This looks like a re-run of the discussion leading up to the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, in which development groups angrily rejected any intellectual framing in which population growth in developing countries was identified as the core global problem.
Unfortunately, the earth's circumference at the equator is almost 25, 000 miles, so when we try to model the entire earth, and go up into the mesosphere (about 25 to 50 miles above the earth) the picture gets fuzzier.
These were pretty drastic steps, with complicated consequences, but they do not seem to have caused the heavens to open up over Iceland, to wipe the country from the face of the earth (unless you're counting all those erupting volcanoes).
That's for all the reasons discussed in my previous blogs on this, including the basic problem that the public might not be able to work out what on earth the Bank was up to.
Over the past month, the periodical cicadas of Brood XIII, native to the area, have crawled up roots, through the earth's surface and onto tree trunks everywhere, to moult and spread wings.
Its texture and chemistry set it apart from all previous objects picked up off the surface of Earth but known to originate on the Red Planet.
The dish would send the ISP's data up to one of the satellites (in low earth orbits to minimize signal delay), which would then relay the data back down to a backbone access point.
The US shuttle Atlantis and its six crewmen are heading back to Earth, wrapping up the craft's 32nd - and probably final - trip into space.
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!
He claimed the Nationalists had "promised the earth" to voters in the run up to the last Scottish elections but said they had "dithered, postured, centralised and deeply disappointed".
Much later the Graham family remembered that another preacher had prayed that out of Charlotte the Lord would raise up somebody to preach the gospel to the ends of the earth, and that is exactly what Billy Frank Graham has been doing for the past 63 years.
The results suggest that 17% of stars host a planet up to 1.25 times the size of the Earth, in close orbits lasting just 85 days or fewer - much like the planet Mercury.
After the capsule hooks up with the station 240 miles above the earth, astronauts plan to retrieve about 1, 000 pounds of provisions, including food and clothes.
We got one over the critics, the doubters, the Labour party, all those who wondered what on earth the prime minister was up to when he told MPs last month that the government would legislate so that energy companies have to give the lowest tariff to their customers.
Treatment continues at the sites today, with vapor barriers in place, so-called slurry walls going down 40 feet into the earth, well sucking up water to be treated, and systems operating to extract toxins from the air and water.
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But of course it took several minutes to fire up the laptop and get Windows going, then to pull up Google Earth.
So being able to study reconnection up close could lead to a better understanding of the behaviour of plasma on earth, on the sun, and in deep space not to mention improved space-weather forecasts.
In spite of round-the-clock work, progress on boring a huge tunnel into the earth was not up to mark.
They grind up the earth and bring samples to the surface.
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For more than six decades, gas companies have been using advanced technologies to hydraulically fracture and safely procure natural gas from up to two miles beneath the surface of the earth.
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Kendall, copies of the papers tucked under his arm, looked up at the sky to watch the leaves, red and gold, spinning down toward the earth.
The largest animals on Earth, blue whales can grow up to 90 feet long, still a fraction of the size of cargo ships that can stretch 1, 200 feet.
After a million years or so the influence of these large planets, it was thought, caused the fragments to be ejected from the asteroid belt altogether potentially ending up in an Earth-crossing orbit.
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These unsung passages function as the smaller veins feeding into the main artery of the Grand Canyon, the up-to-18-mile-wide, mile-deep gash in the earth through which 227 miles of the Colorado River snakes.
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.
Disney, which was flying high last week with Up and The Proposal, is expected to fall back to earth.
The level of damages in that case will be established at a later hearing, but that could be held up as Friends of the Earth said it plans to appeal.
The probe was built to land on the larger of Mars' two moons, Phobos, and scoop up rock to bring back to Earth.
Surviving forces up to an earth shattering 1500 kg of static force is the proof that "THE CRASH" punches well above its weight.
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By the time any change occurred, humans might even have generated technology that could speed up the Earth's rotation or transport us to other liveable planets within our galaxy.
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