... their galaxy for non-colonized planets. The Skeets were facing a problem of over populating their planet. The exploration was to cover their galaxy in all directions to find a planet that would support their life. On planet Skeetert, there are Skeets, which are little green dwarves with short stubby tails. There are ... themselves somewhere suitable for living. These ships were the Skeets homes, which is nothing like their palatial sponges, of the skeets, until they found a planet to live on, and had supplies for years of space travel. Each ship carried fifty skeets; meaning about five...

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... the benefit of mankind Man has been evolving on earth for millions of years. We are, in fact, the fastest advancing species on this planet. In just 2.5 million years we have evolved from beings guided by primal instincts in to a civilized collective society governed by self imposed hierarchal systems ... cases have families as large as 8 people. But the real culprits are the ones in the industrialized first nation countries. We heavily pollute our planet with our factories, power plants, and automobiles. All this is justified though because of the need we've created for these things, and...

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... also have no physical proof that there is other life out there in the Universe. At one point in the movie Prot drew the rotation of his planet around his two suns. The drawing was very accurate and no one else knew about that rotation besides four astronomers. People may be thinking now that ... the only was Prot could know that is if he was indeed from the new planet K-PAX, but indeed he could be autistic, where he knows a lot about the Universe and handicapped in everything else. He could also be an old ... as you can see, there is no life out there other than our own. Prot was just a...

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... is on North Carolina, at the town of Willstead in the year of 2005. One day Margaret was left by the Aliens when she was two- months old on planet Earth, and was found by the Murrie's, a nice couple, that had one year of marriage. Several years had passed and Margaret grew up like a normal girl ... woods. One day a robbery had been reported to the police. It was a missing blanket and the thief was Mrs. Whatsit, she needed a lot of warmth because planet Earth was too cold for them. At school some rare people that were the same species of Margaret (Tesseract) went to do a contest. Margaret...

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... an average civilization with communications ability and desire, measured in years" . We can try to estimate the probability of life evolving on another planet, which should have the right conditions for the formation of life. We need to estimate the number of galaxies, the number of stars in ... Most cosmologists believe that planetary formation around a star is quiet common. Lets say that it's not common and there is only one in a million planet in each system. This calculation will result in ten million, billion. Lets also assume that it is very rare among planets to be Earth like. ... ...

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... used a number of devices to solve many of the discrepancies in Aristotle's astronomy while still staying true to Aristotle's natural philosophy. Ptolemy used equants to describe the visible change in a planet's speed made by an observer and he used epicycles to explain the retrograde motion made by planets. Although Copernicus did use epicycles in his model of the universe, Copernicus more ... explained the orbit of earth and the planets which revolved around the static sun. "All of these planets have different periods of revolution, the period being greater the farther the planet is fr...

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... chemical compounds may have played a part in the origin of life. Dr. Louis Allamandola said "This discovery implies that life could be everywhere in the universe". Earth is the only planet in the solar system that we are sure that can support life. The early histories of life are be dated back too as much as about 3.85 billion years ago ... that cannot live in the presence of oxygen. It is very convincing that life does exist on Earth back 3.85 billion years ago and still present day. Mars is the planet closet to ours that appeared to have all the necessary conditions to support life. M...

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... the metric is actually the elapsed time experienced by an object with that motion. Escape velocity The escape velocity depends on the mass of the planet: if the planet is extremely massive, then its gravity is very strong, and the escape velocity is high. A lighter planet would have a smaller escape velocity. The escape velocity also depends on how far you are from the ... planet's center: the closer you are, the higher the escape velocity. The Earth's escape velocity is 11.2 kilometers per second (about 25,000 m.p.h.); the Moon's is only 2.4 kilometers per ... ...

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... to Earth, its formation, and life on it. Meteorites provide us with a record of the development and origin of the solar system. Our planet Earth is made up of the same materials as meteorites. During the formation of the solar system, interstellar clouds were filled with various types of ... begun to melt and form planets. Meteorites contain minerals that are also present in the crust, core, and mantle of our planet. In other words, the Earth's oceans and atmosphere are the same liquids and gases that were present in the very first meteorites. The people ... that live on planet Earth h...

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... difference lies in human experience upon Earth. The Earth did not seem to be moving, and there was no theory that could account for the relatively stable structure of the planet as it revolved around the sun and about an invisible point. Ptolemy's theory seemed logically valid in light of human experience and Copernicus' model was useful for calculations, so both ... planets also circle the sun, and that the earth precesses on its axis as it rotates. The Copernican theory retained many features of the cosmology it replaced, "including the solid, planet-bearing spheres, and the finite ou...

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... created in such a precise manner that even the smallest of changes could have had drastic alterations to the world we know today. The mere existence of the human race on planet earth can be considered a miracle. The immense size of the universe also shows gods splendor. It's simply amazing to think how our ... planet is just a little spec in comparison to the entire universe. The vast infinity found in it speaks for itself. We must learn to appreciate all the blessings that god has ... last time we will be able to admire and enjoy his blessings. It is also important to realize that we...

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... conscience could not decide one day to say, I will create a universe with magical particles out of nowhere build up until it is roaring hot followed with a bang that creates a sole planet that has the capacity to sustain life. Something, in this case someone, has to place it there. Just as time must have dawned at some point, everything in our lives ... as done the same up till this point. Everything on our planet is too perfect and complicated to not have been created by an intelligent being. I do believe in God, similarly referred to in the bible. Despite the lack of documentation of ...

