| 单词 | Earth |
| 例句 | But such a model becomes increasingly complicated as we try to describe the behaviour of things further and further away from Earth, across the Solar System. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z So instead, I'll do something that wouldn't work at all on Earth: throw them outside. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Are they connected with plate tectonics on the Earth? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the mightiest on Earth, with hundreds of warships prowling the seas. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z The Chancellor waves her arm, and the glowing serpent speeds up its trajectory toward Earth. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “A rare bird upon the Earth, not unlike a black swan.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z They showed them acting in every way as human beings did; walking, for instance, and eating, as Earth and Heaven obviously did not. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z It's awesome to have a bunch of dipshits on Earth telling me, a botanist, how to grow plants. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The approach to Earth of Hailey’s Comet in the year 66 is the probable explanation of the account by Josephus of a sword that hung over Jerusalem for a whole year. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was then that the heavens heard the cries of those men who had died from the lawlessness of the Earth. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z The crucial dispute between Cartesians and Newtonians was over the shape of the Earth: Newton predicted an oblate ellipsoid, or flattened, Earth, while the Cartesians had predicted a prolate ellipsoid, or egg-shaped, Earth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z No painter trapped on Earth ever imagined a world so strange and lovely. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “You say you’re from Earth, don’t you? Well, then there’s nothing for it but you sign.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile the Cosmos is rich beyond measure: the total number of stars in the universe is greater than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Just like me, someone, somewhere on Earth was his ancestor too. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z There was going to be a war on Earth. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “First up,” Mrs. Lee said, “Team Planet Earth.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z But his revolutionary ideas about the place of the Earth in the Universe had already been formulated by the end of the first decade of the sixteenth century. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z And the Earth Mother promised her a better deal once the gods are destroyed, blah, blah, blah.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I mean it literally: There is at least one species of jellyfish that can grow younger, which is something that pretty much no other creature on Earth can do. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z A big part of the reason for our ignorance, interestingly enough, is that traditionally there has been little effort to coordinate what’s happening on top of the Earth with what’s going on inside. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z She used telescopes to study near-Earth asteroids—those close enough to the edge of the asteroid belt that they could escape and come toward Earth! Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z If the doleful experience of cultural conflict on Earth were the galactic standard, it seems we would already have been destroyed, perhaps with some passing admiration expressed for Shakespeare, Bach and Vermeer. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The study of the global climate, the comparison of the Earth with other worlds, are subjects in their earliest stages of development. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Here was the place where Martians killed the first Earth Men, and it was Red Town and had to do with blood. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Volcanoes inject debris into the atmospheres of the Earth and Io. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be simple, she thought, just like sending a man into orbit around Earth, just like putting a man on the Moon. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z But the mixture of ice and rocks within these outer moons must contain, as do rocks on Earth, traces of radioactive minerals, which heat their surroundings. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “You ever think about how weird it is that Earth is hurtling through the black vacuum of space, where it’s like a thousand below zero, and meanwhile we’re down here sweating?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Compared with Thomas Midgley’s colorful contributions to the march of progress, Patterson’s discovery of the age of the Earth feels more than a touch anticlimactic. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Pa’s tales were often about the Buddhist gods and their dragons coming down to Earth to fight evil and protect people. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Which aspects of our nature will prevail is uncertain, particularly when our vision and understanding and prospects are bound exclusively to the Earth—or, worse, to one small part of it. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe even for the rest of life on Earth. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Some had heard about life on Mars and accepted that the creatures had come to Earth. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z The Earth is a tiny and fragile world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If the two sticks cast shadows of equal length, that also would make sense on a flat Earth: the Sun’s rays would then be inclined at the same angle to the two sticks. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The distance from the surface of Earth to the center is 3,959 miles, which isn’t so very far. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Maybe the Sea of Flames never existed at all, maybe curses aren’t real, maybe her father is right: Earth is all magma and continental crust and ocean. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z This was a great source of pride for the French, but it was predicated on the assumption that the Earth was a perfect sphere–which Newton now said it was not. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The absence of detectable stellar parallax as the Earth moved suggested that the stars were much farther away than the Sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, the content may be interesting, but the fourteen-minute transmission time between here and Earth will be a bit dull. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Your cause is lost, Zeus. Even if you defeat me, the Earth Mother shall simply raise me again!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z But on Earth, I am eleven and a half, and that is old enough to not be weird. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z This seemed to suggest that the Earth was splitting apart at the seams, like a nut bursting out of its shell. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Look: In my father’s novel, The Lazarus Door, incomers named Earth the planet of humans and dogs because they liked keeping dogs as pets, but they liked human beings as entrees. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z She motions to where Earth spun peacefully a few moments earlier. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I just watched an episode where Steve Austin fights a Russian Venus probe that landed on Earth by mistake. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Hathaway went out into the cleared weather to see Earth burning green on the windy sky. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “I think we’ve been reading that line the wrong way. The world...the Earth. In Greek, the word for that would be...” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The dimensions of the Cosmos are so large that using familiar units of distance, such as meters or miles, chosen for their utility on Earth, would make little sense. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There was nothing in his argument which might imply that the Earth was just another planet, or that the universe had not been created for the benefit of human beings. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The hydrocarbons should remain on Titan, covering the surface with a brownish tarry organic sludge, something like that produced in experiments on the origin of life on Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The night is pleasingly long—about 59 Earth days long—but nothing of the astronomical universe would be visible if you looked up into the night sky of Venus. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In his version of Book I of On the Revolutions the arguments that could be adduced against the movement of the Earth are given a more prominent position. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Probably around the same number of people think the Earth is flat as think race consciousness should be the rule in perpetuity, rather than the exception. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Good old Earth. There are three billions of us there, Cutie—and in about two weeks I’ll be back there with them.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z When one is lying on the floor of his bedroom exactly ten weeks and three days after his brother has vanished off the face of the Earth, he begins to imagine quite a grandiose scene. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z It was one of the few places on Earth where the People could pass unnoticed. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z A woman sings nicely for a time, about “a great tomorrow,” and is encouraging us to “sign up with Outer Space Ways Incorporated” if we “find Earth boring.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Alex longed to be ejected, to be bodily lifted from Yankee Stadium, from the Bronx, from New York, from Earth itself, to be slingshotted into the soothing void of space. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z It is only powerful in a kind of collective sense, when one massive object like the Sun, holds on to another massive object like the Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It was the first nonmystical explanation of motion in the heavens; it made the Earth a province of the Cosmos. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Some scientists have suggested that it was caused by a piece of hurtling antimatter, annihilated on contact with the ordinary matter of the Earth, disappearing in a flash of gamma rays. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z All the laws and beliefs of Earth were burnt into small hot ashes which soon would be carried off in a wind. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z In the wake of the first Earth Day in 1970, a group named Keep America Beautiful, Inc., put up billboards that portrayed an actor in Indian dress quietly weeping over polluted land. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Nothing in such experiments is unique to the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But even with radiometric dating, as decay measurements became known, it would be decades before we got within a billion years or so of Earth’s actual age. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “No, you are from the Past,” said the Earth Man, having had time to think of it now. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z We both shook Mr. Reilly’s hand, then the door closed and we dropped away from him, leaning our backs against garbage cans, falling toward Earth as if we weighed a million pounds. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Uniformitarians by contrast believed that changes on Earth were gradual and that nearly all Earth processes happened slowly, over immense spans of time. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z But after landing, the spacecraft returned a twenty-second fragment of a featureless television picture to Earth and then mysteriously failed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Listen, Cutie, if there is no such thing as Earth, how do you account for what you see through a telescope?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z For me, growing up as a human being on the planet Earth in the twenty-first century was a real kick in the teeth. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Few supported these efforts to put a woman in space, but after American John Glenn orbited the Earth, the Soviets feared the United States was catching up or even surpassing them in the Space Race. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z They went on to say that the idea that the Earth moves through space was ‘at the very least erroneous in faith’. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Garland said, “It’s a chance anyway, breaking free and coming here to Earth, where we’re not even considered animals. Where every worm and wood louse is considered more desirable than all of us put together.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Astronomers think that regular outbursts continue on the Mars surface and more cylinders will soon land on Earth. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z It's strange to think that a sand dune will stop me from hearing what the MAV has to say when it can talk to Earth no problem. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were perfect and divine. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Scholastic philosophers had fertile imaginations and had often imagined looking at the Earth from far away, even from the stars; but they had not imagined that the Earth would shine like the brightest stars. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It receives commands from Earth and radios its findings back to Earth through a large antenna, 3.7 meters in diameter. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They set the Earth Men on a table. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “Here’s a fun fact,” Mr. Chang says, “if humans bomb the planet with their nuclear arsenal, the only life left on Earth will be cockroaches. Only they can survive the toxic fallout.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “Shut up, and let’s get out of here. Relief is waiting and I won’t feel right until I actually see Earth and feel the ground under my feet—just to make sure it’s really there.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z “That just isn’t Earth. No, that’s not Earth; is that what you mean?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z His belief was that from time to time the Earth experienced global catastrophes in which groups of creatures were wiped out. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Dad says Pleiades had been storing their ships in a massive underground facility at the old Denver airport—they weren’t supposed to leave Earth on their first official trip for another two years. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z "Or else you'll end up in hell," Grandma Knife added, "which is supposedly hotter than anywhere on Earth." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “Even with your memories of Earth, you proved useful.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Autumn was most fun, because then they imagined, like on Earth, they were scuttering through autumn leaves. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The only possible answer, he saw, was that the surface of the Earth is curved. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It is one-fifteenth the angular diameter of the full Moon as seen from Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And that means that there was a time when you were gone and no one on Earth had any idea. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z ‘It is done\\ The Earth Mother is awake!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The ship returned to Earth as silently, as unjarringly as it had left. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Believe me, even back on Earth a botanist/mechanical engineer doesn't exactly have ladies lined up at the door. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Already, she’d told us there are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in a single human body, enough to circle Earth two and a half times. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It has been suggested that the major ice ages on our planet, which recur every hundred million years or so, may be due to the interposition of interstellar matter between the Sun and the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m from Earth! My name is Jonathan Williams, and these ” “Yes, I know,” soothed Mr. Xxx, and fired his gun. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z What is more, it presents almost exactly the same face to the Earth each time it is closest to our planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Jupiter and Uranus also have ring systems, discovered only recently, and almost invisible from the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I may not win anything in orbit, but I still have made my mark upon the Earth. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “And you should know that ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ is my favorite song on Earth.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Earth is alone among the rocky planets in having tectonics, and why this should be is a bit of a mystery. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Even the Reverend Buckland, as pious a soul as the nineteenth century produced, noted that nowhere did the Bible suggest that God made Heaven and Earth on the first day, but merely "in the beginning." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Because of climate change, half of Earth’s forests are gone.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Plenty of sunlight is transmitted by the over- lying clouds, about as much as on an overcast day on the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Which means that although scythes may be the most powerful humans on Earth, they are also the most vulnerable. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Consider a possibly typical group of Earth beings at the tea party from Alice in Wonderland. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The sparks correspond to lightning—also present on the ancient Earth and on modern Jupiter. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Once I got Pathfinder working, I got used to talking to Earth. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z If there are intelligent beings on Earth, they have not much modified the landscape into regular geometrical patterns at kilometer resolution. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Distant galaxies revolving about one another follow the same laws of gravitational physics as govern the motion of an apple falling to Earth, or Voyager on its way to the stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Earth to B and Thompson! You plan on paying attention, or you just going to make eyes at each other all night?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z The sun and the Earth are unique, and the universe has a centre. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z That life has changed fundamentally over the aeons is entirely clear from the alterations we have made in the beasts and vegetables during the short tenure of humans on Earth, and from the fossil evidence. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It had long been known that the Earth radiated appreciable amounts of heat–that was apparent to anyone who went down a coal mine–but there wasn’t any way of estimating the rate of dissipation. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I presume they got back to Earth all right. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Gaia the Earth Mother rose from the ground - a swirling figure of soil, leaves and stones. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z A meager colonization program had been underway before the war, but now that the sun had ceased to shine on Earth, the colonization entered an entirely new phase. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z You shall kill only the killers, Mercer had told them the year empathy boxes first appeared on Earth. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z That's why I have a small amount of Earth soil and a bunch of plant seeds with me. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z If we can accomplish the integration of the Earth without obliterating cultural differences or destroying ourselves, we will have accomplished a great thing. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We have now reached our own backyard, a light-year from Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Percy sneered. “/ will live again in this body. The Earth Mother has promised. I will go where I please, control whom I wish.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “There’s too much Earth blood in me. I’ll have to keep after you.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not Earth—oh no, it couldn’t be,” he wailed. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z There were enough insights here to transform utterly our understanding of the Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The thing you don’t see while you’re still there on Earth is how easy it is to change your mind. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z On Earth, tiny particles get attached to water or wear down to nothing. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He had seen no visible sign of change in Earths aspect through his thirty- inch telescope. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z How does anybody know how much the Earth weighs or how old its rocks are or what really is way down there in the center? A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The Earth seems steady, solid, immobile, while we can see the heavenly bodies rising and setting each day. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A radio astronomer on a planet of another star would be able to calculate the length of the day on Earth from the times of appearance and disappearance of our signals. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We are not at the centre of the universe: rather, the Earth is just another planet. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Where that orbit intersects the orbit of the Earth, there is a swarm of meteors waiting for us. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z After all, the people of Planet Earth had other concerns. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Is extraterrestrial life, if it exists, based on the same organic molecules as life on Earth? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And yet for three billion years there were microorganisms everywhere on Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “So,” Dad said, “when the sun starts to burn out and Earth turns cold, everyone here might want to move to Venus to get warm. And they’ll have to get permission from your descendants first.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z For instance I bet if I asked you, “What is the toughest stuff on Earth?” you’d say, “Diamonds.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Catastrophists, as you might expect from the name, believed that the Earth was shaped by abrupt cataclysmic events–floods principally, which is why catastrophism and neptunism are often wrongly bundled together. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Think of me as...Earth’s last librarian, made to look like...someone you trust.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z But how could I do this to Earth Mother, especially during planting season? The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Overall, the most pervasive and noticeable source of radio transmissions from the Earth is our television programming. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “What Mother Earth spoke to Titans and . . . her other children. Before the gods.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The surface area of Mars is exactly as large as the land area of the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z On the other hand, suppose our time traveler had persuaded Queen Isabella that Columbus’ geography was faulty, that from Eratosthenes’ estimate of the circumference of the Earth, Columbus could never reach Asia. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Earth Mother sent three. The strongest, the best. We will live again.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Like seeing might save me...help save the Earth. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z The venture had three goals: to orbit a manned spacecraft around the Earth, to investigate man’s ability to function in space, and to recover both men and spacecraft safely. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z For billions of years they would have heard only weak and intermittent radio static caused by lightning and the trapped electrons and protons whistling within the Earth’s magnetic field. