Sentences with phrase «year earth hour»

This year Earth Hour will take place between 8.30 and 9.30 pm on the 19 March 2016.

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From posting facts to chew on (Did you know the Earth receives more energy from the sun in an hour than the entire world uses in one year?)

But even traveling at an incredible speed of 95,000 kilometers an hour (59,000 mph), it would have taken 300,000 years to reach Earth from Vega — and Vega wasn't in the same place 300,000 years ago.

I thought: He is «not now that strength which in old days moved heaven and earth,» when, for several years, he accompanied his old blind father to the synagogue and, for an hour, whispered in his ear every word of the prayers the old man did not know by heart, then going off to another service to fulfill his own duty to pray.

Never mind all that data collected and analysis done by scientists over the last 300 years, I choose to believe in a magic invisible sky man who created the Earth in 6 days, one who keeps me under surveillance 24 hours a day 7 days a week from the time I'm born until the time I die because I'm just that important to him, a god who will convict me of thoughtcrime, even while I'm asleep, if I should ever doubt his existence.

Weather you believe the the fact that from the point of the big bang in space, at that location, 7 days = billions of years on earth, or God's days are not 24 hours.

Young Earth Creationists say the weeklong account of God creating the earth and everything in it represents six 24 - hour periods (plus one day of rest) and date the age of the earth between 6,000 and 10,000 yEarth Creationists say the weeklong account of God creating the earth and everything in it represents six 24 - hour periods (plus one day of rest) and date the age of the earth between 6,000 and 10,000 yearth and everything in it represents six 24 - hour periods (plus one day of rest) and date the age of the earth between 6,000 and 10,000 yearth between 6,000 and 10,000 years.

Our hours and days derive from the time it takes the earth to revolve on its axis; our months from the time it takes the moon to revolve around the earth; and the year from the time of the revolution of the earth around the sun.

the only thing more pathetic than an idiot that thinks the earth is 6000 years old is somebody that post 24 hours a day on the topic.

He does not sit here on Earth where we have 24 hour days, they may be many thousands of years long.

If we were to be upon an outter planet say Saturn, our days would be a whole bunch longer than just 24 hours and a year on Saturn would equate to X number of years upon this earth!

Today, just 20 short years later, he oversees the Christian Broadcasting Network which, from its $ 50 - million headquarters in Virginia Beach, incorporates four television stations, six radio stations, a missionary radio station, a recording company, a programming service which makes 24 - hour - a-day programming available to the more than 3,000 cable systems in the U.S.A. and Canada, a news network, a university, and a satellite earth station.

Based on the scientific accuracy of the Bible, one must conclude that the creation week consisted of seven 24 - hour days, and that the earth is around 6,000 years old.

You know that movie Interstellar, when they go onto the planet orbiting close to a black hole that causes time dilation, which makes an hour on that planet equal seven Earth years?

Each hour represents 100,000 years that humans have been on the Earth.

You can read all the books in the world about pregnancy, birth and how to cope with a newborn baby, but when that baby does not sleep for more than 2 hours at a time for 3 years... yes not once... how on earth do you prepare for that?

This year, I'm excited to be adding a couple of tools to our home that will help us dim the lights for Earth Hour: an Amazon Echo Plus and a wireless controllable Philips Hue Light Bulb.

Haumea is an interesting object: it rotates around the Sun in an elliptic orbit which takes it 284 years to complete (it presently lies fifty times further from the Sun than the Earth), and it takes 3.9 hours to rotate around its axis, much less than any other body measuring more than a hundred kilometers long in the entire Solar System.

The sun is a virtually limitless source of clean energy, beaming down enough on Earth in an hour to meet humanity's needs for a year.

Captured by Kepler's digital sensors, transformed into bytes of data, and downloaded to computers at NASA's Ames Research Center near San Francisco, the processed starlight slowly revealed a remarkable story: A planet not much bigger than Earth was whipping around its native star at a blistering pace, completing an orbit — its version of a «year» — in just over 20 hours.

Near the end of its life, a huge star blasts much of its bloated outer atmosphere into space — a torrent of gas equal to Earth's mass each year, racing outward at 10 million kilometers per hour.

The trouble with designing a nice, regular calendar is that each Earth year is 365.2422 days long, leaving extra snippets of time that don't fit nicely into a cycle of 24 - hour days.

Using data gathered by an infrared camera during a survey of such stars, astronomers have found that the brightness of a brown dwarf — dubbed 2MASS 2139, which lies about 47 light - years from Earth — varied as much as 30 % in less than 8 hours.