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... is where everything is absorbed and where the center core presides. Suppose that you are standing on the surface of a planet. You throw a rock straight up into the air. If you threw the rock hard enough you could make it escape the planet gravity entirely. It would keep on rising forever. The velocity you need to break through or away from a gravitational ... has been if these black holes are dangerous. Although the nearest black hole to us is fifteen light years, it is possible for a black hole to grasp hold of our planet. If this were to happen life on Earth as we know it would be des...

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... mars is smaller and may have cooled off faster. If so, life there would have had a brief season of warm and wet weather, perhaps several hundred million years, before the planet cooled and its atmosphere went away into space. We see evidence of this time on Mars surface today "carved river valleys, canyons, a vast flat plain that may have been ... reach Mars; just by robots. And because of this there has been a loss of millions of dollars. One spacecraft was sent to land on Mars, and as it approached the planet after its six-month trip through space, was suddenly unreachable. Then we we...

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... of water or other incubators. From these little microbes, the human race may have evolved over hundreds of billions of years ("Reaney"). If this is truly what occurred on our planet, who is to say it did not occur on other planets where the environment was able to support the life and the microbes could adapt to live? On the cold ... speculation in its time now has a chance to be possibly proven. The Viking spacecraft and other photos of Mars show us confirmation of the possibility of life existing on that planet. Three different surprises amazed scientists in the discovery of this evid...

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... everything we need to survive? And how people say it was evolution and it's just a coincidence? How is it possible that everything a human being needs to live is supplied by planet earth without it have been made by a G-d. It's not. The world is beautiful and so carefully made with so many details that there is no scientific evidence that can prove ... just come and announce themselves, but one must have faith that everything Hashem does is for a reason and has good purpose. Hashem loves us. He loves every single person on planet earth. Whether it is a believer or non-believer. The amou...

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... , much of the Earth's water would accumulate around the two poles, leaving vast deserts in its place. If the atmosphere surrounding the Earth were much thinner, meteorites could strike our planet with greater force and frequency, causing worldwide devastation. The oceans provide a huge reservoir of moisture that constantly is evaporating and condensing, thus falling upon the land as refreshing rain. It ... Universe, the Earth, and life on the Earth are all here as a result of fortuitous accidents. Physicist John Gribbin, writing on the numerous specific requirements necessary for life on...

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... that we are not doing the greatest job. There is so much more we could be doing to help protect the environment. We are not the only things on the planet that have necessities. The things we require have requirements as well. Many of the things we "need" are not essential to our existence. Humanity would still exist with out cars ... creation but we have a duty and responsibility to take care of it and make the necessary adjustments to protect it. Since we are the biggest and strongest being on the planet we are essentially a gardener for God's garden. While we do reap some benefit from...

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... that we are not doing the greatest job. There is so much more we could be doing to help protect the environment. We are not the only things on the planet that have necessities. The things we require have requirements as well. Many of the things we "need" are not essential to our existence. Humanity would still exist with out cars ... creation but we have a duty and responsibility to take care of it and make the necessary adjustments to protect it. Since we are the biggest and strongest being on the planet we are essentially a gardener for God's garden. While we do reap some benefit from...

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... Kepler's Laws, which are still valid today. He found that the planets do not move in uniform circles, but rather ellipses. Thus, they do not have epicycles. He discovered that a planet travels more quickly when it is closer to the sun. He also found that there is a mathematical relationship between the period of a revolution of ... a planet and its distance from the sun. Galileo observed dark spots on the sun that changed shape and position from day to day, discovered that the moon was not smooth, but ... ...

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... to an end, both of them had begun to feel a little home sick. The couple had all their bags packed and was ready for the decent back to their home planet, earth. When all of a sudden something very loud and eerie sounding grabbed their attention. They both rushed to the cockpit and asked what the trouble was. The captain told them ... much life left to live. The thing is, there are so many things I still want to do and accomplish. I just know I was meant to do so much more for my planet and its people. The life I've led up to this point has been awesome, I couldn't have asked for more. ...

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... control; or that our natural resources are running out. We as human beings must improve the standards of living and production by putting the environment first, before there is no planet for our children to live in. Lester Brown points out that the human population is out of control and that something must be done soon. As the planets population continues ... ." Technology is a wonderful thing but it can't solve all the problems in this world. Computers can't eliminate hunger, diseases, and wants. Technology will never be able to do what our planet does naturally and even if a machine is...

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... Ptolemy's theory was too complicated and he decided that the most simplest and logical explanation was that the earth had to spin around its axis once every day and every planet, including the earth, revolved around the sun. Copernicus realized that his theory implied that the universe was larger than what was originally thought. Copernicus hesitated to publish his theory because ... when we say that the sun rises and sets, but we know its the earth that moves, not the sun. His theory assumed that the earth was like any other planet. It wasn't the center of the universe. He was question...

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... distances for space is the light year. There must be life on other planets. How could one star (the sun) be the only star to be accompanied by an inhabited planet? Our destiny is to explore the Cosmos. The study of the circumference of the earth began around the third century B.C. by a fellow named Eratosthenes. He used sticks, shadows, and reflections ... we live on a mote of dust circling a star in the corner of an obscure galaxy. I believe that there is definitely life on other planets. Earth couldn't possibly be the only planet with life on it. Carl Sagan really gets you to think ab...

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... . This novel was written in the Mid-Eighties and so contains some problems or issues that apply to our day and age even if we are still only on one planet in one solar system. The most obvious problem that Foundation and Earth seems to address as the three unlikely adventures travel out into the universe in search of the "Mythical ... history. I don't just mean general history such as that of the early American colonies and how they became one of the most, if not the most powerful nations on the planet today. I am also not speaking of the foundation of Greece and Rome or any other nation...

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