Sentences with phrase «terrestrial life as»

Oxygen is an important part of the atmosphere, and is necessary to sustain most terrestrial life as it is used in respiration.

Since life uses the left - handed versions, this suggests terrestrial life as the source of these amino acids.

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Hartshorne suggests, however, that resurrection can be interpreted as a «synthesis of one's life in God, the divine act of envisagement that keeps adding up the story of one's terrestrial existence, producing a total reality that is invisible to us on earth» (LP 261 - 62).

It is Mankind as a whole, collective humanity, which is called upon to perform the definitive act whereby the total force of terrestrial evolution will be released and flourish; an act in which the full consciousness of each individual man will be sustained by that of every other man, not only the living but the dead.

He had watched the sacred New Year procession; he had seen, for the pious but benighted Babylonian, a profound mystery taking place under the eyes of the beholder as Marduk and Nabu went out in solemn pilgrimage to the Akitu house, there to settle the fates of the incoming year; he had witnessed the annual festival in which Marduk triumphed over all his foes, cosmic and terrestrial, and himself died that life might once more return to the world.

b Secondly we must enlarge our approach to encompass the formation, taking place before our eyes and arising out of this factor of hominization, of a particular biological entity such as has never before existed on earth — the growth, outside and above the biosphere, (This term, invented by Suess, is sometimes interpreted (Vernadsky) in the sense of the «terrestrial zone containing life».

In short, as I said at the beginning, the terrestrial evolution of Life, if it is really to continue as hominization extended to the scale of the Noosphere, can not rebound in a new spring forward without acquiring a morality, and, to the extent that it needs a «faith», without becoming «mysticised».

We stalk and kill nature even as we know what contemporary ecological research makes plain: that we are enfolded in a living, terrestrial environment in which all living and non-living things are so mutually implicated and interrelated that no distinct line separates life from non-life (LL Chap.

The first story offers a cosmic vision and addresses us as spectators, majestically presenting our place in a cosmic whole; the second story maintains a strictly terrestrial focus and addresses us as suffering moral agents, poignantly presenting an account of how misery enters human life.

While it is evident to science that there is a functional «teleonomy» or machine - like purposiveness in individual organisms (for example, the fish's eye is constructed so as to enable it to see under water, the heart toward pumping blood, the human brain toward problem - solving, etc.), still there is no hard evidence that life itself, terrestrial evolution or the universe as a whole has any overarching meaning.

As to whether intelligent alien life exists, certainly Holloway found that idea «thrilling» but there is already more than enough to consider concerning terrestrial life, its evolution and the nature of the human self to warrant its discussion here.

Life's resilience and the sheer diversity of terrestrial organisms were not obvious on July 20, 1976, when the first Viking lander touched down on Mars's Chryse Planitia lowlands, programmed to find life as we then knewLife's resilience and the sheer diversity of terrestrial organisms were not obvious on July 20, 1976, when the first Viking lander touched down on Mars's Chryse Planitia lowlands, programmed to find life as we then knewlife as we then knew it.

«Scientists discover first super salty subglacial lakes in Canadian Arctic: Super salty water beneath ice could serve as a terrestrial analogue for a habitat for life on other planets.»

The researchers» conclusion that terrestrial placental mammals may have lived down under 110 million years earlier than expected, as reported in the November 21, 1997 issue of Science, could all but uproot the mammalian family tree.

I'm not a biologist, but everything I think of as terrestrial life produces a waste product.

Mangrove rivulus, which can live out of the water for extended periods of time (days or weeks, as long as the conditions are moist), uses its specialised jumping technique when water has low oxygen concentrations or high levels of hydrogen sulphide, or to escape predators and search for terrestrial prey such as crickets.

However, Mazzolai says real - life applications in the future could include detection and assessment of pollutant concentrations, e.g. heavy metals, or nutrients in the environment, as well as mapping and monitoring of conditions in terrestrial soils.

They refer frequently to their «design system», Echoes (Environmentally Controlled Human Operational Enclosed / External Space), that appears primarily to be a set of vague or obscure guidelines such as this, which appears under the puzzling heading «Lines of sight for healthy living buildings»: «The building spot must be geologically undisturbed... ascertain that there is no disturbance of cosmic and terrestrial influence on the human life form (DNA)... take care of harmonic measures, properties and forms».

Last year, scientists in Denmark showed that terrestrial leeches can be used similarly to sample an area's fauna, though they feast on fewer species than do carrion flies, don't travel as far in search of prey, and live in only certain habitats.

As we learn more about our own planet and the evolutionary history of terrestrial life we feel a stronger urge than ever to put it into context.

In late September 2003, astrobiologist Maggie Turnbull from the University of Arizona in Tucson identified 37 Geminorum as one of the best candidates for hosting Earth - type life from a shortlist of 30 stars (screened from the 5,000 or so stars that are estimated to be located within 100 ly of Earth) that were presented to a group of scientists from NASA's space - telescope project, the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), which will search for habitable planets by using visible light with the «signature» of water and / or oxygen from an Earth - type planet after its scheduled launch around 2013, and the ESA's Darwin project involving six space telescopes (Astrobiology Magazine).

One well - known model for the beginnings of life on Earth posits that terrestrial life sprang from complex molecules such as amino acids and sugars produced by electrical discharges in a primeval atmosphere replete with gases such as methane, hydrogen, ammonia and water.

It will perhaps even detect signs of extra-terrestrial life as the SKA will be sensitive enough to detect signals, comparable to terrestrial television transmitters, from planets in nearby solar systems.

Nitrogen and phosphorus are both considered as essential elements for all forms of life, and the corresponding biogeochemical cycles of these two elements are two of the most important in the biosphere, since these elements limit primary production in marine and terrestrial environments19, 27,28,29.

Extraterrestrial sample analysis and terrestrial field work on fundamental geological processes such as impact cratering, and their implications for the origin and evolution of life.

Terrestrial Animal Health Code of World Organisation for Animal Health defines animal welfare as «how an animal is coping with the conditions in which it lives.

A bull southern elephant seal is about 40 % heavier than a male northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris), more than twice as heavy as a male walrus (Odobenus rosmarus), [3][4] and six to seven times heavier than the largest living terrestrial carnivorans, the polar bear (Ursus maritimus) and the Kodiak bear (Ursus arctos middendorffi).

A lot of terrestrial wild life such as hummingbirds, pigeons, herons and iguanas either nest, rest or feed in mangroves over water to be safe from predators.

As air - breathing reptiles covered with impermeable skin, sea turtles are one of the few marine species that are suited for terrestrial life.

Life offsets death, the cosmic is pitted against the terrestrial, the supernatural shines in something as basic and bodily as a ring of soap scum around a bath.

But there's more for «Mission to Earth» geeks (I count myself as one) over at the Earth Observatory Web site, where SeaWiFS merits the «Image of the Day» — a view of Earth showing the averaged chlorophyll concentration in the oceans from 1998 through 2010 (and of course showing all that glorious green terrestrial plant life, too):

Biosphere (terrestrial and marine)- The part of the Earth system comprising all ecosystems and living organisms, in the atmosphere, on land (terrestrial biosphere) or in the oceans (marine biosphere), including derived dead organic matter, such as litter, soil organic matter and oceanic detritus.

The Swedish national news had it as one of its top stories, and we learned by the reporter responsible for the public Television that 40 % of the terrestrial land will be impossible for humans to live on.

Terrestrial life evolved around an ocean that outgasses CO2 as it warms and takes it up as it cools.

The project to map the living «green architecture» of the US was kick - started back in 2005 by NASA, as part of its Terrestrial Ecology Program.