a record of the solar system's early history; a similar record on Earth has long since been obscured by plate tectonics, erosion and other processes.

This conveyor - belt motion causes the crust's tectonic plates at the surface to jostle against each other, a process that has continued for at least half of Earth's 4.5 billion - year history.

That means any explanation of the underlying processes either on other planets or on a changing Earth are beyond us.

«Linear gullies don't look like gullies on Earth or other gullies on Mars, and this process wouldn't happen on Earth,» said Diniega.

Working there, the pair has created the novel method for processing drive units and electric motors to chemically separate rare earth elements — specifically neodymium, dysprosium, and praseodymium — from other materials used to make the devices.

While armchair archaeologists rely increasingly on digital technology — be it Google Earth or other data sets — it's likely that a very human element will remain a key part of the discovery process.

This is a new geological phenomenon, which doesn't happen on Earth, and could be vital to understanding similar processes on other planetary surfaces.»

In addition to the coronal heating mystery, IRIS will shed light on the processes that drive the solar wind, solar storms, ultraviolet radiation and other phenomena that can hinder electronic communications and negatively affect human health on Earth.

By comparison, material on Earth and other planets has been thoroughly reworked by geological processes, erasing the record of the formative early period.

This is the process that fuels the sun and other stars but has yet to be realized in a controlled way for power plants on Earth.

Using large - scale numerical modeling as well as GPS velocities from the largest GPS data - processing center in the world — the Nevada Geodetic Laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno — Kreemer and Gordon have showed that cooling of the lithosphere, the outermost layer of Earth, makes some sections of the Pacific plate contract horizontally at faster rates than other sections.

It's «nice chemistry,» says marine chemist Jeffrey Bada of the University of California (UC), San Diego, but he is not convinced that hydrothermal vents, or any other likely habitat on early Earth, could have provided the conditions created in the lab: «The processes outlined are not likely to take place on a significant scale on the Earth or elsewhere.»

What makes the WEAV potentially appealing as a way to power spacecraft is that it relies on electricity (from a battery or some other power source) rather than combustion — a process that requires oxygen, which is in short supply outside Earth's atmosphere, Colozza says.

In other words, humanity is in the process of setting the Earth's thermostat.

Some of these planets, all located far beyond Earth's solar system, could contain vast deposits of graphite or diamonds, and their apparent abundance prompts new questions about the implications of carbon - intense environments for climate, plate tectonics, and other geological processes, as well as for life.

Erosion and other processes taking place at Earth's surface help explain why large portions of the Amazon River (watershed depicted in lighter colors) reversed course.

By drilling into a circular ridge inside the 180 - kilometer - wide crater rim, researchers also hope to nail down the processes that form «peak rings»: hallmarks of the largest impact craters, which planetary scientists have seen elsewhere in the solar system but which erosion has erased from other big craters on Earth.

Soon after the infant Earth cooled down, he says, primeval microbes began processing essential elements — carbon, sulfur, and nitrogen, among others — that allowed for the eventual emergence of higher life - forms, including us.

Although it probably won't happen here, the same process might make Earth - like planets around other stars uninhabitable.

Using large - scale numerical modeling as well as GPS velocities from the largest GPS data - processing center in the world - the Nevada Geodetic Laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno - Kreemer and Gordon have showed that cooling of the lithosphere, the outermost layer of Earth, makes some sections of the Pacific plate contract horizontally at faster rates than other sections.

Alexander F. Goncharov's analyzes materials under extreme conditions such as high pressure and temperature using optical spectroscopy and other techniques to understand how matter fundamentally changes, the chemical processes occurring deep within planets, including Earth, and to understand and...

The microbe seems to be able to replace phosphorus with arsenic in some of its basic cellular processes — suggesting the possibility of a biochemistry very different from the one we know, which could be used by organisms in past or present extreme environments on Earth, or even on other planets.

Due to launch in late 2014, MMS will investigate how the sun and Earth's magnetic fields connect and disconnect, explosively transferring energy from one to the other — a fundamental physical process that occurs throughout the universe, known as magnetic reconnection.

While on present - day Earth the carbonate formation is dominantly through organic processes (various shell - forming marine organisms are happy to make use of the CO2 dissolved in the ocean), in the early Earth and, presumably, in other Earth - like planets with little or no life the same process can occur inorganically, but somewhat slower, in silicate rock weathering.

«Some feedback loop or other processes that aren't accounted for in these models — the same ones used by the IPCC for current best estimates of 21st Century warming — caused a substantial portion of the warming that occurred during the PETM (Palaeocene - Eocene thermal maximum of 55 million years ago)», oceanographer Gerald Dickens, a professor of Earth science at Rice University and study co-author said.

Earth's atmosphere is greatly different to the other planets because of the various life processes that have transpired there, while the atmosphere of Mercury has mostly, although not entirely, been blasted away by the solar wind.

The Met Office Hadley Centre Earth System models have included the processes of CO2 fertilisation and increased water use efficiency for nearly 20 years, and other Earth System models do so as well.

The «cold start» process, on the other hand, is pretty good at forming planets over a broad range of masses, from giants such as Jupiter, which has more than 300 times Earth's mass, on down to Earth - sized worlds.

On other cratered bodies, such as Earth and the Moon, craters show a range of states of erosion, indicating a continual process of degradation.

I bring these up to say that we shouldn't be so myopic as to think that because wheat has been hybridized, processed, and Roundup - sprayed to death, that there aren't other grains that have sustained most of the people of the earth for literally millions of years.

Energy work is a subtle process that leads us on a personal journey which encourages us to focus on ourselves and how our energy is in synch with the energies of the cosmos, the earth, and all other life.

This isn't earth - shattering, but it almost seems like Psyonix and Nintendo showed each other a sign of respect in the curation process.

Director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (The Lives of Others), who adapted the screenplay (based on the French film Anthony Zimmer) with Christopher McQuarrie and Julian Fellowes (or maybe he just did the last rewrites in a long - gestating development process), makes Venice look like the most gorgeous city on Earth and shoots Jolie with the same admiring, idealizing perspective, but has no facility for light comedy, romantic sizzle or breathtaking action.

Commander - in - Chief is a pretty difficult job, especially in this twisted universe, as the alien species known as Zin, led by none other than Zinyak, descends on Earth, capturing your colleagues and partners and lays waste to D.C. in the process.

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Other important exhibitions include: On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2010; Afterimage: Drawing Through Process, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1999, and the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany, 2012; Alice in Wonderland at Tate Liverpool, U.K., 2012, and documenta 6, Kassel, Germany, 1977.

We can see this same process at work here on Dot Earth with climate change and many other issues.