单词 | planet |
例句 | “Better yet, what do you think is the explanation? That we live on an alien planet?” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z It’s like I sorta came to then, and 1 looked at her as if she was from another planet. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 To her, Mott “seemed like a being from some larger planet.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z These alterations don’t make him appear more normal, however, but more anomalous, like a creature from an alien planet disguised in human clothing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Well, there’s a gigantic hole in the middle of it where Central Park used to be. As the island moves across the planet, it acts like a frame, displaying what lies beneath it.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The home planet of an emerging technical civilization, struggling to avoid self-destruction. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We’d met her last year on Move Up Day, and one of the older kids had said she was the meanest teacher in the school—maybe the whole planet. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z We can send notes, telephone, whisper cryptic invitations, announce the giving of parties, even bounce words off the moon and make them carom around the planets. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The introduction of printing happened over a period of decades and for a long time affected only a relatively small part of the planet. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z I’d hear it if I was on the other side of the planet. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z It is a curious feature of our existence that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Users could circumnavigate each of these planets and never see the same terrain twice. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z So much laid to waste from the miscalculation of infallibility in the face of a planet’s revolt. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Everybody on the planet wanted to see the Earthlings mate. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Tycho’s observations of the apparent motion of Mars and other planets through the constellations were made over a period of many years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This indicates that they come from outside the Solar System since otherwise we would expect them to be concentrated toward the plane of the orbits of the planets. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Meg looked around her, realizing that she had been so breathless from the journey and the stop on the two- dimensional planet that she had not noticed her sur-roundings. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The pain reminded him daily that his time on the planet was nearing its end. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “And although we are doing our best, if they cannot be remedied soon, we will seek out another planet.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z There is another way to investigate Mars and the full range of delights and discoveries this heterogeneous planet holds for us. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There may be those who live on a planet that orbits a central star in one of Shapley’s globular clusters, or one located in the core. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Remember, Firenze, we are sworn not to set ourselves against the heavens. Have we not read what is to come in the movements of the planets?” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z The planets are the old-timers in the inner solar system; the comets are the newcomers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But he’s no planet, just the final fading light of an already dead star. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Pythagoras argued that the earth sat at the center of the universe, and the sun, moon, planets, and stars revolved around the earth, each pinned inside a sphere. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He is a great figure in the^ history of virus hunting, having discovered and> named some of the most dangerous life forms on. the planet. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Stars and planets and whatever other things be up there in space popped out of the black, glowing green, all around us. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z The planet was the site of a meticulous re-creation of his hometown as it was in the late 1980s. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Half an hour later, each of them had been given a complicated circular chart, and was attempting to fill in the position of the planets at their moment of birth. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He could dig his way through the planet and come out the other side. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Roughly one-third of the planet already lived in chronic poverty, according to United Nations statistics. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Newton noted that the matter in the tails of comets is dissipated in interplanetary space, lost to the comet and little by little attracted gravitationally to nearby planets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The organizers don’t want someone with a “genetic defect” like my eyes for the new planet. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Mankind reaching out to Mars to send people to another planet for the very first time and expand the horizons of humanity blah, blah, blah. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I spent more hours than I can count a quiet witness to the highly mannered, manifold expressions of life that grace our planet. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I picture Lita giggling as she watches parts of her story being told on the new planet. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I instructed it to activate its cloaking device as soon as it dropped out of hyperspace, then locate me on the planet’s surface and land somewhere nearby. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Do the comets and asteroids think it inadvisable to impact an inhabited planet? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Like, isn’t this supposed to be one of the most progressive cities on the planet?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z What must the previous history of the planet have been to create sheared rocks, buried boulders, polygonal gouges in the ground? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Although the whole assemblage is tearing around the planet itself at some 20 kilometers per second, the relative speed of two adjacent particles is very low, only some few centimeters per minute. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We do not expect an advanced technical civilization on any other planet in our solar system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s almost like I absorbed all of his craziness, like I was his leech, because he seems absolutely fine now, while I walk around school every day like I’m living on another planet. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z If one looks at the sky on a clear, moonless night, the brightest objects one sees are likely to be the planets Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is one empty planet,” Viola says as we stop for a quick lunch, leaning on some rocks overlooking a natural weir. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z “These constellations have been set for tens of thousands of years. They describe the history of our planet itself, moving ever so slowly with the passage of time.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “Flint goes away to his own planet. He puts up invisible barriers so that others won’t sense life-forms there. He creates robots to protect himself and keep him company. They ar....predictable.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Lowell deduced that when the planet’s oceans dried up, the Martians built a system of canals thousands of miles long to move water from the polar ice caps to dry areas. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z The lifelong quest of Johannes Kepler, to understand the motions of the planets, to seek a harmony in the heavens, culminated thirty-six years after his death, in the work of Isaac Newton. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When he looked at the planet Jupiter, Galileo found that it was accompanied by several small satellites or moons that orbited around it. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And he would also have had access to the planet’s source code, if he’d wanted to hide something here. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I know that I have a budding geek, and if I can get him sane through the next thirteen years, there will be another decent adult on this planet. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There were times when he could hardly believe he was still on the same planet. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I wonder how the whole Jesus thing works if we’re on a different planet on the opposite side of the galaxy in another solar system. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “But you do not! You are not even masters of this planet. What about Eurasia and Eastasia? You have not conquered them yet.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “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 On the landscapes of other planets where the records of the past have been preserved, there is abundant evi- dence of major catastrophes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt empty, too, and strangely heavy, like the planet was spinning too fast, heating up gravity, pulling me toward the floor. