Sentences with phrase «rather than a planet»

Few heads of government are planning to be at Cancún, and the talk is of diplomatic deal - making rather than planet - saving.

And all these definitions are intended only for our solar system, rather than planets everywhere.

Two worlds, other than the Earth and Pluto, have nitrogen atmospheres, but they are moons rather than planets: Titan, Saturn's biggest moon, and Triton.

They forced Galileo to spend most of its time observing the four largest of Jupiter's 67 moons rather than the planet itself.

To assist in exploring the possibility that they are due to an astrophysical false positive, we describe a procedure (BLENDER) to model the photometry in terms of a «blend» rather than a planet orbiting a star.

If confirmed, the finding represents the first discovery of rings around a satellite rather than a planet.

Not exact matches

Why are we innovating in ways that create more unemployment, rather than innovating to save the planet?»

«Rather than just being a business that talks about «people, planet, and profit,» we have put it into our corporate structure,» says co-founder Adam Lowry.

But Aisling Balfe, who covers the food and beverage sector at consultancy Planet Retail, does not think Asia is a top priority right now, given the perception of coffee as a social occasion rather than a morning necessity.

Rather than playing into an «us - versus - them» competitive dichotomy, this new space age hinges on exploring the possibility of economic expansion off - planet — a notion bolstered by the innate human urge to push the boundaries of what's possible.

Copernicus's posthumous fame, of course, arose from his 30 - year project published soon before his death, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium - a revolution indeed, in which he explained his calculations that proved that the earth and planets orbit the sun, rather than the sun and planets orbitthe earth.

They don't, perhaps, because so many miss the point that they would rather become the complacent that surrounded Noah and assume that so long as there are rainbows we are safe, rather than act for the future to protect what is most precious on this planet, our current Garden of Eden.

Tom, much easier to believe that all races on planet earth came from 8 people rather than eight amoebae, I would think.

First of all, are you seriously saying that environmentalism is a bad thing, and that we should just destroy this planet, rather than doing what we can to try to save it?

It is rather ironic that we can forecast the far distant future of this planet more clearly than we can foresee the immediate human future on its surface.

It has always seemed to me, however, and I have been walking around this planet for half a century now, it takes more thought, action, trust, study and a far greater degree of intelligence to believe in something rather than nothing.

Humans have such an incredible ego that they think that even the bad things they do as a group are more massive than anything even a PLANET (with a rather long and remarkably unexpected history) could handle.

Rather than sitting here trying to calculate the end of our planet based on religious ideals, I think people really need to stop trying to influence others to think and do what they think and do.

Also for Schleiermacher's determinism and reduction of God to that on which we depend, rather than that with which we, in our humble roles on this planet, cooperate in creating a world worthy of an all - loving consciousness.

Newton explained many things and allowed us to calculate the orbits of planets with his laws of motion, yet his idea of a static universe was wrong - like wise Einstein with his energy equation for many years thought / claimed the universe was static rather than dynamic.

Planet Hollywood at Disney Springs features 3 - D interiors that come to life through trompe l'oeil 3 - D technology, an art technique that uses realistic imagery to create an optical illusion that objects exist in the space rather than on the screen.

Rather than viewing soil, plants, animals, humans and the planet separately, the principles of organic farming are based upon treating all of these as one interconnected entity.

If you think k it takes for Arsenal to beat big teams to lift the EPL then you need to land back on planet earth and start counting up points Arsenal lost to teams below them rather than above them and see where they would have been in the table.

Just have a look at LVG, He had Angel Di Maria in the squad but couldn't find a place for him as he'd rather hoof long balls and crosses to Fellaini than take a few risks and utilize one of the most dangerous players on the planet.

Arsene Wenger is famous for blaming the referees, opponents diving, the weather and the alignment of the planets as reasons why his Arsenal team lose games, in fact anything rather than blame the players for their poor performances.

