In Abrahamic religions the view is generally held that one goes to hell or heaven depending on one's deeds and / or faith while on Earth, or predestination and Unconditional election, or to the intermediate state to await the Resurrection of the Dead.

The Instrumentality of Mankind rules Earth and goes on to control other planets later inhabited by humanity.

In the novel, his last contact with Earth is the radio message " The thing's hollow — it goes on forever — and — oh my God — it's full of stars!

If a pair of twins are born on the day the ship leaves, and one goes on the journey while the other stays on Earth, they will meet again when the traveler is 6 years old and the stay-at-home twin is 10 years old.

* Part three goes on to say that the Catholic Church regards the Muslims with esteem, and then continues by describing some of the things Islam has in common with Christianity and Catholicism: worship of One God, the Creator of Heaven and Earth, Merciful and Omnipotent, Who has spoken to men ; the Muslims ' respect for Abraham and Mary, and the great respect they have for Jesus, whom they consider to be a Prophet and not God.

When the authorities raid the gathering, Mannie flees with Wyoming (" Wyoh ") Knott, a statuesque blonde agitator, whom he introduces to Mike and with whom he goes to see his former teacher, the elderly Professor Bernardo de la Paz, who claims that Luna must stop exporting hydroponic wheat to Earth or its resources will be exhausted.

If the vertical temperature gradient is + 12. 9 ° C per 100 meters ( where the positive sign means temperature gets hotter as one goes higher ), then horizontal light rays will just follow the curvature of the Earth, and the horizon will appear flat.

Klaatu declares that if his message goes unheeded, " Planet Earth will be eliminated.

* Action Comics # 590: The narrator recounts exactly how Chemo is destroyed on Earth-4 by the Negative Woman in Crisis on Infinite Earths # 9, stating, " Weeks ago on a parallel earth that no longer exists ," and goes on to specify how he survived when all the Earths merged into one single Earth at the end of the Crisis.

In similar settings at Poul Anderson's The High Crusade, an alien ship lands at a Medieval English village, but the overconfident would-be conquerors find out the hard way that they are not immune to swords and arrows ; the humans take over the ship and proceed to carve out an empire among the stars, but lose contact with Earth which goes on with its familiar history.

From the perspective of the Earth, the compact object never goes behind the other star ; in other words, the system does not eclipse.

Ngũgĩ goes so far to argue in Decolonizing the Mind ( 1992 ) that it is " impossible to understand what informs African writing " without reading Fanon's Wretched of the Earth.

By the end of this fifth novel, Earth and all of its possible permutations and alternate versions are destroyed once and for all, and everybody dies, at least as far as the novel Mostly Harmless goes.

The song, the story of an astronaut named Major Tom who goes into space and is entranced by the beauty of seeing Earth from such a great distance and consequently lets himself float off into space, never again to return, was chosen by the BBC as the theme song for the television coverage of the moon landing.

The Back to the Future series goes one step further and explores the result of altering the past, while in Star Trek: First Contact ( 1996 ) the crew must rescue the Earth from having its past altered by time-travelling cyborgs.

Now thinking he is a normal Earth inhabitant, he goes to work for the Daily Planet under the name of Charlie Kweskill.

Other games highlight Frieza in alternate story paths, including those where he successfully attains immortality and goes on to threaten Earth.

Ten percent of the profits of the organization goes into research for Friends of the Earth ( HK )' s Water Action Group, which is a charity aimed to raise public awareness of Hong Kong's coastal environment.

At the end of the One Year War, Char goes to Axis and his experience there is partly depicted in the manga Char's Deleted Affair, where he heroically protects Axis in two major battles against the Earth Federation.

It is here in Earth orbit that Amuro first goes into personal battle against Char.

After giving young Lawrence the Prime program so he can travel to Earth, " Vinnie " changes into young Lawrence, and goes to make up with Roselyn.

Humanity leaves for New Earth, as the Sun goes nova.

Meanwhile, Peter Wiggin, Hegemon of Earth, along with Petra Arkanian, goes to visit Alai, Caliph of the Muslim League.

The story is an adaptation of both the first volume of the manga and the first anime OAV: Miko's friends at school are assaulted by demons and her professor is kidnapped and sent to their infernal dimension ; Miko travels there and saves her ; everybody goes back to Earth where a final showdown is awaiting Miko at school.

Astronomers measure the angular separation of two stars by imagining two lines through the centre of the Earth, each intersecting one of the stars.

