Sentence examples for planetary home from inspiring English sources
From Richard Branson to Stephen Hawking, there's a hypnotic fascination with the possibility of escape which somehow relieves the pressure to look after our own, extraordinary planetary home.
Economy and ecology have the same root, oikos, an ancient Greek word meaning 'home' – both our planetary home, the Earth, and the home where we live our everyday lives in family and community.
We have a similar approach to our production of carbon emissions, which are quickly raising the temperature of our planetary home.
The human traits that have led us to the brink of nuclear war, and are contributing to the potential need for finding another planetary home will accompany us as we travel to other planets.
Melting ice caps, rising sea levels, heat waves, record droughts, severe storms, mass extinctions — this is the legacy we're leaving to future generations, unless we find the collective will to do something about it and become better stewards of our planetary home.
Most of all, we imagine new planetary homes as an escape from the consequences of inhabitation on our current one, and assume that the mastery of a profoundly more hostile planet will save us from our failure to master our assumptions here on earth.
One possibility is that gravitational disturbances caused by massive planets or passing stars ejected the bodies from their home planetary systems.
From a remote vantage point far beyond our home planetary system, the Sun overwhelmingly dominates our cosmic neighborhood, with Jupiter an inferior second.
The largest structure in our planetary system, the Kuiper belt is home to comets and more than 100,000 miniature worlds less than 62 miles across.
Indeed, astronomers look for similar configurations — a giant outer planet with room for smaller planets in closer to the home stars — in other planetary systems as an indication of their hospitableness to life.
Planetary scientists studying the images relayed home by the Mars Pathfinder are finding signs that a great ancient flood on the Red Planet deposited rocks at the landing site, the Ares Valles region.
