Eventually, the people with the phones are going to start using these new sites, and I imagine many more listeners to the BBC's Digital Planet - a radio programme devoted to the way technology touches lives around the world - will come online and join in the conversation.
In their paper, the co-authors argue that gravitational tidal heating caused by the gravitational friction of an earth-like exo-moon on an eccentric orbit around a Jupiter-like planet lying at a Jupiter-like distance from its parent star, could, in fact, create habitable conditions.
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The system could thus provide astronomers with invaluable information about planet-disc interaction, suggests Alan Boss, a leading planet-formation theorist at the Carnegie Institution in Washington.
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Evidently Chambers had turned on his computer one morning, clicked on his famous CEO dashboard--reported to be the best sales forecaster on the planet--and had spied a plague of locusts eating Cisco sales.
Just as Mars -- a desert planet -- gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits for bringing back to life portions of the Red Planet through the application of Earth Science to its similar chemistry, possibly reawakening its life-bearing potential.
The mercantilist empires of the day put this philosophy into action by competing in a planet-wide land-grab that lasted a couple of centuries.
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He has a well-honed sense of presentation and play--a popular dessert is a "planet" with a raspberry core, grapefruit-cream surface, and hard-sugar atmosphere (his blueberry satellites didn't pan out).
Mr. LISSAUER: We believe this discovery of this small planet is a rock-solid discovery, even though the planet itself may or may not be solid rock.
Indeed, the way things are going, by November 2012, we may see the Mideast - and perhaps other parts of the planet - plunged into a cataclysmic war.
But he added that if you had a small star - as this one is - then a moderate-sized planet would block out enough light to be detected by telescopes.
Here, the heroine of the previous films, Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), crash-lands on a godforsaken planet whose population consists of a couple of dozen mean-looking convicts running some sort of dilapidated foundry.
Astronomers have long theorized that there are many planets that have drifted away from their home stars, whether it's a too-loose gravitational pull during the planet's formation or a stellar tug-of-war.
If a body as big enough to maintain an atmosphere - even a very light one - then it's a planet.
Astronomers using the Kepler telescope found the first known double-star planet just last September Kepler-16, a gassy oddball orb the size of Saturn that circles a pair of stars 200 light-years from Earth, like the planet Tatooine in the "Star Wars" films.
Astronomers using the Kepler telescope found the first known double-star planet just last September Kepler-16b, a gassy oddball orb the size of Saturn that circles a pair of stars 200 light-years from Earth, like the planet Tatooine in the "Star Wars" films.
Concern over a planet-wide nitrogen limit, for example, could lead to people forgoing the benefits that fertilisers offer the poor soils of Africa on account of harm done by their over-application in China.
If the new object were a captured alien, it could give astronomers their first good look at an extra-solar planet, or a brown dwarf if that is what it turns out to be.
Since the very first planets outside our solar system were discovered in the early 1990s, the hope has been to find an "Earth twin" - a planet like ours, orbiting a star like ours, at a distance like ours.
And the nuclear-winter hypothesis (that the smoke from fires caused by a global nuclear war would blot out the sun's rays and thus cool the earth catastrophically) owes its origin, at least in part, to observations of a planet-wide dust storm on Mars.
The pressures are only going to increase as CMOs live on a planet rapidly expanding with social and web data they are struggling to explore and CIOs live on a rapidly shrinking planet (budget-wise), but struggling to manage a more demanding and complex IT environment.
Because we all agree that at this defining moment in history -- a moment when we're facing two wars, an economy in turmoil, a planet in peril -- we can't afford to give John McCain the chance to serve out George Bush's third term.
But "TRON: Legacy" turns out to be a little too much like one of those logy trapped-on-Planet X sci-fi movies from the 1950s: There's a lot of dramatic stasis undergirding the visual wow.
This is a now or never moment - kick polio off the planet over the next few years or face a humiliating retreat which could see the virus re-emerge in scores of countries.
An open source team just discovered the first planet known in a 4-sun system, just by parsing public data!
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It proceeded to launch a Lonely Planet-branded travel magazine, competing for scarce advertising without even advancing the BBC's own name.
Grant Dalton's Club Med won The Race - a non-stop lap of the planet to celebrate the Millennium - in 62 days.
Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and wet world into a barren landscape.
If you go out from Earth up into space, you see our entire planet is a living organism - be it in the sea with all the fish, on the land with all the reptiles and mammals and insects, but the way man is behaving at the moment needs attention.
The views and little stops along the way make this one of the best (and possibly most overlooked) treks on the planet, a glorious march -- or in my case, occasional scramble, that includes hot springs retreats, delicious local food and rich cultural insight into a relatively unexplored part of Japan.
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