Within the continuum of
planetary life there have evolved many interconnected systems, each of them in symbiotic relationship with its environment.
Not exact matches
Was
there an intellectual cosmological order for the cellular realms of
living cosmological components to become ever evolving cellular realms ending upon this celestial shorelines»
planetary cosmology as being physical realms of mankind's cellular embodiments?
But
there is also the promise of a unified
planetary society
living in harmony with nature, using the natural resources of the earth for the benefit of all the earth's
living creatures, and opening up prospects of human adventures never before possible.
If
there are still different possible futures for
planetary life in general, and for human existence in particular, those futures have come to depend increasingly on decisions made by the human species.
All of these scientific hypotheses boil down to first
there was an
planetary mass covered with water and providing the correct conditions for chemical reactions to create a simple organic compound from which
life was formed.
This idea of the
planetary totalization of human consciousness (with its unavoidable corollary, that wherever
there are
life - bearing planets in the Universe, they too will become encompassed, like the Earth, with some form of planetized spirit) may at first sight seem fantastic: but does it not exactly correspond to the facts, and does it not logically extend the cosmic curve of molecularization?
«
There's a lot of ambiguity in post-2050 projections of sea - level rise and we may have to
live with that for a while,» said Robert E. Kopp, the study's lead author and a professor in the Department of Earth and
Planetary Sciences at Rutgers.
For a long time,
there was the notion that finding oxygen and methane in a
planetary atmosphere would be a smoking gun for
life.
There are mixed feelings: some have suggested treating Mars as a wildlife preserve, while others argue that existing
planetary protection rules are too strict and could even hamper the hunt for
life by making the most interesting destinations the hardest to explore.
The answer will determine whether it is likely that amino acids are plentiful in the universe and available to possibly seed
life on the myriad exoplanets out
there or whether the chemistry that sparked us was isolated to our own
planetary cradle.
Planetary scientists have calculated that
there are hundreds of billions of Earth - like planets in our galaxy which might support
life.
«Titan is an especially interesting target for exploration because the organic chemistry now taking place
there provides the only
planetary - scale laboratory for studying processes that may have been important in the prebiotic terrestrial atmosphere,» the report added, meaning that on Titan is chemistry that could have been similar to what was present on Earth before
life arose.
There is still great debate over the extent to which non-intelligent
life on Earth is able to adjust
planetary conditions to promote its continued survival and, indeed, prosperity — debate between a weak and a strong «Gaia hypothesis.»
-- If the central star of a
planetary system burns out,
there will be no further evolution of
life on the planets that have orbits around it.
Scientists considered whether habitation is possible
there and, if so, how communication between the
planetary neighbors might help one other sustain
life and boost survival.
«The fact that the concentration and diversity of
life detected in this subglacial lake exists means
there is a very good sign for the existence of
life on Europa, even if the details are different,» says Cynthia Phillips, a
planetary geologist at the SETI Institute in California.
«
There is a great deal of interest in the microbes of the Earth's crust because the strategies by which they survive may be similar to the earliest strategies of
life on Earth, and perhaps also on other
planetary bodies,» said Rachel M. Haymon, UCSB professor of geology.
If
there's anything we've learned from scouring thousands of
planetary candidates over the past decade, it's that finding
life beyond Earth is an intensive search.
There's only one extra here, but it's a good one: The Second Genesis: The Search for
Life Beyond Earth bonus documentary (HD — 18:26), which features planetary scientist Carolyn Porco's fascination with the idea of finding life elsewhere in our Solar System and designing a NASA mission to find
Life Beyond Earth bonus documentary (HD — 18:26), which features
planetary scientist Carolyn Porco's fascination with the idea of finding
life elsewhere in our Solar System and designing a NASA mission to find
life elsewhere in our Solar System and designing a NASA mission to find it.
It is a moonless night, dark and rare, and the heat is oppressive, the kind of heat where a deep breath leaves you unsatisfied, suspicious that
there was nothing
life - giving at all in what you've inhaled, and you are left air - hungry, wet at the pits, forehead greasy with sweat, wishing for the night to be over, for your daughters to exhaust their energy, to cool their dense, hot centers enough to sleep for one more night in this summer that seems to stretch into your future like a
planetary ring full of debris, circling forever around something it can't escape.
While
there's quite a few people happy to see the game being expanded upon and perhaps finally
live up to its own huge potential,
there's also a lot of very angry gamers who feel that
Planetary Annihilation has been a mess from the very start, with many bugs and problems still present in the core game.
There is no reason sustainability need be defined this way because
living within
planetary boundaries can be achieved well above those thresholds.
Fermi suggested
there may be no intelligent
life in the universe, outside of brief episodes confined to
planetary surfaces before they develop science and end themselves.