I bet God wanted us all to progress scientifically and technologically to the point where we can spread among
the stars as a civilization.
Not exact matches
Maybe to be viewed
as a beautiful nebuka from some far off
civilization first glancing out to the
stars.
It's hard to disagree, although these
civilizations are more Alien than
Star Trek, dark and squishy worlds with buildings made from living bodies or stitched together by workers using silk - extruding grubs
as sewing machines.
Because we are looking for
civilizations that exist today, we are interested in
stars born around the same time
as the sun — 5 billion years ago.
After 35 years of eavesdropping on the
stars, hoping to hear the intelligent murmurings of an extraterrestrial
civilization, the SETI Institute's lead alien hunter is hanging up her receiver and retiring
as director of the Center for SETI Research.
Marcy, an expert on exoplanets, also resigned today
as principal investigator of the Breakthrough Listen project, an effort to survey
stars close to Earth and listen for messages from other
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.
On February 19, 2006, Turnbull named HR 483 A
as a Sun - like
star that is old enough to qualify
as a top - five candidate for those listening for radio signals from intelligent
civilizations, such
as the SETI Institute.
As a comparison, a Type I
civilization has evolved with the technological ability to harness all the energy that reached their planet from their
star; a Type II
civilization is much more advanced, with the ability of harnessing all of the energy from their
star.
Warcraft: The Beginning, 2016 Directed by Duncan Jones
Starring Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Dominic Cooper, Toby Kebbell, Ben Schnetzer, Robert Kazinsky, Clancy Brown, Daniel Wu, Ruth Negga, Anna Galvin SYNOPSIS: The peaceful realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war
as its
civilization faces a fearsome race of invaders: orc warriors fleeing their -LSB-...]
«Blade Runner 2049»
stars Ryan Gosling
as Officer Q, a Los Angeles Police Department officer who uncovers a plan to destroy what's left of
civilization, leading him on a mission to locate Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford).
What it does:
As demonstrated when it was used by
Star - Lord (Chris Pratt) to kill Ronan the Accuser (Lee Pace), the Power Stone is nothing but raw power and can destroy whole
civilizations, let alone one emo warlord.
One of my favorite films is The Emperor's Club,
starring Kevin Kline
as Mr. Hundert, the Western
Civilization teacher at St. Benedict's Academy.
In the modern martial arts epic, the classic tension of
star - crossed lovers is amplified by the presence of four reigning powers — clans with an ancient rivalry
as old
as civilization itself — and beliefs rooted in a tradition of warfare.
With that, his cast of friends, enemies, and rivals was ever - expanding, including love interest Amy Rose, his sidekick Tails (whose popularity led to his own spin - off title), and then most recently, a burly brawler from a lost
civilization known
as Knuckles the Echidna, a «friendly nemesis» who at the time was beginning to look like a potential break - out
star in his own right with the upcoming costarring title role in Sonic & Knuckles, a game which had potentially revolutionary repercussions on the industry.
Moreover, the
Star Ocean franchise treated the existence of magic and aliens
as a matter of fact, so
Star Ocean — The Last Hope was developed
as a prequel that chronicles mankind's first steps into the
stars and meetings with alien
civilizations.
Luckily, Kirkhope didn't let this unfortunate event interfere with his amazing composing work for titles
as Perfect Dark,
Star Fox Adventures, Viva Piñata, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning,
Civilization: Beyond Earth, and the spiritual successor to Banjo - Kazooie, Yooka - Laylee.
In a universe that is many billions of years old, with
star systems separated
as much by time
as by space,
civilizations might emerge and develop and burn themselves up simply too fast to ever find one another.
We've been pondering the
stars in wonder since the dawn of
civilization; and stargazers were finding patterns in the sky long before the ancient Greeks described many of the constellations
as we know them in a poem called Phaenomena from 270 B.C.