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Earth and turned
* At the first site, which was Epidaurus, sacred to Apollo and the healer Aesculapius, Theseus turned the tables on the chthonic bandit, the " clubber " Periphetes, who beat his opponents into the Earth, and took from him the stout staff that often identifies Theseus in vase-paintings.
* The age of the solar system, including Earth, was determined, and it turned to be much older than believed earlier: more than 4 billion years, rather than the 20 million years suggested by Lord Kelvin in 1862.
* 1990 – Voyager 1 is turned around to take the Portrait of the Planets of our Solar System, source of the Pale Blue Dot image of the Earth
At the latitude of Paris a full precession cycle takes 32 hours, so after one sidereal day, when the Earth is back in the same orientation as one sidereal day before, the oscillation plane has turned 90 degrees.
His roles include Brutus in Julius Caesar ( 1953 ), Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel and The Desert Rats, the amoral valet turned spy in Joseph Mankiewicz's 5 Fingers, the declining actor in the first remake of A Star Is Born ( 1954 ), Captain Nemo in 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea ( also 1954 ), a small town school teacher driven insane by the effects of cortisone in Bigger Than Life ( 1956 ), a suave master spy in North by Northwest ( 1959 ), a determined explorer in Journey to the Center of the Earth ( also 1959 ), Humbert Humbert in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita ( 1962 ), a river pirate who betrays Peter O ' Toole's character in Lord Jim ( 1965 ), the evil Doctor Polidori in Frankenstein: The True Story ( 1973 ), the vampire's servant, Richard Straker, in Salem's Lot, and surreal Royal Navy Captain Hughes in Yellowbeard ( 1983 ).
This sphere of debris had been turned to Kryptonite by the planet's destruction, and the radiation causes Superman to have a hallucination concerning an alternate scenario in which the entire population of Krypton comes to Earth.
Giotto's trajectory was adjusted for an Earth flyby and its science instruments were turned off on 15 March 1986 at 02: 00 UTC.
In Rhinocéros, Berenger remains the only human on Earth who hasn ’ t turned into a rhinoceros and must decide whether or not to conform.
According to former Immanuel Velikovsky assistant turned prolific critic, C. Leroy Ellenberger, " states that from an equal start, the Nefilim evolved on Nibiru 45 million years ahead of comparable development on Earth with its decidedly more favorable environment.
They began working together to return to Earth, where Megatron would predictably attempt to seize their power for himself by uniting with the Autobots to stop the Keepers in return for a favor — which turned out to be asking Optimus to make him the next Prime.
In the year 3008, the Earth's sun has turned red and several failed Legion applicants who were born on Earth have banded together to form the Justice League of Earth under the leadership of Earth-Man after he claims that Superman was a human who gained his powers from " Mother Earth ".
Wasteland is set in 2087, following the nuclear war of 1998, when Earth has been turned into the titular " wasteland " where survival is the paramount objective.
Following the precedent set by Star Trek, these story arcs show alternative universes that have turned out " worse " than the " original " universe: in Stargate SG-1 the first two encountered parallel realities featured Earth being overwhelmed by an unstoppable Goa ' uld onslaught ; in Buffy, two episodes concern a timeline in which Buffy came to Sunnydale too late to stop the vampires from taking control ; Lois & Clark repeatedly visits an alternative universe where Clark Kent's adoptive parents, Jonathan and Martha Kent, died when he was ten years of age, and Lois Lane is also apparently dead.
In the worst postulated scenarios ( requiring large, space-capable machines ), matter beyond Earth would also be turned into goo ( with goo meaning a large mass of replicating nanomachines lacking large-scale structure, which may or may not actually appear goo-like ).
The moon is close enough that flying creatures may land there ; the back side is sweet and honeyish, the visible side has turned sour and become curdled cheese, due to observing what has happened on Earth and Xanth.
:" and gale, etc., and: in the midst was a globe of the Earth, which at an instant falling on fire, was turned into a Fury, her hayre upright, mixt with snakes, her body leane wrinkled and of a swarthy colour "
Another is the Zildjian Earth Ride, whose top surface is not turned at all, but very sparingly hammered.
A clause in NEPA requiring a study of alternatives and another clause requiring an environmental impact statement turned those concerns into tools used by the Wilderness Society, Friends of the Earth, and the Environmental Defense Fund in their spring 1970 lawsuit to stop the project.
However, the Moon's libration means that on rare occasions Mare Orientale is turned slightly more toward the Earth, and becomes a little more discernible.
After the defeat of Vegeta, Gohan, Bulma and Krillin travel to Namek to use the Dragon Balls there, as the Dragon Balls on Earth had turned to stone due to the Earth's guardian Kami's death.
Bizarro's influence is also felt on Earth: Jimmy Olsen is inadvertently turned into a Bizarro for a time, and a new teen version of Bizarro travels to the 30th century, attempting to join the Legion of Super-Heroes.

