Mars was not always without a magnetic field but for reasons unknown it stopped working 4 billion years ago (Mars Fact Sheet). ... Despite the fact that Mars is half the size of Earth, it is the planet most similar to Earth, mainly in rotation rate and axial tilt of its orbit ("Mars Stats"). ... The results of the Martian atmosphere effect the weather, and cause temperatures to rise and fall very quickly. ... They occur every Martian year, which is about the equivalent of 2 Earth years (Mars Fact Sheet). ... It has 4 seasons and each one lasts twice as long as seasons on Earth (Mars Fact Sheet...

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Global Warming: Fact or Fiction For many years now, the subject of global warming has been the cause of heated debates throughout the world. ... As the Earth is a living planet, it is constantly undergoing change. Plate tectonics continue to change the face of the planet. ... The Earth's orbit brings the planet closer to the Sun at one point in its 100,000 year trip. ... Scientists who work on these models are quick to point out that they are far from perfect representations of reality, and are probably not advanced enough for direct use in policy implementation. ...

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Although there are nine planets in our solar system, only one planet has the distinction of being the closest planet to the sun. Mercury is the closest planet to the sun. ... The planet probably received this name because it moves so quickly across the sky. ... Facts About Mercury Mercury is so close to the sun that you can only see it near sunrise or sunset. ... Other Interesting Facts The planet Mercury appeared to cross in front of the Sun on May 7, 2003. ...

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However, some instances recorded in the Bible and believed by many Christians are found to be surreal when compared to the facts of their scientific counterparts. ... Evolutionists argue that the Christian belief of "creation" merely implies the existence of a creator (God) and fails to deal with the issues of the origin of life and the creation of the planet (Miller 55). ... It is also deducted by studying the earth's unique surface that the planet was struck by many asteroids and meteors. ... Radio-metrically, scientists can determine the age of the planet and the dates of specific ...

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Global Warming has many threats on the climate and even the health of the people on this planet. ... In fact, this planet would be a life-less waste land without its natural green housing. ... The fact is that the effects of the huge overuse of these items of luxury plus all the other items and activities play havoc on our atmosphere. ... With the warming of the planet, the water on the ground would quickly evaporate causing the rivers and lakes to quickly dry up. ... So what else can be done in order to keep Global Warming from happening so quickly? ...

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Mankind must come to realize that each individual is not a limited member of some isolated and narrowly defined group but rather a member of the people of the planet earth. Our varied cultures, religions and racial groups evolved millenniums ago, in closed, isolated and distant geographic areas on the planet. ... Whether or not a party is entitled to summary judgment ordinarily turns on whether or not there are genuine issues for trial, See Quick v. ... Co., 475 U.S. at 587; Quick, 90 F.3d at 1377. ... The facts giving rise to the Plaintiff's cause of action are as follows. ...

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However human society and culture has evolved enough that science and technology is quickly catching up to religion in terms of cultural advancement. ... We are, in fact, the fastest advancing species on this planet. ... With mars we have a lot more to work with though, the planet already has a thin layer of atmosphere; we could easily terriform the planet by pumping out CO2 into the atmosphere making it thicker, the planet will become warmer and Mars's polar caps will melt. ... But the fact still remains, our sun cannot burn forever, its lifespan, however long it may be it is still not...

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Use a Timeline to outline the historical developments of models of the universe from Aristotle to Newton. 330 BC Aristotle described the Earth to be a stationary object or Sphere at the centre of the Universe with the sun, stars and planets moving Around the Earth. ... He basically proved the Sun was bigger than the Earth and based his Theory on that fact. 120 AD Ptolemy wanted a system which would predict the positions of the planets. ... Developed three ...

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Pioneers, leaders, innovators, quick and original, full of energy and enthusiasm - you love to be first in everything that you do. ... You have a quick temper, but you don"t hold a grudge. ... Ariens tend to be quick, impulsive and confident. ... You have a very active imagination and truth is not a fetish with you, in fact you bend it quite a bit. ... Saturn in Cancer Saturn is the planet of self-preservation and defence. ...

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The original title was pretty simple in terms of gameplay, giving only a small amount of planets, technologies, ship designs and diplomacy options. Nevertheless, gaining immense popularity very quickly, it pressed hard on the developers for a sequel. ... And in fact, that mission statement inevitably introduced new concepts, some of which brought the old thrill back, and some that aggravated many loyal fans to the extent of pronouncing the game "unplayable". ... The number of planets rose to about 1,500 (average of 5 planets per each of the 300 star systems) from about 300 in the previous tit...

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Today I"m going to make you open your eyes to the possible future of our planet if there isn't anything done about it. ... Over population is an another issue raised in the book, because of the world's population, millions of forests had to be cleared for crops to be grown so large amounts of chemicals where dumped on forests to kill them quicker and easier. ... Now I"m not one of those people who think everything is bad, my opinion is based purely and utterly on facts. ... Or slowly yet surly destroying the planet from heat and then in time, we would end up like the "red planet" and...

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Conceived on the doomed planet Krypton, scientist Jor-El sent his son Kal-El on a hyper light rocket off into space. ... He can loose his powers if he expends a lot of energy quickly, or if he spends too much time away from the yellow sun while on outer space. ... Learning of Krypton's fate and the fate of both his parents, Clark was further determined to protect his knew planet, Earth. ... After accepting the fact that he was not an ordinary human, Clark decided to use his powers for the common good of mankind. While living in metropolis, he took up a job at the Dailey Planet as a mild...

