Sentences with phrase «reaching the planet on»

The powerful Titan IV rocket lifted off near dawn in October 1997, went behind a cloud from our vantage point and then thankfully emerged serenely on its way to Saturn, reaching the planet on July 1 2004.

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Discovery Communications, which owns networks like the Discovery Channel and Animal Planet, on Thursday became the latest TV company to invest in digital content in an effort to reach mobile viewers.

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.

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

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.

On top of that, Apple has increased its reach in original content, with exclusive Apple music offerings and shows like «Carpool Karaoke» and «Planet of the Apps.»

Before these space probes reached the planets, often all we had were grainy, black - and - white images of them from telescopes here on Earth.

In October, Musk outlined the SpaceX strategy for reaching Mars and even his goal of settling large groups of people on the planet as part of his vision of making humans into a «multiplanetary species.»

When facing its sun, the temperature on the planet can reach 5,000 Fahrenheit, past the temperature where many metals will turn to liquid.

The solution — necessary, many say, especially nerds and geeks — is to build spaceships to reach other planets, or even to live on permanently.

By using scale, reduced cost and heightened convenience to reach consumers, Amazon is moving «into striking range of every industry on the planet,» Malone said on Thursday.

Consequent to the announcement of NASA that seven exoplanets have been discovered, a new study has argued that life forms on one planet can seed life in other planets by riding on space debris to reach other planets.

Facebook now reaches 2.2 billion people on the planet.

Not to mention the fact that your reply is just a red herring for facing the truth that most of the poor people on this planet will never be able to reach beyond their poverty no matter how hard they work.

The things I find most appalling about religion reach a new zenith in Islam --(i) a dulling down of individual thought and a dogmatic requirement to conform to the views of the masses; (ii) a stultifying ignorant education system in which anything inconsistent with the Qur» an is not just discouraged, but censored; (iii) the subjugation of women to the point of educating them to be nothing but mindless f * king, breeding machines for their insecure husbands; (iv) a political class that feeds off the religious - based ignorance it imposes on its populations; and (v) a general back - sliding against the rest of the planet because heads are buried in Dark Ages mythology.

Some prophetic voices tell us that we have only a few years to make vital and far - reaching decisions — or else human existence on this planet will come to a tragic end long before the earth is swallowed by a dying sun.

First, two - thirds of the 1.2 billion Catholics on the planet today live in the Southern Hemisphere, a share projected to reach three - quarters by mid-century.

Whatever happens on this planet, the vast reaches of the cosmos will be little affected.

Explicitly or by inference they talk as though Man today had reached a final and supreme state of humanity beyond which he can not advance; or, in the language of this lecture, that, Matter having attained in Homo sapiens its maximum of centro - complexity on Earth, the process of super-molecularization on the planet has for good and all come to a stop.

Was a century long enough to reach every person on the planet, at the time?

«We have reached the end of an avenue of inquiry where we know that just as we have determined that the perpetual motion machine is impossible, so the creation of our universe, life on this planet, and natural selection preserving purely random genetic mutations in a population are wholly insufficient as adequate theories of how we got to where we are today without some «external to our known universe» influence.

We are now a big world on a small planet, where we have reached a saturation point.»

While there is no existential god that dispenses grace or justice I believe that the gods of the bible, the «Elohim», were scientists from another world who had reached the technical abilities to travel through space to other planets and clone humans and they did just that on our planet thousands of years ago.

«The amount of food lost or wasted before it ever reaches a table is simply unacceptable with devastating impacts on people, profit and planet,» said Judith Rodin, president of The Rockefeller Foundation.

So I guess it shouldn't surprise you that when Planet Rice reached out to me to help celebrate National Rice Month, I jumped on the chance to make a Mexican Rice Casserole.

Chelsea is infront of us, the top 3 is already out of reach and watford buzz won't last and Chelsea will finish 4th... We will finish 6 behind Liverpool... The big 4 doesn't count us anymore... Spurs are solid as Chelsea who will actually fight for 3rd place with Spurs... I hope that you are pleased and sure you won't be mad if we finish 12th... Chelsea did a century ago with mourhino help and went right back on top of table... Oh, maybe we will do great next year, or the one after as long has it makes you happy... You should go and i'm sure you will get hired as Per... Please don't ever send comment, we real fans are in pain... Maybe you one of owners hiding or in another planet than football, just like them... Don't ever post comment, i felt to get a gun and shoot myself!

