Sentence examples for distant civilisation from inspiring English sources

The action comes from the discovery of David's own mutation - telepathy - an ability shared with a group who soon find themselves on the run, guided to possible salvation by a fellow telepath from a distant civilisation.

But scientists have been searching for decades, trying to eavesdrop on radio signals from a distant civilisation.

"At first you think you're just watching this cyclops monk enjoying a meditative ritual on a hilltop of some distant planet, but as he starts to trip out, you realise that he is envisioning a distant civilisation that has long since been buried beneath the ocean".

There was the very 1968 book Chariots of the Gods? by Erich von Däniken, which postulated that the ancient gods were all astronauts from distant civilisations.

Thor: The Dark World sees its titular superhero - a hammer-wielding Norse god from a distant alien civilisation, played by Australian actor Chris Hemsworth - battle to stop Malekith destroying the universe.

The Saale river is there about 1.5 m deep and Kunitz is remote from civilisation.

He returned to the subject in lectures he gave in the 1930s when he outlined his concern that at some not too distant point progress in civilisation would come to a natural end and a stable condition would arise where, he believed, it would be hard to maintain creativity and an entropic decline would follow.

A plan to beam powerful radio messages to possible alien civilisations on distant planets has caused consternation among some scientists who believe it could spell doom for humanity on Earth.

If we can't physically move our civilisation to the distant stars, perhaps we can exchange Snapchats?

They appear to be dystopian predictions of the collapse of civilisation in the distant future, and yet they are built entirely of current realities.

But it is important to recognise that the actions we take now can affect the course of human civilisation into a distant long-term future.