Somehow, during the closing credits, I managed to come back to earth, just in time to head over to the Belly-Up, the venue for the book reading.
One of the welcome features of several recent space missions has been the decision to post pictures online almost as soon as they come down to Earth.
The earth is asking us for that, asking us to join up again, to come back to our home which is this living thing, the Earth!
According to his calculations, about 20 years of lead time would be sufficient for solar radiation to move the asteroid away from its current course causing it to come nowhere near the Earth.
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How fitting, then, that evidence unearthed not far from Roswell suggests that life could indeed have come to earth from outer space.
The challenge to humanity is to establish and maintain the foundations of peace and justice upon the Earth for the centuries to come.
We're the home to the world's best colleges and universities, where more students come to study than any place on Earth.
In the past few weeks, however, she has come down to earth with a bump.
When those components are made locally, prices should stabilize if not come down to earth.
The market, that is, assumes that oil prices will come back to earth.
Perhaps we shouldn't be surprised that they have come down to earth.
But as valuations of Internet, software and hardware companies come down to earth, and medical device and drug companies continue to steadily get bought or go public, more health care investors are clawing their way onto the list.
What matters is this: at a time when the church so badly needs to embrace change, and seek renewal of its mission on earth, the new pope seems to come from the right place.
Otherwise those stock prices might very well come back down to earth.
At some point Chelsea will come back down to earth slightly, but they certainly look like the team to beat in the early going.
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He doesn't think life on Earth will come to a complete end Friday.
Over 300 meters in diameter and weighing 25 million tons, it is set to come within 20, 000 miles of Earth in 2029.
By the time humanity got its first closeup view of Mars, a little less than a century after Schiaparelli mapped it, the planet had come to seem like a second, more exotic Earth.
It might sound like the plot of a Hollywood movie, but one gigantic asteroid is scheduled to come within 20, 000 miles of Earth in the near future -- a near miss in cosmic measurements -- and the possibility remains that it could hit our planet and cause catastrophic devastation never seen before.
Many more creatures soared into space in the years to come, until Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin orbited Earth in April 1961.
It was Burt's genius idea of turning the spaceship into a giant shuttle car, and for it to come in as a shuttle car into the Earth's atmosphere, that was the breakthrough.
"Many scientists and mathematicians have looked... at the question of whether life likely exists beyond Earth, and have come to the conclusion that the odds are pretty high that somewhere among the trillions and trillions of stars in the Universe there is a planet other than ours that is home to life, " he wrote.
More than 1, 300 near-Earth objects have been classified as potentially hazardous to Earth, meaning that someday they may come close or hit our home planet.
The spacecraft's data indicates the asteroid has a very primitive surface - rather like the chondritic meteorites that are sometimes picked up on Earth and which are assumed to have come from bodies that experienced no melting or differentiation.
His bewildered eyes roamed the room to see where on earth that little voice had come from, but he didn't see anyone!
Dr. JONATHAN OVERPECK (Geosciences, University of Arizona): It's going to come a rate much faster than plants and animals on Earth have ever seen in the time they've been on Earth.
Yet both will fall back to earth in 2013 as unit growth decelerates, margins come under pressure in response to intensifying competition, and earnings growth drops into the low single digits.
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