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “Oh, I wish you were here to take my picture! Aaaaah! I always thought Broadway was just a cluster of the greatest theaters on the planet. It’s an actual streeeeeet!” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Sometimes a wishing star turns out to be just a lump of rock that crashes into a planet and kills all the dinosaurs. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I’m like that theoretical brown dwarf star or gas giant planet lurking at the far edges of our solar system, way beyond Pluto. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z To ecologists, the great tropical forest in South America was and is the planet’s greatest wilderness, primeval and ancient, an Edenic zone touched by humankind lightly if at all. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She said it like, What planet are you from? The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z He had no idea what year it was or what planet he was on. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Are there planets where the inhabitants proudly display pendants of niobium and bracelets of protactinium, while gold is a laboratory curiosity? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Let’s assume that there are indeed 106—or a million—stars with planets which support life in our own galaxy. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Even my mother, who I was closer to than anyone else on the planet, was never in harmony with me, never on exactly the same page. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z They are the largest animals* ever to evolve on the planet Earth, larger by far than the dinosaurs. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Velikovsky imagined the comet, after a complicated game of interplanetary billiards, to settle down into a stable, nearly circular orbit, becoming the planet Venus—which he claimed never existed before then. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This philosophy—the interchangeability of music, math, and nature—led to the earliest Pythagorean model of the planets. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z If we lived on a planet where nothing ever changed, there would be little to do. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a shame, starting out your first day on the planet as a murderer but there you go, I didn’t have much choice at the time. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The user had to get the alien back to its home planet by passing a quiz. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Every year or two the relative positions of the planets and the physics of Kepler and Newton permit the launch of a spacecraft to Mars or Venus with a minimum expenditure of energy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Their mouths are set in straight, worried lines, which is how you feel when you are out too far, away from your planet, doing something that feels way too big. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z It stood out from the other planets in the area because it wasn’t coded to look real. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The surface environment of Venus is a warning: something disastrous can happen to a planet rather like our own. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Though still in the King’s dominions, they felt as if they had landed on another planet. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I instantly reappeared in an identical booth, inside an identical transport terminal on the opposite side of the planet. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Mrs. Harper told us that when she was younger and Pluto was still a planet, the mnemonic device they used was “My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas.” P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I found an identical save the planet card in each of my subsequent hotel rooms, and it got on my nerves in no time. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “We were expanding beyond ourselves, beyond our own planet, pushing back frontiers, bettering ourselves.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z If there is a more desolate, inhospitable habitation anywhere on the planet, I hope never to see it. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Something which has— in all my years on this planet—never been a particularly dangerous activity. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z And what if the planet were dying and those creatures had to find a new home? Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z 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 There wasn’t much to do on Incipio except chat with other noobs or shop in one of the giant virtual malls that covered the planet. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It clearly applies to Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, planets discovered long after Kepler’s death. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a miraculous find, and what made it all the more striking was that the observations on which Lowell had predicted the existence of a planet beyond Neptune proved to be comprehensively erroneous. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I thought to myself, No one on this planet loves me enough to take care of me. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z 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 “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 Babylonian records for the movements of the sun, moon, and planets were impressively comprehensive by Eratosthenes’ time. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z They restored the planet again; only when I tried to sit, they shocked me and blew it up. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The planet’s color doesn’t come from spilled blood of battle. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z That, of course, left Ares’s cabin: a dozen of the biggest, ugliest, meanest kids on Long Island, or anywhere else on the planet. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z I visited a re-creation of the Revenge of the Nerds house on the planet Skolnick and spent a day searching it, but it proved to be a dead end. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “The planets have been read wrongly before now, even by centaurs. I hope this is one of those times.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Others have concluded the planet is lifeless because a preliminary search for a particular manifestation of life has been unsuccessful or ambiguous. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Astrology is a pseudoscience—a claim, in the absence of good evidence, that the other planets affect our everyday lives. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 “They’ve fought in worse seas. The Arctic is the worst fighting on the planet. They aren’t afraid of a little rain and waves.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Our familiar universe of galaxies and stars, planets and people, would be a single elementary particle in the next universe up, the first step of another infinite regress. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But if light is composed of particles, one might expect them to be affected by gravity in the same way that cannonballs, rockets, and planets are. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The tiny road makes us feel like we are the only people on the entire planet in this lime-green sardine can in the middle of a misty green forest. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Kepler knew there were no crystalline spheres in the heavens, and so he understood that the planets were moving through empty space on what he called an ‘orbit’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Meg looked around her, realizing that she had been so breathless from the journey and the stop on the two- dimensional planet that she had not noticed her surroundings. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Above and behind them, a ringed planet glows yellow in the pale-purple sky. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z How did Donne know that the new philosophers were seeking new worlds, not only by thinking of the planets as worlds but also by looking for worlds elsewhere in the firmament? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I think exposure to something new can't help but generate interest, even if you feel out of it and on your own planet. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z They are presumed to be planets that never quite made it, owing to the unsettling gravitational pull of Jupiter, which kept–and keeps–them from coalescing. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Astrology contends that which constellation the planets are in at the moment of your birth profoundly influences your future. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She said the moon was in perigee that night, the closest it got to the planet of humans and dogs. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z “How could I have warned you when you completely dropped off the face of the planet?!” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z "We might as well attempt to introduce a new planet into the solar system or annihilate one already in existence, as to create or destroy a particle of hydrogen," he wrote. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z When every planet in your solar system has exploded? