Three logs had been lashed together and planted in the earth as a crude little fence.
The whole purpose of protecting climate change is to protect the Earth as a whole.
The most distorted galaxies, therefore, were those twice as far from Earth as the gravitational lens distorting them.
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Oxford City Council created the meadow with charity Friends of the Earth as part of its Bee Cause campaign.
"We believe that nuclear weapons should not be on this earth as they are a threat to humanity, " he said.
"Nobody in the history of mankind has ever experienced the Earth as a pale, insignificant blue dot in the sky, " he said.
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So we're excited about what you're doing and what folks back on Earth as part of NASA's engineering teams and scientific teams are doing.
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But they and their soft, sad voices would continue to haunt both Mars and Earth as long as men were there to imagine them or become them.
Why don't journalists spend as much time inquiring into the lives of the billion poorest people on Earth as they do gawking at the fortunes of the thousand richest?
Folks in Tokyo's blue-collar Ota ward like to say that if you toss a good idea into the air, it will flutter back down to earth as a finished product.
But one- third of it could survive, including pieces as large as a small car, and smack into the Earth as fast as 0.6 mile (1 km) a second, authorities said.
With an orbit that will extend more than 10 times as far from Earth as HALCA, out to some 350, 000 kilometres, RadioAstron promises to capture detail that is more than 10 times as fine.
This view is understandable given that only a few decades ago I, myself, would have thought it ridiculous to imagine that reefs might have a limited lifespan on Earth as a consequence of human actions.
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During gasification, the carbon dioxide generated from the coal or other feedstock, like biofuels, is captured and then used to inject deep into the earth as part of oil recovery or otherwise sequestered in a geologic formation.
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Is it possible for those who regard the popes' claim to be the representatives of God on earth as wrong, or simply nonsensical, to view with some respect the papacy of John Paul, and the church he remoulded?
In China, they use artillery shells, rockets and airplanes to spray existing cloud systems with silver iodide, a compound that triggers moisture in the clouds to form ice crystals, which then fall to earth as snow or rain.
It is extremely rare on earth as it is created during very active nuclear reactions, most commonly found on the surface of the sun, but here can only be found as a by-product of the maintenance of nuclear weapons.
Because they are moving with respect to the Earth as well as to each other, observations of their movement over the next few years should prove beyond question that they are indeed the first partnered pair of black holes.
At dawn, he could see that but for the roadside oaks everything was gone, burned off the face of the earth as if by a powerful beam of light, the house standing naked and singed in a field of white ash.
If you see life as a gift from God, you will probably not make the same choices about the reproduction of life, and its termination, as you would if you saw existence on earth as your own to regulate as far as possible.
Garan, a NASA spaceflyer on his second spaceflight, is the creator of the blog Fragile Oasis, which he launched before leaving Earth as a way to share his experiences (and the experiences of other astronauts) to inspire people to cherish the beauty and wonder of the Earth.
Let me start off by saying one of the nice things about where we physically are right now is that we remove the effects of gravity, so we're able to do experiments that involve the effect of gravity basically on Earth as we look at what happens with the absence of it.
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If you were to land on Earth as an outsider and observe the way we work, you would assume the following: that we are our most creative, prolific selves between 9 AM and 5 PM, that group meetings are bastions of productivity, and that the best way to accelerate thought is by confining it inside walls.
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Perhaps in some future generation, when the fear of losing everything or the belief that bad things happen for no reason at all have all been relegated to the scrap heap of history, abundance will be the natural experience on Earth as people embrace their own perception that good fortune flows easily when trust rather than fear is the unwavering belief.
This might not be quite as earth-rattling as iTunes getting ported to Windows, but it comes fairly close.
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While this may not be as Earth-shattering as the new iMac that was announced, or the iPad and iPhone when the world first gazed upon them, Apple has done it again.
But in the middle of all this was a change in the sky color itself that gradually clarified as an upward-streaming brown cloud risen from the earth, as if the world was turned upside down.
Thermoelectric coupling uses heat from the decay of a radioactive fuel (as opposed to the full-scale nuclear fission which powers a reactor on Earth) as its energy source.
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