His arrival must have occurred during the " dark ages " that followed the destruction of the Mycenaean civilization, and his conflict with Gaia ( Mother Earth ) was represented by the legend of his slaying her daughter the serpent Python.

The name Delphoi comes from the same root as δελφύς delphys, " womb " and may indicate archaic veneration of Gaia, Grandmother Earth, and the Earth Goddess at the site.

The Gaia hypothesis states that there is an emergent feedback loop generated by the metabolism of living organisms that maintains the temperature of the Earth and atmospheric conditions within a narrow self-regulating range of tolerance.

* Sustainability movement which started in the 1980s focused on Gaia theory, value of Earth and other interrelations between human sciences and human responsibilities.

Gaia philosophy ( named after Gaia, Greek goddess of the Earth ) is a broadly inclusive term for related concepts that living organisms on a planet will affect the nature of their environment in order to make the environment more suitable for life.

Building to some degree on his observations and artifacts, e. g. the Dymaxion map of the Earth he created, others began to ask if there was a way to make the Gaia theory scientifically sound.

The most extreme form of Gaia theory is that the entire Earth is a single unified organism ; in this view the Earth's biosphere is consciously manipulating the climate in order to make conditions more conducive to life.

The more speculative versions of Gaia, including versions in which it is believed that the Earth is actually conscious, sentient, and highly intelligent, are usually considered outside the bounds of what is usually considered science.

Buckminster Fuller has been credited as the first to incorporate scientific ideas into a Gaia theory, which he did with his Dymaxion map of the Earth.

Such views began to influence the Green Parties, Greenpeace, and a few more radical wings of the environmental movement such as the Gaia Liberation Front and the Earth Liberation Front.

Rosemary Radford Ruether the American feminist scholar and theologian wrote a book called " Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing ".

More speculative versions of Gaia, including all versions in which it is held that the Earth is actually conscious, are currently held to be outside the bounds of science, and are not supported by either Lovelock or Margulis.

At least one work of fiction, the film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, uses Gaia philosophy as a central point to the plot, and may arguably represent a fictional parallel to Sir James Lovelock in the character of Dr. Cid, who is met with skepticism from the scientific and social community when he promotes the idea of a " living Earth ".

* Peter Bunyard ( 1996 ), Gaia in Action: Science of the Living Earth

First formulated by Lovelock during the 1960s as a result of work for NASA concerned with detecting life on Mars, the Gaia hypothesis proposes that living and non-living parts of the Earth form a complex interacting system that can be thought of as a single organism.

In Greek mythology, Nereus ( Νηρεύς ) was the eldest son of Pontus ( the Sea ) and Gaia ( the Earth ), a Titan who with Doris fathered the Nereids, with whom Nereus lived in the Aegean Sea.

In Wicca, ( especially Dianic Wicca ) the concept of an Earth or Mother Goddess, similar to the Greek Gaia, is emphasized.

Such views have also led many pagans to revere the planet Earth as Mother Earth, who is often referred to as Gaia after the ancient Greek goddess of the Earth.

Then came Gaia ( Earth ), Tartarus ( the cave-like space under the earth ; the later-born Erebus is the darkness in this space ), and Eros ( Sexual Desire-the urge to reproduce, not the emotion of love as is the common misconception ).

Then came Gaia ( Earth ), the more orderly and safe foundation that would serve as a home for the gods and mortals, and Tartarus, in the depths of the Earth, and Eros, the fairest among the deathless gods.

* The Gaia Papers: In Search of a Science of Gaia

It bought for the development studios Visual Concepts and Kush Games, for Gaia Capital Group and for around the studio Irrational Games, which developed Freedom Force vs the 3rd Reich.

Its measurement by several observatories is coordinated by the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service ( IERS ).

International geodetic organizations like the IERS ( International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service ) speak of a reference system.

Such a frame is, e. g., WGS84, or the frames that are regularly produced and published by the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service ( IERS ).

The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service can insert or remove leap seconds from the last day of any month ( June and December are preferred ).

Yet the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service and the International Astronomical Union have defined a framework called the International Terrestrial Reference System.

* International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service

The rotation of the Earth and UT are monitored by the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service ( IERS ).

The longer " true " sidereal period is called a stellar day by the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service ( IERS ).

The IERS Reference Meridian ( IRM ), also called the International Reference Meridian, is the reference meridian used as the prime meridian ( 0 ° longitude ) by the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service ( IERS ).

The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service ( IERS ), formerly the International Earth Rotation Service, is the body responsible for maintaining global time and reference frame standards, notably through its Earth Orientation Parameter ( EOP ) and International Celestial Reference System ( ICRS ) groups.

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Apart of those three institutes TU Delft hosts numerous smaller research institutes, including Delft Institute of Microelectronics and Submicron Technology, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Netherlands Institute of Metals Research ( now part of Materials innovation institute ), Delft Centre for Aviation, Delft Centre for Engineering Design, Delft Institute of Earth Observation and Space Systems, Delft University Wind Energy Research Institute, International Research Institute for Simulation, Motion and Navigation Technologies.

Students based here study: Arts and Social Sciences, Civil Engineering, Computing and Information Systems and Mathematics, Earth Sciences and Geography, Statistics, Biosciences, Pharmacy, Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Science, and Radiography.

FAS projects are organized under four main program areas: Biosecurity, Earth Systems, Educational Technologies, and Strategic Security.

The Earth Systems Program ( ESP ) seeks to examine the increased stresses on the environment, including issues relating to energy, food, agriculture, water, and other natural resources, and to analyze how they interact with respect to international security.

Research in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences along with Pharmacy places UEA within the top ten nationally.

By the time of Resurrection, Earth is part of an entity known as the " United Systems ".

The series ' Systems Commonwealth was founded thousands of years in the past by the Vedran species in the Andromeda Galaxy, with Earth joining in the 22nd century.