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Every evening before Voyager l’s encounter with Jupiter, I could see that giant planet twinkling in the sky, a sight our ancestors have enjoyed and wondered at for a million years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z However, there is a characteristic impediment to life on such a planet: the atmosphere is turbulent, and down deep it is very hot. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The goal of previous astronomers had been to construct mathematical models that would successfully predict the location of the planets in the heavens. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was only a few months ago that there was finally a pause in the thousands of wars being waged all over the planet. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She could talk about the earth and the sun and the moon and the planets, and a few stars, and not much else. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “Oh, really? The thing about the planets colliding?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Somewhere it was the month of April on the planet Mars, a yellow month with a blue sky. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “You spy a twenty-four- hour road trip in a minivan. Hip because road trips always are; tragic because the gas we’re guzzling will destroy the planet.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Every day a new place, a complex, winding traverse over the varied topography of this appealing planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There were hundreds of private schools and universities located on other planets inside the OASIS. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Rubio looks back out the window even though we can no longer see the planet. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z There were only six planets known in Kepler’s time: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 It gave birth to galaxies and stars and moons and suns and planets and oceans. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z All the planets orbit the Sun, the nearest star, an inferno of hydrogen and helium gas engaged in thermonuclear reactions, flooding the solar system with light. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you think that the civilizations of two planets can progress at the same rate and evolve in the same way, Hinkston?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z When little kid recess starts I give Michael more planet stickers and all the gummy worms in my pocket. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Cade slowed the truck, or perhaps, I thought, the rain pushed so hard against us that surface gravity doubled on the planet of humans and dogs. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Somewhere on this planet among its sextillion grains of sand. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I’ve visited thirty-one inhabited planets in the universe, and I have studied reports on one hundred more. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z At the beginning of this universe, there were no galaxies, stars or planets, no life or civilizations, merely a uniform, radiant fireball filling all of space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I have a rough satellite map of the whole planet. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Within an hour, a cloud of blackness would cover the planet and burning rock and other debris would be pelting down everywhere, setting much of the planet ablaze. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z In the early history of our planet, however, when enormous amounts of organic molecules were being produced by sunlight in a hydrogen-rich atmosphere, very simple, nonparasitic organisms had a fighting chance. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, the orbits of the planets predicted by general relativity are almost exactly the same as those predicted by the Newtonian theory of gravity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “It should now be about eighteen minutes before the planet is fully within the sun’s disk.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “He’s a good animal— fastest four-footed creature on the planet,” he declared. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z What percentage of the lifetime of a planet is marked by a technical civilization? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She may also be the friendliest person on the planet -she smiles constantly at everybody in school, even me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The rest of our family and friends are asteroids and comets floating around the planets orbiting the Sun. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Our lovely blue planet, the Earth, is the only home we know. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 It worked at least as well as Ptolemy’s spheres in explaining the apparent motion of the planets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Leave the solar system and start looking for an extrasolar Earthlike planet.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z 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 To her, beings from other planets belonged in the same category as souls, and therefore she could not fathom her mother’s passionate interest in identifying them. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z At twenty feet tall, the Jupiter bird was the largest bird ever to walk the planet, a marvel of science. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Although our apparently commonsense notions work well when dealing with things like apples, or planets that travel comparatively slowly, they don’t work at all for things moving at or near the speed of light. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Bemusedly they noted an exceptionally bright object in the right place, which they soon identified as the planet Jupiter. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 On the average, the Sun and the planets spend forty million years in a spiral arm, eighty million outside, another forty million in, and so on. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Pressing the button will prevent the destruction of the planet?” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z For the first time since ReelTok outed me, I begin to toy with the possibility that I’m not the worst person in the history of the planet. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Are there no other countries on the planet worth living in? You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Here, near the planet’s mantle, you could find the last coin-operated videogames ever made, from the first few decades of the twenty-first century. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Friends, there exists on this planet a delicate balance, a balance between good and evil, righteousness and wretchedness, crime and punishment. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z It was April 1947, and I continued to seek private time with Grandma because she was the only one on this planet I felt close to. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Listening, you reflect that you are probably the worst person on the planet. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Our nomadic ancestors must have felt an affinity for the planets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I've just switched battlefields, from the entire planet to this comer of Cleveland. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The picture that nearly everybody has in mind of an atom is of an electron or two flying around a nucleus, like planets orbiting a sun. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The sacred mission of the Triple Alliance, Tlacaelel proclaimed, was to furnish this vital substance to Huitzilopochtli, who would then use it for the sun, postponing the death of everyone on the planet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But, beyond that, like the planets around the Sun following Kepler’s third law, the outer provinces rotate progressively more slowly. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z With so many galaxies and therefore so many stars, it is inevitable that there are more planets than our minds can imagine. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know high school is rough, Henry, but blowing up the planet is never the answer.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Carl Sagan calculated the number of probable planets in the universe at large at 10 billion trillion–a number vastly beyond imagining. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Then I think about it: If the world gets bombed, cockroaches will take over the planet—like they have my apartment complex. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Like I said, sometimes he’s on his own weird little planet. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z When CroMS are the only living creatures remaining on the planet, they consume each other. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Moreover, there was nothing to show that the other planets were different from the Earth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z How he seemed like he was from another planet. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I steered myself toward the end of the hallway, imagining the light I saw there came from the sky, the outside world on the planet of humans and dogs. