But it is more than irony: one of the main reasons why nationalism is no longer a tenable concept is because it has spread throughout the planet.

This result suggests a very high temperature at the solid surface of the planet, although there is the possibility that the observed radiation may be a combination of both thermal and non-thermal components and that the observed spectrum is that of a black body merely by coincidence.

The received radiation is compared with the radiation from a hypothetical black body which subtends the same solid angle as the visible disk of the planet.

`` The planet is very low in radiation from mineral deposits, and the atmosphere seems to shield out most of the solar output.

Suppose it is something right on the planet, native to it.

An aircraft is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air, or, in general, the atmosphere of a planet.

There is a relatively small addition of flow in the Indian Ocean, with the transport south of Tasmania reaching around 147 Sv, at which point the current is probably the largest on the planet.

In Robert L. Forward's novel Timemaster, the wormhole is a living organism resembling a fourth-dimensional sea anemone, " stretched " to cover the distance between a spaceship and a satellite on the home planet.

The principle it works on, the constant of simultaneity, is analogous in some ways to gravity ... One point has to be fixed, on a planet of certain mass, but the other end is portable.

Scientists dismiss these mechanisms as implausible since, for example, the magnetic field, when measured from earth, of a large but distant planet such as Jupiter is far smaller than that produced by ordinary household appliances.

In Asimov's Empire and Foundation series, the capital planet Trantor of the galactic empire is a completely built-up planet, covered in its entirety with tall buildings and subterranean structures.

* In Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga novels, the inhabitants of the planet Komarr live in arcologies, because the surface of the planet is inhospitable.

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.

Aberration is usually larger than a planet's light-time correction except when the planet is near quadrature ( 90 ° from the Sun ), where aberration drops to zero because then the Earth is directly approaching or receding from the planet.

In the case of planetary transfers this means directing the spacecraft, originally in an orbit almost identical to Earth's, so that the aphelion of the transfer orbit is on the far side of the Sun near the orbit of the other planet.

Higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are thought to have caused the world temperature gradient from north to south to become almost flat: temperatures were about the same across the planet.

Microorganisms can be found almost anywhere in the taxonomic organization of life on the planet.

These life forms are found in almost every location on the Earth where there is liquid water, including the interior of rocks within the planet.

In one notable incident, when an away team was trapped on a radioactive planet, the Doctor was able to infiltrate the people and almost single-handedly rescue the team because, as he pointed out, being a hologram renders him immune to the radiation, stating that " being a hologram does have its advantages.

Rozhenko and his wife Helena raised him on a small farm colony on the planet Gault, a world of about 20, 000 inhabitants, almost all of them human.

The first known states were created in Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, China, the Americas ( e. g. Aztec civilization, Inca civilization ) and others, but it is only in relatively modern times that states have almost completely displaced alternative " stateless " forms of political organization of societies all over the planet.

Such colonies would almost certainly be restricted to the polar regions due to the extreme daytime temperatures elsewhere on the planet.

The planet has almost always looked and behaved as it does now.

Such a horrific catastrophe would almost certainly cause permanent damage to most complex life on the planet, its ecosystems, and the global climate-particularly if predictions about the production of a nuclear winter are accurate.

In these situations, a planet in retrograde motion — always either Mercury or Venus, from the point of view of the Earth — will " drop back " in right ascension until it almost allows another planet to overtake it, but then the former planet will resume its forward motion and thereafter appear to draw away from it again.

If the orbit is almost edge-on, then the planet can be seen transiting its star.

Its population was devoted almost entirely to either administration of the Empire or to maintenance of the planet itself.

Although the Eradicator's effects ( altering the DNA of all Kryptonian life-forms so that they would instantly die upon leaving the planet ) were felt immediately, the Destroyer's effects were possibly more significant: By the time the Kryptonian government admitted defeat and abolished the clone banks, a pro-clone rights terrorist faction known as Black Zero had started the Destroyer, a device which functioned as a giant nuclear gun, projecting massive streams of nuclear energy into the core of Krypton, intended to trigger an explosive chain reaction within Krypton's core almost immediately.

In the novel, we are told that Ford's original name is " only pronounceable in an obscure Betelgeusian dialect " which was almost wiped out by the " Great Collapsing Hrung Disaster of Gal ./ Sid ./ Year 03758 ," a mysterious catastrophe which took place on the planet of Betelgeuse Seven and which Ford's father was the only man to survive.

Coincidentally, it was also almost exactly where the Titius-Bode law predicted a planet would be.

As increasing knowledge of the Solar System made the prospects of life in the vicinity of Earth marginal at best, the extrasolar planet has become almost the only venue for contemporary science fiction.

The orbit of the planet is such that all sides of it are almost always illuminated by at least one sun ; only once in every 2, 049 years is Lagash oriented in such a way that one of the suns is eclipsed by a dark companion body.

