Then, to keep her upright and prevent her from moving, he buries her in earth up to her thighs.
If you go out from Earth up into space, you see our entire planet is a living organism - be it in the sea with all the fish, on the land with all the reptiles and mammals and insects, but the way man is behaving at the moment needs attention.
This will enable it to detect planets as tiny as four earth masses up to 33 light-years away, and earth-sized planets (if they exist) around the sun's closest neighbours.
This flyby will provide a unique opportunity for researchers to study a near-Earth object up close.
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Images from this would have been sent back to Earth for up to 30 days for vital research.
While mining the millions of asteroids around Earth opens up a new area for the mining industry, questions arise regarding staking claims and owning property, or asteroids in this case, in space.
Sure, we are for Islamic self-esteem, but what on earth was Obama up to here?
In spite of round-the-clock work, progress on boring a huge tunnel into the earth was not up to mark.
The earth is warming up faster than we thought, and the ice caps are melting faster than we thought.
Solar blasts heading toward Earth can stoke up beautiful auroras in the nighttime sky, and wreak havoc on communications satellites and electrical power grids.
The US shuttle Atlantis and its six crewmen are heading back to Earth, wrapping up the craft's 32nd - and probably final - trip into space.
But Corneli also based much of his belief in the inevitability of this transition on the fact that the Earth is heating up and that human beings are responsible.
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We remember the poison gas, the moonscape of shattered trees and churned-up earth, the incompetent leadership that could imagine no way of conducting the war other than repeated frontal attacks.
I'm on this earth to put up a feeble fight against the horrible tendency people have to think that there's a formula: If I do the following things, I'll get elected president.
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According to tectonic theory, the surface of the Earth is made up of a patchwork of massive rigid plates, about 80km (50 miles) thick, which float in slow motion on top of the Earth's hot, pliable interior.
The sharpest, most dangerous legal brains on earth are folded up and stuffed into a three-block stretch of sleepy Tallahassee, borrowing strangers' desks, living on doughnuts, men and women who have negotiated treaties and broken monopolies and saved the dollar and brokered peace in the Middle East.
Unfortunately, the earth's circumference at the equator is almost 25, 000 miles, so when we try to model the entire earth, and go up into the mesosphere (about 25 to 50 miles above the earth) the picture gets fuzzier.
In honor of Earth Day I rounded up a few (there are so many now) of my favorite earth-loving wineries.
Over 20 million tons a year dumped, covered up with earth and left to rot.
Nearly 9, 000 people in Scotland had signed up for Earth Hour, which was started by environmental charity WWF in 2007.
But of course it took several minutes to fire up the laptop and get Windows going, then to pull up Google Earth.
The material that is burning up in Earth's atmosphere during the Quadrantids likely comes from a comet that broke into fragments centuries ago, NASA says.
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They grind up the earth and bring samples to the surface.
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The same people that said 20 years ago that the Earth was cooling down are the same ones that said the Earth is now heating up, said Welday.
By the time any change occurred, humans might even have generated technology that could speed up the Earth's rotation or transport us to other liveable planets within our galaxy.
In an extreme case of the newsworthiness bias at work, news outlets ran stories about how the new cyclotron in Switzerland might just create a black hole that would instantly swallow up the earth.
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