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z When the dark planet is, from our perspective, to the right of the star, the star will be pulled a little to the right, and conversely when the planet is to the left. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This flattening process is happening at warp speed and directly or indirectly touching a lot more people on the planet at once. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z I was on a planet filled with students, all of whom had “much to learn.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Homo sapiens drove to extinction about half of the planet’s big beasts long before humans invented the wheel, writing, or iron tools. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Transport terminals all over the planet were jammed with incoming avatars. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z A man is taken away from his experience of society, taken away from the experience of a living planet of living things, when he is sent to prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z That planet itself is on the other side of the Sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There were 512 copies of it, to be exact, which meant there were 512 white houses, spaced out evenly across the planet’s surface. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Near the equator. The center of the planet. It’s a circle. Not a real one, but an imaginary divide between north and south. It’s superhot. Closer to the sun than the North and South Poles.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z It is from this singularity that all the matter and energy in the universe spewed forth, creating all the galaxies, stars, and planets that have ever—and will ever—exist. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But for a range of plausible initial conditions, planetary systems—about ten planets, terrestrials close to the star, Jovians on the exterior—recognizably like ours are generated. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z My thoughts jumped from Mr. Pignati to wondering if Lorraine were waiting for me, to knowing I was standing in a monkey house stuck on top of a small planet whirling through space. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z As long as our inquiries are limited to one or two evolutionary lines on a single planet, we will remain forever ignorant of the possible range and brilliance of other intelligences and other civilizations. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Thorn’s face went every shade of pink on the planet. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z 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 Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred, and there are few notions more stirring than the idea of a neighboring planet inhabited by intelligent beings. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They pay almost no attention to all the moons and planets, asteroids and comets, quasars and pulsars, exploding galaxies, symbiotic stars, cataclysmic variables and X-ray sources that have been discovered since Ptolemy’s time. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We are, after all, a planet where the rain contains vitamin B12! The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The regime of the Voluntary Farms is a fairly recent thing, limited to one country of the planet and literally unknown elsewhere. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z 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 “How very complicated life on your planet must be. Later on you must try to explain some more to me.” A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Nadia said, "Noah, is there any subject in this whole world that you do not know more about than every other being on this planet?" The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z So if Pluto really is a planet, it is certainly an odd one. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z What must the influence of the planets be? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 It’s like I’m an extraterrestrial who landed in Yana Urku from another planet. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z On another, he showed the planets in relation to their distances from the sun, with Mercury the closest and Neptune the farthest away—almost in the kitchen. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 felt like she was holding something remarkable, like the entire planet Earth, in her hands. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z On the map, the school campuses appeared as thousands of identical numbered rectangles dotting the planet’s surface. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z 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 Buddy's face hung over me, near and huge, like a distracted planet. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Without them there would be no water or air or rocks, no stars and planets, no distant gassy clouds or swirling nebulae or any of the other things that make the universe so usefully material. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z 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 She looks up and sees faint lights in the sky—the sun, the moon, the other planets. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He says, “My very excellent mother just served us nachos,” and claims it is an easy way to memorize the planets in order from the sun. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Mr. Druggett acted also as our envoy to the Iroquois, requesting passage from them and explaining that we came but to view the sun and the planets. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z In other words, life would be just the same for the inhabitants of another planet who were both mirror images of us and who were made of antimatter, rather than matter. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Why would the planet Venus dress in jeans? Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Life in this vision of early America was hard but pleasant; in most ways, archaeologists said, it was not that different from life elsewhere on the planet at the time. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z There was a planet in Sector Twenty-one named Syrinx. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z If each system were to have about ten planets, as ours does, the total number of worlds in the Galaxy would be more than a trillion, a vast arena for the cosmic drama. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A twelfth planet has been named in the solar system. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z He prayed for some monumental disaster to occur, some cataclysm that would shake the planet to its core, so that he would not have to do what he was about to do. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He was some exotic planet and I was his favorite satellite. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Pythagoras’s doctrine became the centerpiece of Western philosophy: all the universe was governed by ratios and shapes; the planets moved in heavenly spheres that made music as they turned. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Funny, all this time he had thought of the situation as a private battle between Brother Leon and himself, as if the two of them were alone on the planet. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He wrote authoritatively on magnetism, tides, and the motions of the planets, and fondly on the effects of opium. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Precisely. We don’t land an interstellar ship on a populated planet until open communication or alliance is established. So I came in on a little rocket-boat, and landed on Horden Island.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The planet of humans and dogs spins and sails, spins and sails. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Mom was obviously from an entirely different planet than me and Dad. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z “But I won’t be going to the planet. The Chancellor made clear my service is needed here.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “You said...it was...a planet,” Auggie repeated, looking up at her. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Blanca went along with his decision, for she accepted that a good conjunction of planets in her daughter’s astral chart would not provide Alba with everything she needed to get ahead in life. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe far across the universe, on another planet, the indigenas are the powerful ones, the ones who go to school in burgundy uniforms; Maybe the mestizos are their servants. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Not like a medical doctor, but an astrophysicist—a scientist who studies the planets, stars, and other objects in space and how they work. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Mother Lois then said, "God is able to take the different gases from other planets and mix them to make the sky blue. You remember we told you there are other planets?" March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z 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 But I knew the planet must have been coded by Halliday, because its design matched the world described in 2112’s liner notes. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z 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 I touched a point on the map near the core of the planet, indicating my destination, and the software mapped the quickest route for me to get there. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The extinction of the Australian megafauna was probably the first significant mark Homo sapiens left on our planet. