Sentences with phrase «than space travel»

It's more basic to intellectual production, and effects more of the economy, than space travel ever could.

Sorry, but sending a link is more vital to mankind than space travel.

But recent observations and numerical simulations suggest that eventually — in a few millennia, maybe — the solar system may plow into a cloud of gas and dust a thousand times denser than the space we travel through now.

Some critics say that India should focus on alleviating poverty rather than space travel.

All these are far less costly, and far more profitable than space travel.

Not exact matches

In March it sent a commercial satellite into space with the boost of a partly used rocket, signaling that cheaper space travel — and the mission to Mars — may happen sooner than anticipated.

Musk continues to come off as a person more obsessed with space travel than building electric cars, which should be a major worry for Tesla investors.

Scott and Jurek describe sophisticated efforts by NASA and its many contractors to market the facts about space travel — through press releases, bylined articles, lavishly detailed background materials, and fully produced radio and television features — rather than push an agenda.

If they do not, the passenger needs a different seat with more under seat space or they shouldn't be permitted to travel with the pet which is larger than published allowable size (or whose carry bag is larger).

Faith is a delusion and those operating under it are not immune to criticism any more than those who claim to have visited other planets and travel on alien space ships.

We find it easier to be fascinated by the possibilities of space travel than to be distressed by the plight of millions of refugees living in misery on our own planet.

If you travel somewhere instead of weighing your bag down with 5 - 6 books that take up space, you can carry 80 books with you that take up less space than a regular book.

In a few thousand years of recorded history, we went from dwelling in caves and mud huts and tee - pees, not understanding the natural world around us, or the broader universe, to being able to travel through space, using reason to ferret out the hidden secrets of how the world works, from physics to chemistry to biology, we worked out the tools and rules underpinning it all, mathematics, and now we can see objects that are almost impossibly small, the very tiniest building blocks of matter, (or at least we can examine them, even if you can't «see» them because you're using something other than your eyes and photons to view them) to the very farthest objects, the planets circling other, distant stars, that are in their own way, too small to see from here, like the atoms and parts of atoms themselves, detected indirectly, but indisputably THERE.

With this number they don't take into account the rate the universe is expanding (space actually expands FASTER than light travels) and has previously expanded - we also know at one point the universe stopped expanding and then started expanding again.

When Maradona said in December that the 1990 World Cup draw was rigged, the news traveled around the globe faster than a space shuttle.

-- It folds compliment than my travel framework stroller, however takes up about a similar space longwise.

The Air Zoo, less than three hours from downtown Chicago, combines the thrilling history of air and space travel with fun amusement rides.

Another great option for traveling with a baby is to consider renting a vacation condo instead of a hotel room where you will likely have more space, more than one bedroom, a kitchen and possibly EVEN a washer / dryer to accommodate your family of three.

The disposable inserts are very helpful if you're traveling with limited space, since you can put a bunch more inserts in a diaper bag than you can cloth inserts or even complete disposable diapers.

Since I have to do a lot of international traveling, I needed a stroller that I could easily collapse and use to carry more than one child, and the Vista was the clear winner... There are so many features that I love — the different seat positions, the all - terrain tires, the large storage space, the uv - shades, its durability (just to name a few!)

The Joovy New Room2 is so much more than just a travel crib — it actually provides an impressive 10 square feet of safe play space for your baby, making it big enough for twins!

To insure the beam's integrity, the laser travels through sealed stainless steel tubes, 1.2 meters wide, that hold a vacuum to just one trillionth of earth's atmosphere, eight times less than open space.

Provisionally designated A / 2017 U1, the object appears to be less than a half - kilometer in diameter and is traveling at just over 40 kilometers per second — faster than humanity's speediest outbound space probes.

This isn't mere sci - fi speculation: In a nondescript warehouse in Webster, Texas, a forward - thinking scientist is developing a prototype rocket engine that could make space travel faster than ever before.

THE EDITORS REPLY: Space is expanding, carrying objects such as galaxies and photons with it, so light travels a greater distance than a simple calculation (such as speed multiplied by time) might suggest.

Any science fiction aficionado has seen it all before: beaming through walls, riding in starships that move faster than light, or traveling instantly to distant places in space and time.

Women scientists with Ph.D. s are much less likely than men to travel in pursuit of career - enhancing postdoc appointments, according to a survey from Israel's Ministry of Science, Technology and Space, as reported in The Jerusalem Post.

A claim to inheritance of the shuttle's estate has been filed by SpaceX, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic, and other private ventures hoping to prove that NASA has made space travel seem a lot harder and more costly than it needs to be.