Earth and inward
A satellite orbiting the Earth has a tangential velocity and an inward acceleration.
This is usually characterized by inward spiraling winds that rotate counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere of the Earth.
Both works depict the relative scale of the Universe according to an order of magnitude ( or logarithmic scale ) based on a factor of ten, first expanding out from the Earth until the entire universe is surveyed, then reducing inward until a single atom and its quarks are observed.
The atmospheric effect of surface friction with winds aloft force surface winds to slow and back counterclockwise near the surface of the Earth blowing inward across isobars ( lines of equal pressure ), when compared to the winds in frictionless flow well above the Earth's surface.

Earth and suffered
Since the Earth could be expected to have roughly the same cratering rate as the Moon, it became clear that the Earth had suffered far more impacts than could be seen by counting evident craters.
They found that activities in weightlessness required about 2 1 / 2 times the duration as on Earth because many astronauts suffered spacesickness early in their flights.
Unfortunately, the spacecraft suffered technical difficulties soon after launch and fell back to Earth so the experiment was never carried out.
The crew could use the CSM to quickly return to Earth if the station suffered serious damage.
* In City of Illusions, Earth has suffered some sort of collapse in a distant future, losing contact with the stars.
The leading theory of the Moon's origin is the giant impact theory, which states that Earth was once hit by a planetoid the size of Mars ; if this theory holds then that impact was almost certainly the largest hit Earth ever suffered.
Venera 2 launched on November 12, 1965, but also suffered a telemetry failure after leaving Earth orbit.
His books use comparative mythology and ancient literary sources ( including the Old Testament ) to argue that Earth has suffered catastrophic close-contacts with other planets ( principally Venus and Mars ) in ancient times.
* Planet Earth has suffered natural catastrophes on a global scale, both before and during humankind's recorded history.
The setting for the game is post-nuclear holocaust Earth, where a privileged group of humans have made it through the war in purpose-built shelters while rest of the humankind suffered.
The dreamer, in his converted state, remarks, " May the Lord be my friend / he who here on Earth once suffered / on the hanging tree for human sin / he ransomed us and gave us life / a heavenly home.
James " Jim " Arthur Lovell, Jr., ( born March 25, 1928 ) is a former NASA astronaut and a retired captain in the United States Navy, most famous as the commander of the Apollo 13 mission, which suffered a critical failure en route to the Moon but was brought back safely to Earth by the efforts of the crew and mission control.
When the Leonov returned to Earth, Heywood Floyd ( whose marriage had broken up while he was on the Leonov ) suffered an accident.
This went on till February 2010 when UN Earth forces suffered total annihilation, forcing all work on the ship to halt.
Sri Krishna Deva Raya's Āmuktamālyada beautifully describing the pangs of separation suffered by Sri Andal ( incarnation of Mother Goddess Sri Mahalakshmi venerated as Sri Bhoomi Devi, the Goddess of Earth and the divine consort of Almighty Sriman Narayana ) Andal ( one of the twelve bhakti-era alwars ) for her lover Lord Vishnu.
The composition of the cosmic rays themselves also indicates that they have suffered spallation before reaching Earth, because the proportion of light elements such as Li, B, and Be in them exceeds average cosmic abundances ; these elements in the cosmic rays were evidently formed from spallation of oxygen, nitrogen, carbon and perhaps silicon in the cosmic ray sources or during their lengthy travel here.
Flint betrays some emotion upon hearing Dr. McCoy's comparison of the disease to the bubonic plague and describes the agonies suffered by the stricken in Constantinople, Earth in the summer of 1334.
The heavy losses suffered in the conflicts of the Shadow War and subsequent liberation of Earth led to the design of the larger and more powerful Victory class destroyer as an Earth-Minbar joint project taking after Vorlon designs.
Earth has suffered some environmental disasters and people in North America have known starvation.
After correcting its course, the crew discover that half of their oxygen is gone, they have no communications with Earth and Ed, the engineer, had suffered a head injury.
Jordan proceeded to send the whole task force ( who were all knocked out from the beating they suffered ) back to Earth.

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