Planet of Adventure is the name given to a series of four science fiction novels by Jack Vance, which relate the adventures of Adam Reith, the sole survivor of an Earth ship investigating a signal from the distant planet Tschai.

Tschai is a planet orbiting the star Carina 4269, 212 light-years from Earth.

Vance's depiction of the human race after tens of thousands of years on Tschai aims to show how foreign humanity can become in alien surroundings.

* Much of the SF work of Jack Vance: the Big Planet duo, the Alastor trio, the Durdane tetralogy, the Cadwal Chronicles trilogy, the Tschai or Planet of Adventure tetralogy, most of the Magnus Ridolph stories, the Demon Princes pentalogy, and various stand-alone novels such as Maske: Thaery and short stories such as The Moon Moth.

The insect-like Pnume are the original inhabitants of Tschai.

The two survivors are forced to set down on Tschai and soon enough, Reith is alone.

The initial, and perhaps even sole task of philosophers, according to this view, is not to establish and demonstrate theories about reality, but rather to subject all theories — including those about philosophy itself — to critical review, and measure their validity by how well they withstand criticism.

Biafra had received sole songwriting credit for most Dead Kennedys songs on all released albums for the last 20 years or so without complaints from the band, though a minority of songs had given credit to certain group members or the entire band as a whole, indicating a system designed to reflect the primary composers rather than a regimented system like the Jagger / Richards partnership ; today, most Kennedys reissues list the songwriters as " Biafra, Dead Kennedys ", indicating Biafra's lyrical contributions — which the band doesn't dispute, or else simply as " Dead Kennedys ").

Using himself as the sole subject in his experiment, he memorized lists of three letter nonsense syllable words — two consonants and one vowel in the middle.

He felt that the SA — now numbering some three million men — should become the sole arms-bearing corps of the state, and that the army should be absorbed into the SA under his leadership.

And according to the Jainism perspective, neither a god nor a guru have any role in a person's karma — the individual is considered to be the sole doer and enjoyer of his karmas and their ' fruits '.

After a series of international art exhibitions culminating in exhibitions in New York City and Moscow, Lomography signed an exclusive distribution agreement with LOMO PLC in 1995 — thereby becoming the sole distributor of all Lomo LC-A cameras outside of the former Soviet Union.

Those who want to vote against the sole candidate on the ballot must go to a special booth to cross out the candidate's name before dropping it into the ballot box — an act which, according to many North Korean defectors, is far too risky to even contemplate.

The Articles of Confederation, ratified by the colonies in 1781, contained the clause, " The United States in Congress assembled shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority, or by that of the respective states — fixing the standards of weights and measures throughout the United States — ....".

The Senate would assemble and appoint one of its own members — the interrex — to serve for a period of five days with the sole purpose of nominating the next king of Rome.

In 1928 Slovenian Herman Potočnik ( 1892 – 1929 ) published his sole book, The Problem of Space Travel — The Rocket Motor ( German: Das Problem der Befahrung des Weltraums — der Raketen-Motor ), a plan for a breakthrough into space and a permanent human presence there.

Two Trents were fitted to Gloster Meteor EE227 — the sole " Trent-Meteor " — which thus became the world's first turboprop-powered aircraft, albeit a test-bed not intended for production.

It concluded that two allegations were founded — that Taleyarkhan had claimed independent confirmation of his work when in reality the apparent confirmations were done by Taleyarkhan's former students and was not as " independent " as Taleyarkhan implied, and that Taleyarkhan had included an additional colleague's name on one of his papers who had not actually been involved in the research (" the sole apparent motivation for the addition of Mr. Butt was a desire to overcome a reviewer's criticism ," the report concluded ).

" His sole possessions were a kamandalu ( water pot ), staff, and his two favourite books — Bhagavad Gita and The Imitation of Christ.

Therefore, the Bayeux Tapestry was not unique at the time it was created — rather it is remarkable for being the sole surviving example of Middle Ages ' narrative needlework.

The carnivorous marsupials — order Dasyuromorphia — are represented by two surviving families: the Dasyuridae with 51 members, and the Myrmecobiidae with the numbat as its sole surviving member.