Jets are narrow streams of gas that emerge from the cores of some galaxies, travel at more than 99 percent the speed of light, and penetrate as much as several million light - years into intergalactic space before fanning out into broad, luminous lobes.

The theorem states that either quantum mechanics is a complete description of the world or that if there is some reality beneath quantum mechanics, it must be nonlocal — that is, things can influence one another instantaneously regardless of how much space stretches between them, violating Einstein's insistence that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light.

Along with Mars 2020, STMD is hard at work, advancing promising technology for potential infusion into these Mars missions including: Heat - shield for Extreme Entry Environment, a tailorable, woven thermal protection system that would reduce entry loads and greatly reduce heat - shield mass; Deep Space Optical Communications, which will improve the data - return capacity from space to Earth by more than 10 times the current state - of - the - art; and the Deep Space Atomic Clock project which will revolutionize deep space travel by improving the precision of space navigation and enabling more efficient use of tracking networks likeSpace Optical Communications, which will improve the data - return capacity from space to Earth by more than 10 times the current state - of - the - art; and the Deep Space Atomic Clock project which will revolutionize deep space travel by improving the precision of space navigation and enabling more efficient use of tracking networks likespace to Earth by more than 10 times the current state - of - the - art; and the Deep Space Atomic Clock project which will revolutionize deep space travel by improving the precision of space navigation and enabling more efficient use of tracking networks likeSpace Atomic Clock project which will revolutionize deep space travel by improving the precision of space navigation and enabling more efficient use of tracking networks likespace travel by improving the precision of space navigation and enabling more efficient use of tracking networks likespace navigation and enabling more efficient use of tracking networks like GPS.

No, they share the same space, but we could never communicate with them because we are all being swept away from each other as space expands faster than light can travel.

It produced a tiny amount of force in the NASA experiment — 30 to 50 micronewtons — but if the results hold true, a workable microwave thruster would drastically cut the cost of space travel and send astronauts to Mars in weeks rather than months.

Its light takes more than four years to travel through space to its nearest neighbour, Alpha Centauri.

But the group of men in the Apollo program experienced different environmental conditions than anyone else in the world when they traveled into deep space.

It's also been decades since space travel has meant anything other than uninspiring low Earth orbit.

Jets are narrow streams of gas that emergefrom the cores of some galaxies, travel at more than 99 percent thespeed of light, and penetrate as much as several million light - yearsinto intergalactic space before fanning out into broad, luminous lobes.How might a black - hole whirlpool generate such a pair of waterspouts?Swirling bundles of magnetic field lines, flinging particles outwardfrom the poles of the hole, provide a natural explanation.

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Because radio signals travel faster than particles, the completed e-CALLISTO can also work as an early - warning system for radio bursts, alerting space mission control centres to upcoming disturbances caused by coronal mass ejections from the Sun.

As future missions look to travel back to the moon or even to Mars, new research from the University of New Hampshire's Space Science Center cautions that the exposure to radiation is much higher than previously thought and could have serious implications on both astronauts and satellite technology.

(Suborbital means the vehicle can fly only to a lower altitude than is necessary to start orbiting the Earth — it would have to travel higher, and faster, to reach altitudes achieved by orbiting satellites or the International Space Station, for example.)

The last resting place of the European Space Agency's (ESA's) comet lander Philae has been confirmed, less than a month before the end of the mission that saw it travel billions of kilometres from Earth.

According to Einstein, nothing travels faster than light, but space itself has no such speed limit; immediately after the Big Bang, the runaway expansion of the universe apparently left light lagging way behind.

Yet, how does living inside the International Space Station, traveling at speeds more than 32,000 kilometers per hour, actually affect the skin?

According to standard physics, cosmic rays created outside our galaxy with energies greater than about 1020 electronvolts (eV) should not reach Earth at those energies: as they travel over such vast regions of space they should lose energy because of collisions with photons of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the radiation left over from the big bang.

Wormholes, or hypothetical tunnels through space - time that allow faster - than - light travel, could potentially leave dark, telltale imprints in the sky that might be seen with telescopes, a new study suggests.

His science fiction was more realistic than most and the movies 2001 and 2010 popularized the vision of space travel tremendously.

The gas is tearing across space at more than 600,000 mph - fast enough to travel from Earth to the moon in 24 minutes (Photos: NASA and e2v)

Each bubble is deemed a universe in its own right, despite being part of the same space - time, because an observer could not travel from one bubble to the next without moving faster than the speed of light.

«After travelling more than nine years through space, it's stunning to see Pluto, literally a dot of light as seen from Earth, becoming a real place right before our eyes,» said Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator at Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado.