Sentences with phrase «to earth»

An earth quake in Papua New Guinea in February disrupted operations at Exxon's liquefied natural gas facility, reducing its quarterly earnings by $ 80 million.

The company reported only a couple of injuries — «two employees were treated for ringing in their ears» — for the launchpad incident that nearby residents described as earth - shaking.

And fear not frugal adventurers: the cost to book your own space odyssey, depending on which option you choose, is slowly descending to the earth's atmosphere.

«Obviously we both have a very fun time together, both have a very good sense of humor about things, we're down to earth, we take the mickey out of each other a lot, and she's got plenty of habits that make me laugh that I tease her about,» Prince William said during their engagement.

The implicit idea is that we women — more than half the earth's population — are all in one giant sisterhood club together.

The stories we tell matter, and you tell stories more powerfully than anybody else on the Earth.»

The reality of an astronaut's job is all about being on Earth and preparing and helping other people fly in space and supporting them and training each other.

«It feels like heaven on Earth.

History is going to bifurcate along two directions: One path is we stay on Earth forever, and then there will be some eventual extinction event — I don't have an immediate doomsday prophecy — but there's... it's eventually, history just that there will be some doomsday event.

In B.C. especially, companies such as QLT Inc., Angiotech Pharmaceuticals and Cardiome Pharma Corp. saw their valuations soar in the early 2000s, only to come crashing to earth by the end of the decade as a result of competitive pressures, regulatory snags, strategic blunders and deals gone awry.

He astutely observed that our nation suffered from a «poverty of the spirit,» noting that despite our technological advances, «we haven't learned to walk the Earth as brothers and sisters.»

Why on earth would I do the experimenting on my own nickel when, for a collection of relatively inexpensive fees and conditions, I can purchase expertise from the recognized world authority on sub sandwiches, the Subway organization?

BFR in fully reusable configuration, without any orbital refueling, we expect to have a payload capability of 150 tons to low - Earth orbit, and that compares to about 30 for Falcon Heavy, which is partially reusable.

«It's set during Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, and kicks off when an alien race decides to invade Earth after the Chinese government covertly sends a signal into space,» Business Insider explains.

«I hope it will be about the importance of respecting the Earth and nature and the bounty of nature.

SpaceX's Gwynne Shotwell has used such creative problem solving to turn the Mars - eyed ambitions of her boss, Elon Musk, into actual Earth - departing rocket ships.

«The load of bacteria on the Tesla could be considered a biothreat, or a backup copy of life on Earth,» she said.

And in fact we now believe that early Mars was a lot like Earth.

And on the prior slide, it's interesting to note on Mars, dawn and dusk are blue — the sky is blue during dawn and dusk, and red during the day — it's the opposite of Earth.

And we also improved the capability of the vehicle from 10 tons to about 13 tons to LEO [low - Earth orbit].

Whereas if something relies on parachutes or wings, then you can pretty much only — well if it's wings, you can pretty much only land on Earth, because you need a runway, and most places don't have a runway.

Truaxe, who recently changed his job title on LinkedIn to «Worker on Earth,» has control of his company's Instagram account, Jezebel reported earlier this month.

We only have one earth, we have to work together.»

In interviews, he often discusses the pressure he faces as a guiding voice for fans and his efforts to remain down - to - earth despite his rise to fame.

And through change you create hope, the most powerful motivator on earth.

The industry alliance that managed the upgrade of the Great Eastern Highway has been recognised for excellence in construction and environmental management at this year's Earth Awards for civil infrastructure.

It's far more self - reliant and I can very clearly see a «can do» attitude — that down to earth approach that got things done.

Elon Musk's far - fetched plan not only to get humans to Mars, but to inhabit it, has evidently driven interest in the Red Planet: A team of NASA scientists will talk about the challenges of living on Earth's neighbor, while Lockheed Martin and NASA will combine to talk about the interplanetary travel systems that will take us there.

When Mama Earth Organics partnered with a group of Amish farmers, building trust took time — and a few apple fritters

«Buildings have been constructed from Earth for thousands of years including, according to recent evidence, the Pyramids,» the site reads on its FAQ page.

We can call out lots of reasons why this nation suffers from a record of gun tragedies that no other country on earth experiences — and we can conjure up other theories until we forget the urgency of Parkland and Las Vegas and Newtown and move on to something else.

The daughter of late Walmart founder Sam Walton, Alice Walton holds a major piece of the company fortune, making her the richest woman on earth.

This week, Allbirds is dropping the surprise release of a very limited edition Earth Day collection.

ASPIRING rare earths miner Arafura Resources is on a renewed push to progress its Nolans project in the Northern Territory and has set a date for mid-next year to decide whether to continue or walk aw

Mars colonists will get blasted with radiation levels eight times higher than government limits on Earth.

Plus, Forest allows you to convert points you earn from avoiding your phone into real trees planted on Earth, via donations from Forest to Trees for the Future.

Astronauts» spacesuits are white to reflect the heat they encounter while floating above the Earth.

I should mention that long - term, this can also be done on Earth.

«We see this reducing the amount of infrastructure you need to send from Earth to Mars to make a sustainable colony,» Noone says.

It enables launching of Earth satellites that are significantly larger than anything that we've done before, or significantly more satellites at a time than anything that's been done before.

Jones also says Musk could turn his short - term attention to industrializing the area between Earth and the moon as a way of eventually helping humans reach Mars.

On Monday, Musk tweeted that instead of disposing that leftover earth, he plans to recycle it into interlocking, Lego - style bricks that can be used to build houses and other structures.

So most places on Earth would be maybe 20, 25 minutes.

Still, it's fair to ask whether Trudeau has any desire to bring real - estate prices back down to Earth.

Because in»69 we were able to go to the moon, and the space shuttle could get to low - earth orbit, and then obviously the space shuttle got retired, but that trend line is down to zero.

Bill Waren, senior trade analyst at Friends of the Earth, called the decision «recklessly irresponsible and a thinly veiled attack on clean energy.»

Which means if SpaceX does do something like 30 launches next year, it'll be approximately half of all orbital launches that occur on Earth.

But in every one of these transitions there's been hew and cry about how jobs are going to be lost, there will be widespread unemployment, this scorched earth of despair, and it's never come true.

In addition, Musk teased the use of the space vehicles as part of a high - speed transportation system around Earth.

So you go all the way from the surface of Mars to the surface of Earth, just using the ship, albeit you need to go to max payload number about 20 - 50 tons for the return journey to work.