Sentences with phrase «what distant planet»

One reads of Israeli leftists being surprised and disappointed by Arafat's manifest unwillingness to seek peace and one wonders: from what distant planet have they recently returned?

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If you just landed on a distant planet and had to learn your way around, what would be most helpful?

What are we learning about our own lives on Earth as we look at these distant planets?

Its discovery proved that the Kepler spacecraft, which was launched in March 2009, could indeed do what its designers had boldly promised: find small, Earth - size planets around distant stars, a task that once seemed so difficult as to border on the absurd.

The Planet Factory: Exoplanets and the Search for a Second Earth By Elizabeth Tasker Want to understand how scientists find these distant worlds and what they might mean for our future?

What was once considered a sure - fire sign of life on distant planets may not be so sure - fire after all, a new study suggests.

But what have all these distant objects and esoteric theories got to do with our everyday lives here on Planet Earth?

What can be observed as signs of carbon - based life on distant planets?

With less than four weeks remaining before NASA's New Horizons spacecraft speeds through the Pluto system for humanity's first - ever close - up reconnaissance of the distant planet and its assortage of moons, speculation runs rampant among scientists and the general public alike about what these mysterious worlds at the outer reaches of the Solar System might look like up close.

It appears to be a distant cousin of our own home planet; it has a rocky surface, signs of liquid water and an atmosphere (although scientists are still unsure what that atmosphere comprises).

«Our species» natural curiosity is what will drive us to distant planets,» Hawking said in the film.

Kepler was designed to seek out distant stars with orbiting planets — and that's exactly what it found, in spades.

What It's About: «A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers.

Soon everyone's problems are literally blown up when a deadly swarm of alien ships attacks the Enterprise during a routine dispatch, leaving the survivors stranded on a distant planet while others are held prisoner by the leader of the violent pack, a warlord named Krall (a fierce Idris Elba) who's searching for an artifact that is the missing puzzle piece he needs to finish building — what else?

He is looking to save what remains of humanity on a distant planet called Zircon V from the forces of an evil dictator.

SINGAPORE: What do female pirates, whale earwax, a distant planet, and a bell from one of the Singapore Navy's pioneer ships have in common?

Although our ability to observe and simulate the atmospheres of other planets is limited, explaining what we do know about these atmospheres provides an intellectual adventure into distant worlds, testing our understanding of atmospheric dynamics.

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Now when you've got the highest - carbon petroleum on the planet and it's bloody expensive to extract, upgrade, dilute, transport and refine in some distant land, what does that add up to?