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But elsewhere, on older worlds, where life has evolved billions of years earlier than on Earth, perhaps they know 1020 bits or 1030—not just more information but significantly different information. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Fanaticism in war, of the type that drove recorded Christian and Islamic conquests, was probably unknown on Earth until chiefdoms and especially states emerged within the last 6,000 years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “No Earth, no heavens, no stars, no sky: only the mist world...” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “Well, sure. There are any number of scenarios that could lead to the extinction of all life on Earth.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Kepler ... and others maintain of the Earth’s motion. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They have created a fake Earth and fake high school to study me and my reactions. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Since Saturn moves around the sun once every thirty years, the length of the seasons on Saturn and its moons is much longer than on Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There have been tool-making ‘humans’ on Earth' for around 2 million years. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “The Earth Mother—oh, yes!—she told us: ‘Look for the daughter of Pluto who lives again. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “That’s right. Nothing. Nothing at all any more. No more Minneapolis, no more rockets, no more Earth.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z That evening, she logged on to Google Earth once again and scanned satellite images of Clarkston. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z “No, we came from the third planet, Earth, in a ship. And we’ve landed here on the fourth planet, Mars.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z In lectures given at Gresham College around this time, but not published until after his death, Hooke also specifically recognized that this implied major transformations in the surface of the Earth. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z In one sense we have launched into the Cosmos a direct transcription of the thoughts and feelings of a single human being in the month of June in the year 1977 on the planet Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “I would like to tell of my life,” it runs at one point, “and of the experiences that make myriad my joys and sorrows upon this planet we call Earth.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z This thing is out 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, feeding a constant stream of data to a bunch of ground tracking stations all over the world. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z What are the implications of claiming that the Earth is a planet? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The global temperature of the Earth would be below the freezing point of water if not for the greenhouse effect. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z So it was quite an achievement when in 1946 he was able to announce with some confidence that the Earth was at least three billion years old and possibly rather more. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The Earth contains a great deal of iron and rather little yttrium. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z To Mr. Aaa he called, “We traveled sixty million miles. From Earth!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z In Copernicus’ system, the Earth and other planets move in circular orbits about the Sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They haven’t the oomph to escape Earth’s gravity and, even if they did, there are no mechanisms to guide them across tens of millions of miles of space. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The current best estimate for Earth’s weight is 5.9725 billion trillion metric tons, a difference of only about 1 percent from Cavendish’s finding. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Every lifeform on Earth has a different set of instructions, written out in essentially the same language. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes. We’re curious, of course. We had no radio contact so far out in space. We’ll want to see Earth, no matter what.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z In science terms, the Earth would travel around the sun twice before I would be able to go back home for good. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z She identified with the Egyptian goddess Isis, the partner of the god-king Osiris, who the Egyptians believed had ruled as pharaoh on Earth. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z When the magnetic field is working, these rays are safely herded away from the Earth’s surface and into two zones in near space called the Van Allen belts. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Throughout Europe astronomers took a keen interest in what Copernicus had to say, but, with only a very few exceptions, they took it for granted that his account of a moving Earth was simply wrong. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Each true-or-false question taught the user—and the alien—basic Earth science facts. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z “There are many of us here from Earth.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z There was one other major problem with Earth theories that no one had resolved, or even come close to resolving. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He was talking about saving all of those who survived the journey from Earth. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The universe still had a centre, and the sun and the Earth were still unique objects. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “That captain that killed that guy who thought he was going to kill off every other Earth Man, what was his name?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z But he went further: in place of the Ptolemaic and Copernican systems, he proposed his own geoheliocentric system, which was geometrically equivalent to Copernicanism but had a moving sun and a stationary Earth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z After two hundred years of trying, the Earth finally had an age. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Meggers’s message of limitation, published within a year of the first Earth Day, resonated in the ears of readers newly converted to the ecological movement. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z For the actual resort, I’m picturing a place along the lines of Middle Earth, but what I find is acres of thin brown trees and ruins. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Collisions among the asteroids happen frequently, and occasionally a piece is chipped off and accidentally intercepts the Earth, falling to the ground as a meteorite. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And a robot, unconcerned with beam, focus, or Earth, or anything but his Master was at the controls. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z And here we are left behind in this godforsaken place called Earth to do what?” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z There was going to be a big atomic war on Earth in about two years, and he didn’t want to be here when it happened. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The nitrogen in the Earth’s atmosphere is much more chemically inert and therefore much more benign than oxygen. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “We know how the Universe ends—” said the guide, “and Earth has nothing to do with it, except that it gets wiped out, too.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I close my eyes and inhale, taking my last ever breath under Earth’s open sky. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z However, if Venus was further from the Earth than the sun, its size would vary considerably over time, but it would nearly always be a full circle, and never be much less than that. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Glaciers, proverbial for their slowness, produce major reworkings of landscapes on the Earth and probably also on Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The corps, led by the suave, unflappable Captain James T. Kirk, included natives of an advanced United Earth, its history of poverty and war now in the past. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z If we wish on Earth to examine samples of Martian soil for microbes, we must, of course, not sterilize the samples beforehand. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I realize that what makes the moon so spectacularly beautiful from down here on Earth might look ugly, jagged, and scarred up close. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z “I don’t trust those Earth people,” she said. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The first is that a pretty reliable figure for the time light takes to travel from the sun to the Earth was available seventeen years after Rømer’s first estimate of eleven minutes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The Cyclopes and the Titans he left at large; and Earth, enraged at the maltreatment of her other children, appealed to them to help her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z There's an international treaty saying no country can lay claim to anything that's not on Earth. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The Earth, the meeting agreed, was a mosaic of interconnected segments whose various stately jostlings accounted for much of the planet’s surface behavior. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Even on the Earth, even in our own century, bizarre natural events have occurred. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, why doesn’t the motion shake the Earth to bits? The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Bruno, by contrast, was the first to distinguish stars and planets as we do now, making the sun a star and the planets, including the Earth, dark bodies shining by reflected light. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z God had created and ordered the splendid, diverse natural world, unchanged from Earth’s beginning. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z We went back to Earth, and we all rested up, and our moms brought us ginger ale in bed. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Because the Earth has a larger area than the Moon, we might have to wait something like ten thousand years between collisions that would make craters as big as a kilometer across on our planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know. With mail rates five bucks a letter to Earth, I don’t write much.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Although it misses its target of the moon, it is the first artificial object to leave Earth’s orbit. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z About how the moon is always falling in a circle around our Earth. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z So at first Kepler tried to explain the observations by imagining that the Earth and Mars moved in circular orbits about the Sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z What was particularly impressive about the full Copernican model of the Universe was that by putting the Earth in orbit around the Sun it automatically put the planets into a logical sequence. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Imagine yourself a visitor from some other and quite alien planet, approaching Earth with no preconceptions. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Scattered through this thin dusting are exotic elements not normally much found on Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Earth and water together make up what looks like a single globe, although they are in fact distinct spheres with different centres. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The parts of Skylab that fell to Earth would—conveniently—fall on the bathroom block at Guardian Angels. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z But the net result has been to bind the Earth together, to decrease provincialism, to unify the human species and to advance powerfully our knowledge of our planet and ourselves. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And he wondered, quietly aloud, how they had built this city to last the ages through, and had they ever come to Earth? The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z John Joly of Dublin strenuously insisted well into the 1930s that the Earth was no more than eighty-nine million years old, and was stopped only then by his own death. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Every step it was to perform was loaded into the on-board computer before it left Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Earth was a planet, as Copernicus had said, and it was entirely obvious to Kepler that the Earth, wracked by wars, pestilence, famine and unhappiness, fell short of perfection. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It would have taken a very audacious biologist to guess that such animals would eventually produce the line that dominates the Earth today. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It is not simply a matter of size or density–Venus is nearly a twin of Earth in these respects and yet has no tectonic activity. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Outside the window, the Earth’s mantle and the air drop away below us. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Hello? Earth to Kyle? Do you want somebody else to get first dibs on the Electronic Learning Center?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z “The Earth Mother did not make you boss!” shrieked a fourth voice. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “About as happy as I was on Earth,” said Billy Pilgrim, which was true. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z But now, tonight, the dead were risen, Earth was reinhabited, memory awoke, a million names were spoken: What was so-and-so doing tonight on Earth? The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z I sat down and opened Journey to the Center of the Earth. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Like Einstein himself just told him that Earth is not round but instead shaped like a spoon. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z I wasn’t going to spend my last days on Earth as the butt of his jokes. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Then I sprinkled the Earth soil on top. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The question that particularly intrigued him at that time was why there should be six, and only six, planets in the Universe, accepting that Copernicus was right and the Earth itself is a planet. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z First, when Martian soil was mixed with a sterile organic soup from Earth, something in the soil chemically broke down the soup—almost as if there were respiring microbes metabolizing a food package from Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z What was the cost of freedom, when it was your brothers buried in the ground, swallowed by Mother Earth? Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Most of the lunar material, it is thought, came from the Earth’s crust, not its core, which is why the Moon has so little iron while we have a lot. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Geochemists say that certain elements on Earth’s surface cannot have come from the upper mantle, but must have come from deeper within the Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Many places on Earth seem suddenly to crystallize out, revealing an intricate pattern of squares and rectangles, straight lines and circles. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The East has half of humanity within its borders, and the Tropics more than half of Earth’s resources. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z He knew that the circumference of the Earth was forty thousand kilometers, and that only the male cardinal was bright red. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z They are the largest animals* ever to evolve on the planet Earth, larger by far than the dinosaurs. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There is a sense in which it is acceptable to describe the Earth as the centre of the Universe, and to make all measurements relative to the Earth. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z At this point, about 4.5 billion years ago, an object the size of Mars crashed into Earth, blowing out enough material to form a companion sphere, the Moon. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Holmes was the first scientist to understand that radioactive warming could produce convection currents within the Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z We really wanted to get back to Earth. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z This acceleration, which characterizes the force of gravity holding us to the Earth’s surface, is called 1 g, g for Earth gravity. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In so doing, they found an even bigger surprise: the mightiest and most extensive mountain range on Earth was–mostly–underwater. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z So many of us on Earth had them not just from one culture, but many. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Gold light from the hologram of Earth’s solar system glows eerily in the frozen fog from the corner of the room. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z We see them today as they were before the Earth accumulated, before the Milky Way was formed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Earth is a lovely and more or less placid place. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z From this he deduced that the Earth has a core. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I wonder what preventing the destruction of Earth means to the sluggers. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “Earth is the mother of all,” he told his wife. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as it had my mom, the thought of Gabriel not being on Earth anymore, and also of Oslo in heaven, started to upset me as I walked outside to take the trash out. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z It reminds me of the green water of the mangrove canals near Lita’s childhood home in Tulum, the most peaceful place on Earth. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z They were accompanied by the first perspective drawing of the entire Earth as a sphere. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z This was that Earth of which we have heard, made out of Chaos and Old Night. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet New Guineans themselves know as much about the wild plants and animals available to them as any peoples on Earth today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Europeans today are heirs to one of the longest traditions of animal domestication on Earth—that which began in Southwest Asia around 10,000 years ago. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Zack, who was only six at the time, announced that it was a piece of the moon that had fallen to Earth. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Its most daring feature was the proposition that the Sun, not the Earth, was at the center of the universe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z "Earth doesn't have to be involved," Jack said. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The decision to prioritize a victory in space over problems on Earth was the most widespread criticism against the space program. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The idea that the Earth might be subjected to devastating impacts from time to time was not quite as new as it is now sometimes presented. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Earth trees, great mimosas and weeping willows and magnolias and magnificent eucalyptus. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “We arrived last week. We’ll soon have things as neat and tidy as Earth.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The Earth gravitationally attracts us with a certain force, which if we are falling we experience as an acceleration. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Giants were defeated and hurled down to Tartarus; and the victory of the radiant powers of Heaven over the brutal forces of Earth was complete. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The output included a constantly updated time for retrofire, the moment when the capsules rockets had to be fired in order to initiate its descent back to Earth. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z We would return tens of billions of years in our future—to find the Earth a charred cinder and the Sun dead. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Matter is transparent to neutrinos, which pass almost effortlessly through the Earth and through the Sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We can now make out finer detail on it than the largest telescopes on Earth have ever obtained. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If he stayed with me, he’d end up hurting someone, and I didn’t want him to spend the last days of Earth behind bars. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The music fades in, right on cue—enchanting the crowd—and then the sparkling Emerald Gates open, welcoming humanity back to the Happiest Place on Earth. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z We, the nuclear hostages—all the peoples of the Earth—must educate ourselves about conventional and nuclear warfare. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Already he felt almost self-righteous about his new life because it was going to be Down to Earth, Humble, Unpretentious, Real. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Even at 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the speed of light, beings from nearby civilizations could have come during the tenure of humanity on Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Earth’s mantle was riddled with illegal tunnels, and it was impossible to police them all. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z We weren’t going to somewhere else on Earth. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Thereafter the Sun will slowly become red and distended, presiding over an Earth sweltering even at the poles. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If its orbit wasn’t corrected, it was going to crash to Earth. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal; Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually the dimming will reverse itself, but scientists predict all multicellular life on Earth will perish long before that occurs. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The assumption is that the convecting fluids in the Earth act somehow like the currents in wires. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The four Earth Men sat around a wooden table, their bleak heads bent over their whispers. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The culmination was, of course, the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus and the journeys of the following few centuries, which completed the geographical exploration of the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Earth is a place of all jungle’,' said Miss Rrr proudly. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z When the Richardson curve crosses the vertical bar we have specified the waiting time to Doomsday: how many years until the population of the Earth is destroyed in some great war. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z One or two South African gold mines reach to a depth of two miles, but most mines on Earth go no more than about a quarter of a mile beneath the surface. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The mindless contents of commercial television and the integuments of international crisis and internecine warfare within the human family are the principal messages about life on Earth that we choose to broadcast to the Cosmos. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He remembered the night before they left Earth, the hustling and hurrying, the rocket that Dad had found somewhere, somehow, and the talk of a vacation on Mars. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Many are familiar—those that primarily make up the Earth; or those fundamental to life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There are those who secretly deplore these great discoveries, who consider every step a demotion, who in their heart of hearts still pine for a universe whose center, focus and fulcrum is the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z An extraterrestrial visiting Earth 10,000 years ago might have been forgiven for predicting that Europe would end up as a set of vassal states of a sub-Saharan African empire. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The problem with Earth is there’s gravity, and atmosphere, and all that other sticky, tricky Earth stuff that slows the pendulum down until it stops. