Sentences with phrase «struck by a meteor»

The eruption destroyed the top three thousand feet of the volcano, blasting it into the air in pieces, leaving behind only a large crater three miles wide and half a mile deep, as though the mountain had been struck by a meteor.

In Meteor Man, Townsend plays the D.C. schoolteacher Jefferson Reed, a Good Samaritan who survives getting run down by hoodlums and struck by a meteor, simultaneously, the latter calamity imbuing Reed with various superhuman powers to fight one of Hollywood's favorite social ills in the 1990s — gang violence.

Dusty Depot has been struck by a meteor and turned into Dusty Divot, a massive crater with a research base in the centre of it.

Only a tiny number of Catholics took umbrage at La Nona Ora, Cattelan's 1999 sculpture of Pope John Paul II struck by a meteor, and even they weren't sure why they should be offended.

Not exact matches

@really Sodom was destroyed by natural event meteor strike.

From the origin of the universe (big bang), to the origin of the moon (big collision), to the origin of lunar craters (meteor strikes), to the demise of the dinosaurs (asteroid impact), to the numerous sudden downfalls of civilizations documented by Jared Diamond in his 2005 book Collapse, catastrophism is alive and well in mainstream science.

Both films center around a carefully guarded zone that has been mysteriously affected by a meteor strike and has at its center a location that may or may not explain its mysteries.

«There is nowhere more alone than the Farallon Islands,» Geni writes in The Lightkeepers, «The rest of the world might disappear — the human race wiped out by a pandemic, a meteor strike, a zombie uprising — and we would be the last to know anything about it.»

The DLC introduces natural disasters to the game, such as meteor strikes, earthquakes, and forest fires, which can occur randomly, or be triggered deliberately by players.

By now, we will have all seen and heard the rumors regarding the Fortnite Meteors and its impending strike on the Fortnite Battle Royale map.

I always believed that the oceans were an important element in localised weather conditions over the short term but feel that relatively sudden shifts in climate occur through external forcings such as volcanic eruptions, meteor strike and the effects of changes in cosmic rays and sun spot activity, which are, unfortunately, all chaotic by nature and unpredictable.