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Currently, there are over 7 billion people on the planet but by the year 2050 the population is projected to increase to 9 billion. Has the human species taken over too much the planet? ... I also agree with almost all of the information that the chapter provided because it is very hard to disagree with facts, which many people have opted to do so unfortunately. ... I found the quick visualization very interesting. ... The future of our planet is depending on how we use resources such as food, water, and natural energy....

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Released in 2009 the movie Avatar written and directed by James Cameron, tells the story of a paraplegic marine who is dispatched to a distant planet called Pandora to fight against the natives of that planet in support of a greedy corporation. Instead, he learns that the people of Pandora, called Na'vi are harmless but they will go to the extremes to protect anything and everything on their home planet. ... Through several months of learning the way of the Na'vi, Jake Sully, played by Sam Worthington, quickly realizes that the lives of the Na'vi are way more important than s...

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Proving how life may be able to adapt and evolve on planets with a different composition to that of Earth's is way to difficult. ... According to a cosmic census extrapolated from NASA's Kepler telescope, at least 50 billion planets reside in the Milky Way Galaxy. ... Seeing as how life evolved rather quickly on Earth, life may have done the same thing on these 50 other planets. ... Remember, these planets have been found within the Milky Way galaxy alone, what about the other billions of galaxies in the universe? ... The fact that several species have increased their cognitive facul...

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Our planets natural balance is extremely important to all plants, animals, humans, and other organisms living here. ... Humanity and the way it has chosen to live are primarily to blame for global warming and the constant destruction of our planet. ... Environmentalists all across the world are afraid that we are quickly destroying our planet and have incredibly convincing arguments for their fear, yet the skeptics still refuse to budge. ... "In fact, eleven of the last thirteen years feature in the top twenty five warmest years on the planet" (Naik). Also with the warmer climates,...

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These traits give him the ability to quickly escape his seekers and set him on the right path. ... The ship then crash landed on a desert planet that orbits around three suns, leaving the planet in a stream of constant daytime. Many events transpire and everyone on the planet realizes they are in trouble because the planet is infested with deadly creatures that live in the darkness of the planet's caves and soon there will be an eclipse showering the planet in pith black darkness for an unknown amount of time. ... After he is immunized he explores the planet and finds out that the planet...

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The speaker describes how light get to the "our cloud-hugged planet" then far and further through everything else then to herself. ... Her tone in the poem is very private since she describes how light travel through our big planet but only come down to her feeling when she saw the light came to her just like as it enter through her private chamber in a medieval castle, a boudoir. Her writing is light and kind of loneliness as a matter fact as quiet as the travel of light. ... The speaker is screaming out the touch of light has on her, "I hear you loud love"same as Minister speeches out God...

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Using facts from the past and making a logical decision based on them is the closest we come to an accurate prediction of the future. "Robot Renaissance" by Danylo Hawaleshka and "The Lonely Planet" by John Ibbitson contain predictions of the future world we could live in. ... (Danylo Hawaleshka, 345) Common sense would dictate that technology began to assist in performing tasks quicker, easier and more efficiently. ... The world is changing everyday and these machines become tailored to suit the task we need done and since it becomes easier, we are able to complete these tasks quicker. ...

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The Planets follow the same laws of motion as objects on the surface of the earth. ... The case that ensued prohibited Copernicu's work until heliocentrism was taught as a hypothesis and not as a fact. Galileo abided by this ruling for a while (the ruling was handed down by men in Rome, one of whom was a Cardinal), but soon he was back to defending his beliefs again as pure fact. ... In accordance with this law, the movement of a planet is fastest at perihelion. Perihelion is the point of a planet's orbit at which it is closet to the sun. ...

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I believe other animals have just as much a right to exist on this planet as we do. ... In fact, so strange is our race today, I would hardly classify it as a race of mammals. ... But obviously, all this comes at an expense, and the ones who are paying it, are all other species that inhabit the planet. ... The meat farms claim they make the slaughter process quick and painless; cows are simply tethered and lined up on a conveyor belt, and roll toward two giant anvils, which pound together, crushing the skull of the cow in a split second. Quick. ...

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Our health is greatly influenced by the conditions of what we live in and since humans live on this planet earth, we need to take care of it. The main issue recently to the planet earth is the growing pollution that is happening every day everywhere. There is a landfill overflow currently happening which means landfills are getting filled to quickly and cannot be broken down in time for more trash to have room in the space. ... They are also meant to be recycled for the sake of the planet. ... Some might say that tap water actually has dangerous chemicals when in fact; about forty percent of b...

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However, culturally, it might as well have been a newly found planet, and we were its discoverers. ... There, we quickly set up our hammocks, dropped our luggage, and hopped back in the vans to tour our work cites. ... However, that quickly changed. ... In fact, saying good-bye was oddly enough much harder than the decision to come and all the sacrifice and hard work combined. ... He will be returning home for a quick visit in November, but then he will be headed back until he feels his job is complete. ...

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With every solution we come up with to solve global warming and to somehow restore our once green planet, there seems to be consequences with every move we make. ... Polar bears are now drowning due to the horrific increase of seawater because of ice melting so quickly. ... This is the planet we live on; it is our responsibility to treat it with care. ... It is true with the fact that it will reduce the cost of buying gallons of gasoline to fuel your car. ... Listening to Al Gore's speech and seeing the physical change our climate change has done to our planet with the addition of hard ...

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Our lazy, every day habits are slowly but quickly obliterating the only place we call home: planet Earth. ... I go on supporting all these negative side effects that damage our planet by dwelling on the positive. ... These things are tolerant to me because I"m also stubborn and ignorant; I try not to face the facts and think about it. ... It is a fact that there are over 450 different ways to substitute going about to test a product. ... In our case, unless we can live on the moon or other planet, we"re out of luck when it comes to "moving on." ...

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