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The planet is ruled by an unusual tetrarchy: an adoptive Coronal rules in a highly visible and symbolic manner from his palace atop Castle Mount ; the previous Coronal retires to become the Pontifex, the head of the bureaucracy in an underground Labyrinth ; the Coronal's mother becomes the Lady of the Isle of Sleep, promoting the morals of Majipoor by sending dreams to its inhabitants ; while a hereditary King of Dreams on the distant continent of Suvrael punishes wrongdoers by visiting them with nightmares.
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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.
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This ruled out classification as an asteroid, and they decided this was the ninth planet that Lowell had predicted.
Harkonnen's father had been the head of House Harkonnen and ruled the planet Giedi Prime.
The sixth, seventh and eighth games take place on Enroth, a single planet partially ruled by the Ironfist dynasty, and chronicle the events and aftermath of an invasion by the Kreegan, the demonlike arch-enemies of the Ancients.
In the 19th and 20th centuries, Tavolara was ruled by the Bertoleoni family as the Kingdom of Tavolara, one of the smallest kingdoms on the planet.
In the Stargate Atlantis episode " The Tower " ( Season 2, Episode 15 ) the team come across a planet ruled by a Lord Protector from a city with the same dimensions as Atlantis.
The Vlad Taltos series is set on what is apparently another planet, in an Empire mostly inhabited and ruled by the Dragaerans, who are humanoid but have such differences as greatly extended lifespans and heights averaging about 7 feet.
It was described as a human-settled planet in the part of the galaxy not ruled by an intelligent reptilian race ( later defeated ).
They find that the planet is ruled by the cruel Emperor Ming, who lusts after Dale and sends Flash to fight in the arena.
In the game, Planet Fusion, ruled by the main villain Lord Fuse, has been travelling through space for 1000 years, consuming every inhabitable planet it encounters and finally reached its next target, Earth.
The planet Pao is a quiet backwater with a large, homogeneous, stolid population ruled by an absolute monarch: the Panarch.
* Emm Luther-A planet with a single continent, ruled by a theocratic government, in the novel Night Walk by Bob Shaw.
* Planet X — a planet, light years away, ruled by the tyrant " Kurrgo, the Master of Planet X " in Fantastic Four # 7 ( Oct. 1962 ) and episode # 9 of Fantastic Four ( 1967 TV series ).
* Sangre — A planet ruled by a cannibal elite in Norman Spinrad's The Men in the Jungle.
* Tiamat — An oceanic planet whose sun orbits a black hole, socially divided into two moieties ( Summer and Winter ), ruled by a queen with abrupt changes in social conditions every 150 years.
* Zyrgon — A planet ruled by the galactic " Law-Enforcers " in novels by Robin Klein, adapted as a television series.
In Jyotiṣa, Bharani is ruled by Shukra ( the planet Venus ).
In this sequel, another spacecraft crashes on the planet ruled by apes, carrying astronaut Brent who searches for Taylor and discovers an underground city inhabited by mutated humans with psychic powers.
And Virgos and Geminis are all ruled by the planet Mercury.
In A Piece of the Action ( Star Trek: The Original Series ), the Enterprise crew visits a planet that resembles mob ruled cities of Earth in the 1920s due to a book titled " Chicago Mobs of the Twenties " that had been left behind by previous Earth craft.
In the distant past, the planet was ruled by human beings who built a technological society and enslaved apes to perform their manual labor.
Once outside the ship, he discovers that Earth is now ruled by intelligent apes just like the planet from which he has fled.
Zev was born on the planet B3K, one of the worlds ruled by His Divine Shadow.
In the novel The Battle of Betazed, it is shown how the planet was ruled by the Jem ' Hadar and their Cardassian allies for four months.
As they are now on Yuggoth, which is the planet ruled by Behemoth, a more powerful member of the Thirteen ...
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and, now and in the future unlike in the past, any attempt to repel injury and to preserve any particular civilized attainment of mankind or its provisional justice runs some risk of nuclear warfare and the danger that an effect of it will, by human action, render this planet less habitable by the human race.
`` That it had found a planet on which human beings could live and which was already inhabited by sentient beings ''!!
Was B'dikkat a crazy slave to his own duty or was he a man who had hopes of going back to his own planet some day, surrounded by a family of little cow-people resembling himself??
The Seventh-day Adventist Church, teaches that the first death, or death brought about by living on a planet with sinful conditions ( sickness, old age, accident, etc.
Astrometry has also been used to support claims of extrasolar planet detection by measuring the displacement the proposed planets cause in their parent star's apparent position on the sky, due to their mutual orbit around the center of mass of the system.
* Ark ( Noon Universe ), a fictional planet in a series of novels by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Anne McCaffrey's Crystal Singer series posited an instantaneous communication device powered by rare, ' Black Crystal ' from the planet Ballybran.
Tanya Luhrmann has said that " all magicians know something about astrology ," and refers to a table of correspondences in Starhawk's The Spiral Dance, organized by planet, as an example of the astrological lore studied by magicians.
For the case of an object that is small compared with the radial distance to its axis of rotation, such as a tin can swinging from a long string or a planet orbiting in a circle around the Sun, the angular momentum can be expressed as its linear momentum,, crossed by its position from the origin, r. Thus, the angular momentum L of a particle with respect to some point of origin is
If a planet is found to rotate slower than expected, then astronomers suspect that the planet is accompanied by a satellite, because the total angular momentum is shared between the planet and its satellite in order to be conserved.
A minor planet, 3623 Chaplin, discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Karachkina in 1981, is named after him.
The planet Neptune was discovered in Capricornus by German astronomer Johann Galle, near Deneb Algedi ( δ Capricorni ) on September 23, 1846, which is appropriate as Capricornus can be seen best from Europe at 4: 00am in September.
Early in the Cenozoic, following the K-Pg event, the planet was dominated by relatively small fauna, including small mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians.
Alterations in the quantity of atmospheric greenhouse gases determines the amount of solar energy retained by the planet, leading to global warming or global cooling.
Gauss's method involved determining a conic section in space, given one focus ( the Sun ) and the conic's intersection with three given lines ( lines of sight from the Earth, which is itself moving on an ellipse, to the planet ) and given the time it takes the planet to traverse the arcs determined by these lines ( from which the lengths of the arcs can be calculated by Kepler's Second Law ).
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