The Mars trilogy is a series of award-winning science fiction novels by Kim Stanley Robinson that chronicles the settlement and terraforming of the planet Mars through the intensely personal and detailed viewpoints of a wide variety of characters spanning almost two centuries.

The planet Uranus has a tilt of 97 °, hence it rotates " on its side ", its north pole being almost in the plane of its orbit.

The vast scope of the text, itself almost an anthropological survey taking in creation myths, world religions and man's impact on the planet, impressed critics and listeners alike, as did the similarly eclectic score.

The hypothesis has been shown to be wrong by observational evidence, as well as by the modern understanding of planet formation ; the scientific community has dismissed the notion since at least the late 18th century.

" According to Allmusic, " Moon, with his manic, lunatic side, and his life of excessive drinking, partying, and other indulgences, probably represented the youthful, zany side of rock & roll, as well as its self-destructive side, better than anyone else on the planet.

The location of the Prime Meridian as well as the position of body's north pole on the celestial sphere may vary with time due to precession of the axis of rotation of the planet ( or satellite ).

One approximate result is that bodies will usually have reasonably stable orbits around a heavier planet or moon, in spite of these perturbations, provided they are orbiting well within the heavier body's hill sphere.

Nero also destroys the Federation starship USS Kelvin, seven other Federation starships, as well as a fleet of Klingon ships, and the planet Vulcan in the film's timeline.

By the time they have achieved sufficient technology to come to the notice of other civilizations, they are already well on their way to exhausting the resources of their host planet.

The cumulative cooling and warming that result from the tilt of the planet become most pronounced after the solstices, leading to the more recent custom of using them to mark the beginning of summer and winter in most countries of Central and Northern Europe, as well as in Canada, the USA and New Zealand.

As the series progresses, many of the characters ' pasts and motivations, as well as the history of Atlantis and the true nature of the planet Gaea, are revealed.

Although many populated land locations on the planet now have terrestrial communications facilities ( microwave, fiber-optic ), even undersea, with more than sufficient capacity, telephony and Internet access is still available only via satellite in many places in Africa, Latin America, and Asia, as well as isolated locations that have no terrestrial facilities, such as Canada's Arctic islands, Antarctica, the far reaches of Alaska and Greenland, and ships at sea.

This was based on a series of meridian observations of the planet as well as 14 transits.

This atmosphere was further inflamed by the 1957 launch of Sputnik, which led to fears of Communists attacking from space, as well as concerns that if the Soviets could launch a device into orbit, they could equally cause a device to re-enter the atmosphere and impact any part of the planet.

* C. S. Lewis wrote, in Out of the Silent Planet, about three humans visiting Mars and meeting three different kinds of native intelligent creatures ( sorns, ( or séroni ), hrossa, and pfifltriggi ) there, as well as hunting hnakra and meeting the Oyarsa, or eldil in charge of this planet, called Malacandra in the Old Solar language.

Uncompressed density is used rather than true average density because compression within planet cores increases their density ( making average density depend on planet size as well as composition ).

In the Indic languages of Pali and Sanskrit, as well as in Thailand, the name of the day is taken from Angaraka (' one who is red in colour ') a style ( manner of address ) for Mangal, the god of war, and for Mars, the red planet.

Once Kip is well, he, Peewee, and the Mother Thing travel to a planet in the Lesser Magellanic Cloud, to face an intergalactic tribunal composed of many species which have banded together, which decides whether new races pose a danger.

Few proper names have only one possible referent: there are many places named New Haven ; Jupiter may refer to a planet, a god, a ship, or a symphony ; at least one person has been named Mata Hari, but so have a horse, a song, and three films ; there are towns and people named Toyota, as well as the company.

The crystalline motif was employed not only in the architecture, but in the landscape and technology as well, suggesting that the entire planet had been adapted and altered by Kryptonian influence.

Set mainly in Paris in 1979, the plot concerns a scheme by an alien, Scaroth, to steal the Mona Lisa to finance experiments in time travel in the hope of averting the accident that marooned him on Earth four hundred million years previously, which also began the existence of life on the planet as well.

The book details the trip out, construction of the first settlement on Mars ( eventually called Underhill ) by Nadia Chernyshevski, as well as establishing colonies on Mars ' hollowed out asteroid-moon Phobos, the ever-changing relationships between the colonists, debates among the colonists regarding both the terraforming of the planet and its future relationship to Earth.

Marvin was homesick for his planet, Mars, and wanted to go back for Christmas ( but also mentions that he's planning to destroy the Earth as well ).

Seizing control of the planet, Paul Atreides intensifies this form of hydraulic despotism by asserting control over both the Landsraad and Spacing Guild, as well as other factions in the universe.

This store is used as a bank for all the water owned by members of the sietch through water rings, as well as for the sietch's own store of water for the eventual transformation of their planet into something other than desert.