Still, as planetary scientist Gaetano Di Achille of the University of Colorado, Boulder, points out, that might mean that the first occupied planet humans set foot on is not in another planetary system, but in the lonely depths of outer space.
The world is amplified for me: through reading these translated works I come to know new corners and spaces of the occupied planet.
Translators are the ultimate globalizers: through reading translated works I come to know new corners and spaces of the occupied planet, and out of my growing knowledge comes greater empathy, appreciation, and resonance.
"Ratchet in My Benz" is a lewd song, but also a lustrously beautiful one, full of dreamscape synthesizers and slow-rolling drums, like a sunrise on a robot-occupied planet.
Windsor is, they say, the oldest and largest occupied castle on the planet.
The series' authority is such that the team accompanying Jay Garner, the first American administrator of occupied Iraq, used "Lonely Planet Iraq" to draw up a list of historical sites that should not be bombed or looted.
Aleppo is one of the oldest continuously occupied cities on the planet.
It's occupied gyms and church halls across the planet, and if you weren't caught up in its first console sally, Zumba Fitness 2 is here to sidestep, travel and merengue its way to dominion over your Wii.
Well, fine, I'll buy into it: Here's a year's worth of cool, geeky stuff that occupied, distracted, and delighted me during the planet's latest trip around the sun.
Aides to the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, are far more grounded but their political base includes extremists, and when it comes to Israeli settlements in occupied territory, they, too, sound as if they are from a distant planet.
