Sentences with phrase «spread around the planet»

Our ancestors took tens of thousands of years to spread around the planet; people today move from Lubbock to Geneva or from Tamil Nadu to Texas in hours.

And although the 17 are spread around the planet, they are at the same elevation plus or minus 177 meters (one standard deviation).

Ideas bounce around the planet with remarkable speed — Eminem fans abound in Estonia, Nigerian scammers take money from the gullible in South Carolina, and the US military transfers prisoners to its own network of non-Geneva-Convention basements spread around the planet.

After tens of thousands of years of scrabbling by, spreading around the planet, and developing tools of increasing sophistication, humans are in surge mode and have only just started to become aware that something profound is going on.

A new NASA visualization shows how heat - trapping carbon dioxide from human sources mixes and spreads around the planet, and in so doing recalls for me a stirring 1859 description of the atmosphere written by Matthew Fontaine Maury, widely considered America's first oceanographer.

That's because the tiny ash particles and aerosols that were blown into the stratosphere spread around the planet, blocking some of the Sun's rays from ever reaching Earth.

The troposphere initially absorbs the released heat and spreads it around the planet.

Not exact matches

Countless smash - ups over the millennia spread around enough of these exotic metals that when our planet formed, they were baked right into its crust.

First the vitalization of matter, associated with the grouping of molecules; then the hominization of Life, associated with a super-grouping of cells; and finally the planetization of Mankind, associated with a closed grouping of people: Mankind, born on this planet and spread over its entire surface, coming gradually to form around its earthly matrix a single, major organic unity, enclosed upon itself; a single, hyper - complex, hyper - centrated, hyperconscious arch-molecule, co-extensive with the heavenly body on which it was born.

Over a period of about 270 days, we watched this thundering, lightning - producing behemoth be born as a small disturbance in the northern hemisphere, then grow, spread clear around the planet until its tail met its head, and eventually fade.

This was a surprise, because the gas should have spread evenly around the planet, so Franck Lefevre and François Forget of the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, France, created a climate model to explain how such concentrations might form.

In Crida and Charnoz's conception, that ejecta first flattened into a ring around the planet, which then spread out and coagulated into the moon.

Zimbabwe's foremost land degradation expert has come up with a readily available solution for reversing the spread of deserts around the planet and slowing climate change in the process: He wants to let cows and sheep eat their way through the problem.

But as my A.S.U. colleague Kim Hill has put it, Even before the invention of agriculture, human communities may have eventually numbered around 70 million individuals... as Homo sapiens spread over the planet more broadly than any other large vertebrate.

By September debris from the impacts had spread around the giant planet.

«Now we see [the dark patches] are spread all around the planet, and they appear to be excavated from depth.»

The same approach was used by the team to study the SDSS 1557 system as any planets within it can not yet be detected directly but the debris is spread in a large belt around the double stars, which is a much larger target for analysis.

Over the past decade the former vice president has trained thousands of climate leaders who are now spreading awareness about global warming in communities around the planet.

If all the water on our planet were spread around the globe, it would be 2.8 kilometers (1.7 miles) deep).

Should the moons exist, then they are likely «shepherd» moons that prevent the rings around the planet from spreading out.

When Jupiter had his tryst with Io, he spread a veil of clouds around the entire planet to conceal his activities.

Its mission is to spread peace all around and to heal the planet by respecting all walks of life and all ways of living.

An extraordinary amusement park has been seen orbiting around the home planet of Sonic the Hedgehog, and rumors are spreading that an alien race of Wisps, who have a unique colorful energy, are being held captive there by the evil Dr. Eggman.

Soon after arriving at the amusement park, SonicAn extraordinary amusement park has been seen orbiting around the home planet of Sonic the Hedgehog, and rumors are spreading that an alien race of Wisps, who have a unique colorful energy, are being held captive there by the evil Dr. Eggman.

As I've mentioned here before, a junior at Pace University, Taylor Vogt, is the president of Students for a Smarter Planet, a student group related to the IBM effort that has chapters at Pace, the University of Illinois and five schools in England (and is looking to spread to campuses around the world).

The catastrophic decline and extinction of our planet's amphibians, some believe, is due to a virulent fungus spreading around the globe.

So these horizontal planes spread equal temperatures right around the very slowly rotating Venus planet.

DU weapons (sold to seventeen countries that are known and possibly others — why let poisoning the planet and its population get in the way of numerous millions of quick bucks) are equivalent to spreading the contents of a nuclear reactor around the globe.

This was a taller cliff for Niose to fly off because of one other anti-intellectual assertion of his: the insinuation about corporate influence, or as it is better known around the planet, illicit money paid to skeptic scientists and skeptic organizations in exchange for knowingly spreading misinformation.