Aberration should also be distinguished from light-time correction, which is due to the motion of the observed object, like a planet, through space during the time taken by its light to reach an observer on Earth.

All of the heavy elements that are derived solely through artificial means are radioactive, with very short half-lives ; if any atoms of these elements were present at the formation of Earth, they are extremely likely to have already decayed, and if present in novae, have been in quantities too small to have been noted.

On Earth, ignoring the slowing effects of travel through the atmosphere, the lowest impact velocity with an object from space is equal to the gravitational escape velocity of about 11 km / s.

* Earth diver creation in which a diver, usually a bird or amphibian sent by a creator, plunges to the seabed through a primordial ocean to bring up sand or mud which develops into a terrestrial world

Diamonds are brought close to the Earth ′ s surface through deep volcanic eruptions by a magma, which cools into igneous rocks known as kimberlites and lamproites.

As the last man standing, the player character's mission is to fight through the entire onslaught of demonic enemies by himself in order to keep them from attacking Earth.

Midway through the 2010 novel, Bowman returns to Earth in his Star Child form.

The path of the Sun is not normally noticeable from the Earth's surface because the Earth rotates, carrying the observer through the cycle of sunrise and sunset, obscuring the small motion of the Sun against the background stars.

Since the original definition of the metre was one-quarter of one ten-millionth of the circumference of the Earth ( along the great circle coincident with the meridian of longitude passing through Paris ), the circumference of the Earth is about 40, 000 km or about 200, 000 furlongs.

The Flammarion engraving ( 1888 ) depicts a traveller who arrives at the edge of a flat Earth and sticks his head through the firmament.

Severian, Bishop of Gabala ( d. 408 ), wrote that the Earth is flat and the sun does not pass under it in the night, but " travels through the northern parts as if hidden by a wall ".

Isidore's T and O map, which was seen as representing a small part of a spherical Earth, was essentially unchanged from its predecessors of 1, 200 years previously, continued to be used through the Middle Ages by authors, e. g. the 9th century bishop Rabanus Maurus who compared the habitable part of the northern hemisphere ( Aristotle's northern temperate clime ) with a wheel.

As the light from the burst passes through the two galaxies on the way to Earth ( outside the frame to the right ), some colours are absorbed by the cool gas in the galaxies, leaving characteristic dark lines in the spectrum.

The Earth receives energy from the Sun in the form UV, visible, and near IR radiation, most of which passes through the atmosphere without being absorbed.

Subsequently, in " Dalek " ( 2005 ), it is revealed that the last great Time War was fought between the Time Lords and the Daleks, ending in the obliteration of both sides and with only two apparent survivors ; the Doctor and a lone Dalek that had somehow fallen through time and crashed on Earth.

Still believing the situation is fictional, Jason orders the Thermians to fire upon Sarris's spaceship and then insists on returning home, but when they send him through space to Earth, he finally realizes the events were real.

In 1882, Italian physicist Luigi Palmieri detected helium on Earth, for the first time, through its D < sub > 3 </ sub > spectral line, when he analyzed the lava of Mount Vesuvius.

The central theme of hydrology is that water circulates throughout the Earth through different pathways and at different rates.

A drill, Gardner says, would lengthen as it traveled away from the cavern and eventually pass through the " point at infinity " corresponding to the center of the Earth in the widely accepted scientific cosmology.

The 1915 novel Plutonia by Vladimir Obruchev uses the concept of the hollow Earth to take the reader through various geological epochs.

Filled with compassion, she released all the good karma she had accumulated through her many lifetimes, thus freeing many suffering souls back into Heaven and Earth.

He admitted that he was directly influenced by Purchas's Pilgrimage, but there are additional strong literary connections to other works, including John Milton's Paradise Lost, Samuel Johnson's Rasselas, Chatterton's African Eclogues, William Bartram's Travels through North and South Carolina, Thomas Burnet's Sacred Theory of the Earth, Mary Wollstonecraft's A Short Residence in Sweden, Plato's Phaedrus and Ion, Maurice's The History of Hindostan, and Heliodorus's Aethiopian History.

In several accounts, it was explained that the explosion of the planet Krypton had opened a " dimensional warp " ( similar to a wormhole in modern theoretical physics ) which allowed the vehicle carrying the young Kal-El to reach Earth in a relatively brief time, and a large amount of planetary debris had also passed through this " warp " and emerged near Earth at virtually the same time, accounting for the seemingly improbable abundance of kryptonite material and its availability to Superman's enemies.