Sentences with phrase «planet over billions of years»

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«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.»

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Science is just incapable of accounting for billions of years - this is one of the most absurd things being taught to kids all over the planet!!!

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.

(He assumed that this molecule had the opportunity to develop by natural chemical reactions on 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 (1020) «hospitable» planets over a period of four billion years.

For example, they want to measure the planet's inventory of stable noble gases, such as xenon and krypton, which change little in abundance over billions of years and hold clues to planetary origins.

In science news around the world, NASA's Cassini mission is about to take its final plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn after 13 years providing an unprecedented view of the planet and its moons, a fight over whether to preserve or develop of one Europe's oldest gold mining sites heats up again, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves the first cancer gene therapy for people, a U.S. court gives a green light to a $ 1 billion lawsuit brought by the Guatemalan victims and survivors of mid — 20th century syphilis experiments by research institutions including Johns Hopkins University, and more.

Emitted in a distant galaxy when multicellular life was just beginning to populate Earth, the waves traveled at the speed of light for more than a billion years to at last wash over our planet last September, taking just seven milliseconds to traverse the distance between LIGO's twin listening stations in Louisiana and Washington State.

It's fine to think any life on Mars could have shared ancestry with Earth — the planets are close and have shared a lot of grist over billions of years — but DNA - based life at Saturn?

Seeing the sharp declines in parts of the ocean I have come to know and love reminds me that as we look into new ways to protect our planet from climate change, we need to look again at the natural machinery that already works, that developed over four and a half billion years, and do everything we can to restore its functions.

Astronomers believe this region, called the Oort cloud, contains a vast collection of icy debris left over from material that came together to form the sun, Earth, and the other major planets 4.6 billion years ago.

The questions of whether Venus is geologically active and how the planet has resurfaced over the past billion years have major implications for interior dynamics and climate change.

As a result, the planet has shrunk in size over billions of years because of the same processes that shaped the early evolution of Earth's atmosphere and very likely that of both Mars and Venus.

The early stages of the Huronian, from 2.4 to 2.3 billion years ago, seem to have been particularly severe, with the entire planet frozen over in the first «snowball Earth».

Gravitational interactions with planets over the subsequent 4.5 billion years caused some objects to crash into the sun and others to be flung out of the solar system altogether.

The experiments indicate that the planet's interior cooled dramatically, over 240 degrees Celsius between 4.2 and 3.7 billion years ago — a geologically short span of 500 million years.

Over the next few billion years, Taylor says, Venus's volcanism will subside, and the planet will begin to lose much of its heavy atmosphere, leading to a lower surface temperature more like that of Earth.

Over billions of years, the dwarf planet could have acquired a thick shroud of shrapnel.

This graphic shows where a planet can be habitable and warm around our sun, as it ages over billions of years.

Based on measurements of these taken over a full Martian year, the team concludes that about 4 billion years ago, the Red Planet's atmospheric pressure — currently less than 1 per cent of Earth's — was up to 1.5 times what Earth's is today.

Bailey and her colleagues ran computer simulations that suggest that the tilt of the eight official planets can be explained by the gravitational influence of Planet Nine «over the 4.5 - billion - years - ish lifetime of the solar system,» Bailey told Space.com.

Around it's a whirling cloud of residual dust and gas — the very material that can build, over billions of years, a system of planets and moons.

«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.»

«However, when you consider how these planets evolve over billions of years, this assumption turns out not to be true.»

In order for Mercury's core to have stayed molten over some 4.5 billions of years since the planet first formed from agglomerating planetisimals, however, its mostly iron core must also contain a lighter element, such as sulfur, to lower the melting temperature of the core material.

«We know that many billions are required over the next few years to fill the gap in climate finance, but the money pledged today is vital to help some of the most vulnerable people on the planet cope with the immediate impacts of our rapidly warming world,» Ishii continued.

She pondered the impressive achievement and adaptive competence of living creatures who preceded humans, begetting more diverse and complex forms over 3.5 billion years on a fiercely wild and often inhospitable planet.

Who knows what we can exceed in terms of ruining the planet over x number of years, but in terms of food, exceeding 12 billion gets quite dangerous... under normal conditions.

If sciences are disappeared than how can we know the temperature of the planet over time - scales of billions of years?

First of all, if one examines the complete geological record of global temperature variation on planet Earth (as best as we can reconstruct it) not just over the last 200 years but over the last 25 million years, over the last billion years — one learns that there is absolutely nothing remarkable about today's temperatures!

In fact, when CO2 levels were over ten times higher than they are now, about 450 million years ago, the planet was in the depths of the absolute coldest period in the last half billion years.

After years of effort Svensmark shows how the variable frequency of stellar explosions not far from our planet has ruled over the changing fortunes of living things throughout the past half billion years.

Part of this heat is generated by the natural decay of radioactive element in the rocks, and part of the heat is left over from the formation of the Earth five billion years ago — when gravity pulled together bits of gas and dust to form our planet.

With a combined global revenue of over $ 95 billion, these companies are sending a strong signal to governments meeting tomorrow in Paris for the One Planet Summit: two years on from the adoption of the historic Paris Agreement, businesses are stepping up their contribution to its implementation.

'' «In fact, when carbon dioxide levels were over 10 times higher than they are now, about 450 million years ago, the planet was in the depths of the absolute coldest period in the last half - billion years,» Patterson said.»

Moreover, when you then convert the three gases to a comparable unit based on their potential to warm the planet over a 100 - year time frame, the planet's biosphere works out to be a net source of greenhouse gases, causing a warming comparable to the effect of between 3.8 and 5.4 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year.

However, we are waiting for a concrete (ie sensible) definition of what climate change means on planet that has seen a massive range of climatic variation over 4.6 billion years.