Sentences with phrase «remote system planet»

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Somehow, a belief system that teaches people that they are the center of all the universe, created in the image of the most perfect being imaginable, strikes me as a bit more of an ego trip than accepting that we aren't destined to live forever because of our «specialness», but that we live our short lifetimes and die like every other living thing on the planet, our bodies decomposing and ultimately entering the food chain once again, on a tiny speck of a planet in an ordinary, remote backwater of the universe.

The new image is the first in a series of annual portraits of the Solar System's outer planets, which will give us new glimpses of these remote worlds, and help scientists to study how they change over time.

Extraterrestrial intelligent (ETI) civilizations may choose to pursue astronomy and search for planets orbiting other star systems and may also choose to follow - up on some of these targets by deploying their own remote exploratory spacecraft.

Global positioning satellites (GPS); remote sensing for water, minerals, and crop and land management; weather satellites, arms treaty verifications; high - temperature, light - weight materials; revolutionary medical procedures and equipment; pagers, beepers, and television and internet to remote areas of the world; geographic information systems (GIS) and algorithms used to handle huge, complex data sets; physiologic monitoring and miniaturization; atmospheric and ecological monitoring; and insight into our planet's geological history and future — the list goes on and on.

HDST would also provide detailed data on the interaction of each of the outer planets with the solar wind and give planetary scientists the ability to search for remote, hidden members of our solar system ranging in size from dwarf planets to ice giants like Neptune.

While the new definition would make Pluto a planet again, it would also make many moons, large asteroids and object in the remote Kuiper Belt into planets as well, bringing the grand total number of planets in our Solar System to more than 100.

The film starts off with the imminent collapse of the planet Krypton, where the powerful General Zod (Shannon, Mud) tries to take over the system in an attempt to save the planet, while the great Jor - El (Crowe, Les Miserables) and his wife Lara (Zurer, Angels & Demons) secure the escape for their infant boy, Kal - El (Cavill, Immortals), as well as a codex containing the DNA of Krypton's unborn future, to a remote but habitable (for Kryptonians) planet Earth.

Call of Duty chose to remain within our Solar System, while Titanfall 2 takes place on a remote alien planet.