Sentences with phrase «planet formation]»

Although privately held SpaceX didn't reveal any concrete plans, the money could help founder Elon Musk realize his hopes to fly people to Mars within the next 12 years and eventually build a city on the planet.

«One Strange Rock» illustrates the idea that Earth has several frontiers humans have yet to conquer, and functions as a love letter of sorts to the planet at a time when humans have their sights set on redder pastures.

Later in the afternoon, speaking at a Miami event sponsored by the U.S. - Cuba Democracy PAC, Romney said that if he becomes president, «it is my expectation that Fidel Castro will finally be taken off this planet.»

It's a goal that sounds remarkably similar to Zuckerberg's recently announced plan to connect everyone on the planet.

The Mars Odyssey spacecraft recorded the image on its way to the Red Planet.

And WhatsApp is one of the biggest mobile messaging systems on the planet — with 19 billion messages sent over WhatsApp every day, it has nearly reached the scale of the entire global SMS, or text messaging, system.

Now, contemplate that an estimated 105 billion people have walked the planet, with only a tiny 5.5 percent of that number alive today.

When you're one of the richest people on the planet, you have some liberty to set your own style.

«They are prophets,» says Wild Planet CEO Daniel Grossman.

And what causes a rocky planet to form as opposed to a gas giant?

To get there, entrepreneurs and business owners will need to look beyond quick financing schemes and focus on a «triple bottom line» that places profit, people and the planet on equal footing.

That's a lot more planet - warming emissions, all to benefit handpicked corporations.

In Wild Planet's early years, Grossman says, there was discussion about producing the toys in the United States.

That's great news for Kelly, NASA, and the future of manned space flight, but it's also interesting for the rest of us stuck here on earth amid the usual small hassles and daily annoyances of a planet - bound existence.

Despite those challenges, Kepler has revealed the existence of 4,034 planet candidates, with 2,335 of those confirmed as exoplanets — and these are just the planets found in 0.25 % of the night sky.

«If you're a healthcare startup, it doesn't matter if they're the best consumer internet VCs on the planet and the mentors are all consumer internet gurus; if you're doing healthcare, that's not the right fit for you,» Hochberg says.

Not Business As Usual (the entire hour - long doc is below if you want to give it a view) asks viewers to consider not just a long - term view of how to build a business, but also a holistic — or «conscious» — consideration of how one's business affects the people involved in it, and the planet it relies on to run.

In that first year at Reed, Jobs also read «Diet for a Small Planet,» a book about protein - rich vegetarianism that went on to sell three million copies.

Adobe shocked users by making Photoshop available only within the Creative Cloud subscription service, but it's still hands - down the best image editing tool on the planet.

The planet is fully populated by millions of animal species that all exhibit the same sort of behavior.

«At that time Anita and Ben... certainly in their public statements, were very clear,» says Wild Planet's Grossman, who first attended an SVN meeting as an intern while he was earning his M.B.A. from Stanford Business School.

«Until we find other solar systems that want to drink Starbucks and watch Cirque du Soleil, planet earth is a finite place.»

Or perhaps did you think of it on a larger scale — as in, why are you here in this time in history, or on this part of this planet?

But it is hard to imagine that adding 6,000 rooms to a tourism town fighting overcapacity is going to be good news — especially across the street, where the Planet Hollywood hotel - casino has just been taken over by creditors.

There is a great sense of pride that comes from doing what very few other people on the planet will do and that is a very good for your self - esteem, confidence, and personal growth.

Early last year, an Air Canada co-pilot on a Boeing 767 overnight flight from Toronto to Zurich awoke from a long nap and mistook the planet Venus for an oncoming aircraft.

Company: Wild Planet Toys Inc..

Ambitious ventures like Netflix and Zipcar may never become the most valuable enterprise on the planet.

I believe women are the largest untapped potential on the planet.

For instance, companies participating in Blue Startups, an incubator from Honolulu - based Blue Planet Software, receive $ 20,000 in cash and a variety of professional services valued at more than $ 500,000.

In essence, the awe - filled feeling you get when you see our planet glowing below expands your sense of humanity, giving you a stronger sense of connection to your fellow earthlings.

«Some Canadian cities have as diverse a middle - class population as any city on the planet, and part of what you have to do is play to that diversity and know that having Thai peanut sauce makes sense in one city but it doesn't make sense somewhere else,» says Underhill.

Because the same side of the moon always faces our planet, such «Earthrise» views only happen when a spacecraft is moving.

I have the most supportive and loving wife on the planet.

Unlike many global health nonprofits, which focus their work in the poorest regions of the planet, Bush has always felt it was important for fellows to address problems in the US in addition to those in other countries.

Elon Musk continues to befuddle Planet Earth.

This event, called a «transit,» will make the planet appear as a small black dot that moves across the surface of the sun for just over seven hours.

They enjoy their shopping, AND they care about the planet.

Is someone a planet - conscious consumer or is she a material girl?

As chairman of Puma, Jochen is pioneering an environmental profit - and - loss reporting tool that helps companies assess the impact their products are having on our planet and our communities, and lets customers know which products are sustainable.

Here is a map of the last great reserves of oil on the planet: the Mideast.

But within a few months, I had a great job, doing pretty amazing stuff and that all led to me writing books, traveling the planet and have a great life - for the past 20 years.

«Ballmer can be the biggest asshole on the planet,» says a source close to Nokia's CEO, «so if it was the right thing to do, Elop would have shoved the partnership back in Ballmer's face.»

In the 1930s, about a decade after Polish biochemist Casimir Funk first recommended people get enough of certain micronutrients called «vitamines» (later found in abundance in citrus fruits and veggies), the first grapefruit diet emerged, followed by a banana - and - skim - milk diet promoted by United Fruit, the planet's leading banana importer.

As part of the series — produced by Darren Aronofsky and narrated by superstar Will Smith — several astronauts give personal anecdotes and perspectives about the planet based on a place few humans who have actually visited outer space.

I have now spent slightly over four decades on this planet and my love of McDonald's has spread to my two children.

«Our goal is to reach every person on the planet,» Twitter's chief executive Dick Costolo said during an evening earnings call.

For starters, Wild Planet uses open - book management, which means that everyone has access to all the company's financial data, except for figures on equity ownership (though everyone does receive stock options) and salaries.

Of course, for many of the socially responsible companies, including Wild Planet Toys, reaching as wide an audience as possible is crucial if their mission is to be realized — it's important to spread the word as well as to bring in enough revenues to carry on.

The other, a Jupiter - sized planet orbiting a star about 430 light years away, is barely two million years old.