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “I don’t know about different, but I think Hope Springs is special. Best place on Earth, if you ask me,” Abby said. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z The physics that works for falling bodies and pirouetting ice skaters down here in the microcosm of the Earth makes galaxies up there in the macrocosm of the universe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There was tremendous media interest about Skylab falling to Earth, certainly enough to capture the attention of a boy who was about to turn seven and had already started dreaming about the stars. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Earth gave birth to her last and most frightful offspring, a creature more terrible than any that had gone before. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Venus, Earth and Mars move progressively less rapidly about the Sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Another plus of parachuting experience was that early cosmonauts had to parachute thousands of feet after reentering the Earth's atmosphere. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Maybe they don’t want Earth saved after all. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Their fathers, the Grigori, were then bound to hell for all eternity for the sins they had brought to Earth. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z The theory predicted that light reaching the Earth from distant stars would be bent by the gravitational field of the sun to a much greater degree than was predicted by classical Newtonian physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries you could travel from Holland to China in a year or two, the time it has taken Voyager to travel from Earth to Jupiter.’ Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But for the Enterprise of the Indies to work, for ships and crews to survive the long voyage, the Earth had to be smaller than Eratosthenes had said. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Only on Earth is there any talk of free will.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Amino acids have been assembled under primitive Earth conditions into molecules resembling proteins. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, what would the best weapon be that a Martian could use against Earth Men with atomic weapons? The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The subsequent exploration of the Earth was a worldwide endeavor, including voyages from as well as to China and Polynesia. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For all of our history, there has been the fear, or hope, that there might be life beyond the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was an unmanned probe that would be in Earth orbit less than two days. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He had really only one flaw and that was an inability to calculate the correct age of the Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The picture was a drawing of Earth and a treasure map blended together. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z And there aren't any sand dunes between it and Earth when they talk. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z We are in the realm of the nebulae, eight billion light-years from Earth, halfway to the edge of the known universe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Tropics had the newest capital city on Earth, and it was called simply that: “Capital City,” in the sublime confidence of youth. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Except for my two days as mayor of Earth, I didn’t seem to have much of an imagination. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Large-scale television transmission on the planet Earth began only in the late 1940’s. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Because of when it was done and what was going on in those years, some people thought it was about the Earth Goddess, which I found hilarious in view of my mother’s dislike of housework. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He was black, and I didn’t know his name, but he was wearing an old-school Public Enemy T-shirt: Fear of a Black Planet—the bull’s-eye logo poised to eclipse the Earth. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I asked Dr. 09-01 how far it was around the Earth. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z This didn’t sound too good, and I got sick of By teasing me so I let the Earth orbit by itself. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He calculated that the Earth was 89 million years old–an age that fit neatly enough with Kelvin’s assumptions but unfortunately not with reality. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z As an example of this, Miss Trixie, our Earth Mother of the world of commerce, inadvertently set flame to some important orders in the process of lighting a heater. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The dust put into the air in a full nuclear exchange would reflect sunlight and cool the Earth a little. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Venus didn’t have any moons or satellites or even a magnetic field, but it did have an atmosphere sort of similar to Earth’s, except it was super- hot—about five hundred degrees or more. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Explorer I was launched with a scientific unit that discovered the magnetic radiation belts around the Earth, later known as the Van Allen belts. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Then God spoke to Noah, the great-grandson of Enoch, instructing him to save his family and the animals from the great flood that would cleanse the Earth of the corrupted humans. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z The bounty hunter, the killing of their friends, the trip to Earth, all these precautions. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The plan was that Auntie Buzz would go green by not having a car and we would save the Earth by carpooling. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Without a word the Earth Men stood in the center of the city. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “Just be sure to dispose of it in a recycling bin. Because enough plastic is thrown away each year to circle the Earth four times.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z And the scythes, Earth’s grand bringers of death, began to file out into the rotunda for donuts and coffee. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Some part of the swarm is always at the same position in the Earth’s orbit, so the meteor shower is always observed on the same day of every year. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In the future we may have telescopes in the Earth’s orbit, around toward the other side of the Sun, in effect a radio telescope as large as the inner solar system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Just a blink of the Earth Woman’s eye. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Why did the trajectory equation need to account for the oblateness of Earth? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The Earth then was full of awesome, nightmarish lizards—the dinosaurs, immensely successful creatures, which filled virtually every ecological niche. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There were some alarms and emergencies, but the combined intelligence of the humans on Earth and the robot in space circumvented disaster. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And the news stations back on Earth are probably showing it. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “You didn’t just jump a train, boy. You done jumped the Flying Squadron of the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z It tasted like the Earth Science room smelled—like metal and dirt. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z There is something curious about the national flags of the planet Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Beyond uranium there are other elements that do not naturally occur on Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Hutton was by all accounts a man of the keenest insights and liveliest conversation, a delight in company, and without rival when it came to understanding the mysterious slow processes that shaped the Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z These are the terrestrial planets, our family of worlds, the planets more or less like the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And then Mother would say that she was sure the kite was flying so high that the Jade Emperor, the Lord of Heaven and Earth, could admire my kite from his palace window. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “You don’t use water magic. What kind do you use? Earth? Air?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Jellyfish are stinging machines, and their stings are as violent as anything on Earth. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Enemies in a former Earth Age labored side by side as colleagues and fellow citizens. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z This was the earliest ancestor of deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA, the master molecule of life on Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Famously he promised Patterson that determining the age of the Earth with his new method would be "duck soup." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z ‘The blood of Olympus to raise the Earth Mother!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The Earth trembled, and when I lay on the ground I covered my head because I was afraid that stones might hit it. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Anything potent enough to put on such a show could well blow away the magnetosphere, the magnetic zone high above the Earth that normally protects us from ultraviolet rays and other cosmic assaults. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Thanks to radioactivity the Earth could be–and self-evidently was–much older than the twenty-four million years Kelvin’s calculations allowed. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z With the money I make from my numerous inventions, I build my own spaceship and discover another planet that looks a lot like Earth and is only twenty minutes away. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z God would never forgive them for what they had done, but here on Earth there was a way of undoing some of the damage. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Ammonia is ordinarily a gas on Earth, as water is on Venus. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Martian rode his green metal vehicle quietly away into the hills, The Earth Man turned his truck and drove it silently in the opposite direction. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Great fleets of interstellar transports would be under construction in Earth orbit—unmanned survey ships, liners for immigrants, immense trading ships to plow the seas of space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Just like it had when we left Earth, using Sagan’s gravity to garner energy. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z There seemed to be no way in which atoms and molecules could somehow spontaneously fall together to create organisms of such awesome complexity and subtle functioning as grace every region of the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It's a thirteen-month mission, most of it spent many light- minutes away from Earth. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Were the Earth to be started over again with all its physical features identical, it is extremely unlikely that anything closely resembling a human being would ever again emerge. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There were rocks and sand drifts and a distant eminence, as natural and unselfconscious as any landscape on Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus, seen from the moon, the Earth would look like a gigantic moon; seen from even further away, it would be a bright star in the sky. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He begins to laugh until he realizes that there is no way on Earth he can walk the four miles home. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z His responses were cached and would be sent to Earth with Johanssen's next uplink. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The Voyager 2 spacecraft will never return to Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The development of science on Earth was spurred fundamentally by observations of the regularities of the stars and planets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For Locke, the Earth is not a point but a spot: ‘our little spot of Earth’, ‘this spot of the Universe’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Before it comes to rest at the center of the Earth, the inside of our planet might look briefly like a Swiss cheese until the subterranean flow of rock and metal healed the wounds. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The analogy that is usually given for explaining the curvature of space is to try to imagine someone from a universe of flat surfaces, who had never seen a sphere, being brought to Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It is quite possible that in the temperate zone there may be one or two habitable Earths. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But the chemicals in these Earth defoliants killed most fish and mammals too, as well as humans. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z In Eratosthenes’ time, globes were constructed portraying the Earth as viewed from space; they were essentially correct in the well-explored Mediterranean but became more and more inaccurate the farther they strayed from home. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Aristarchus was the first person to hold that the Sun rather than the Earth is at the center of the planetary system, that all the planets go around the Sun rather than the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Rumor had it he left Earth because he killed a man.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z So from this one experiment we learned the masses of the Earth, the Sun, the Moon, the other planets and their moons, and got contour lines into the bargain–not bad for a summer’s work. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z To appreciate the fallacy, consider a visitor from Outer Space who dropped in on Earth in the year 3000 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Consider the enormous diversity of living things on Earth, all of which share the same planet and an identical molecular biology. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The landing capsule was still in the planning stages, but there was a lot of backdrop to be painted: midnight blue with silver stars and Earth glowing in the distance. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z That west-east expanse of Eurasia is the largest land distance on Earth. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Which means the chance that a child born today will be gleaned between now and their five thousandth year on Earth is only 50 percent. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “So—” said Billy gropingly, “I suppose that the idea of preventing war on Earth is stupid, too. “Of course.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z In Kepler’s time one of the chief objections to the idea that the Earth turns was the fact that people do not feel the motion. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Would our lives be improved if gold and uranium were as obscure and unimportant on Earth as praseodymium? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was, in fact, the least democratic place on Earth. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah,” was the sour response, “and we’re in a bad position for an electron storm, too. Our Earth beam is right in the probable path.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Some days I feel like I’m halfway to the moon, trapped between the Earth and it. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z So far, frosted food was brought from Earth in flying icicles; a few community gardens were greening up in hydroponic plants. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z She scolded Crick for even referring to Earth. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Earth’s oblateness—the fact that it was not perfectly spherical but slightly squat, like a mandarin orange—needed to be specified, as did the speed of the planet’s rotation. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Other nations rush to pass mandatory Mind’s Eye legislation, and in a matter of months every person on Earth is living in a fantasy world. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z That involved the invention of many new instruments for improved measurements on Earth and in the heavens—cross-staffs, sextants, quadrants—and it was driven by a new obsession with accuracy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was called Okefenokee Swamp, which means “Land of Trembling Earth” in Seminole. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z They left their suppers or their washing up or their dressing for the show and they came out upon their now-not-quite-as-new porches and watched the green star of Earth there. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z One group, known as the Neptunists, was convinced that everything on Earth, including seashells in improbably lofty places, could be explained by rising and falling sea levels. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Thereafter, Tasmania’s population of 4,000 hunter-gatherers remained out of contact with all other humans on Earth, living in an isolation otherwise known only from science fiction novels. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Listen,” gasped Donovan hoarsely, “those parts were manufactured back on Earth and sent here.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Gilbert was the first to recognize that the Earth itself is a magnet, and that this is why the compass needle points to the north. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I based my crop yield estimates on the potato industry back on Earth. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The men existed all alone out there in the void of space, connected so tenuously to Earth, with the real possibility that something could go wrong. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Alvarez wondered what it was about a thin lamina of clay, barely a quarter of an inch thick, that could account for such a dramatic moment in Earth’s history. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Fork them and their colonization; I hope a war gets started there—after all, it theoretically could—and they wind up like Earth. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Like Venus, the Earth also has a greenhouse effect due to its carbon dioxide and water vapor. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Hooke pointed out the error and suggested that the correct orbit followed by the falling object, assuming it could pass through the solid Earth without resistance, would be a kind of shrinking ellipse. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z That the Moon went around the Earth had been believed for all of human history. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A year later a secret conference of scientists is convened to debate the dimming of the sun, which many now believe presents an imminent threat to life on Earth. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Tycho’s idea was that the Earth is fixed at the centre of the Universe and that the Sun, the Moon and the fixed stars orbit around the Earth. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z To live between the prospects of an unknown eternal sky and a dark, enveloping Earth must have been glorious—for how else could it have given rise to such magnificent expression? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The observed pattern of behaviour of the planets is also linked, in the Copernican model, to their distances from the Sun relative to the distance of the Earth from the Sun. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z There is also an etching of Saturn next to the Earth: Our planet is a tiny circle. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I can sprinkle the Earth soil on top. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The door slides shut seconds later, leaving me in the room with only the glow of Earth’s spinning solar system in a cold mist. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z In the morning, Grover Underwood reappeared to announce that they could not sense the Earth Mother’s presence. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z On the inside of the card it read: To the Will family, Peace on Earth. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z His epitaph, which he himself composed, was: “I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure. Sky-bound was the mind, Earth- bound the body rests.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But if we wish to find the Earth, we must redirect our course to the remote outskirts of the Galaxy, to an obscure locale near the edge of a distant spiral arm. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “I thought they was gods. I thought, Now I'm walking in heaven, and it wotit ever tnatter what happens on Earth!' Together, we looked at the apple-trees against the winter sky. “ The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z "And the supplies would last until you got back to Earth?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z A few million years ago, when human beings first evolved on Earth, it was already a middle-aged world, 4.6 billion years along from the catastrophes and impetuosities of its youth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z John Mayer tackled orbital mechanics, Al Hamer lectured on rocket propulsion, and Alton Mayo handled reentry, the problems faced by an object returning to Earth. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The assertion was remarkable partly for being so arrestingly specific but even more for flying in the face of accepted wisdom about the age of the Earth.* A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Even if the capsule were to shoot off into the air directly overhead and come back down in the same straight line, it would land in a different spot, because Earth had moved. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z It produced an atmospheric shock wave that twice circled the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “We came here to enjoy our old age in peace, not to think of Tom. He’s been dead so long now, we should try to forget him and everything on Earth.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “A few days before Christmas, the spacecraft Apollo 8 leaves the planet. Then, on Christmas Eve, the astronauts send this image back to Earth from outer space.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The animals had received only one spirit from Mother Earth, but the people had one from her and one from Mwari. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Mother Earth would not be quite so beautiful. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They stood on the porches and tried to believe in the existence of Earth, much as they had once tried to believe in the existence of Mars; it was a problem reversed. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z According to Newton’s theory, the centrifugal force of the Earth’s spin should result in a slight flattening at the poles and a bulging at the equator, which would make the planet slightly oblate. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The Earth condensed out of interstellar gas and dust some 4.6 billion years ago. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The following morning is payday, and the employees of the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth line up in front of the red ticket wagon. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z One of the old declarations of the medieval Aristotelian doctrine—as strong as the ban on the vacuum—was the statement that Earth was unique. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Just occasionally these stray visitors smack into something solid, like Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The clays of the primitive Earth may have been the forge of life, and the chemistry of contemporary Mars may provide essential clues to the origin and early history of life on our planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Our ancestors looked at the elegance of life on Earth, at how appropriate the structures of organisms are to their functions, and saw evidence for a Great Designer. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He was the most exciting kid on Earth. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z The gases on Venus can be identified from the Earth, 60 million kilometers away. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z On top of that you must make allowances for distortions caused by variations in the Earth’s atmosphere, by intergalactic dust, contaminating light from foreground stars, and many other factors. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z This suggested that as the molten Earth had cooled, it had become wrinkled in the manner of a baked apple, creating ocean basins and mountain ranges. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The results were amazing: Eratosthenes accurately calculated the size of the Earth, mapped it, and argued that India could be reached by sailing westward from Spain. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “On Earth. The receiving station on Earth,” babbled Powell. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z "Work out how long they can stay on this course before it's irreversible. At what point will they no longer be able to intercept Earth?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z When Earth was only about a third of its eventual size, it was probably already beginning to form an atmosphere, mostly of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, methane, and sulfur. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Even three massive interstellar colonization ships meant for the exodus off Earth could get lost out here. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Second: The existence of certain varieties of heavy atoms on the Earth suggests that there was a nearby supernova explosion shortly before the solar system was formed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I sprouted with the velocity of the mung beans we studied in Earth Science. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Consequently, the carbon dioxide content of the Earth’s atmosphere is increasing dramatically. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Just like they moved heaven and Earth to keep a lid on the Night of a Thousand Flames, they're silencing you. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z About 3.8 billion years ago, on a planet called Earth, certain molecules combined to form particularly large and intricate structures called organisms. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Magazines, brought from Earth on the silver rocket a month before, fluttered, untouched, burning brown, on wire racks fronting the silent drugstores. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “Nineteen twenty-six! We have gone back in time! This is Earth!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Since neutrinos pass directly through the Earth, we cannot catch a given one. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z One picture showed Katherine Johnson sitting at her desk at 1244, pencil in hand, “analyzing lunar trajectories and computing trip time to the Moon and return to Earth by a space vehicle.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z There is also another kind of plague to worry about: the plague bacillus is endemic all over the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Earth’s special position at the center of the universe made it the only world capable of containing life, as Aristotle held that all objects sought out their proper place. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In spite of this, Newton did suggest a way to test the rotation of the Earth. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z But “Apollo Defeats the Earth Mother and Saves the Freaking Universe” ... that sounds like a Billboard chart-topper!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The Earthman laughed quite suddenly, “In Earth’s name, why?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Nobody but my mother has ever loved me, and if she doesn’t love me anymore, I have not a soul on this Earth that cares anything about me. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “This is my cousin Pierre. We visit your country for the first time, and we wish to see the Archduke, who started our—how you say—first Earth war.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z The Earth was demoted to just one of the planets, third from the Sun, moving in a perfect circular orbit. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In the glow of the fake sun, framed family pictures and yellowing birth and marriage certificates are attached to the other walls, like a shrine to Earth. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The Earth and its companion the Moon must be bombarded by comets and small asteroids, debris left over from the formation of the solar system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The movements occur not just laterally as the Earth’s plates move across the surface, but up and down as well, as rocks rise and fall under the churning process known as convection. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The actual impact of a small comet or asteroid with the Moon might make a momentary explosion sufficiently bright to be visible from the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Deborah knew her mother’s cells had grown like the Blob until there were so many of them they could wrap around the Earth several times. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Everyone in California, the United States, on Earth, breathes in dramatically. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z On Earth, supercooling this much air would take ridiculous amounts of energy. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Because the Martian atmosphere is only 1 percent as dense as the Earth’s, a very large parachute, eighteen meters in diameter, was deployed to slow the spacecraft as it entered the thin air of Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It has an astounding 10.2 percent efficiency, which is good because Mars doesn't get as much sunlight as Earth. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Digges and Benedetti had not read Bruno, so they had not encountered his theory that, from a distance, the Earth would be indistinguishable from a star. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Thus, 99 percent of the Earth’s atmosphere is of biological origin. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The more Barry stared at it, the more the dotted lines on the treasure map/Earth blurred together. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The transition roughly coincides with the transition between dry and wet seasons—the time when the Milky Way releases life-giving water to Pacha Mama, Mother Earth—and divides the heavens into four quar- ters. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Surely Earth Mother is offended that the Ugly One would place seeds into her. They won’t grow! Don’t waste our precious kernels by contaminating them with your hand!” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Deflating its balloons, the onboard computer reported the successful landing back to Earth. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z And God ordered his left hand, the angel Gabriel, to go down to Earth and stop the lawlessness. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z If the dinosaurs had worn these goggles, and the Earth had been bombarded by mile-wide asteroid boulders, the dinosaurs would still have died, but their goggles would be intact. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Jimmy McClean walked among the buffalo berry thickets along the Smoking Earth River. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z The number grew steadily in proportion to the census of Earth Men already on Mars. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Derby described the incredible artificial weather that Earthlings sometimes create for other Earthlings when they don’t want those other Earthlings to inhabit Earth any more. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z A mate had just been brought to him from Earth. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z If the Earth happens to lie in the beam of this cosmic lighthouse, we see it flash once each rotation. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z That night, as the Apollo 11 spacecraft continued on its journey back to Earth, Uncle D came home from school and work at the mill. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Against the view that such great construction projects were unlikely, Kepler offered as counter-examples the pyramids of Egypt and the Great Wall of China, which can, in fact, be seen today from Earth orbit. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I was allowed to move the rover on the computer, now that it had lost its communication with Earth after over ninety days. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z He notes that Mars is forty million miles away from Earth. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z The Earth is our moving platform from which we observe the motion of the other planets against the backdrop of distant constellations. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z What happens is that deep in the Earth there is an explosion that fires, in effect, a cannonball of magma to the surface at supersonic speeds. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Violent solar storms produce brilliant flares that disrupt radio communications on Earth; and immense arching plumes of hot gas, guided by the Sun’s magnetic field, the solar prominences, which dwarf the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We were posing in front of the Spaceship Earth geosphere at Epcot for my thirteenth birthday. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Perhaps, he said, if, as Galileo claimed, there were mountains on the moon, Bruno had been partly right—maybe the moon was inhabited, and life was not confined to the Earth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Because we can’t see into the Earth, we have to use other techniques, which mostly involve reading waves as they travel through the interior. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He was unaware that Lydia knelt beside him, gripping his arm like she would plummet off the Earth if she let go, doing the same. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Not then, and not later that night when the Earth dipped toward the stars. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It was little enough to show for fourteen years on this Earth. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Beers for everyone if I get back to Earth. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z At all events, there is some evidence to suggest that for the next twenty thousand years the total number of people on Earth was never more than a few thousand at any time. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Still, it was enough to keep everyone in a seat as they pondered what Vogel told them. "... and then mission would conclude with Earth intercept two hundred and eleven days later," he finished up. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of moving in circles, the planets, including Earth, moved in el- lip ses around the sun. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Prepared by the Presidents Advisory Committee on Science in March 1958 as a primer on spaceflight, the brochure laid out the scientific principles of travel beyond the Earth’s atmosphere in terms a layperson could understand. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He lived with rabbits and bugs, wherever it was, either on Earth or a colony world; now he had forgotten that, too. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z It is fairly remarkable to think that Ford has been building cars and baseball has been playing World Series for longer than we have known that the Earth has a core. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Hopefully, these stories from Earth will remind them of who they are and who their families were. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Today, most people on Earth consume food that they produced themselves or that someone else produced for them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The command service module was the astronauts’ bus—their only bus—back to Earth: the lander would ferry the astronauts to the waiting service module and then be discarded. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z One day, perhaps the Thunderhead would announce that while everyone was looking the other way, humanity had achieved a sustainable presence beyond the bounds of planet Earth. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z She’ll never take me on a fairy hunt on Sagan that is sure to have even more plants and imaginary fairies than anywhere on Earth. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z But mainly there were trees—some of the most spectacular trees on Earth. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z Nowadays, when almost all societies on Earth are connected to each other, we cannot imagine a fad’s going so far that an important technology would actually be discarded. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z How could Earth, then, be the center of the universe? Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It took so long for starlight to reach me in the sluggers’ ship orbiting Earth that some of those stars were already dead. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “Well...he says it’s to ‘retreat from the unpleasantness of Earth and the company of people.’” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z If you're wondering how bacteria on Earth survive longer periods of cold, the answer is they don't. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The Earth has harbored a technical civilization characterized by radio astronomy for only a few decades out of a lifetime of a few billion years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He argued, not unsuccessfully, that the Earth was best described by that single doleful word. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was on two. The first was the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth,” I say proudly, rolling each syllable off my tongue. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The total amount of energy from outside the solar system ever received by all the radio telescopes on the planet Earth is less than the energy of a single snowflake striking the ground. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Earth herself was called the All-Mother, but she was not really a divinity. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He wondered, then, if the others who had remained on Earth experienced the void this way. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z A whole decade plus a year of being alive on Planet Earth! Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Yes, carefully, carefully, he had met and befriended each of them on Earth in the last year! The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Though the Earth Woman made a lasting impression on the twins, it was the History House—so much closer at hand—that really fascinated them. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z As we are about to see, Earth can provide plenty of danger of its own. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The nature of life on Earth and the search for life elsewhere are two sides of the same question—the search for who we are. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Had we not had the benefit of a greenhouse effect, the Earth might well have frozen over permanently, and life might never have gotten a toehold. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z According to Descartes, in the case of gravity this pushing process was the result of the Earth being caught up in a vast vortex of fluid swirling round the sun. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z At some radio frequencies the Earth has become by far the brightest object, the most powerful radio source, in the solar system— brighter than Jupiter, brighter than the Sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s the least official final exodus off Earth you could imagine. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z It sat outside the Hab like an AC unit might on Earth. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The inhabitants of Earth had finally stumbled upon radio communication. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Collective doesn’t seem to be in any hurry to find others from Earth. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Samuel Haughton, a respected geologist at Trinity College in Dublin, announced an estimated age for the Earth of 2,300 million years–way beyond anything anybody else was suggesting. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I bet we looked like the solar system, with me being the sun and Byron being the orbiting Earth. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The Earth, Bruno thought, would shine brightly because the seas would reflect more light than the land. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She couldn’t believe that just a few days ago the Earth Mother had awoken and almost destroyed everything Piper held dear. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Looking forward to buying you a beer back on Earth. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But presently our journey takes us to what astronomers on Earth like to call the Local Group of galaxies. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For reference, Earth's atmosphere is about 21 percent. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The explosion was seen on Earth with the naked eye for three months. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though natural plasmas are rare on Earth—other than lightning or the northern lights—man-made plasmas are everywhere. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z In the distance, through the window, they saw rain gleaming on the sides of the rocket which had brought them from Earth. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z "Widge! For all the loves on Earth! What will you do when they give you an entire speech?" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z “It’s Boy21 everywhere I go now. The time to leave Earth is soon. No point in lying about everything now. They’ve all seen my extraterrestrial powers anyway.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Although happy to praise his methodology, many maintained that he had found not the age of the Earth but merely the age of the materials from which the Earth had been formed. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Susan Calvin had never left the surface of Earth before, and had no perceptible desire to leave it this time. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z At nine o’clock Earth seemed to explode, catch fire, and burn. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z If a solar flare hadn’t shifted the comet off course a week earlier, we’d be watching Fire Snake harmlessly pass Earth in a few days like it had since the beginning of time. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The moon was responsible for tides, so it made sense if it was closer to Earth, the tides would be higher. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z They had the technology to travel the universe and draw out my memories; surely, they could have returned me to Earth fully dressed. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Schiaparelli had reported during a close approach of Mars to Earth an intricate network of single and double straight lines crisscrossing the bright areas of the planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z What would happen, for example, if you drilled a tunnel down through the centre of the Earth and then dropped an object into the tunnel? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He saw no reason why the other planets should not be just like the Earth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z When a laser beam from Earth strikes the mirror and bounces back, the round-trip travel time can be measured with remarkable precision. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Earth was no longer at the center of the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In the spasm of terror, under the hailing of annihilation, in the bellowing death of the explosions, O Earth, thou grantest us the great resisting surge of new-won life. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “I am programmed to treat all Earthlings with kindness. Greetings. I am Boy21 from the cosmos. I am stranded here on Earth, but I will be leaving soon. Enter into my domestic living pod.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘I will be watching your progress. Polybotes was not boasting when he warned that your blood would awaken the Earth Mother. The giants are very confident of this.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The Earth used to be inhabited by plants and animals of which there is today no living trace. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A very rough place would scatter radar from Earth off to the sides of the beam and therefore appear poorly reflective, or radar-dark. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I haven’t seen a single shred of anything remotely related to Earth. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I don’t even care that the sun’s going to burn out in a matter of years, ending all life on Earth, well, five billion years, but still, guess what? I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z She would dutifully pump her legs, leaning forward and back, but mostly what she felt was the Earth’s pull on her body. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z I’d seen the picture before: Earth rising above the surface of the moon. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Earths gravity exerted its force on the satellite and had to be accounted for in the trajectory’s system of equations. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z How on Earth could Boots have picked him out of the crowd? Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z We know from the fossil record that the origin of life happened soon after, perhaps around 4.0 billion years ago, in the ponds and oceans of the primitive Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Using only the most abundant gases that were present on the early Earth and almost any energy source that breaks chemical bonds, we can produce the essential building blocks of life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z By 1543 the broad outline of Copernicus’s argument for the Earth as a single globe was conventional. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “The electron storm that’s coming up. Do you know it’s heading straight dead center across the Earth beam? I had just figured that out when that robot dragged me out of my chair.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z “You never heard of America! You say you’re from Earth and yet you don’t know!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’ve caused us a lot of trouble, Mr. Stendahl. It’s in the record. Twenty years ago. On Earth. You and your library.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z She is a part of the Earth Day Club here in high school, and that is where she meets the boys. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z On the wall are topographical maps: the world; the United States; the oceans, Earth, and moon. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z But these are the laws our planet obeys as we ourselves, glued by gravity to the surface of the Earth, hurtle through interplanetary space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It is not a plausible source of raw materials: the freightage from Mars to Earth would be too expensive for many centuries to come. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries you could travel from Spain to the Azores in a few days, the same time it takes us now to cross the channel from the Earth to the Moon. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Earth Woman was eleven years old, Chacko said, when the first single-celled organisms appeared. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, two researchers, working independently, were making some startling findings by drawing on a curious fact of Earth history that had been discovered several decades earlier. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Maybe Earth glows brightly in their heavens, just as they glow in ours. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, the momentum for determining the Earth’s circumference passed to France. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “I have a map for this sector of Earth. I never go anywhere on your planet without a map.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I look at the mountains and imagine the geological movements of plates beneath Earth’s crust over millenia. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A floater might eat preformed organic molecules, or make its own from sunlight and air, somewhat as plants do on Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Earth at last had a position in space. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Do you have to be in a certain line of work to welcome Earth Men!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z What I knew was this: when I pressed the button, Earth didn’t explode. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z If it fails, no one on Earth will ever hear from us again. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Deviations in arc of a hundredth of a milli-second—invisible to the eye—were enough to send the beam wildly out of focus—enough to blast hundreds of square miles of Earth into incandescent ruin. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Whether or not Earth was the same was a matter for much silent debate for Hathaway and his family on the long Martian nights. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “So he was saying good-bye to people. So far it seems consistent with the things someone would do if it were their last day on Earth.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z One second after entering the atmosphere, the meteorite would slam into the Earth’s surface, where the people of Manson had a moment before been going about their business. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z An immediate consequence, therefore, which is the subject of Chapter 4, was a radical transformation in the understanding of how the Earth is constructed: the emergence of the concept of the terraqueous globe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He hadn’t been missed, he said, because the Tralfamadorians had taken him through a time warp, so that he could be on Tralfamadore for years, and still be away from Earth for only a microsecond. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It's a problem that rarely comes up on Earth, but hey. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “And I am Captain Jonathan Williams, of New York City, on Earth,” said the captain without emphasis. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Our brother Mimas awaits them at Sparta. You need not worry. The demigods cannot change their fate. One way or another, their blood shall be spilled upon these stones and wake the Earth Mother!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “And they came up here to live, and naturally the houses they built were similar to Earth houses because they brought the culture with them.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “I often think about how weird it is that Earth is hurtling through the black vacuum of space and meanwhile you’re down here being a total weirdo.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z The Earth had been saved by bacteria, but Concrete’s residents didn’t hear the good news. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z “It’s one thousand and fifty miles away. That’s practically at the end of the Earth.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z The more Barry stared at it, the more the dotted lines on the treasure map/Earth blurred together. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z What would have been a minor fizzle in Earth's atmosphere became an uncontrolled conflagration in the container's pure oxygen environment. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z No, in the name of all that’s holy, it has to be chicken pox, a child’s disease, a disease that doesn’t even kill children on Earth! The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z A beam of light shot over my shoulder, projecting a three-dimensional image of Earth in the air a few feet in front of me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The Earth’s bacteria had infected the extraterrestrial invaders, who lacked immunity to them. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z He concluded that Mars was inhabited by a civilization far more advanced than Earth’s. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z But one day Earth will be as Mars is today. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The resulting, long final chord of The Song of the Earth - Western music’s symbolic ‘home’ of C major, naturally - was described by the mid-twentieth-century English composer Benjamin Britten as being ‘imprinted on the atmosphere’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It is just as well that large lumps of neutron star matter are unknown on Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z One of those extinctions, the Great Dying, killed off nine out of ten species on Earth. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Ptolemaic astronomers were unable to agree on whether Venus was closer to the Earth than the sun. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The world beyond Earth had always been a mysterious place, silent, dark, and cold, the realm of magic and gods. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z There are dozens of species of bacteria living in Earth soil, and they're critical to plant growth. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The positions of Earth and Mars right now . . . it's not the best of times. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z If you were an alien who came to Earth to study its life- forms, you wouldn't even think the two of them were the same species. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Any other team on spaceship Earth would have worried about Julian's defying an official of the sovereign state of New York. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z “And all these things from Earth will be gone long before the old Martian towns.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Ten million fireflies blinking on and off around my head, as if all the distant stars had come down to Earth just to say hello. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z As the Earth rotates, our more powerful radio transmitters slowly sweep the sky. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z All places on Earth are, to high precision, the same distance from any star. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He used the smallest possible circumference of the Earth and the greatest eastward extension of Asia he could find in all the books available to him, and then exaggerated even those. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Ben says, “It’s midnight Earth time. That makes it your birthday, Petra.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z After that, it would be three long days on the highway back to Earth, then through the fire of the atmosphere and into the terrestrial ocean below. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “You mean it couldn’t be Earth,” said Elma, looking at him. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Gran stared at me as if I’d asked whether aliens had just landed on Earth and appointed Garfield as the new purrsident of the United States, with Snoopy as his VP. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z If we do not speak for Earth, who will? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The astronauts, I had read in the paper, had seen it fall before they flew back to Earth. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The deep-pile carpets, the expensive genuine wood desks, reminded him that garbage collecting and trash disposal had, since the war, become one of Earth’s important industries. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Do we have any hope of leaving Earth and traversing the immense distances even to Proxima Centauri in convenient periods of time? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I was born on the anniversary of the first-ever atom bomb explosion on Planet Earth. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z He decided instead that he could best serve the search for life on Mars by voyaging to the most Mars-like environment on Earth— the dry valleys of Antarctica. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I'd spent a week back on Earth practicing emergency space suit drills. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Forks was literally my personal hell on Earth. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Gaia the Earth Mother opened her pure green eyes. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The holographic Earth and the button were missing as well. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Eventually, and ingeniously, it occurred to him that he could circumvent the rock shortage by using rocks from beyond Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Washington Observatory, William Lowell Putnam drily notes: “There may be worse weather, from time to time, at some forbidding place on Planet Earth, but it has yet to be reliably recorded.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z "Do you have a plan for moving Earth and Mars closer together?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The distance from the Earth to the most remote quasars is eight or ten billion light- years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As a result, the Sun rises in the west and sets in the east, taking 118 Earth days from sunrise to sunrise. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Knowledge of wild species was presumably even more detailed before the rise of food production, when everyone on Earth still depended entirely on wild species for food. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z One problem: The atmosphere is very thin—less than 1 percent of the pressure on Earth. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The vertical structure supports the high-gain antenna for direct communication of Viking 2 with Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d get me out and just put me to sleep once we were safely off Earth. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Wells envisioned the Martians setting their sights on their nearest neighbor, Earth, “a morning star of hope.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z The Earth itself is a very rich mixture of atoms, mostly silicon,' oxygen, aluminum, magnesium and iron. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We were beginning to get a vague idea of the Earth’s layered interior–though it really was only vague. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z There are sandstorms on the Earth and on Mars; lightning on Jupiter and Venus and Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He realized that if such a process were carried to its natural conclusion then Earth would eventually be worn quite smooth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The absence of anything to see on Venus led some scientists to the curious conclusion that the surface was a swamp, like the Earth in the Carboniferous Period. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Striking the Earth’s atmosphere, a modest cometary fragment would produce a great radiant fireball and a mighty blast wave, which would burn trees, level forests and be heard around the world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was Arthur Holmes, the English geologist who did so much to determine the age of the Earth, who suggested a possible way. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Four billion years ago, the Earth was a molecular Garden of Eden. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In the final victory of the Olympians over the brutish sons of Earth, Hercules’ arrows played an important part. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z They reflect the shape of the Earth’s surface, portrayed by contour lines twenty feet apart. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z This makes my problems on Earth seem small. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And when the core at last burns itself out, will some of the Earth slump into the void, leaving a giant sinkhole on the surface? A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z This seems improbable because no scientist on Earth knows how a planet might blow itself up, which is probably just as well. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This is perfectly easy to understand—provided the Earth is flat. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Lustig said, “But suppose, by accident, in space, in time, we got lost in the dimensions and landed on an Earth that is thirty or forty years ago.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z He had walked in hell for three days and on the third day he had risen and was sitting at the right hand of God, the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth— Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It is said, in the Book of Enoch, that two hundred angels led by Azazel, the keeper of God’s throne, came to Earth after falling in love with the human women they had watched. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z There was even an active chapter of the Flat Earth Society in San Antonio. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z As it did for everyone who at this moment clutched the handles, either here on Earth or on one of the colony planets. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Indeed, and rather extraordinarily, we would be well into the space age before anyone could plausibly account for where all the Earth’s old rocks went. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Obviously, the solid Earth could not be moving! The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Because of erosion on the Earth, our monuments and artifacts will not, in the natural course of things, survive to the distant future. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps Martian samples can be safely returned to Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was not a ghost of human man, nor was it a creature of the Old Powers of Earth, and yet it seemed it might have some link with these. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The light by which we see it now has spent seventy-five years traversing the dark of interstellar space on its long journey to Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The compass allows you to navigate out of sight of land and, naturally, Edward Wright’s prefatory letter to On the Magnet mentions the circumnavigations of the Earth by English sailors. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Back in 1968, people saw Earth rising over the moon and believed they mattered. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z One of my tasks for the mission was to see how plants grow here, in various combinations of Earth and Mars soil and atmosphere. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z If you dropped a dime in the telescope and pointed it at Earth, perhaps you could see the big war happening there. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z There were swimming reptiles, flying reptiles, and reptiles—some as tall as a six-story building—thundering across the face of the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Life on Earth, you see, is not only brief but dismayingly tenuous. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z All the kids put in stasis the same day as me...All of them, living out their lives with no memory of home or Earth or their families. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z After Eratosthenes, some may have tried, but not until the time of Magellan did anyone succeed in circumnavigating the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is confusing. Where on Earth is this Tuiereol? Is it near America?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z If a radio telescope were built on Venus, it could detect the Sun, the Earth and other distant objects. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Earth was still regarded as the central object in the Universe, but everything else revolved around the equant points, not around the Earth itself. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z His blood shall water the stones of Mount Olympus and wake Earth Mother!’” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z When we lived in North River Heights, Mom owned a little floral shop on Amesfort Avenue called Earth Laughs in Flowers. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z The stars in any constellation are all so far away that we cannot recognize them as a three-dimensional configuration as long as we are tied to Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “The word is not familiar to you, certainly. It’s an Earth expression.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes such radio telescopes are connected with telescopes on the other side of the Earth, forming a baseline comparable to the Earth’s diameter—in a certain sense, a telescope as large as the planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In radar astronomy, radio waves are transmitted by a telescope on Earth, strike, say, that hemisphere of Venus that happens to be facing the Earth, and bounce back. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As late as 1910, one of the most respected estimates, by the American George Becker, put the Earth’s age at perhaps as little as 55 million years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Darwin and his geological friends needed the Earth to be old, but no one could figure out a way to make it so. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z And since Meteor Crater, Arizona, an impact crater about a kilometer across, has been found to be twenty or thirty thousand years old, the observations on the Earth are in agreement with such crude calculations. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There are mighty weather systems on the Earth—and in the high atmosphere of Venus and on Jupiter. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This epic journey took three years, about as long as a modern Voyager spacecraft takes to fly from Earth to Saturn. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why wouldn’t he live on Earth with people?” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Instead of placing Earth at the center of the universe filled with epicycle-filled clockworks, Copernicus imagined that the sun was at the center instead, and the planets moved in simple circles. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Bridge had assumed that the moon was always the same distance from Earth. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z On Earth, the earliest way to work out longitude required them to know the exact time, then compare it to the sun's position in the sky. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then,” ventured I, “in that man’s life, he has walked backwards around the Earth three and a half times?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z On Pluto, which takes almost 250 Earth years to revolve around the sun, I would still be a year old. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It’s not exactly to scale, but it’s definitely Earth’s solar system. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Another scientist calculated that if you could lay all HeLa cells ever grown end-to-end, they’d wrap around the Earth at least three times, spanning more than 350 million feet. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “Our powers grow. The rules of nature are turned upside down. Once the Earth Mother wakes, we shall remake the world as we choose!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Think of the Earth’s orbit as a kind of freeway on which we are the only vehicle, but which is crossed regularly by pedestrians who don’t know enough to look before stepping off the curb. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z According to the Ptolemaic system, it travelled on a large epicycle, which brought it sometimes closer to and sometimes further from the Earth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He may then have reasoned that it is absurd for so large a body as the Sun to revolve around so small a body as the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We now know that the volume of atmospheric carbon-14 varies depending on how well or not Earth’s magnetism is deflecting cosmic rays, and that that can vary significantly over time. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Do we value short-term advantages above the welfare of the Earth? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “I got rid of it,” she says with a wave of her hand like it’s the most trivial thing on planet Earth. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z “Earth Man,” a voice called from a high seat somewhere. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z "I see the horizon. A light blue, a beautiful band. This is the Earth. How beautiful it is! All goes well." Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Yes, everything was once water, but the Earth formed out of the oceans by a natural process—similar, he thought, to the silting he had observed at the delta of the Nile. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The idea of God in the form of a man appearing on Earth and then doing a “disappearing act,” as Bobby put it, for two thousand years was both “incredible and illogical.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I do not wonder if this is the last image I will ever have of you on this Earth. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z This is engineering on a scale so far unprecedented on Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Space was an anesthetic; seventy million miles of space numbed you, put memory to sleep, depopulated Earth, erased the past, and allowed these people here to go on with their work. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The people, rushing forward, waved and shrieked happily, knocking down tables, swarming, rollicking, seizing the four Earth Men, lifting them swiftly to their shoulders. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z No morning passed that he didn’t freeze a ton of meats, vegetables, and lemon cream pies, enough to last ten years, until the rockets came back from Earth, if they ever came. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z As they neared the theater, they came upon an Englishman who was hacking a groove in the Earth with the heel of his boot. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z What account would we give of our stewardship of the planet Earth? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Nicolaus Copernicus showed that Earth is not the center of the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z First, that each planet, plus the Sun and Moon, had to be treated separately in the model, with its own offset from the Earth and its own epicycles. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Human beings, born ultimately of the stars and now for a while inhabiting a world called Earth, have begun their long voyage home. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It also, incidentally, eliminates the possibility of robots, in complete adjustment, wandering off while still on Earth and thus bringing U. S. Robots face to face with the strict laws against robots on Earth. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Nor was it likely to improve its relative status vis-à-vis the other regions of Earth, except for what vigor the South American provinces lent it. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z At all events, plate tectonics not only explained the surface dynamics of the Earth–how an ancient Hipparion got from France to Florida, for example–but also many of its internal actions. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The discovery that the Earth is turning rather than the sky moving had important implications for the uniqueness of the Earth and the possibility of life elsewhere. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z On April 12,1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became in one fell swoop the first human in space and the first human to orbit Earth. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Mack calls our show “The Littlest Big Top on Earth.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z The whitest town on Earth—or, more accurately, once the whitest town on Earth until the Mexicans moved in. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z “According to it,” Rick said, “the bunch of them came to Earth together. And that wasn’t as long ago as three years; it’s only been a matter of months.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Like Venus, the Earth also has about 90 atmospheres of carbon dioxide; but it resides in the crust as limestone and other carbonates, not in the atmosphere. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z After a day of pelting rain, the lights of the inn were the most welcoming sight she had seen in her time on the Earth. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z So many Suns, so many Earths ... and every one of them stock’d with so many Herbs, Trees, and Animals, adorn’d with so many Seas and Mountains! Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We had some good parties that summer when we got back to Earth. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Kepler was one of the first people since antiquity to propose that the planets were material objects made of imperfect stuff like the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Welcome to the planet Earth—a place of blue nitrogen skies, oceans of liquid water, cool forests and soft meadows, a world positively rippling with life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Because these transmissions were broadcast a few decades ago, they are only a few tens of light-years away from Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Huygens was delighted that the Copernican view of the Earth as a planet in motion around the Sun was widely accepted even by the ordinary people in Holland. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s the end of life on Earth. Specificity matters.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “I read somewhere that a lot of the stars we see don’t exist anymore. They’ve already died and it’s taken millions of years for their light to reach Earth,” Dill said. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z ‘I don’t like anything here at all,’ said Frodo, ‘step or stone, breath or bone. Earth, air and water all seem accursed. But so our path is laid.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z My body was like a shuttle reentering the Earth’s atmosphere, hitting against particles of air and facing temperatures of three thousand degrees Fahrenheit. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z But I feel like I’ve been given the last glass of water on Earth and I’m just gulping it down while everyone watches. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z It feels wrong to be sneaking off Earth while so many are left behind. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Others postulate that a mini black hole passed through the Earth in Siberia and out the other side. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “And it’s a small town the like of Earth towns,” said Hinkston, the archaeologist. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z It never occurred to Digges that the Earth might shine like a star, or that the planets are other Earths. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The flux of high-energy protons near Earth now is 100,000 times greater than normal. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And after destroying the birds, beasts, reptiles, and fish of the Earth, the Nephilim began to eat one another’s flesh and drink one another’s blood. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Nucleus G was only about the size of a small mountain, but it created wounds in the Jovian surface the size of Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Each can feel itself the natural rulers of all Earth, and each has a history of humiliation by the North, for which it can be human enough to wish a senseless revenge. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Many cite the date of Earth’s reputed beginning as October 26. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Yes, I know this is ridiculous, but I hadn't had a bath since Earth, and my back hurts. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But now it’s only the dust; no one has seen a star in years, at least not from Earth. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z It was being returned to the bowels of the Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z There are about 10,000 craters on the near side of the Moon, visible to telescopes on Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Earth was our sole home, and would remain so. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z There seems to be only one explanation consistent with all the facts: In 1908 a piece of a comet hit the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She shivered from the cold, here in the middle of this tiny house in the middle of the countryside in the middle of Earth in the middle of the universe. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Yes, sir. My wife is what the Cherokee call Earth Mother. The children are fine. We sent all but the little ones to school today.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z By the 1960s scientists had grown sufficiently frustrated by how little they understood of the Earth’s interior that they decided to try to do something about it. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Venus has almost the same mass,* size, and density as the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In order to have a Copernicanism with spheres there needs to be an account of how the Earth/moon system is attached to a sphere, which is noticeably lacking. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He tested a piece of pitchblende, the principal ore of uranium, and found it to be 700 million years old–very much older than the age most people were prepared to grant the Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z This was the suggestion that the Earth is not quite round. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It is possible to predict radio bursts from Jupiter with better reliability than weather forecasts on Earth, by computing the position of Io. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He realized that the orbital motion results from the tendency of the Moon to move in a straight line, plus a single force pulling it towards the Earth. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The journey would be long, the rover obedient to radio commands from Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I wondered if I would be able to hear the waves and if they would sound like the Earth breathing. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z With the Earth the center of the Universe, with creation pivoted about terrestrial events, with the heavens imagined constructed on utterly unearthly principles, there was little motivation for astronomical observations. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I have no way to communicate with Hermes or Earth. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Far he ran over the plain of ice and over the lands of Earth. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z It was an Earth Man’s settlement, built of wood and already rotting into sawdust. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Reilly tells me that I need to practice painting the atmosphere of Earth itself. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The sun’s temperature will increase gradually before that, boiling off the oceans and turning Earth into an uninhabitable desert like Venus. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Momentarily brilliant as they enter the Earth’s atmosphere, they are heated and destroyed by friction at a height of about 100 kilometers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘The Earth Mother shall deliver me, but you shall be crushed!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z For some reason, whenever she was talking over the computer, Mom had to make sure the sound of her voice reached low Earth orbit. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z “Magicians, sorcerers,” whispered one of the Earth Men. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z I flipped on the computer and scanned the Google Earth view of Bhutan and the nearby countries of India and Nepal. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z I tried to imagine standing on that cold, distant planet, breathing hydrogen and helium, viewing Earth from the other side of the solar system. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z We got to Earth orbit the normal way, through an ordinary ship to Hermes. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun, when you see it, shines high; there is no slow bleeding away of light into the darkness, as on the polar slopes of Earth where cold and night come on together. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “Of course I have. I live on planet Earth.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Erosion on Earth slowly wipes out information, but because they are gradual—the patter of a raindrop, the sting of a sand grain—those processes can be missed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But the environment of the Earth today is not extremely favorable for simple forms of life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He was not the one who should be crying, even if he did look like the saddest dad on Earth right now. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z In 1471 Regiomontanus worked out a procedure for measuring the parallax of heavenly bodies and so their distance from the Earth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z We mix together and spark the gases of the primitive Earth: hydrogen, water, ammonia, methane, hydrogen sulfide—all present, incidentally, on the planet Jupiter today and throughout the Cosmos. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I imagine him out there, spinning farther and farther away from the planet Earth, as lonely and scared as I feel deep down inside myself. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z So how much do we know about what’s inside the Earth? A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “I think Albert’s idea is fascinating. How Earth has recycled its water over and over. Extraordinary, Albert!” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Although the recipients may not know any languages of the Earth, we included greetings in sixty human tongues, as well as the hellos of the humpback whales. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “He had once lived on Earth. He left to be alone. He wanted to be alone.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z An impact of a small cometary fragment with the Earth, as at Tunguska, should occur about once every thousand years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Cosmic rays, mainly electrons and protons, have bombarded the Earth for the entire history of life on our planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The knife hovered over the cutting board, and her eyebrows dipped to form a V. “Why on Earth would you think that?” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Although we cannot yet be certain, the same processes that led on Earth to the evolution of life and intelligence should have been operating throughout the Cosmos. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Upon his return there was now enough information for the French astronomer Joseph Lalande to calculate that the mean distance from the Earth to the Sun was a little over 150 million kilometers. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The two Voyager interstellar spacecraft, the fastest machines ever launched from Earth, are now traveling at one ten- thousandth the speed of light. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I imagine her version combined with the Chancellor’s sickly face and slithery words as bits of Earth flew into space. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z They flashed along the open plateau now, and the blades were both invisible, but oh, the Earth trembled, and ohhhh, the skies shook, and Inigo was losing. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The visitor from outer space made a gift to Earth of a new Gospel. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The knuckles of my right hand jammed against something I hadn’t remembered was there: a jagged piece of bright-purple fluorite that I’d nicked from the Earth Science room during mineral lab. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z In the two weeks following my brother’s vanishing off the face of the Earth, my parents seemed to be closer than ever. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z I’m clearly not the only one under the influence either—now that “business” has been concluded, everyone connected with the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth is letting off steam. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z If a great many years ago an advanced interstellar spacefaring civilization emerged 200 light-years away, it would have no reason to think there was something special about the Earth unless it had been here already. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If Venus was closer to the Earth than the sun, its phases would range from crescent to half and never pass the half-illuminated point. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z His motivation was simple: Venus was a problem for both the Ptolemaic and Copernican systems because, according to both theories, its distance from the Earth varied greatly. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z And this Collective isn’t judging me by my eyes like people back on Earth did. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z We were even collaborating with other students to host our school’s first Earth Day celebration, where students could share their concerns and brainstorm ideas to help make a difference in our community. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The fundamental idea that the Earth is a planet, that we are citizens of the Universe, was rejected and forgotten. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Robots are, of course, manufactured on Earth, but their shipment through space is much simpler if it can be done in parts to be put together at their place of use. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z In the midst of this suburban void, my own flat Earth, I encountered Volpe. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z As a seasoned test pilot, Glenn knew that the only way to remove all danger from the mission was to never leave Earth. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z A series of articles that von Braun contributed to Collier’s magazine in 1952—“Man Will Conquer Space Soon!”—presented space travel as the natural next step for the restless inhabitants of the Earth. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z When America should venture beyond the confines of Earth was just as obvious as why. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z On a dirt track in the Tanami Desert–normally one of the emptiest places on Earth–they came over a slight rise just as another vehicle was approaching. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The scale is of course more an idea than an object, an arbitrary measure of the Earth’s tremblings based on surface measurements. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Yet almost singlehandedly, and quite brilliantly, he created the science of geology and transformed our understanding of the Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Of all the stars, the inhabitants of Earth know close-up, so far, but one. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z At this point it became apparent that seen from Venus the Earth would be one of the brightest stars in the sky. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Earth, Venus, Mars, icy Neptune, Uranus, and the rest, even Saturn with its rings, all spin slowly in the far corner of the room. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Rishi stared at her like she’d just told him a giant meteor was headed for the Earth and there was nothing to be done about it. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z For all that the scientists down here on Planet Earth knew, she could have been singing “Ninety-Nine Bottles of Beer on the Wall” to herself over and over and over. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Baty had tried to force the fusion experience into existence for itself—and then, when that fell through, it had engineered the killing of a variety of human beings...followed by the flight to Earth. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z There had been some Rain & the Earth of the Road was soft & his Desk was somewhat mired as he leaned upon it. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Everyone was back on planet Earth, the Holy Spirit had left the building, and casual conversations started up. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z If you were a great distance away, you would not see the Earth and the other planets at all; they would be only faint luminous points, lost in the glare of the Sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Radio Moscow announced a timetable, revealing exactly where the satellite would fly over Earth, and when. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z A great column of gas reaching high above the adjacent clouds, so large that it could hold half a dozen Earths. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Looks like the pilgrimage has brought him back to planet Earth. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The global balance of terror, pioneered by the United States and the Soviet Union, holds hostage the citizens of the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “So the Titans lost. Fine! That was part of the plan to wake Gaea! Now the Earth Mother and her giants will destroy the mortal world, and we will totally feast on demigods!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “All right, and skip the sarcasm. We’ll save it for Earth, and preserve it in jars for future long, cold winters. Meanwhile, what emergency can we create?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z If Earth Mother remained dry and empty, if she didn’t give us a beautiful golden crop this year, the people would go hungry. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Everyone now began to imagine looking at the Earth from deep space. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Day 13 We have looked back and taken the first photograph ever obtained of the Earth and Moon as worlds together in space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The first space station it had launched was about to fall to Earth. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z The Martians of H. G. Wells and Orson Welles, preoccupied with the suppression of Bournemouth and Jersey City, never noticed until too late that their immunological defenses were unavailing against the microbes of Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The corresponding surface pressure is 90 atmospheres, 90 times the pressure we feel from the Earth’s atmosphere, the equivalent of the weight of water 1 kilometer below the surface of the oceans. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When dinosaurs roamed the Earth, Denver was part of an ocean bottom, many thousands of feet lower. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Life had arisen almost immediately after the origin of the Earth, which suggests that life may be an inevitable chemical process on an Earth-like planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Are we carbon- and water-based because those materials were abundant on the Earth at the time of the origin of life? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Communicating from Mars to Earth is a pretty big deal, and requires extremely specialized equipment. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It was Hilda who said to me, “Would you like to hear how the white man came to this planet Earth? ’ The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Gamow calculated that by the time it crossed the vastness of the cosmos, the radiation would reach Earth in the form of microwaves. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Now he found refuge, again, in the trees and thickets by the Smoking Earth River. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z The spots on the sun reminded him of clouds; he knew they were not clouds, but they bore the same relationship to the sun’s surface as clouds do to the Earth’s. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z When the light we see today from M31 left for Earth, there were no humans on our planet, although our ancestors were evolving rapidly to our present form. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She is hauled slowly through town, followed on foot by every member of the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth deemed fit to be seen. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I mean, this was English Jones, the coolest dude on Earth. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z To many, that could mean only one thing: Since canals on Earth are man-made, Mars’s canals must have been built by intelligent creatures. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z But we live on a moving platform, the Earth, which every six months has progressed from one end of its orbit to the other, a distance of 300,000,000 kilometers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe instead of feeling like a mote of dust, we can remember that all the creatures on this Earth are made from stardust. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The rest of the maneuver takes them back to Earth. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It once did rule the Earth, and there is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Large plants and animals did not colonize the land until the last 10 percent of Earth history. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “He doesn’t believe we made him or that Earth exists or space or stars.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Then, less than a century ago, the radio waves leaving the Earth would become stronger, louder, less like noise and more like signals. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The sphere turns, the little wheel rotates, and, as seen from the Earth, Mars does its loop-the-loop. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The stars are the friends of explorers, then with seagoing ships on Earth and now with spacefaring ships in the sky. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There are so many examples of human misuse of the Earth that even phrasing this question chills me. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As the nearest planet, it has for centuries been thought of as the Earth’s sister. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The speed of the Earth’s spin varies from a little over 1,000 miles an hour at the equator to zero at the poles. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z There is an additional factor that can alter the landscape and the climate of Earth: intelligent life, able to make major environmental changes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Loitering on Earth potentially meant finding oneself abruptly classed as biologically unacceptable, a menace to the pristine heredity of the race. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The most isolated people on Earth in recent history were the Aboriginal Tasmanians, living without oceangoing watercraft on an island 100 miles from Australia, itself the most isolated continent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And yet the Earth is constantly pulling the Moon toward us. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This was in the middle of Greenland, and, as everybody knows, Greenland then as now was the loneliest place on the Earth. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z And Kalinda and I, maybe we’ve been alive too long too, and the only animals on this Earth who really understand life are the insects who are born and mate and die within seconds. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z All I’m carrying is a small backpack with essentials—toothbrush, clean underwear, Lonely Earth Maui guidebook, and The Little Prince. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Fire Snake has already come home to its mother, Earth. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The necessary dust would require 1,200 Saturn 5 rocket boosters to be transported from Earth to Mars; even then, the winds might blow the dust off the polar caps. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Earth, which includes Brooklyn, is a planet, and it goes around the Sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z To all intents and purposes, Earth now was dead; they had been away from it for three or four years. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The animals and plants on Earth and the structures of our buildings are all evolved or designed for 1 g. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the biggest moral bombshells handed to Billy by the Tralfamadorians, incidentally had to do with sex on Earth. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Leo darted to the left, but the Earth Goddess’s laughter followed him. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z So you might think that determining the age of the Earth would be relatively straightforward. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I’m even more curious now who the old scientist was back on Earth, for Crick to know of some special talent. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z But of all that Michell accomplished, nothing was more ingenious or had greater impact than a machine he designed and built for measuring the mass of the Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It had taken the whole of the Earth Woman’s life for the earth to become what it was. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He shook his fists at them and told them that he wanted to get away from Earth; anybody with any sense wanted to get away from Earth. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z It sits on top of an enormous hot spot, a reservoir of molten rock that rises from at least 125 miles down in the Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Were they ancestors of Earth Men ten thousand years removed? The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The planets were imagined to go around the Earth affixed to perfect transparent spheres. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Planets would seem to zoom backward as Earth overtook them; no epicycles were needed. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Like all educated people in Protestant countries, he believes that the Earth goes round the sun. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The basic unit of measure in the solar system is the Astronomical Unit, or AU, representing the distance from the Sun to the Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z We have relatively abundant gold and uranium on Earth only because many supernova explosions had occurred just before the solar system formed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z So this was the Earth Mother that had replaced mine. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z This sort of thing happens on Earth all the time. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But it is liquid only on worlds much colder than the Earth or Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They stopped along Horse Creek, which flowed into the Smoking Earth River. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Somewhere out there the sluggers were orbiting Earth in their spaceship. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “Not as bright as if it had Earth’s sun,” he answers. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Might this cooling increase the size of the polar ice cap, which, because it is bright, will reflect still more sunlight from the Earth, further cooling the planet, driving a runaway albedo' effect? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s good to see another man from Earth. I am from Earth also.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z A supermoon, it said, was a full moon that comes closer than usual to Earth. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z She wasn’t like the Mother Earth you might read about in a children’s fairy tale. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The discovery of America killed off the two-spheres theory of the Earth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In one catastrophic event all of them and many, perhaps most, of the other species on the Earth, were destroyed.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She felt like she was holding something remarkable, like the entire planet Earth, in her hands. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z For half a century people had been trying to work out the size of the Earth, mostly by making very exacting measurements. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I know what a king was, Earth’s own history is full of them, but I had no experiential feel for privilege—no tact. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z An extraterrestrial civilization monitoring the radio emission from Earth and receiving such signals could not fail to conclude that something interesting had been happening here lately. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Buster Friendly Show, telecast and broadcast over all Earth via satellite, also poured down on the emigrants of the colony planets. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z As each moon goes around its parent planet in a regular orbit, just as the Earth follows a regular one-year orbit around the Sun, each moon ought to be eclipsed behind Jupiter at regular intervals. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Our lovely blue planet, the Earth, is the only home we know. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you know about Google Earth? Where it’s like you’re looking down from above? Just look for the fences that were around that house!” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Cassiopeia A is the remnant of a supernova whose light should have reached the Earth in the seventeenth century, when there were a fair number of astronomers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But their gravitational influence is very real and noticeable back here on Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Deloria was the author of many books, including Red Earth, White Lies, a critique of mainstream archaeology. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I am terribly limited by the fact that I know only one kind of life, life on Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z How very fine if he and a few others he knew on Earth could be here, live out their lives here, without a sound or a worry. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then why are the clouds of Venus thicker than the clouds on Earth?” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Even if it’s no longer anything like that Earth, I still smile at the memory. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The Earth was forty-three kilometers stouter when measured equatorially than when measured from top to bottom around the poles. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z If I get back to Earth, I'm buying Bruce Ng a beer. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The house that I’d looked at through Google Earth countless times. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z “I got the whole Earth Settlements, Inc., back of me!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z But the technology that allowed us to explore and inhabit the most remote regions of the Earth now permits us to leave our planet, to venture into space, to explore other worlds. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The nested Pythagorean solids also made no allowance for the existence of the Earth’s moon, and Galileo’s discovery of the four large moons of Jupiter was also discomfiting. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They spent one week each month at the Palomar Observatory in California looking for objects, asteroids primarily, whose trajectories carried them across Earth’s orbit. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The high oceanic temperatures will release more water vapor into the air, increasing cloudiness, shielding the Earth from sunlight and delaying the end a little. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There were only six planets known in Kepler’s time: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s ever so much grander than you described it, Enoch. And oh, did you describe it! For seventy-five years: London, London, London! The greatest city on Earth!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z There was much more to Copernican astronomy, for those with eyes to see, than the simple claim that the Earth orbits around the Sun. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Yet at this level of detail, the Earth seems utterly barren. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z From the size of the Earth’s shadow on the Moon during a lunar eclipse, he deduced that the Sun had to be much larger than the Earth, as well as very far away. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Tycho in particular made an intensive study of the star to see if there was any trace of the parallax shift that could be expected if the Earth really did move around the Sun. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Perhaps it originally represented the important insight that the sky nurtures the Earth; if so, that meaning seems to have been forgotten millennia ago. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They know that the pressures at the center of the Earth are sufficiently high–something over three million times those found at the surface–to turn any rock there solid. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The sun was risen upon the Earth when Lot entered into Zoar, I read. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He put the Sun at the center, made the Earth rotate on its axis once a day and orbit the Sun once a year. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In eight minutes it will travel from the Sun to the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z That war on Earth must be very bad.... The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The vuvv happily sold their knowledge to captains of industry in exchange for rights to the Earth’s electromagnetic energy fields and some invisible quantum events. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z For human life turned out to be no different from any other kind of life on Earth. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Planet Earth was separated into several distinct ecosystems, each made up of a unique assembly of animals and plants. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The largest semi-steerable radio/radar observatory on the planet Earth is the Arecibo facility, which Cornell University operates for the National Science Foundation. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As the ancient mythmakers knew, we are the children equally of the sky and the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If the Earth moves, why isn’t there a constant gale of wind blowing past, like the wind in your hair that rushes past if you are in an open-topped car travelling on a motorway? The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z We know that Earth’s magnetic field changes in power from time to time: during the age of the dinosaurs, it was up to three times as strong as now. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Internal geological processes slowly deform the surfaces of Venus, Mars, Ganymede and Europa, as well as Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Might it be a balmy, summer planet, a little warmer than the Earth because it is a little closer to the Sun? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Animals had one spirit from Mother Earth, but people had an extra one from Mwari. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Radar observations of Chryse were made for the first time—because of the geometry of Earth and Mars—only a few weeks before the nominal landing date. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The whale, like all the other animals on the Earth, has a gene library and a brain library. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We know this because Oklahoma has more tornadoes than anywhere on Earth. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z None of these spacecraft is imagined to leave the Earth directly. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z His master indeed forbade him from leaving his quarters on Sunday nights, for fear that in preaching of equality before the Lord on High, Isaac might incite riot on Earth. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Powell searched, “There it is. The very bright one in the corner. We call it Earth.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Their belief was that the Earth was subject to profound internal forces as well as surface ones. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z His dad had showed him a time line of when different animals had evolved on Earth. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z "Only reason I'm taking you to the Quad is 'cause I'm not gonna spend eight fifty on some karate movie or action feature about some outer-space somebody wanting to blow up the Earth." Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z Intelligent life on Earth first reveals itself through the geometric regularity of its constructions. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Earth’s magnetic field has diminished by perhaps as much as 6 percent in the last century alone. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It radios all the scientific information it acquires back to Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Late dinners were carried out onto the night lawns and set upon collapsible tables, and they picked at these slowly until two o’clock and the light-radio message flashed from Earth. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z However the Earth’s gravity has managed to nudge Venus into this Earth- locked rotation rate, it cannot have happened rapidly. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This analogy explains the orbits of the planets; Earth is simply rolling around in the dimple that the sun makes in the rubber sheet. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It means for a start that even if these beings know we are here and are somehow able to see us in their telescopes, they’re watching light that left Earth two hundred years ago. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “I hope,” Isidore said happily, “I can help make your stay here on Earth pleasant.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Weight limits restricted how much she could actually bring back to Earth, so she was going to collect first, then sort out the most interesting 50 kilograms to take home. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, finally, at 10:38 p.m.: sighs, applause, exuberance, dumbstruck silence, from all corners of the Earth, as Neil Armstrong planted his foot on luna firma. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Is there any danger of driving the environment of the Earth toward the planetary Hell of Venus or the global ice age of Mars? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Detailed weather predictions for Mars were, of course, much less reliable than for Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a very remote thing, when the luggage-store proprietor heard the news on the night radio, received all the way from Earth on a light-sound beam. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The trauma to Manson’s geology had come not from within the Earth, but from at least 100 million miles beyond. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Timothy looked at the deep ocean sky, trying to see Earth and the war and the ruined cities and the men killing each other since the day he was born. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s so many of them on Earth now, you never can tell.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z This figure is an average, as the Earth’s orbit is an ellipse. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Or figuring out ways for people to live in outer space, so they wouldn’t be too crowded on Earth and chop down beautiful woods just for houses. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Earth is all magma and continental crust and ocean. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The footsteps are still there in the dust, and with a really powerful telescope, you can see them from Earth.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z It seemed odd to him that this girl had never heard of Earth’s most knee-slapping TV comic. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z These folks are the Kings of the Earth! Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z On Earth, for all practical purposes, mass and weight are the same and so the terms can be treated as synonymous, at least outside the classroom. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z A strange scenario: a small comet hits the Earth, as millions of them have, and the response of our civilization is promptly to self-destruct. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was natural to think of these fearful creations as the children of Mother Earth, brought forth from her dark depths when the world was young. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The Moon from the Earth: the view from just The Earth from the Moon: the view that Kepler outside the atmosphere. dreamed of. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘The Earth Mother has promised us great rewards. If we spill your blood under the Parthenon, that will be sufficient to complete her awakening.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Then she was in Gaea’s cave in Alaska, where Hazel and her mother had died as the ceiling collapsed and the voice of the Earth Goddess wailed in anger. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Not only did this imply that the planets—in the heavens—were made of light, airy stuff, but it also meant that any people in the heavens would naturally fall to Earth. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z There was Earth and there the coming war, and there hundreds of thousands of mothers or grandmothers or fathers or brothers or aunts or uncles or cousins. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Do the beings of other worlds look much like life on Earth? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Back on Earth, Mrs. Klugman, in the old days, did you also worry about finding yourself classified, ahem, as a special?” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “This is my mom’s favorite song by Earth, Wind & Fire, since she was born on September twenty-first.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Suppose we had a magic gravity machine—a device with which we could control the Earth’s gravity, perhaps by turning a dial. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z With them he deduced the circumference of the Earth with an error of only a few percent, a remarkable achievement for 2,200 years ago. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Voyager had discovered the first active volcano beyond the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I created a map that covered Brandywine and the Hollows outskirts, and I checked the addresses of the Civic owners with Google Earth Street View, one by one. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z In that case, the colors of Jupiter speak to us of chemical events that four billion years ago back on Earth led to the origin of life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Antipodes had become a reality, and there was no longer any way of fitting the Earth’s land masses into one hemisphere. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It turns out that, with respect to the stars, Venus turns once every 243 Earth days, but backward, in the opposite direction from all other planets in the inner solar system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z No one has so far mixed together the gases and waters of the primitive Earth and at the end of the experiment had something crawl out of the test tube. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Because the Earth is turning, some television stations will appear at one horizon of the Earth while others disappear over the other. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In all, some ninety thousand people came to Mars, and more, on Earth, were packing their grips. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Seven degrees is something like one-fiftieth of three hundred and sixty degrees, the full circumference of the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In the Milky Way Galaxy there must be many planets millions of years older than Earth, and some that are billions of years older. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe out of all the billions of planets, music is unique to Earth. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I spent a lot of time on Earth wishing I could be as classy as Vera. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Most of the men were proud that America was part of England, the most powerful country on Earth. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z The controllers monitored everything and were ready to help in any way they could, but the communication latency between Hermes and Earth rendered them powerless to do anything but watch. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then you don’t know. There’s big news. It concerns Earth ” A silver hand gestured. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z She felt like the last person on the entire Earth. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z If I ever return to Earth, I'm going to buy a nice little home in Western Australia. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z This was not good news for those people whose measurements of the Earth were based on the assumption that the Earth was a perfect sphere, which was everyone. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Maps will have to be issued regularly, like weather reports on Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Second, when gases from Earth were introduced into the Martian soil sample, the gases became chemically combined with the soil—almost as if there were photosynthesizing microbes, generating organic matter from atmospheric gases. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z So all that can be said is that at some slightly indeterminate point as we head toward the center of Earth we leave the asthenosphere and plunge into pure mantle. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The astronauts would return to Earth to their families and we’d forget we were all earthlings. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Each of them thinks it necessary to stress that the Earth is a perfectly round ball, globe or sphere. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Valentina spent three days in space, making 48 orbits around the Earth. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z When within sight of the Earth on each of its orbits, it would stimulate outpourings of superstitious fervor among the Earthlings. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In our own solar system there are several bodies that may be suitable for life of some sort: the Earth certainly, and perhaps Mars, Titan and Jupiter. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Fourth: Life on Earth runs almost exclusively on sunlight. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And Enoch, who did not die but was taken away by God and made into the angel Metatron, kept God’s throne, invented the art of writing, and communicated God’s word to those on Earth. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z If the Moon is so severely cratered by impacts, how has the Earth avoided them? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If we wish to return unsterilized Martian samples to Earth, we must have a containment procedure that is stupefyingly reliable. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I spin around to see a treasure of Earth’s stories recalling his final words. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z By the time the sun grows bright again, no one is left alive on Earth to feel its warmth. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z This outward force would balance the force of the Earth’s gravity if gravity fell off in accordance with an inverse square law, but Newton did not explicitly state this at the time. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z It was not in keeping with the prejudices of the time to explain the phases or eclipses of the Moon by the relative geometry of the Earth, the Moon and the self-luminous Sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In the interior of Jupiter, where the pressures are about three million times the atmospheric pressure at the surface of the Earth, there is almost nothing but a great dark sloshing ocean of metallic hydrogen. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Might Martian microorganisms returned to Earth pose a public health hazard? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Earth was the solid ground, yet vaguely a personality, too. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Chloe looked like she wanted to drip through a drain in the floor and rain down to Earth. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z There were other troubling problems with a moving Earth. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z According to some estimates, almost half the scientists and high technologists on Earth are employed full- or part-time on military matters. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It is very tiny: just one-quarter of 1 percent as massive as Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Billy expected the Tralfamadorians to be baffled and alarmed by all the wars and other forms of murder on Earth. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Moreover, there was nothing to show that the other planets were different from the Earth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It’s not as bright as Earth’s sun, but the jungle and lake bask in its golden glow. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z We earthlings are supremely well adapted to the environment of the Earth because we grew up here. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Bruno was right—the universe was infinite and there were other earths; and Kepler, who had always insisted that the sun and the Earth were unique, was plain wrong. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z About one hundred and seventy photographs of the sun and the Earth were taken. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Four girls from the back table dashed to the front of the room and presented their app game about an alien landing on Earth. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z A light beam leaving that galaxy now will take a million years to make its trip to Earth; the light reaching our eyes now left that galaxy a million years ago. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z On February 1, I heard on the radio that the Russians had launched Luna I, the first man-made object ever to break away from Earth’s gravity. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z In that very different environment, it would, of course, have to be very different from life on Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He never accepted the revised figures and to his dying day believed his work on the age of the Earth his most astute and important contribution to science–far greater than his work on thermodynamics. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The mountains here are not so different from Earth’s. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He would buy a stick of incense and place it in the little temple to the Earth God. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Newton seems to have believed that the Earth’s oceans are of cometary origin, and that life is possible only because cometary matter falls upon our planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And if at the beginning of the summer someone had said I’d be friends with my nemesis, I’d have said there was a greater chance that Earth would be swallowed by a black hole. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z This vortex both held the planets in their orbits and pressed objects down towards the surface of the Earth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z On the other hand, we maintain that there is no credible evidence for the Earth being visited, now or ever. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I tell her, “Mom, the sun is fixed. It’s the Earth that moves around the sun.” Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Earth, in the evening heavens, following the sun into the hills. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Far more species have become extinct in the history of the Earth than exist today; they are the terminated experiments of evolution. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Sun is so far away that its rays are parallel when they reach the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It may not look it, but all the glass on Earth is flowing downward under the relentless drag of gravity. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Hello? Earth to Jupiter, kinda in crisis here,” Coop is saying. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z You point it toward some fairly broad region of the sky, and it records how much energy, in a particular radio frequency, is coming down to Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z His opening line was this one: America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Every year Earth’s rivers carried massive volumes of eroded material–500 million tons of calcium, for instance–to the seas. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Today Meteor Crater is the most famous impact site on Earth and a popular tourist attraction. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z There was no weapon on Earth as powerful as a big cannon. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z The barometer had only recently been invented, and Descartes was one of the first people to suggest that what it measured was the weight of air pressing down on the surface of the Earth. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z As the Earth was the center of the greater universe, so London was the center of our miniature universe. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Pioneer 1 arced through space until, sixty thousand miles out, not quite one-quarter of the way, it lost momentum and dropped back, burning up in the Earth’s atmosphere. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z All Copernicus could say was that ‘Earthy’ things tended to fall to Earth, solar things tended to fall to the Sun, things with an affinity for Mars would fall to Mars, and so on. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Ancient sailors on Earth figured that one out right away. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t be a fool. You’ll find out whether Earth exists when relief gets here next week and we have to go back to face the music.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z He explained that the Earth was like a big ball of candy, with different layers. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z “Why the heck would a man leave Earth with everything here to go off and sit on some rock in space all by himself?” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z The terrific acceleration of the saucer as it left Earth twisted Billy’s slumbering body, distorted his face, dislodged him in time, sent him back to the war. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps, deformed as it was, Earth remained familiar, to be clung to. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z In fact it was less than the force of Earth's surface gravity. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Bridge thought they looked like tiny planet Earths. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z And perhaps the symbol on the bow of one of the first starships would be a dodecahedron, with the inscription “Starship Theodorus of the Planet Earth.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon other pictures came into being, each picture element radioed individually back to Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know now that I actually came from Earth, the planet of humans and dogs,” I announced to Cade Hernandez as we drove through the streets of Lake Forest. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Ptolemy’s clockwork heavens—with Earth at the center—were extremely accurate. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “ReelTok is the worst person on Earth! Do not give that creep a scoop! The way he used this town to push his YouTube channel, I want him to be the last to know!” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z He told Mother Earth to bring everything to life.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He imagined a journey to the Moon, the space travelers standing on the lunar surface and observing the lovely planet Earth rotating slowly in the sky above them. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He had on his back a huge sooty sack stuffed full of bundles: Father Christmas, who pops down the chimneys of old Earth. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z By and large Huygens imagined the environments and inhabitants of other planets to be rather like those of seventeenth- century Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But a committee of faceless bureaucrats back on Earth? The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But the real joke isn’t that the sluggers revealed to me the date of Earth’s demise; it’s that they offered me the choice to prevent it. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z But the Earth is just right, a heaven for humans. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Below the twirling hologram lies an entire wall of seed vault drawers containing Earth’s plant life. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Ted Skopinski was the trajectories guy, elaborating on the math describing the path taken by a space vehicle as it left Earths surface and settled into orbit around it. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z But Tomas had swum in blue rivers on Earth, with strangers passing on the road, and eaten in strange houses with strange people, and his weapon had always been his smile. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Two recent popular books on the history of the dating of Earth actually manage to misspell his name. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z We sit on the porch in the evening and listen to the insects chitter like the fever of our drained, exhausted Earth. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The average species on Earth lasts for only about four million years, so if you wish to be around for billions of years, you must be as fickle as the atoms that made you. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “And went back to Earth the next week for the war.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Nyla waves her arms, and in an instant, just like when we stood among Earth and the moon and Halley’s Comet on the night of the party, Sagan’s surface suddenly surrounds us. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “One day, a wise Martian come down to Earth to teach us people a thing or two,” I say. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z They went to the Column, where they stole a few more quiet minutes together, listening to the river wear its way deeper into the Earth, the way people wear grooves into each other’s hearts. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z There is almost certainly a link between the quietness of the Sun at this time and the chilling of the Earth. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z From the moon, he argued, one would have the illusion that the moon was stationary and that the Earth floated through the sky. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z And vie commit her body to the ground, Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “He looked at the sun, the moon, and the stars. He looked at the sky and the clouds. ‘I think I’ll make something even more beautiful,’ he said, so he created Mother Earth. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z From eight billion light-years away we are hard pressed to find even the cluster in which our Milky Way Galaxy is embedded, much less the Sun or the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z After much thought, the Alvarezes concluded that the most plausible explanation–plausible to them, at any rate–was that the Earth had been struck by an asteroid or comet. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “The whole of human civilization as we know it,” Chacko told the twins, “began only two hours ago in the Earth Woman’s life. As long as it takes us to drive from Ayemenem to Cochin.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z All those differences among Polynesian societies developed, within a relatively short time and modest fraction of the Earth’s surface, as environmentally related variations on a single ancestral society. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Struggling to think through the implications of Vespucci’s claim, they needed a way of referring to what we call the Earth, or the world—the single globe formed of land and sea. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z If you sit on a moving Earth, why don’t you see the stars move? The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “After all, like the Pilgrims, these people came here to escape Earth. Maybe they won’t be too happy to see us. Maybe they’ll try to drive us out or kill us.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z After almost an hour of driving through towns with names like Black Earth, they turned down a narrow driveway, past several enormous, snow-dusted flowerpots entwined with lizard-like dragons. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z "All of Earth is watching but powerless to help." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The image is read by the Voyager computers, radioed back across the immense intervening distance of half a billion kilometers to a radio telescope, a ground station on the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Pathfinder has no way of knowing where it is, so it has no way of knowing where Earth is. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Brought up in the wide-open, freewheeling society of Earth, I would never master the protocol, or the impassivity, so valued by Karhiders. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “And beings from other stars. With infinite wisdom. And stories about Earth, set in our time and even later. Where there’s no radioactive dust.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The Earth Mother was older, more vicious, more bloodthirsty. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Altogether there are some ten thousand of these intrusively visible volcanoes on Earth, all but a few hundred of them extinct. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z One of these galaxies is M31, seen from the Earth in the constellation Andromeda. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z From this, he reasoned he could determine the length of one degree of the Earth’s meridian and thus calculate the distance around the whole. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Holmes’s contribution was to measure the decay rate of uranium into lead to calculate the age of rocks, and thus–he hoped–of the Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Festus to check! Earth goddesses to punch in the face! What are we waiting for? Leo’s back!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z But for one brief period in the 1980s, Manson was the most geologically exciting place on Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z From what mountain, what cave, what small last race of people remaining on this world when the rockets came from Earth? The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Observatories in Earth orbit have found an intense X-ray glow between the galaxies. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone murmured about “the unexpected and sudden deaths of sixteen fine men during the night ” Earth pounded down on the coffin lids. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “And we”—he pressed his chubby pink hand to his chest—“we are from Earth. Right, men?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z He could find no evidence of parallax, and this was an important factor in convincing him that the Earth is fixed, with the stars rotating about it on their crystal sphere. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z At 8:04 Pacific Standard Time on this morning, the first pictures of a new world, called Europa after an old one, were received on Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Because Western Australia is on the opposite side of Earth from Idaho. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z No organic molecules could be found—no building blocks of proteins and nucleic acids, no simple hydrocarbons, nothing of the stuff of life on Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It is 2,200 years since Aristarchus, and our language still pretends that the Earth does not turn. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It soars through our bodies and then rains back onto Earth. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z And this revolution has freed the Dreamers to plunder not just the bodies of humans but the body of the Earth itself. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Sometimes I felt like I was dying, or the Earth was breaking apart beneath my feet, or the sky might swallow me whole. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z After fifteen minutes the Earth Men began walking in and out the kitchen door, with nothing to do. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z On top of that, they had selected one of the most nearly impossible terrains on Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He remembered Octavian speaking with the Earth Goddess’s voice: The Romans move east from New York. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z But Digges was not a conventional reader of Copernicus, for he understood that Copernicus really did intend to be taken literally when he described the Earth as moving and the sun as stationary. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z If the Earth were moved only a little closer to the Sun, the temperature would increase slightly. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There was once a time before life, when the Earth was barren and utterly desolate. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Not old, but how they looked the day we left Earth. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Even if they had to leave Earth, and I had to follow them into airless space, I’d hold on to them and suffocate, but at least I’d have held them close. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Occasionally someone remarks on what a lucky coincidence it is that the Earth is perfectly suitable for life—moderate temperatures, liquid water, oxygen atmosphere, and so on. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Somehow from this Gilbert concluded that the Moon’s craters were indeed formed by impacts–in itself quite a radical notion for the time–but that the Earth’s were not. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z There is nothing physically connecting the Earth and the Moon. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I guess it is better than dying on Earth. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The dear Earth everywhere blooms in spring and grows green, as new, Everywhere and for ever A blue sky in the distance for ever ... for ever ... for ever. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He traveled there nearly 250 years ago, as part of a long journey to see Venus cross between Earth and the sun. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Dürer’s map illustrates how rapidly the notion of the Earth as a globe established itself after the publication of Waldseemuller’s map in 1507; it also demonstrates Dürer’s complete mastery of perspective representation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It would forget the party and Calypso and Earth. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Wegener investigated the many plant and fossil anomalies that did not fit comfortably into the standard model of Earth history and realized that very little of it made sense if conventionally interpreted. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Survival on Earth is a surprisingly tricky business. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z ‘Why would I do that? The Earth Mother has promised me unrestricted power. Could you make me a better offer?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Because Mars is farther from the Sun than is the Earth, its temperatures are considerably lower. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z No, there was only one Pikes, and he was a man stripped of his fantasies now, no place on Earth to go, no one to show off to. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The evolution of life on Earth is driven in part by the spectacular deaths of distant, massive suns. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Original Man was black, in the continent called Africa where the human race had emerged on the planet Earth. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z There is no other species on Earth that does science. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Was there really a God after all, and did He punish people on Earth? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z "Strange as it may seem," wrote Richard Feynman, "we understand the distribution of matter in the interior of the Sun far better than we understand the interior of the Earth." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Let me tell you a story about one little phrase in the music of life on Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Earth Men were so stunned that they rode the toppling shoulders for a full minute before they began to laugh and shout at each other: “Hey! This is more like it!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Not one of those worlds will be identical to Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They have solid surfaces, interiors made of rock and iron, and atmospheres ranging from near-vacuum to pressures ninety times higher than the Earth’s. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Just like war. War swims along, sees food, contracts. A moment later—Earth is gone.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, both heaven and hell were conditions in which people lived right here on this planet Earth. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Earth with thy folds, and hollows, and holes, into which a man may fling himself and crouch down. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z In such an alternate Earth, Leonardo and Einstein would, of course, never have been born. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z "If word spreads," says the first squirrel, "it could jeopardize our eons-old plan to harvest nuts here on planet Earth." Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z On the Earth before life, there may already have been chemical processes resembling respiration and photosyn thesis cycling in the soil, perhaps to be incorporated by life once it arose. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Might they somehow have an inkling of the long evolutionary progression from genes to brains to libraries that has occurred on the obscure planet Earth? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When an Atuot person died, he came back to Earth as a lion, with a great hunger for the human flesh he once had. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z But you still had to have the Moon orbiting around the Earth, and you still needed epicycles to explain why the planets seem to slow down and speed up in their orbits. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Of course, people left behind on Earth would see things differently. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A collision with a small boulder could have sent the spacecraft tumbling wildly out of control, its antenna unable to lock on the Earth, its data lost forever. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyell believed that the Earth’s shifts were uniform and steady–that everything that had ever happened in the past could be explained by events still going on today. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The government cruiser was making ready to carry the two roboticists back to Earth. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The picture was a drawing of Earth and a treasure map blended together. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Pontus, which means the Deep Sea, was a son of Mother Earth and the father of Nereus, a sea-god far more important than he himself was. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z An astronomical unit is the distance of the Earth from the Sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z By one billion years ago, plants, working cooperatively, had made a stunning change in the environment of the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z What will you do when the Earth Mother opens her eyes? Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z When the Sun, ruddy and bloated, becomes a red giant, it will envelop and devour the planets Mercury and Venus—and probably the Earth as well. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This was in fact the method used by a Greek astronomer, Hipparchus of Nicaea, in 150 B.C. to work out the Moon’s distance from Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Worse, the agreed ages for the Earth couldn’t comfortably support the numbers of eons and ages and epochs that the past obviously contained. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “The reason so many people are starving is because we’ve wrecked the planet. The Earth is dying, you know? 'It’s time to leave.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The Acropolis groaned and shifted as the Earth Mother woke. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Billions of years from now, there will be a last perfect day on Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z My parents say, when I was in pre-K, I marched around telling everybody I was the mayor of Earth. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z If one passed by the Earth, it could not “stop” the Earth’s rotation, much less start it up again at twenty-four hours a day. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Tartarus and Erebus are sometimes two divisions of the underworld, Tartarus the deeper of the two, the prison of the Sons of Earth; Erebus where the dead pass as soon as they die. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z For a million years it was clear to everyone that there were no other places than the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z An equivalent number of American pennies would be enough to make every person on Earth a dollar trillionaire. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The ceiling screens are not Earth’s sky, only a blank field. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Can we test the claim that Copernicanism required a modern theory of the Earth? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In just 200 million years, possibly less, the Earth was essentially formed, though still molten and subject to constant bombardment from all the debris that remained floating about. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z A Karhidish village is like an ancient castle of Earth in having few or no separate, private dwellings. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z In terms of precipitation, she observes, Antarctica “is the driest large area on Earth, drier overall than any large desert.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Hazel made her way into the cavern she called the Heart of the Earth. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z On the Moon, the outside, catastrophic events hold sway; on Earth, the inside, slow processes dominate. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Tell him we’re from Earth and it’s never been done before!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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