The nightmarish spectre of Antonio Conte's hauntingly terrifying face leering into the camera for an interview where He visibly battles with his urge to discuss the upcoming Champions League match with Barcelona rather than the humiliation of a Hull side without endangering any of his important players, was enough to prompt Mark to gaze heavenward, longing for the rumoured «Planet X» to finally roam into our orbit and take out earth in an apocalyptic planetary collision which the FA Cup would likely somehow survive.

Consumerism is so pervasive, when you scratch below the surface, all this advice has some link to some big company making big money, rather than really addressing what the right thing for our and the planet's well being.

Just because I use a video or article that best explains things, that just means I'd rather let someone else who KNOWS what they're talking about tell you rather than look like an idiot, just cuz I'm not the most eloquent person on the planet

Sure, it takes a little more effort to be super-green, but if you feel guilty about tossing out bags and bags of garbage and driving a gas - guzzling SUV, maybe you should change your life - style to soothe that guilt rather than convince yourself that it is OK to continue to pollute and trash the planet as long as you use energy efficient bulbs.

Obama's claim to voters that «We are the change that we have been waiting for», has echoes in Cameron's «Be the change», although his is a message directed more at traditionalists in his own party, (start being nice to the planet and the immigrants) rather than the electorate at large.

com - unism means «to unite» that all people on the planet must be brothers rather than consider each other as rivals and tools to make wealth.

That began to change when one of Piazzi's rivals, the astronomer William Herschel, noted that Ceres only appeared as a point of light in his telescope rather than a resolved disk, like the other known planets.

Carr points out that rather than seeing the planet directly, they are detecting the gas as it swirls around and onto the forming planet.

«We need to understand what made a planet go down the Venus path rather than the Earth path,» says astrobiologist David Grinspoon of the Planetary Science Institute, who is based in Washington, D.C.

The bulk of the solar system's regular satellites — those moons that stick close to their planets in roughly equatorial orbits — formed this way, rather than taking shape simultaneously with the planets as a direct result of planet formation, French astrophysicists have concluded.

Doing this is harder than it sounds: From Earth's perspective, the planets appear to stutter in the sky rather than freely circle.

Rather than steadily increasing or decreasing over the last decade, the U.S. public's concern over our warming planet has jumped up and down, according to Gallup polls.

There are gale - force winds whipping about the planet, its smoglike clouds are composed of droplets of sulfuric acid (rather than water) and, contrary to previous belief, there is lightning on Venus.

In this impressionistic tour of the solar system, the best - selling author emphasizes cultural and historical perspectives on the planets rather than science.

However, the ruptures ripped through the planet at hundreds of kilometers per second rather than fracturing only near the surface, as typical earthquakes do.

By then, the lithosphere, rather than forming a solid shell around the planet, had divided into dozens of thick plates.

The researchers studied six years of microlensing data and estimated that extrasolar planets are the rule rather than the exception, with each star in the galaxy hosting an average of 1.6 planets (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature10684).

After detecting the first exoplanets in the 1990s it has become clear that planets around other stars are the rule rather than the exception and there are likely hundreds of billions of exoplanets in the Milky Way alone.

There still seems something unpleasant about shifting our view of these animals towards a source of food rather than as companions on the same planet.

But if you arrive at one, you may stay there with extraordinarily little effort, or you could orbit around one, as though the libration point were a planet rather than a spot of nothing.

«That gives us more time to build the system, and would pass by two planets, Mars and Venus, rather than one,» Tito said in a press conference on 20 November.

Earth's atmosphere behaves in the same way, keeping the planet's average temperature at 59 degrees Fahrenheit rather than the chilly zero degrees it would be if our world were airless.

Kepler in the 16th century justified his shattering empirical discovery that planetary motion was ellipitcal rather than circular by the essentially medieval and mystical belief that the circle represented the spiritual and the straight line the material, so the combination of the two in an ellipse showed the planets «striving to reach the divine ideal».

A 1:1 ratio would theoretically limit the planet's population to a linear rather than exponential growth rate.

But whatever the source of the stellar noise, Gilliland says that Kepler will have to detect twice as many transits of Earth - like analogues than planned — an average of six passages per planet rather than three, at intervals of roughly a year — to be sure that a dip in starlight is a true signal of an Earth - sized body.