Sentences with phrase «single human lifetime»

Airborne Researchers Measure Greenland's Ice (Reporter package) View Animation Greenland's coastal ice is disappearing fast enough that at its current rate of decline it will contribute to a rise in the world's oceans of a little less than a centimeter in the space of a single human lifetime.

Today I Learned, on good authority, that it remains impossible to exclude 3 meters of sea level rise within a single human lifetime from West Antarctica alone.

In a single human lifetime humanity has become a planetary - scale geological force», said Prof Steffen.

As a veterinarian, I have noted with interest that during a single human lifetime a number of pet lifetimes may pass, and as we recall each pet that shared our time, it seems that they never stayed with us quite long enough.

«Studying disruptions to ecosystems like those seen in plant invasions provides a window into something — specifically the process of co-evolution — that we normally don't get to observe in a single human lifetime.»

Why bring the timeframe forward to within a single human lifetime?

In some models, such instabilities can produce a planet in a few hundred years or less, possibly even in a single human lifetime, but only if the disk is very dense and cold.

But I would at least like to see a mission that could be completed in a single human lifetime.

Not exact matches

Whiteheadians seem able to imagine such ecstatically spanned unities - across - time on the so - called «microscopic» scale of the «specious present,» but give up on the idea as the scope of the temporal disclosure space is widened to the scale of human lifetime and of generations.7 But worse than this from the point of view of Heidegger's temporal problematic, by submitting the ecstatic unities of their «specious presents» to the before / after ordering and metric properties of linear time, at least in terms of their mutually external relations and arrangements, they give back ontologically every advantage they gained from the use of an cc - static - temporal disclosure horizon in the first place, even though it was only the single horizon of presence.

It really was just yesterday that the Wright Brothers flew the first airplane just after 1900, then within a single person's lifetime, human beings were able to step on the face of the moon.

Evolution or complex animals can not be observed in the single lifetime of a human.

Most of the things we use every day are inventions that no single human being could ever design within her lifetime,» he observes.

Once weaned from breast milk, a human being can live an entire lifetime without eating a single carbohydrate.

In Von Heyl's work, a single painting can contain the history of painting, just as each human being retains various selves over the course of lifetime.