The rocky and rough surface of the asteroid was surprising. The 16-minute light travel time between Earth and the spacecraft makes real-time communications very difficult.
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Alltel is probably one of the cheapest wireless stocks on the planet. And there's a good chance they can spin out some of their divisions in the next year or two. And also once again fundamentals should be very strong there.
I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.
You can use the Internet to find out, from anywhere on the planet exactly how much coffee is in a certain coffee machine at Cambridge University in England exactly how many sodas are available in certain vending machines at certain major universities and much, much more.
I believe global warming and climate change are real threats to our planet.
I am a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet.
The next logical step is to think what makes the most sense for a shielded presence on another planet. It's time to go beyond Earth's orbit.
Before launch it just seemed impossibly far away, it seemed unreachable. Tonight, I go out knowing our rovers have been there a whole Martian year...it's a much more familiar planet. We know the place.
Mere human beings can't afford to be fanatical about anything. Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by murdering a million helpless people to clear a space for his law-courts. If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.
I hope to be with you as a writer for a very long time, and I hope that you will enjoy reading my work, because readers are the highest form of life on this planet.
I think it's one of the most devastating diseases on the planet. It robs you of the person one memory, one moment, one brain cell at a time.
The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.
This effort provides a very good example of the hard work our industry continues to do to make sure automobiles and auto production have the least impact on our planet,
But the question of how we migrated around the planet, how we populated the world, in effect, is still an open one.
It's important, with climate change, landfills, hazardous waste, the health of humans and other species, future generations and the health of the planet.
M dwarf stars dominate the stellar population in the solar neighborhood, and so are attractive targets for searching for habitable planets. The models show that gas-giant planets are indeed likely to format distances sufficiently large enough to permit the later formation of habitable, terrestrial planets.
The welfare of the planet and its environment is paramount. But what we do, and do equally and evenhandedly, is more difficult to identify. I have no doubt in mind that President Bush is serious in his determination to reexamine the overall issue and that
I want to keep fighting because it is the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don't fight, I'll eat this planet.
This is not the biggest problem in the world. The biggest problem in the world is getting along with each other. But it's part of that because we're not going to get along with each other if we're not getting along with the planet.
Of all my awards, this is probably the most special to me, ... Nobody expected the Comets to do anything this year. The only thing that would make it better is if I was in Houston right now, preparing for Game 3.
Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.
We visited a comet, grabbed a piece of it, and landed here this morning. It was a real thrill.
My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term 'magnitude,' which is used for the brightness of a star.
My soul just can't connect with a woman from this planet, she has to be out of this galaxy.
I've been asked whether we can justify trying to protect wildlife when there's so much human suffering on the planet but the two are actually not exclusive.
The planets are never the same twice, they're always different, so they could compare the markings I had drawn with their current photographs and they knew that I was drawing what I was really seeing and it wasn't copied from somewhere.
What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Each face in the rainbow of colors that populate our world is precious and special.
To put it country simple. Earth has a lot of things other folks might want, like the whole planet. And maybe these folks would like a few changes made.
If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet.
It tends to indicate these Earth-mass planets are quite common, 10 to 50 times more common than previously believed.
I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
We were the world leaders one day and then suddenly some obscure group on the other side of the planet is ahead of us. Money dried up. We didn't have enough even for purified water.
Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus.
To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
Ceres is an embryonic planet, ... Gravitational perturbations from Jupiter billions of years ago prevented Ceres from accreting more material to become a full-fledged planet.
We have no choice but to act. Climate change is the worst threat the world is facing from an environmental perspective. It's putting at risk our relationship with the planet.
Understanding what's out there is essential for us to cherish it We know so little about this life on this planet. Life on this planet is essential for its long-term sustainability.
We groom the most acreage on the planet.
Clouds grossly affect the greenhouse effect on the planet. So they play a very profound role in weather and climate. Yet taken altogether they are one of the most poorly understood aspects of the climate change problem.
L. R. H. in Clearing Procedure, 1957The work was free. Keep it so.Therefore, although we have no such stature as the Great Philosophies, I charge you with this - look to source writings, not to interpretations. Look to the original work, not offshoots. If I have fought for a quarter of a century, most of it alone, to keep this work from serving to uphold the enslavers of Man, to keep it free from some destructive pitch or slant, then you certainly can carry that motif a little further. I'll not always be here on guard. The stars twinkle in the Milky Way and the wind sighs for songs across the empty fields of a planet a Galaxy away. You won't always be here. But before you go, whisper this to your sons and their sons - The work was free. Keep it so.
In fact, when you burn coal, you emit more acid rain pollution, more air pollution, more smog and more global warming pollution which threatens the entire planet.
As the new spirituality begins to become the pervasive spirituality of the planet, we'll find that we have abandoned our philosophy of contradictions in which we say we're all one but continue to try to win.
In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility.
Among archetypal images, the Sacred Tree is one of the most widely known symbols on Earth. There are few cultures in which the Sacred Tree does not figure as an image of the cosmos, as a dwelling place of gods or spirits, as a medium of prophecy and knowledge, and as an agent of metamorphoses when the tree is transformed into human or divine form or when it bears a divine or human image as its fruit or flowers.
The motivation is either an interest in space, astronomy, science fiction or being at one with the universe. Some see it as a spiritual choice.
If there are no miracles then we need to find another word for the existence of life the existence of you and me on earth. Call it a gift from spirit (God or god in whatever form works for you), serendipity, happenstance or plain good fortune. I invite you to look at your life as if it were a miracle. To treat your life in any other way seems to me to be a terrible waste of your unique presence on this planet.
Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop.