Sentences with phrase «week as a planet»

After all, we spend over 3 billion hours a week as a planet playing video games.

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Last week, Planet Labs announced that it would put about 100 satellites into space from the United States and Russia, bringing the total number of «Doves,» as the company calls them, to 131.

There's also that popular project of space tourism: While Musk envisions $ 250,000 one - way trips to Mars, Jain imagines $ 10,000 or less week - long vacations on the moon, which he says could be just as connected to the mother planet as any two cities back on Earth.

But Trudeau will try to reposition Canada as more than a petro - state this week when he meets some of the planet's top business leaders at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland.

The most recent Nature World News reported this week that a German weekly magazine announced that researchers have found an «Earth - like» planet orbiting Proxima Centauri — a star that's known as a «tiny, red dwarf.»

Just as green - grabbing, millionaire musicians are never asked why the masses should give up their meager comforts to save the planet, while they themselves are permitted to grow ever - richer from their energy - hogging concert tours, Tebow could play a brightly - lighted night game every week and take a knee five times a yard to nothing but cheers, if only he embraced this year's anti-establishment, smart, and cool narrative.

There was competition of the olympic sort as my mind shifted from work, to email, conference calls, newscasts, the landscaping project underway, my son's spelling test, mapping out summer camps, my sister's birthday, making it to the gym on time, dentist appointments, cleaning the house since apparently we seem to be one of the only people left on the planet who scrubs our own toilets these days, to Easter, and oh, my mother in law is coming in a week (yay!).

- Wenger can be so insane to do it.The man is out of this world and complety insane.He can not see what it is obvious for the entire world.To have better players on the bench and to keep favouring the same out - of - form or not good enough players week after week is madness.To play for draw from the beginning against an awful team which got beaten by the entire league on a daily bases - this is something unimaginable.It is not Mertesacker fault for being embarrased by any player on the planet, it is the manager fault for exposing him as a laughing point of focus.Wenger must go, the man is deluded, he is scarred to take any risk for success.Well, guess what - only showing courage and breaking the risk can bring you success.Not the case - I predict a chain of defeats following, with the cherry on top being a big defeat against Spurs - a team which, despite our hate, plays real football (with great results I must say).

Ozil, is so frustrating, as today he looked as good a player as is on planet earth but last week, well it must have been his grandad who was wearing his shirt, not him, All that prodigious talent but so very often wasted through just not enough regular fight.

Despite playing out of their skin and winning the first leg against the best football team on the planet 3 weeks earlier, the Gunners fell victim to poor refereeing decisions and a passing masterclass as they succumbed to a 3 - 1 defeat.

Meanwhile back here on planet Earth; where no one, (not even someone such as myself with a lifelong interest in politics,) has ever heard of either Jeremy Corbyn or Angela Eagle much before last week, the Ivory tower jibe chimes very much in tune with my own previous assessment of a now all but completely defunct Labor party completely out of touch with the public at large and with broader opinion, and out to lunch.

While political stars, moons and planets must still align in the coming weeks and months for Democrats to assume control, many observers view the switch as «inevitable.»

Earlier this week NASA announced its science goals for the next US rover headed for the Red Planet, known for now as Mars 2020.

As the planet warms — and as that warming accelerates due to man - made climate change — «the cicada may yet reprise its role as climate indicator if its cycle is disrupted by a warming planet,» Wildlife Conservation Society entomologist Craig Gibbs wrote in an op - ed last week in The New York TimeAs the planet warms — and as that warming accelerates due to man - made climate change — «the cicada may yet reprise its role as climate indicator if its cycle is disrupted by a warming planet,» Wildlife Conservation Society entomologist Craig Gibbs wrote in an op - ed last week in The New York Timeas that warming accelerates due to man - made climate change — «the cicada may yet reprise its role as climate indicator if its cycle is disrupted by a warming planet,» Wildlife Conservation Society entomologist Craig Gibbs wrote in an op - ed last week in The New York Timeas climate indicator if its cycle is disrupted by a warming planet,» Wildlife Conservation Society entomologist Craig Gibbs wrote in an op - ed last week in The New York Times.

Two weeks ago, scientists reported that the martian moon Phobos will be torn apart as it circles inward toward the Red Planet.

A centre which will attract scientists from around the globe, as they want to «ensure we have a facility so that a visitor from anywhere on the planet who wants to spend a week doing experiments is positively encouraged and funded,» he suggests.

So, starting on February 28th, I will be debuting as the host of a new series on the Weather Channel called Hacking the Planet, and this is a series in which, each week, the format is I take a look at some kind of big natural threat, things like hurricanes and tornadoes and earthquakes and the like, and I explore what we understand, the science of how these things work and where they came from and how they stop and then we figure out, well, how can we use this knowledge to our advantage.

Next week is make or break time for Galileo as the spacecraft prepares to send a probe down to the giant planet

That means a «year» on the planet lasts just over a week, and its trip across the face of its star, as seen from Earth, lasts only five hours.

