* The Outpost computer game and its sequel both focus on building arcologies ( called ' colonies ' in the game ) on various planets to contain what remains of Humanity after Earth is obliterated by an asteroid.

They also note that the discoverers of the two planets around NN Serpentis were confronted with multiple suggestions from various official sources and finally chose to use the designations " NN Ser c " and " NN Ser d ."

Paths have been calculated which link the Lagrange points of the various planets into the so-called Interplanetary Transport Network.

In the case of the giant planets, since their surface features are constantly changing and moving at various rates, the rotation of their magnetic fields is used as a reference instead.

In the beginning, Sanjaya gives a description of the various continents of the Earth, the other planets, and focuses on the Indian Subcontinent and gives an elaborate list of hundreds of kingdoms, tribes, provinces, cities, towns, villages, rivers, mountains, forests, etc.

The general theory of magick proposes that there are various forces which are represented by the classical elements ( air, earth, fire, and water ), the planets, the signs of the Zodiac, and adjacent spaces in the astral world.

Each sephira and path is assigned various ideas, such as gods, cards of the Tarot, astrological planets and signs, elements, etc.

Spirits od the dead from various planets were taken to Mars and given new bodies to work.

The Enuma anu enlil, written during the Neo-Assyrian period in the 7th century BC, comprises a list of omens and their relationships with various celestial phenomena including the motions of the planets.

To the Ancient Greeks, some " stars ", known as planets ( Greek πλανήτης ( planētēs ), meaning " wanderer "), represented various important deities, from which the names of the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were taken.

It is most widely distributed in dusts, sands, planetoids, and planets as various forms of silicon dioxide ( silica ) or silicates.

The various planets are separate, though there is some talk of a union.

Gravitation is responsible for keeping the Earth and the other planets in their orbits around the Sun ; for keeping the Moon in its orbit around the Earth ; for the formation of tides ; for natural convection, by which fluid flow occurs under the influence of a density gradient and gravity ; for heating the interiors of forming stars and planets to very high temperatures ; and for various other phenomena observed on Earth.

The plan of the " Grand Tour " was to send several pairs of probes to fly by all the outer planets, including Pluto, along various trajectories, including Jupiter-Saturn-Pluto and Jupiter-Uranus-Neptune.

Terrestrial planets have a solid planetary surface, making them substantially different from the much larger gas giants, which are composed mostly of some combination of hydrogen, helium, and water existing in various physical states.

Hooke told Newton that Hooke had been appointed to manage the Royal Society's correspondence, and wished to hear from members about their researches, or their views about the researches of others ; and as if to whet Newton's interest, he asked what Newton thought about various matters, giving a whole list, mentioning " compounding the celestial motions of the planets of a direct motion by the tangent and an attractive motion towards the central body ", and " my hypothesis of the lawes or causes of springinesse ", and then a new hypothesis from Paris about planetary motions ( which Hooke described at length ), and then efforts to carry out or improve national surveys, the difference of latitude between London and Cambridge, and other items.

During the era of the original series, Captain James Kirk once noted ( in the episode Metamorphosis ) that humanity was on " a thousand planets and spreading out ;" however, this number apparently encompasses Earth's many off-Earth colonies and the various alien worlds on which humans can be found ( just as non-humans have been depicted as residing on Earth ) and should not be taken to mean that the Federation itself had a thousand members at that time.

* 628 – Brahmagupta gives methods for calculations of the motions and places of various planets, their rising and setting, conjunctions, and calculations of the solar and lunar eclipses

Spaceball One's secret weapon is its ability to transform, in parody of various transforming robot toys ( Barf describes it as " a Transformer "), into Mega Maid, a colossal cleaning woman holding a gigantic vacuum cleaner used to extract air from other planets and take it back to planet Spaceball.

Planets in science fiction are fictional planets that appear in various media, especially those of the science fiction genre, as story-settings or depicted locations.

