Sentences with phrase «search for civilization»

Doc, thanks for the opportunity to plug the B612 foundation which is raising $ 400 million to launch a satellite to search for the civilization killing asteroid.

Their search for civilization leads them to a mysterious settlement that may or may not provide the sanctuary they seek.

In Lalami's meticulously researched novel, she imagines what the first black explorer of the New World might have to say about the years spent searching for civilization — and what he found when he finally reached it.

Not exact matches

Monasteries with their dedicated lives, Universities with their search for knowledge, Medicine, Law, methods of Trade — they represent that aim at civilization, whereby the conscious experience of mankind preserves for its use the sources of Harmony.

By approaching the question of mind and nature in this way Whitehead is able to provide us with an aesthetically rich understanding of nature, which at the same time preserves a necessary role for reason and the search for truth as an indispensable element in the determination of conscious experience, the enhancement of our aesthetic sensibilities, and the general advancement of civilization as such.

In an interview with ABC's Christiane Amanpour the archaeologist who discovered the Titanic discussed his findings from his search in Turkey for evidence of a civilization swept away by a monstrous ancient flood.

Again in Modes of Thought, Whitehead accords «importance» a central role in the intellectual search for worth and civilization.

With some luck (and money), the ATA will continue its search for extraterrestrial civilizations at least through 2016, when there will be a new, much bigger kid on the block: the $ 2.1 billion Square Kilometre Array, or SKA, a collaboration among 70 organizations in 20 countries.

So José Iriarte, an archaeologist at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, has opted for drones to search for the region's lost civilizations.

It played a key role in the history of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence: In 1974, astronomers Frank Drake, Jill Tarter and Carl Sagan used it to send messages to any extraterrestrial civilizations that might be listening (SN Online: 2/13/15).

Once focused mainly on detecting radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations, the institute now employs scientists studying many factors important for the existence of alien life — from Kepler team members who are detecting and characterizing exoplanetary systems, to astrobiologists searching for life in the most extreme environments on Earth and in the solar system's exotic nooks and crannies.

Topics ranged from the political (Vienna - based astrophysicict Mazlan Othman, who may have the best business card in the world as she is the director of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, discussed her duties and called for an international protocol on dealing with the possible detection of life in outer space) to the philosophical (theologian Ted Peters of University of California, Berkeley, discussed the significance of the discovery of extra-terrestrial life for the world's religions) to the positively apocalyptic (astrophysicist Frank Drake, the original champion of the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence efforts, pondered whether a technologically advanced civilization would inevitably use its power to annihilate itself.).

These bizarre characteristics have raised eyebrows among professional practitioners of SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, who use large radio telescopes to listen for interstellar radio transmissions from other cosmic civilizations.

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) received a huge shot in the arm today thanks to Russian internet entrepreneur Yuri Milner, who will devote $ 100 million to a much beefed - up 10 - year effort to detect signals from other technological civilizations in the universe.

Today the agency has embraced the search for microbes on Mars and other planets but at least for now tends to avoid the far more controversial topic of looking for alien civilizations.

Although searching for alien civilizations may be one of the most publicly appealing topics in all of astronomy, it does not pay well, if at all, and attracting new researchers to the fold had been challenging.

The technique may have applications ranging from the detection of bio-magnetic fields, and characterization of micro-electronics, to searches for extra-terrestrial civilizations.

Globular star clusters like this one, 47 Tucanae, might be excellent places to search for interstellar civilizations.

He and his colleagues have conducted long - term studies of the dust disks around old stars and the changes in aged red giants such as Betelgeuse, and are preparing the telescopes to look for possible infrared laser signals from newly discovered planets circling nearby stars, in search of extraterrestrial civilizations.

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.

The search for galactic emissions of radiation which could signal the presence of advanced alien civilizations has failed to find any, researchers say.

An international team of scientists from the SETI Institute, the private organization that is searching for signs of extraterrestrial life, revealed that it received mysterious signal spikes last year that could have possibly come from an alien civilization.

April 2, 2018 • Commentator Adam Frank talks with Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb about exo - civilizations, techno - signatures, and the search for alien life — living or long - gone.

Ever since Carl Sagan first predicted that extraterrestrial civilizations must number in the millions, the search for life on other planets has gripped our imagination.

An archaeologist searches for both treasures and trash — the signs of our earliest ancestors, a lost civilization or our recent past.

The premise behind SETI, an acronym for Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, is that technologically advanced civilizations want to make their existence known to their less - capable kin (i.e. us) and go about it by producing signals that might be detected in the course of our routine scientific observations.

The Planetary Society is the only organization now that does optical searches, so we have a telescope that looks, if you will, for laser signals from other civilizations, and you might say that sounds crazy.

Performances of the many solos parts for these instruments (in «Riddle of Steel», «Theology / Civilization», «Wifeing», «The Leaving / The Search», «Recovery» and «The Funeral Pyre» to name the most obvious examples) are fine indeed, and they are never drowned out by the other sections of the orchestra.

Through the central image of the frontier, the meeting point of wilderness and civilization, Ford explores the divisions of our national character, with its search for order and its need for violence, its spirit of community and its quest for independence

James Gray's personal epic of magnificent obsession in the Amazonian rainforest tells the story of a British explorer's dogged search for proof of an advanced civilization deep in the wilderness, and the lengthy pursuit that will consume him.

It was the reaction of many who, earlier this year, saw The Lost City of Z, James Gray's arty period epic about an early - 20th - century British explorer searching for a new civilization in the Amazon.

Loosely adapted from David Grann's nonfiction book, James Gray's ambiguous and lyrically orchestrated historical epic turns the story of the early 20th - century British explorer Percival Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam, in a revelatory performance) and his search for a lost civilization in the wilds of Brazil into a symphony of mystery, obsession, and transcendence.

For almost a decade, James Gray has been working on an adaptation of David Grann «s bestselling book The Lost City of Z, which tells the story of Colonel Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam), a man searching for a lost civilization in the AmazFor almost a decade, James Gray has been working on an adaptation of David Grann «s bestselling book The Lost City of Z, which tells the story of Colonel Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam), a man searching for a lost civilization in the Amazfor a lost civilization in the Amazon.

In all of her history classes, Seefeldt tries to show students how this is «what every civilization has been searching for.»

For those in search of Archeological Zones The Yucatan Peninsula is world famous as the cradle of the great Maya civilization.

The post-mortem interaction with the alien civilization in Prime also mirrors the plotline of Kane «s journalistic supporting cast, who spend the majority of the film searching for the reason behind the titular main character's demise.

In Deep Sky Derelicts the player assumes command of a group of mercenaries whose goal is to explore giant derelict ships of an ancient alien civilization and search for valuable scrap, powerful artifacts and technology.

It tells the compelling story of a civilization that lost their planet and has been roaming the edge of space for 2000 years in search of a new home.

The game is set on an island near the coast of Japan, where young Lara Croft came in search for relics of ancient civilizations.

Pilot the last vessel of a fallen civilization into the vast unknown, in search of a new habitable world.Carefully land on the planets you will encounter to gather terraforming resources and space - faring human survivors for the final destination... skillful piloting and the balanced management of fuel, oxygen &...

The intelligent thing to do would be invest in new infrastructure that also addresses climate concerns, but then, it probably ought to tell us something that alien civilizations have given our planet wide berth in their search for intelligent life in the cosmos.