This week, Milner's Breakthrough Initiatives organization announced a partnership with the European Southern Observatory (ESO) to search for and image the planets of Alpha Centauri A and B as early as 2019.

Whereas the greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere will contribute to warming the planet for many decades to come, Ramanathan says, the good news about warming agents such as black carbon is that they don't linger in the atmosphere for more than a few weeks.

NASA deliberately crashed the MESSENGER spacecraft into the planet last week; during its final year of life, the craft repeatedly skirted close to the surface, detecting magnetized terrain, such as over the volcanic plains shown in blue here (blue denotes low elevations and red, high elevations).

«As we continue to ensure the resilience of our health care system, we are working to prepare our health care facilities to handle the effects of a changing planet,» Obama said in a statement Monday, officially naming this week National Public Health Wweek National Public Health WeekWeek.

JUBILATION reigned last week as the Galileo spacecraft completed its troubled six - year journey to Jupiter with a perfect performance above the giant planet.

The finding on Mars come just weeks after NASA described current plans for a manned mission to Mars as «fragile», and called for the establishment of a «Marz Czar» or a specialist mission office to adequate preparations were put in place for an unprecedented mission to the Red Planet.

As a result, every two weeks TESS approaches close enough to the Earth for high data - downlink rates, while remaining above the planet's harmful radiation belts.

One extreme example is a planet that is 650 AU from its star (650 times the Earth - Sun distance).16 That great distance may have resulted from the stretching of space during the creation week, as explained on pages 449 — 464.

In the case of two stars without planets, the background star's brightness will increase as the foreground star passes in front of it and then decrease as the latter moves away, in a predictable way during a period of days or weeks, producing a well - defined light curve.

As NASA's Dawn spacecraft heads for its historic rendezvous with dwarf planet Ceres next week, further mysteries unfold on the small world.

After our active two week rotation at the Mars Desert Research Station as Crew 160, I can confidently say that each member's point of view on what life on another planet would be like has been completely reformed.

Delegates argued and debated the issue for more than a week in what was presented in the press as Pluto's fight for survival as a planet.

With a 12 - week meal plan you will learn not just how to eat according to The Thrive Diet, but also why this particular eating style is beneficial to your physical and mental health as well as to the health of the planet.

Practice it at least once a week and watch how the practice shifts as the planets move.

This week goes from whisper to roar as planets drift from quiet, reflective Cancer to live - out - loud Leo.

Even when we launched Black Planet, we earmarked million dollars for marketing but 2 to 3 weeks after the launch we realised we shouldn't spend it on marketing as we needed the money for hardware and software to support the natural growth.

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As the planet learns its got two weeks to live before colliding with an asteroid, Steve Carell, a hangdog insurance salesman, watches his wife run off into the night.

The first trailer showed us Vision and Wanda hiding out in another city somewhere, but this makes clear something we learned this week as part of our set reporting from making the movie: Vision is moved to Wakanda in order to both draw Thanos out and keep him in the safest place on the planet.

This week, we explore The Fancy Pants Adventures, Section 8: Prejudice, a Final Fantasy IV collection, and downloads such as Mafia II and Lost Planet II.

He and his partner Victoria (Andrea Riseborough) are only a couple of weeks away from finishing their assignment as security monitors and drone repairman on a planet that has been almost entirely decimated after years of battling aliens.

This Week on PSN has new downloadable content for Little Big Planet and Dark Void, as well as a demo of Heavy Rain.

Anime fighting game leads light week of new releases; Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet lands on 360 as Limbo bows on PS3.

An event that started as a few days of local jam bands in 1987 Austin, Texas has grown to The South By Southwest Conference and Festivals (affectionately known as SXSW, or just «South By»), one of the largest and rangiest agglomerations of entertainment on the planet: over a week of film screenings, seminars, concerts, comedy, and gaming and tech demos.

Opening Jan. 22, AWFJ's Movie of the Week is The 5th Wave, which stars Chloe Grace Moretz (Clouds of Sils Maria, Let Me In) as a teenager struggling to survive after alien attacks have destroyed most of Planet Earth.

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes» Toby Kebbell also joined the project this week as the boy's father.

As for Kirby: Planet Robobot, it just keeps on selling and selling, and it's no surprise at all to find out its sales increased by 5 % this week.

Their teacher Andy McFadden has described the Climate Week Challenge as «an engaging and useful way for our pupils to continue learning about the damaging effects climate change is having on our planet and also an excellent opportunity to think creatively about potential solutions to the our own and future generations problems.»

«Taking care of the planet is need of the hour,» writes Rashmi Kathuria (@rashkath), who shares tips to tackle climate change such as setting up a school club with activities related to habitat protection, celebrating «Earth Week,» promoting «Earth Hour» (the time to turn off that undesirable power), and an «Anti-Cracker Campaign» (to create awareness for the environmental risks of burning crackers).

As a result of the end of the publisher's «Age of Ultron» event this week, the walls of reality between Marvel universes has broken down enough to let Galactus - Â the planet devouring threat created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby — cross into the Ultimate Universe.

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