Sentences with phrase «planet billion years»

«Yet methane almost certainly would not have been detected by an alien civilization looking at our planet a billion years ago — despite the likelihood of its biological production over most of Earth history.»

Not exact matches

«All of the information of how a planet formed is still there, whereas with much older planets it could be harder to [work out] how it formed, or how it got there because it could have changed over billions of years.»

It will also doom our feeble planet in about 1 billion years.

The plutonium powered robot will explore the surface of the Red Planet for upwards of 10 years at a cost of $ 2.5 billion (# 1.5 billion).

With our planet screaming its accelerating anguish via contaminated oceans, poisoned soils and polluted atmosphere — we indifferently add 80 million of ourselves annually and one billion more every 12 years.

LONDON, April 30 - Codenamed «Project Solar», Sainsbury's 7.3 billion - pound deal with rival British supermarket chain Asda is an alignment of planets years in the making.

Security software developer McAfee estimates that cybercrime already costs the global economy $ 445 billion a year, a figure destined to surge as more companies and consumers across the planet connect to the web.

The scene was much different about 4.5 billion years ago, though: Water covered about 20 % of the planet's surface, and 400 - foot - tall megatsunamis raced across ancient oceans.

At a $ 131 billion net worth, Bezos is the richest human on the planet, averaging annual compensation of $ 6.5 billion a year in the 20 years since Amazon debuted on the public markets — that maths out to 230,000 times the median pay of Amazon workers.

Our very solar system — sun and earth — are the left over bit of other stars and planets that exploded billions of years ago.

I am a nuclear physicist and do not believe in God, which was a slow process in my life to conclude that a few billion years of trial and error along with some incredible sets of «rules» make what happened on Earth inevitable, and is happening on any planet with the near same conditions that are found here.

I will have to live my whole life surrounded by a world filled with mental midgets who have fooled themselves that faith and belief in deities is the answer instead of using their minds to work out problems, study science and figure out how we leave this planet when it becomes inhabitable in 4 billion years.

Science has proven the world to be billions of years old, and has proven that life has existed on this planet for hundreds of millions of years.

Everything single galaxy, star (sun) and planet, in the universe have been formed by gravity over billions of years, NO god needed.

The concept of a 13,700,00,000 year old being, capable of creating the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies, monitoring simultaneously the actions and thoughts of the 7 billion human beings on this planet is ludicrous.

But «logic» this; Of a God that created a universe that is about 12 billon years old in extension, with millions of galaxies like ours, containing billions of stars and planets.

The concept of a 13,700,00,000 year old being, capable of creating the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies, monitoring simultaneously the thoughts and actions of the 7 billion human beings on this planet 24 hours a day, seven days a week is ludicrous.

Oh, so in the vast known Universe, which reaches out for 15 BILLION light years in all directions, with over 100 BILLION galaxies, containing an average of 100 BILLION stars each, with most of those stars now thought to have multiple planets orbiting around them, you can't imagine that there would be at least ONE little planet SOMEWHERE with the right conditions for life without divine intervention?

The earth on which I stand is the same planet that was orbiting the sun four and a half billion years ago.

So life appeared on Earth within half a billion years of it being possible, which is short compared to the 10 billion year lifetime of an Earth - like planet.

Yesterday I was reading comments on the CNN article about NASA and the discovery of new planets... and the day before the one about the 4.4 billion year - old crystal.

With billions of planets & galaxies that are 10's of 1,000's of years older than ours, we really believe there is no other life?

If they had gone into explanations of billions of years, particles expanding and gathering together to form stars and planets, and all the other wonderful discoveries we are now making, they would have killed the person telling the story.

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.

From this beginning came all that followed, so everything that is is related, woven into a seamless network, with life gradually emerging after billions of years on this planet (and perhaps on others) and resulting in the incredibly complex, intricate universe we see today.32 To think of God as the creator and continuing creator / sustainer of this massive, breathtaking cosmic fact dwarfs all our traditional images of divine transcendence — whether political or metaphysical.

Human beings are a part of nature, and evolved from lower forms of life, whose origins sprung from a lifeless planet some 3.6 billion or so years ago.