Finally, employers are investing in their future work force by supporting breastfeeding; some studies have indicated that breastfed babies have potentially higher IQ's and better academic accomplishments than bottle - fed babies.Because of the far - reaching positive ecological, health, and social impact breastfeeding can make on our planet, it is imperative for anyone interested in protecting our children and our environment to do whatever possible to support, protect, and promote breastfeeding.

With the planet apparently on track to have 4 billion wireless subscribers by 2010, let's take a second to look at the effects of the one piece of electronic equipment that will eventually reach just about everyone on Earth.

«Prosperity isn't just something for us in the UK, prosperity is something that the poorest people on the planet could aspire to and should feel is within their reach.»

It takes only a bit more effort to spot Saturn, which stands out this month in part because on May 10 it reaches opposition, the point in its orbit where a planet lies opposite the sun in our sky.

Juno, NASA's new mission to Jupiter, reaches the giant planet on July 4, 2016.

His conclusions, reached after a minute study of the puzzling surface markings of the planet, are based on a wealth of ingenious reasoning that can not but appeal to the romantically inclined.

The asteroid — named 1I /» Oumuamua, which means «to reach out from afar» in Hawaiian — sped through our solar system, steeply entering from above the plane on which the planets orbit the sun.

On Earth, the plant pigment chlorophyll absorbs the most abundant and highest - energy colors that reach the planet's surface — red and blue, respectively — while reflecting green, giving vegetation its color.

But many of these people are among the poorest 20 percent on the planet and can be «the hardest to reach — physically and politically,» he notes.

«Proxima b has drawn a chalk line high up on the wall, and we are all now jumping to reach it,» says Matthew Kenworthy, an astronomer who works on new planet - imaging techniques at Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands.

Prior to 2007 scientists weren't sure what emissions reduction goal to shoot for, but new evidence led researchers to reach consensus on 350 ppm if we wished to have a planet, in the words of NASA climatologist James Hansen, «similar to the one on which civilization developed and to which life on earth is adapted.»

After comparing it with domes on Earth, scientists now believe Ahuna Mons formed when a slushy mix of internal ice and natural antifreeze reached the surface along a duct — just as magma builds volcanoes on our planet.

Thousands of tons of material rain down on us annually, mostly in the form of dust; many of the bigger chunks break up in the atmosphere, but meteorites measuring at least a few feet across reach our planet about once a year.

If there are plants on other planets, they would likely evolve to take advantage of the most abundant light rays reaching them — which might make them other than green.

Prospects for Venusian life have been dismissed because of harsh conditions on the planet's surface: there is no water, temperatures reach 477 °C and the atmospheric pressure is 92 times that on Earth's surface.

Reaching for the Stars The enterprise got a boost on Aug. 24 when astronomers at the European Southern Observatory in Chile announced the discovery of an Earth - like planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, one of three stars in the Alpha Centauri system.

The asteroid — now named 1I / ʻOumuamua, which means «to reach out from afar» in Hawaiian — sped through our solar system, steeply entering from above the plane on which planets orbit the sun.

Astronomers will be searching for direct evidence of a ninth planet in the far reaches of the solar system; its existence was inferred this year from its gravitational effects on icy objects beyond Pluto.

Several teams are racing to spot Planet Nine, a hypothetical giant planet in the outer reaches of the solar system, based on the way it may have shepherded six objects into clustered oPlanet Nine, a hypothetical giant planet in the outer reaches of the solar system, based on the way it may have shepherded six objects into clustered oplanet in the outer reaches of the solar system, based on the way it may have shepherded six objects into clustered orbits.

India was the first nation to successfully reach the Red Planet on its first attempt when the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), also known as Mangalyaan, entered orbit in 2014.

On top of all that, NASA's InSight mission is expected to reach Mars this year to study how rocky planets form.

SpaceX announced last year that it plans to get people to the Red Planet by 2024, but the battle over what humans» arrival would mean for the search for life on Mars will probably reach a fever pitch this year.

The Exxon Valdez oil spill recently marked its 20th anniversary, a reminder of the devastating impact that human activity can have on even the farthest reaches of the planet.

THE dark outer reaches of our solar system could be hiding a new planet — the ninth or tenth, depending on who's counting.