Sentences with word «spacefaring»

If two or more turn out to be habitable, then they could share life among them, either by tossing meteorites back and forth or — in the case of spacefaring civilizations — by deliberate space travel.

While governments of most spacefaring nations have agreed to abide by the rules, the law is unclear on private companies such as SpaceX and Mars One, who are hoping to beat national agencies to Mars.

After a period of fine - tuning in Early Access, Endless Space ® 2 has hit «full launch» status and is ready for players to jump in and take on the challenge of conquering the universe as one of many distinct spacefaring civilizations.

(Yes, attacking or befriending other spacefaring species along the way.)

Axiom's mix of very talented folks and our pool of capabilities put us in a unique position to help countries identify what is needed to become spacefaring, and to train their astronauts for two years or even a bit more, then fly them to orbit for extended periods of time — maybe 60 days just starting out when our module is attached to ISS all the way up to 180 days when we separate and form our own station.

In order to support the anticipated increase in spacefaring vessels, the infrastructure facilitating deep space communications must also be improved.

Whether you favour real - time bouts or brainy turn - based simulations, great strategy games throw you into uniquely massive scenarios that let you rule empires, control spacefaring races, and marshal cavalry charges against armies of hundreds.

The U.S. is also attempting to tackle the problem through diplomacy, although with minimal success; in late July at the United Nations, long - awaited discussions stalled on a European Union - drafted code of conduct for spacefaring nations due to opposition from Russia, China and several other countries including Brazil, India, South Africa and Iran.

The reality is, when it comes to carrying out serious space science, humans simply can't compete with spacefaring hardware.

Once the mirror is unfurled, James Webb will represent the largest and most advanced spacefaring telescope ever created, with the ability to image distant objects in long - wavelength visible to mid-infrared bands by utilizing a suite of advanced equipment.

BioWare is probably best known for its Mass Effect series of spacefaring action RPGs.

This isn't your usual laser fire and magical spacefaring adventure.

Other spacefaring nations take a more pragmatic approach to plans for space.

Spacefaring explorers may face similar tragedies ifthey can't find a reliable method to orient themselves as they travel to distant planets and, perhaps, faraway stars.

No Man's Sky, developer Hello Games» spacefaring sandbox title, will be released for PlayStation 4 and PC on June 21 across North America.

But can they survive the threats of Warrior One, the Greatest Monster in the Galaxy, and a very strange spacefaring family?

Either alone or with up to three friends, players must fend off spacefaring invaders through frenetic real - time combat in a variety of mission areas, many of them inspired by real - life locations.

One of the star attractions was a computer program called Muslims in Space, which calculates when spacefaring Muslims should pray and, using spherical trigonometry, discerns the direction of the Ka'aba, the holy shrine in Mecca that Muslims face during prayer.

There have been some interesting tidbits of information to spring from the developers at Cloud Imperium over the last few months, but yesterday saw the long - awaited reveal for the Aurora spacecraft — the basic spacefaring vessel newcomers will be flying when they enter the online world of Star Citizen.

For Michael Martin Nieto, a theoretical physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, the mystery involves much more than a few hunks of spacefaring hardware; it reveals that there might be something wrong with our understanding of gravity, the most pervasive force in the universe.

Just as we are poised to begin exploring the frontiers of deep space, a sad truth is beginning to emerge: Far from being a naturally spacefaring species, we are frail creatures who may not be able to function for long periods outside the gravity, atmosphere, and magnetic field of mother Earth.

«If the major spacefaring nations push back against that interpretation, it will probably not create a customary usage of the term «use,»» Listner told TechNewsWorld.

«India is a major spacefaring country, and it would seem reasonable to expect that it would eventually want to develop its own human space - flight capability.»

Several experiments designed to detect the showers of spacefaring particles have found more high - energy positrons than expected (SN: 5/4/13, p. 14), and astrophysicists have debated the excess positrons» source ever since.

Debris is piling up with such speed that it has become a threat to the kind of spacefaring endeavors that spawned it in the first place.

She must figure out how best to sterilize spacefaring instruments; baking them, as NASA used to do, isn't a good option for the sensitive electronic components on modern spacecraft.

«We will be the leading spacefaring nation — unless we get so hidebound into doing things we've done before that we don't want to do anything new.»

Although human spacefaring has stalled, Verma says the spirit of exploration is alive and well in space robots.

At the American Museum of Natural History on March 15, retired Air Force Gen. Lester Lyles talked about how the military came to understand during the first Iraq war the importance of spacefaring capability for everything involved in conducting its operations.

A draft of the code — which Russia and China prevented from being adopted in last month's UN discussions — calls for more transparency and «confidence - building» between spacefaring nations as a way of promoting the «peaceful exploration and use of outer space.»

These advances, experts say, establish China as one of the top - tier spacefaring nations on Earth and the one with perhaps more momentum than anyone — a status that excites scientists and could inspire other nations to step up their own plans.

To avoid that scenario, spacefaring organizations have historically agreed to keep spacecraft clean.

Everything else can derive from existing spacefaring assets.

In a 2012 paper Jacques Blamont, a founding director of the French space agency CNES, argued that people are losing interest in the human exploration of space «because spacefaring nations, and especially the USA, have clung on to outmoded cold war ways of thinking about it.

D: To possible spacefaring extraterrestrials, it was a way for us to convey something of how rich and beautiful life is here on this little planet.

When cosmic rays — spacefaring protons or atomic nuclei — smash into the atmosphere at ultrahigh energies, they launch a cascade of many other types of particles, including muons.

Only in the last decade, when multiple spacefaring nations and corporate entities have announced plans to embark on manned exploratory missions to Mars and prolonged habitation on the Moon, has biomedical research been directed towards identifying possible CVD risks associated with the deep space radiation environment.

Yooka - Laylee was meant to bring a new golden era for the genre, far from the spotlight for too long, but it's a small spacefaring kid and her trusty hats that may finally be able to do so.

We don't want to say anything untowards about Nintendo's spacefaring bounty hunter, but for the last 10 years Samus Aran has been stepping out with more than one developer.

The designers behind the adventures of Marvel's spacefaring Guardians of the Galaxy haven't been shy about releasing concept art.

Whether they're on the right or wrong side of the law, they're always tangling with spacefaring threats — like the Mad Titan Thanos.

Since its PC release, Warframe has boasted what's probably the most kickass high concept on the market; a F2P yet massively expanded take on Mass Effect 3's cooperative multiplayer, which casts us as ancient spacefaring ninjas free to bring death to power - armoured marines, robots and zombies with outlandish guns and Sci - Fi samurai gear.

Roberts Space Industries is holding another «free fly» weekend for their massive spacefaring MMO Star Citizen, so anyone can jump in and see...

First announced in 2007, Dead Space is a third - person shooter that merges spacefaring science - fiction and survival / horror to create a game in which the player (in control of an engineer named Isaac Clarke) battles against reanimated human corpses aboard an interstellar space ship.

During spacefaring encounters, you'll have to keep an eye on your shields and your positioning, using special skills to boost your attack and defense while maneuvering your ship through enemy fire.

Where Endless Space 2 diverted from the first, and other spacefaring 4x games, is just how accessible everything is.

Neon cuteness belying hardened spacefaring carnage.