Eberhard Kindermann sent an airship to the planets in 1744 in Die Geschwinde Reise auf dem Lufft-schiff nach der obern Welt (" The Airship's Speedy Journey to the Upper World "); while a traveller from the star Sirius passes inward through the Solar System, stopping at various planets in Voltaire's Micromégas ( 1752 ); followed by another outward voyage in Marie-Anne de Roumier-Robert's Voyage de Milord Céton dans les Sept Planètes (" Lord Seton's Voyage Among the Seven Planets ", 1765 ).

These planets are not so much carefully constructed worlds as they are humorous backgrounds or gag references in various comedy shows and games:

The pamphlets are about law, the corporation, forms of government, the idea of freedom, the defense of liberty, the various lethargies which overtake our major institutions, the gap between traditional social ideals and the working mechanisms that have been set in motion for their realization.

In the market place Jews have in fact under various circumstances been valued customers and suppliers, or clannish monopolists and cutthroat competitors.

The churches, the taverns, and the various other places of the town must have known his figure well as he roved to and about them.

This is not to deny the existence of pogroms and ghettos, but only to assert that these horrors have had an effect on the nerves of people who did not experience them, that among the various side effects is the local hysteria of Jewish writers and intellectuals who cry out from confusion, which they call oppression and pain.

Others have so-called development plans, but some of these are little more than lists of projects collected from various ministries while others are statements of goals without analysis of the actions required to attain them.

More importantly, several of the more advanced of the less developed countries have found through experience that they must plan their own complex investment programs for at least 5 years forward and tentatively for considerably more than that if they are to be sure that the various interdependent activities involved are all to take place in the proper sequence.

At that time, he afforded me the courtesy of his busy workday for such length as I may need, to speak about my background, my hopes, my views on various national and local topics, and any problems that I may have been vexed with at the time.

These registries are sponsored by 18 national medical, dental, and veterinary societies and have as their mission the assembling of selected cases of interest to military medicine and of establishing through the mechanism of follow-up of living patients the natural history of various diseases of military-medical importance.

While observing the operations of our Government in various parts of the world, I have felt that in many situations where our policies were good we have tended to ignore minor problems which spoiled our main effort.

The markets for electronic parts in 1960 have reflected the changing patterns of the various end equipment segments of the industry.

The various team sports assuredly have their place in every school, and they are important to proper physical development.

A number of semiempirical estimates by various workers lead to the conclusion that the Af bond becomes symmetric when the Af bond length is about 2.4 to 2.5 A, but aside from the possible example of nickel dimethylglyoxime there have been no convincing reports of symmetric Af bonds.

As we have already seen in the first chapter, bumblebees are bigger, hairier, and much more colorful than honeybees, exhibiting various combinations of black, yellow, white and orange.

Subgroups of various types have been found within this system.

Many of the men on our campus have a pretty set curriculum, especially in the various engineering fields, with few electives till the senior year.

Since the writer had not noticed this characteristic in married students scattered throughout the various sections previous to this experiment, nor, as a matter of fact, in those who were continuing in `` single sections '', he can only conclude that there must have been something `` contagious '' within the specific group which caused this to occur.

this is a question which I have no wish to take up -- condensation is a phenomenon in which one finds not a condensed expression of various feelings and ideas which are, at an unconscious level, well sorted out, but rather a condensed expression of feelings and ideas which, even in the unconscious, have yet to become well differentiated from one another.

Simple `` yes '' or `` no '' answers do not reveal the different shades of opinion that the various respondents may have.

The various stress-temperature coefficients for constancy of volume and strain, constancy of pressure and strain, and constancy of pressure and length have been interrelated.

It might be well to point out, however, some of the newer developments that have taken place within the past few months which might have a bearing on the future of the various foamed plastics involved.

Not only do these quacks assume impressive titles, but represent themselves as being associated with various scientific or impressive foundations -- foundations which often have little more than a letterhead existence.

`` Female troubles '' of various kinds do not seem to have been common on the frontier ; ;