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.

Oddly, a likely ally of Earth Hour within the White House is council head Nancy Sutley, former deputy mayor of Los Angeles, which last year was a flagship city in the event.

Located 51 light - years from Earth, this planet — named Tau Boötis A b — is a «hot Jupiter» that whirls around its sun every 3 days, 7 hours, and 30 minutes.

Earth's center Age: About 4.5 billion years Diameter: 1,510 miles Rotation rate: Once every 23.89 hours — or 0.2 percent faster than Earth.

Exposing the retina to light at night messes with your body's circadian rhythm, the beat of life estimated to have evolved 2.5 billion years ago in response to Earth's 24 - hour rotation.

The sun blasts Earth with enough energy in one hour — 4.3 x 1020 joules — to provide all of humanity's energy needs for a year (4.1 x 1020 joules), according to physicist Steven Chu, director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Our point was that Earth's rotation has slowed by a total of three hours over the course of 2,000 years, for an average of 0.015 second per day: If you think of Earth's period of rotation as a kind of clock, it would be three hours slow by now.

The Cassini spacecraft snapped this panorama of Saturn — actually a mosaic of dozens of photographs taken over eight hours — just after the ringed planet's equinox, which occurs once every 15 Earth years or so.

Here's a seemingly simple solar power fact *: the sun bathes Earth with enough energy in one hour (4.3 x 1020 joules) to more than fill all of humanity's present energy use in a year (4.1 x 1020 joules).

The earth receives more energy from one hour of sunlight than is consumed in one year by the entire planet, but there is currently no way to use this energy because there is no way to conserve all of it.

On the eve of this year's Earth hour (25 March), researchers propose a solution in the journal Science (24 March) for the global economy to rapidly reduce carbon emissions.

There was neither sunrise nor sunset to mark the passage of time, yet he knew the iron planet whirled around its star so fast that every time he lay down for his 8 Earth - hours of shut - eye, he woke up two years later.

One of the four gas giants, this planet takes 10.7 hours to rotate (completing a day) and 29 Earth years to complete one orbit of the sun.

Sunlight is a form of renewable energy that is virtually limitless: more solar energy strikes the earth each hour than the entire world uses in a year!

The parent comet (Tempel - Tuttle) has an orbital period of a bit more than 33 years, and so we see storms when the Earth happens to pass close behind the comet, such storms lasting only a few hours.

The two, more than 9,000 light - years from Earth in the constellation Scorpius, orbit each other every 18 hours and 53 minutes.

The unmanned 478 kg (1,054 lb) spacecraft was sent on a 9.5 - year mission to fly by Pluto — a distance so far that radio signals from the nuclear - powered probe take four hours to reach Earth.

The detection came in the early morning hours of January 4, 2017, LIGO researchers said in a press release, and the coalescing black holes were approximately three billion light years away from Earth when the collided, making this the most distant merger of its kind detected to date.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took this close - up of the red planet Mars when it was just 34,648,840 miles awayfrom a series of exposures Aug. 26 with Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 just 11 hours before the planet made its closest approach to Earth in 60,000 years.

The majority of these exoplanets have been found snuggled up to their host star completing an orbit (or year) in hours, days or weeks, while some have been found orbiting as far as Earth is to the sun, taking one - Earth - year to circle.

It is flattened at the poles due to a very fast rotation of less than 11 hours per Saturn «day,» but the planet takes 29.5 Earth years to complete an orbit around the Sun.

So, if you're in the same predicament as me - wondering how on earth you're going to manage to get through the next 24 hours, let alone the next four years, try this Feel Berry Good Smoothie Bowl.

According to Dr Davis (Wheat Belly), comparing man's time on Earth to a 24 hour clock, we barely started eating grains until about 11:56 pm (10000 years ago).

Ten years of story gets ya two and a half hours of smash - crash - bash ranging across multiple locales on Earth and multiple planets out in the wider galaxy.

Even with a lavish two - hour premiere, Terra Nova could stand to slow down and admire the world it has taken us to — Earth, 85 million years ago.

This year, Earth Hour and the hero of the highly anticipated motion picture The Amazing Spider - Man 2 — along with the film's stars, Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx and director Marc Webb — are throwing their support behind Earth Hour Blue, which aims to harness the power of the crowd to raise funds for on - the - ground environmental projects from across the world.

20,000 Days on Earth, a documentary about the singer by the artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, creates a fictionalised 24 hours in his life in which he watches Scarface with his 12 - year - old sons and drives Ray Winstone along Brighton seafront, writes Alexis Petridis