The organic model we are suggesting pictures reality as composed of multitudes of embodied beings who presently inhabit a planet that has evolved over billions of years through a process of dynamic change marked by law and novelty into an intricate, diverse, complex, multi-leveled reality, all radically interrelated and interdependent.

... After all, this planet, geologists say, is only 4.5 or 4.6 billion years old.

Over the 4.5 billion years of our planet's existence, 98 percent of species have become extinct.

About five billion years ago our own planet attained its orbital status around the sun.

Might want to read Bryson's book,» A Short History of Nearly Everything» pp. 287 - 301 to get a hint as to how life on this planet started some 3.5 billion years ago.

When it disagrees with those fairy tails such as proving the planet and universe is billions of years old instead of the few thousand years the bible claims, science is «flawed» and «wrong».

Is the 6,000 year old planet of the bible really the same thing as the real planet in the bing bang universe that's billions of years old?

Then light was liberated, and then gravity created the first stars and galaxies, then billions of years later, a local star went supernova and seeded the local nebula with heavier elements, elements necessary for life, elements that were not created during the Big Bang, then the sun was born, then the planets coalesced, and billions of years later some primate wrote a story about how the Earth was created at the same time as the rest of the universe, getting it wrong because that primate did not have the science nor technology to really understand what happened, so he gave it his best guess, most likely an iteration of an older story told prior to the advent of the Judeo Christian religion.

As for me, I can't believe in an human - like being that designed and jump - started the universe 13.8 billion years ago and set aside a planet for His special favorite creations, so He'd have someone to keep Him company and sing songs praising Him, then gave Bronze Age hermits a book of His orders to mankind that includes «thou shalt not round thy head nor cut thy beard» on penalty of eternal suffering... just CA N'T, any more than I can force myself to believe the world rests on the back of giant turtle.

This is comparable to the probability of every person on the planet buying six billion lottery tickets every day and the same person winning every day for a year.

Evolution has been quietly operating on this planet for billions of years, and will do so long after there are any people left to not believe in it.

Look at the age of fossilized bones, look at DNA evidence and all the other mountains of evidence about the LONG - TERM DYNAMICS of LIVING ORGANISMS on this planet over the span of BILLIONS of years.

According to hippypoet «Our planet is 4.5 billion years old.

To an alien life form living on another planet billions of light years from us the death of an 8 year old human, while tragic to us, might be linked by what Einstein called «s p o o k y action at a distance» to an alien birth making it one of their most joyous occasions.

There's your billions of years that the stars and galaxies and planets and Earth evolved.

Simply because I exist on a Planet about a billion light years from any other currently living form of life, not chemicals, elements or gases, and how I don't see this as some random thing — there is something greater than you and I and the evidence is all around you.

Chemicals and compounds that had been fashioned in the crucible of some remote burnt - out stars came together five billion years ago and formed our own planet.

They don't understand that many religious people, including the Pope, have no problem whatsoever with a 14 billion year old universe full of life evolved on a million planets.

Due to the shear number of planets, of course one has to have the perfect conditions to support life, which (over billions of years of EVOLUTION) has perfected all of those systems to the point where we can debate about where it all came from.

Isn't that where you think certain thoughts and a being that created the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies (each with billions of stars, planets etc.) about 13,700,000,000 years ago uses its magic powers (or «sacred powers» to the extent you see a difference) to read your mind.

Apparently, being powerful enough to create the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies, and being at least 13,700,000,000 years (age of Universe) does not stop him having purely human emotions over the behaviour of an individual human on one of «his» planets.

Q. 2 Likewise, we know that life on Earth evolved over the last approximately 3.5 billion years and likely began in a planet wide «organic soup» of complex organic chemicals in the primordial oceans, in an increasingly well understood process.

Yet the collisions or near misses dictated by these theories are inherently very improbable, perhaps only ten for the entire life of our galaxy during the past five billion years.32 With so few planets in existence, we could hardly assume that there would be much life elsewhere, at least not in our galaxy.

The creation of liquid water occurred, in all likelihood, at least a billion if not more years after the planet solidified.