* Italian — Bandabardò: " La fine di Pierrot " (" The End of Pierrot "), from Tre passi avanti ( 2004 ); Gigi Finizio: " Pierrot ", from A te donna ( 1984 ); Litfiba: " Pierrot e la luna " (" Pierrot and the Moon "), from 17 RE ( 1987 ); Matia Bazar: " Mio bel Pierrot " (" My Lovely Pierrot "), from Il tempo del sole ( 1980 ); Novembre: " Come Pierrot " (" Like Pierrot "), from Novembrine Waltz ( 2001 ); Patty Pravo: " Come un Pierrot " (" Like a Pierrot " ).

Until the release of the 9555 in 2008, the 9505A was the sole handset sold by the company — a functionally identical clone of the Motorola 9505 with some slightly different components.

For the Orthodox, Saturday — with the sole exception of Holy Saturday – is never a strict fast day.

When the angular velocity of this co-rotating frame is not constant, that is, for non-circular orbits, other fictitious forces — the Coriolis force and the Euler force — will arise, but can be ignored since they will cancel each other, yielding a net zero acceleration transverse to the moving radial vector, as required by the starting assumption that the vector co-rotates with the planet.

# if you could dramatically improve how we do that, you'd be boosting every effort on the planet to solve important problems — the sooner the better ; and

It has been estimated that about half of the Earth's mature tropical forests — between 7. 5 million and 8 million km < sup > 2 </ sup > ( 2. 9 million to 3 million sq mi ) of the original 15 million to 16 million km < sup > 2 </ sup > ( 5. 8 million to 6. 2 million sq mi ) that until 1947 covered the planet — have now been destroyed.

" By the end of the following year he had taken up the ukelele and tea-chest bass and begun to participate in skiffle sessions with friends, and had started to play the piano ; meanwhile his stage presentation of numbers by both Presley and Chuck Berry — complete with gyrations in tribute to the original artists — to his local Wolf Cub group was described as " mesmerizing ... like someone from another planet.

These structures are somewhat analogous to high-and low-pressure cells in Earth's atmosphere, but they have a very different structure — latitudinal bands that circle the entire planet, as opposed to small confined cells of pressure.

The Morning Star is, in fact, identical to the Evening Star — both are the planet Venus.

By ordering the solids correctly — octahedron, icosahedron, dodecahedron, tetrahedron, cube — Kepler found that the spheres could be placed at intervals corresponding ( within the accuracy limits of available astronomical observations ) to the relative sizes of each planet ’ s path, assuming the planets circle the Sun.

Kryptonite is a fictional material from the Superman mythos — the ore form of a radioactive element from Superman's home planet of Krypton.

Still, in the book Protector ( 1973 ), the Martians are brutally exterminated by a large water asteroid deliberately hurled at the planet, raising the water content in the atmosphere to a degree deadly to them, by Jack Brennan, a human who had turned into a Pak Protector — a creature completely devoted to protecting its descendants, or sometimes his entire species, and is unreasonably xenophobic towards anybody else.

Each planet is a kind of petri dish in which a particular human culture — derived to some extent from a culture known historically on Earth — thrives and changes.

* In the 2008 video game LittleBigPlanet, the titular planet is described in terms similar to a noosphere — that is, it is the physical manifestation of idle human thoughts.

The Northern Hemisphere is the half of a planet that is north of its equator — the word hemisphere literally means “ half sphere ”.

The planet's low density ( about 40 % that of Earth ) suggests that the planet may have a substantial component of low-density gas — possibly hydrogen or steam.

At a specific velocity called escape velocity, again dependent on the firing height and mass of the planet, an open orbit such as ( E ) results — a parabolic trajectory.

Perhaps the best known was the planet of The Man Who Counts — Anderson adjusted its size and composition so that humans could live in the open air but flying intelligent aliens could evolve, and he explored consequences of these adjustments.

Picard and Data realize that Soran is altering the path of the ribbon by collapsing stars, and determine that Soran will attempt to reenter the Nexus on Veridian III by destroying its star — and, by extension, a heavily-populated planet in the system.

Dust would collect in orbits that have mean-motion resonances with this planet — where their orbital periods form integer fractions with the period of the planet — producing the resulting clumpiness.