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In the OASIS, you could create your own private planet, build a virtual mansion on it, furnish and decorate it however you liked, and invite a few thousand friends over for a party. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z They are called the chemical elements and until recently constituted everything on our planet, although they are mainly found combined into molecules. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Archaide was a hollow planet, and the museum exhibits were all located beneath the surface. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z There would then have been no galaxies, stars, or planets on which human life could have developed. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The red planet's crater-pocked surface stretched out seemingly forever, its thin atmosphere a slight blur along the edge. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z While the planets move in elliptical orbits around the Sun, their orbits are not very elliptical. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Even these might be sorted out and pieced together by an advanced civilization on a planet of a nearby star. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 My parent’s “mission” is on a planet outside our entire solar system, called Sagan. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “Her cells growin big as the world, cover round the whole earth,” he said, his eyes tearing as he waved his arms in the air, making a planet around him. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z None of them had been to Coney Island in years, and it looked more like an alien planet than their childhood stomping ground. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z He says the smart humans owe it to every other living creature not to let the dumb humans wreck the whole planet. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z She rambled on about how a planet’s distance from the sun was directly related to the speed at which it traveled. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z 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 She told me Gabe had left mysteriously—disappeared off the face of the planet, in fact. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Most top predators of the planet are majestic creatures. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In the early history of the solar system, there were probably many planets in the process of formation. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The capsule itself was the most sophisticated tin can on the planet. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z And will we act in time to save the planet for those who come after us? 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The Pacific was—and is, of course—huge; it’s the largest single entity on the planet. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z An arm of the glacier has withdrawn from this slope within the last fifty or hundred years, leaving the planet’s bones raw to the air; no flesh of earth, of grass. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The entire planet was jarred for a moment, the stadium swaying, the lights dancing. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z When the planet is far from the Sun, it covers a much smaller arc in the same period of time, but that arc corresponds to a bigger area because the Sun is now more distant. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1781 Herschel became the first person in the modern era to discover a planet. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z There, in the middle, hangs this enormous ball, the size of a small planet. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z 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 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 Nobody ever visited the museum, because pretty much everyone on the planet had forgotten all about the St. Francis dam. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z It would speak eloquently of how rare are the living things of our planet, and would underscore, as nothing else in human history has, the individual worth of every human being. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 And then the agent had gone on a tremendous amplification all over the planet, and it was still expanding its bum, with no end in sight. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “You might like that one, Russ, come to think of it, because it’s about a boy from another planet.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Relative to the planet, it was the biggest moon in the solar system. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Did such a law uniquely require that planets must follow elliptical orbits? The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z He also noted, though, from Kepler’s laws, that the ‘endeavours of receding from the Sun’ of the planets in their orbits were inversely proportional to the squares of their distances from the Sun. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The modern ships that ply the Keplerian trajectories to the planets are unmanned. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And after I was done saying it, I stood just staring up at the sky, looking at the constellations and planets. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z We met other girls on Io, but I was chatting back to Quendy the whole time, even though there were some meg delays in feed service between the planets. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Elypnotized by mutual mistrust, almost never concerned for the species or the planet, the nations prepare for death. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I was prompted to select one of the planet’s 256 transport terminals as my arrival point. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “I doubt we’re the Japan. It’s impossible that another planet out there doesn’t have better robots than us already.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z It was like staring at a small planet, a whole sad and lonely world. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z Not just any customers, but the most impatient, demanding, and critical on the planet: New Yorkers. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z As a result, for both planets, the rings clear out the radiation belts, which exist only interior and exterior to the particle rings. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There is, for example, the red planet Mars, with soaring volcanoes, great riff valleys, enormous planet-wide sandstorms, and, just possibly, some simple forms of life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Frankly, our ancestors don’t seem much to brag about, I mean, look at the state they left us in, with the wars and the broken planet. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “We’re going to use all of the moolah we just won to feed everyone on the planet. We’re going to make the world a better place, right?” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “We gave them a little extra time on the planet,” Mom said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Behind him are stars and what looks like Saturn, maybe—a planet with a ring around it. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Our schoolbooks are so old, my science textbook says there are still nine planets. They’re so old, I found my mother’s name written in one from when she was a kid.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z In the early days of the OASIS, Halliday had created a small planet named Middletown, named after his hometown in Ohio. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “But my very educated mother just showed us nine planets! That’s how Mommy said people remember the planets in our solar system.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z A few gasp at the planet only the youngest of us here have actually set foot on. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Because Phobos is ridiculously close to Mars, it orbits the planet in less than one Martian day. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z An identical copy of the planet, Ludus II, was created in the same sector, a short distance away from the original. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It is more than twice as massive as all the other planets put together. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We imagined the places we would go and the people we would meet, far away from Bartlett, Indiana, population 14,983, where we felt like aliens from some distant planet. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Rings may be a typical adornment of Jovian-type planets throughout the cosmos. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Pull back farther still and the curved horizons of the planet revealed themselves—a beautiful ball of green, white, blue, slate, and brown. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The planet's famous red color is from iron oxide coating everything. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z "The earth,” wrote the pioneering fire ecologist Edward V Komarek, "born in fire, baptized by lightning, since before life’s beginning has been and is, a fire planet.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I was stranded on Ludus, the most boring planet in the entire OASIS. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The fourth planet from the Sun has stirred the imagination of humans for eons. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z “Well, it would be nice if I could find just one thing you didn’t do better than everyone else on the planet.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Evelyn recorded a suggestion that the Society might take as its coat of arms a representation of a pair of crossed telescopes surmounted by the Medicean planets. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z A small wind blows and the planets spin slowly. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Growing up while flying along the stars, able to go wherever you wanted, not stuck on some hateful planet which clearly don’t want you. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z It was known that planets were inclined to orbit in a particular kind of oval known as an ellipse–"a very specific and precise curve," to quote Richard Feynman–but it wasn’t understood why. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z A more reasonable assumption might be that we are in the middle, which would make us stupid indeed, compared to life on some of the more advanced planets out there. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z With five Euclidean solids to play with, and one sphere inside the innermost solid as well as one outside the outermost solid, this defined six spheres—one for each of the orbits of the planets. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Along the way, Copernicus’s dabblings with the planets and stars showed him how complicated the old Greek system of tracking the planets was. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Like every other animal on this planet, we’re descended from a single-celled organism that lived millions of years ago. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z "Auntie Seema is talking so much about the planet sometimes she is forgetting the people are different from trees." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Why couldn’t the stars in the sky be planets or moons or suns on their own? Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Get this planet spinning the right way once again. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z They are obeying strict laws, rather like the laws of gravity or of planets in orbit, whereby some chords exert more power than others. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It was, the news anchors said, located somewhere on the planet Chthonia, inside Castle Anorak. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The news reports made it seem like we were people from a different planet, people from “over there.” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “Yes. I have a friend on the staff there. You got me interested in peregrine falcons, and he got me interested in the effort to keep them on the planet with us.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z We still do not really know why there are only nine planets, more or less, and why they have the relative distances from the Sun that they do. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And let’s face it, middle school students aren’t the politest people on the planet. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The discovery of antipodes led straight to the concept of the terraqueous globe; but Copernicanism did not lead directly to the view that all planets shine by reflected light—the telescope had to intervene. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Not all the changes of the past decades had yet altered the fact that the North was the economic ruler of the planet. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z They might have dropped here from another planet. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “What I mean to say is, you live on the fourth planet from the sun. Correct?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z It won’t just be Todd and Viola, sitting by a river as the sun comes up, eating our breakfast, the only two people on the face of the planet. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z The planets themselves moved on smaller circles attached to their respective spheres in order to account for their rather complicated observed paths in the sky. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But for so dangerous and mysterious a planet as Mars, there was also at least an element of luck. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt almost as if I were on some alien planet. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The inner planets move rapidly in their orbits—that is why Mercury has the name it does: Mercury was the messenger of the gods. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It is the nearest planet whose surface we can see. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z China, taking advantage of the chaos, launches its full arsenal of nuclear weapons at key US targets, initiating a full-blown thermonuclear war that ultimately renders the planet a desolate wasteland incapable of supporting life. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The stars you see at night, the planets, all the comets and the shooting stars, these are the sparks that flew from the fires of Muspell. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Suddenly people started using the word ecology and talking about cleaning up the planet. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “They changed Pluto’s planetary status in 2006. It’s no longer considered one of the nine planets in our solar system.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z It was as if I were in a time warp...or as if the ghetto were on another planet. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Part of me wonders if the sluggers send pervy pics back to their home planet for their alien buddies to mock. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z A lot of astronomers believe it isn’t a planet at all, but merely the largest object so far found in a zone of galactic debris known as the Kuiper belt. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Felicia told me she grew sleepy, and felt as though she were drifting through the heavens, that she was a planet looking at herself from one of her moons. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 “The zodiac is more like a diagram that has to do with stars and planets and whatnot,” said Reynie, trying to make it simple. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z 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 Why was it necessary to calculate an error ellipsoid to accurately predict the satellite’s return to the planet’s surface? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z 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 I dream that my blue cat’s eye is shining in the sky like the sun, or like the pictures of planets in our book on the solar system. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The whole planet was in a no-PvP zone, so I wasn’t worried about getting ambushed by the Sixers. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The planet earth produces no light of its own, but merely reflects sunlight, just as the moon does. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He looks at me like I’m a creature from another planet. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z He was an alien on this planet, and I was drawn to him for that reason. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Opposing them were the Plutonists, who noted that volcanoes and earthquakes, among other enlivening agents, continually changed the face of the planet but clearly owed nothing to wayward seas. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z All this time I’d wanted to travel to faraway cities, but here, just a few hours away, was Lahore, another planet. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z As the planet warms, fires have become more horrendous. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z If you manage to push the carriage even faster, the baby becomes as massive as a car...and then a battleship...and then a planet...and then a star...and then a galaxy. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Just our last few hours left on this planet to die without any regrets. Again, no pressure.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The planet looked like a giant swirling blue marble, half a marble, really, surrounded by blackness. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Okay was the most useless word on the planet. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Max was upon another planet, far off in space. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I yawned again, pulled the covers over my head and said, I love you until Pluto becomes a planet again. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Within the sublunary zone there are four distinct spheres: earth, water, air and fire; outside them are the planets, including the sun and the moon. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Since most of them are considerably smaller than our sun, only about 1/10th of these stars should be considered reasonable candidates for supporting planets with life. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s what he liked to say, before he sat at the funeral and let all the water in his body and in the air and on the planet pour out of him. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z Even those who have returned, she can tell, have returned different, older than they should be, as though they have been on another planet where years pass more quickly. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Had she not already appeared in the Feelytone News— visibly, audibly and tactually appeared to countless millions all over the planet? Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z For the residents of Black Bottom it was like traveling to another planet. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Even if we leave, who is to say the Collective will not need this planet for ourselves in the future?” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Even some of Copernicus’ admirers argued that he had not really believed in a Sun-centered universe but had merely proposed it as a convenience for calculating the motions of the planets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m going to give him the longest, loudest MOO in the history of the planet. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z As the nearest planet, it has for centuries been thought of as the Earth’s sister. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Though I had been nearly two years on Winter I was still far from being able to see the people of the planet through their own eyes. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z There was a short period of time when I was obsessed with the study of the ocean, since it takes up more than 70 percent of the planet. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z 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 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 A visitor from another planet, or another century, would view the exercise as precisely lunatic behavior, but no one from outside would understand it. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The rings of Saturn bear some resemblance to the asteroid belt: trillions of tiny icy moonlets orbiting the planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Of all the people on this forsaken planet, I thought my friends of over a year would be willing to help me get them out.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Astrology maintains that the gravitational attraction of the planets at the time of one’s birth somehow has an effect on one’s personality. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This work would not come to fruition until Johannes Kepler drew upon Tycho’s tables to explain the orbits of the planets, years after Tycho had died. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z He was the first person accurately to measure the size of a planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I know now what she was to me—the first glimpse of a space-bridge, a wormhole, a galactic portal off this bound and blind planet. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z There is also an etching of Saturn next to the Earth: Our planet is a tiny circle. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Modern planetary scientists sometimes argue that the collision of a comet with a planet might make a significant contribution to the planetary atmosphere. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 People fly in airplanes, but living on other planets, that’s something else. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z City-sized shopping malls were erected in the blink of an eye, and storefronts spread across planets like time-lapse footage of mold devouring an orange. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He takes for granted a central issue that was resolved only by the discovery of the phases: that planets shine by reflected light. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It is a rectangle in black, and once it has settled into place, it shakes silently as though there is some kind of seismic disturbance on the planet beneath the quarter moon. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Not another living thing on this entire planet, he thought. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Basically what that means is that Pluto was considered too puny to be a real planet, so there. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z “It’s Christmas. You can have a planet if you want.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z It is certainly true that Pluto doesn’t act much like the other planets. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z 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 If I managed to get Rosaleen free—an “if” so big it could have been the planet Jupiter—just where did I think we’d go? The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She loves science, all of it—biology and physiology, planet earth, the universe, creatures both animal and human. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Ptolemy believed not only that behavior patterns were influenced by the planets and the stars but also that questions of stature, complexion, national character and even congenital physical abnormalities were determined by the stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The two of them had been aboard the Kurosawa, cruising between planets in Sector Seven, when the Scoreboard informed them that Aech had obtained the Jade Key. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, they could all agree on the coordinates of the planet they were looking at, and no one has ever claimed that Copernicus discovered Venus. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z If you were already on the same planet as your target when you used the tablet, it would show you their exact coordinates on a map. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The nucleus looks like a raspberry, the electrons and their rings look like the' planet Saturn. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Teach and warn people to take better care of our world—for ourselves, animals, Nature, and the planet. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Two planets are nearer to the sun than earth, but neither Mercury nor Venus is fit for humans. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Any object, such as a human body, is attracted more strongly to a large planet than to a small one. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z When our solar system is all explored, the planets of other stars will beckon. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z On some of the billions of planets in the Milky Way Galaxy, life may never arise. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The High Blade worked the crowd like a great gaseous planet bending space around it. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z In six months a dozen small towns had been laid down upon the naked planet, filled with sizzling neon tubes and yellow electric bulbs. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The inhabitants of the planets of distant stars witness quite different constellations in their night skies than we do in ours—other Rorschach tests for other minds. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We stayed that way and as the bus rumbled down the road it felt like the whole planet was loose and was bouncing down a long flight of steps. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The well-to-do grassy environs of Kasselton were only seven miles from the gritty streets of Newark, but the two cities seemed to he from different planets. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z The overall size of these environments was relatively small, usually just a single world, or a dozen or so small planets. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Kepler’s first law of planetary motion is simply this: A planet moves in an ellipse with the Sun at one focus. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Bridge thought they looked like tiny planet Earths. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z For them epicycles were useful fictions which made computation of the position of the planets possible. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It made it easier to lure Christians and Muslims onto the aliens’ dinner plates, but it also upset a lot of contemporary readers here on the planet of humans and dogs. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Human beings would split the atom and invent television, nylon, and instant coffee before they could figure out the age of their own planet. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I have dangled from a cord a hundred miles above this planet; I have been privileged to go beyond this planet’s moon, briefly, into the black void beyond. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I draw a very small fish swimming in the ocean and realizing it's filled with planets and stars. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “It used to be a planet. I can’t believe you two geniuses don’t know that after all the space videos you’ve watched!” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Among the figures in the finely rendered first edition is one in which we see, to scale, the Sun and the giant planets Jupiter and Saturn. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t think there is a person on this planet who would want to make those loathsome pizzas. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Although there are many doubters and naysayers, today there is widespread agreement among scientists that the environmental crises threatening the planet are climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion, and degraded water quality. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z When a small, icy object collides with a planet or a moon, it may not produce a very major scar. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They were simply meant to force me to see that there was a causal relationship between whether I pressed the button and whether the planet exploded. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z DeVante squints against the sunlight and looks around like we brought him to another planet. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Simon Spier may be the least secretive person on the planet. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Further, the sun, the moon, and the planets followed precise paths across the sky that could be predicted in advance with considerable accuracy. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z There is something curious about the national flags of the planet Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The sky was filled with aircars and spacecraft, and the planet's simulated sun was just beginning to set. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z If you discovered a planet, what would you name it? The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z He couldn't quite pinpoint when Hassan had started to become like everyone else on the planet, but it was clearly happening, and it was clearly annoying. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Philosophy tells us that the universe consists of concentric spheres; the actual patterns made by the planets as they move through the heavens is a subject for astronomy, which is a sub-branch of mathematics. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z An hypothesis was the theoretical model which generated predictions of the future locations of the planets in the heavens. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It then became clear that we could venture to all parts of our planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We approach the planets of our system, largish worlds, captives of the Sun, gravitationally constrained to follow nearly circular orbits, heated mainly by sunlight. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Our schoolbooks are so old, my science textbook says there are still nine planets. They’re so old, I found my mother’s name written in one from when she was a kid.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The Galilean satellites of Jupiter are each almost as big as the planet Mercury. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was as if we’d suddenly been tossed on different planets. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Might it really be possible—in fact and not in fancy—to venture with John Carter to the Kingdom of Helium on the planet Mars? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The only explanation seemed to be that the stars must be very much further away than the planets, at least hundreds of times further away, so that the parallax effect is too small to see. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “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 She tugged at its hand, but it was like trying to pull a planet. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z If they did, there would probably already be a small armada of Sixer gunships waiting in orbit around the planet when I dropped out of light speed. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z She sounded ecstatic, like she was telling me hunger had been eliminated from the planet. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z If I disable the tracker and find a place to hide my heat signature, they might assume I just fell victim to some unknown new planet danger. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The orbits of the present planets are the orbits of the survivors of this collisional natural selection, the stable middle age of a solar system dominated by early catastrophic impacts. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, right. On what planet would Jack Allen ever like me? Regular kids at school don’t even like me.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z 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 Over time, as people forget you, your silhouette gradually fades into darkness until the final time anyone says your name on this planet. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Thus Copernicanism posed a straightforward question: What sort of planet is the earth? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z All living things on our planet are constructed of organic molecules—complex microscopic architectures in which the car- bon atom plays a central role. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Of course I have. I live on planet Earth.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z 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 And of course every species now on the planet once did not exist. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “You told me Pluto was one of the nine planets!” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z We are perturbing our poor planet in serious and contradictory ways. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Technically, Pluto’s not a planet anymore,” Kojo told the second grader. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z There are twelve elements named after people, and plenty of stars, comets and asteroids—but no planets or planetary moons. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Our tribes got much bigger, and we spread across the entire planet like an unstoppable virus. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z 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 "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 “Yes, ma’am. Split up when I was five. I’m pretty sure the world is only turning because they got divorced. Otherwise their fights would have probably made the planet implode.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Maybe the sun is the sun only to earth, but to all the other planets, it’s just a star. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z 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 However, there are many other possibilities, ranging from large plants and animals to microorganisms, to extinct forms, to a planet that is now and was always lifeless. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus one does not need to have a theory of the structure and constitution of the sun and the planets in order to calculate their orbits. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z My fellow prisoners and I looked around at one another like we were on some alien planet. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Some of the planets sound ominous, like something you’d find in a science fiction movie set in some alien world—“alien world” as in world with aliens, not non-Earth world. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The Dream is the same habit that endangers the planet, the same habit that sees our bodies stowed away in prisons and ghettos. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Because if planets had very elliptical orbits, so that their paths intersected, sooner or later there would be a collision. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I don't mean ordinary Paintbrush Falls beautiful; I mean, like from a whole other planet beautiful. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z People had searched the entire Middletown simulation for a copy of it, but there didn’t appear to be one anywhere on the whole planet. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The Arecibo Observatory could communicate with an identical radio telescope on a planet 15,000 light-years away, halfway to the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, if we knew precisely where to point it. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And if planets were “imperfect,” why not their orbits as well? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The tension in the room makes Marie-Laure feel dizzy, as if she can sense the planet rotating. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z In the vast spaces between the planets there are many objects, some rocky, some metallic, some icy, some composed partly of organic molecules. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Copernicanism led to the idea that the planets shine by reflected light, which was confirmed by the discovery of the phases of Venus; and this killed off the Ptolemaic system. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I hear the call of the only person on the planet whom I can now truly call a peer. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z 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 Ludus had been designed as a place of learning, so the planet had been created without a single quest portal or gaming zone anywhere on its surface. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z 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 The power beam you get when you hit level-99 in Final Fantasy and learn the Ultima spell that goes through the crust of the planet like it’s the crust of a pie. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z With the sunlight almost gone now, the hills of metal looked like something on an alien planet. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Interior to the region of gassy planets and orbiting icebergs are the warm, rocky provinces of the inner solar system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It looked like the planet Saturn and the teacher at school said it was a very unusual way to draw an egg. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z If this theory is correct, and we have discovered no reason so far to doubt it, then visiting other planets with intelligent life won’t be an easy thing to do. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z On the crosstown bus, he taught a second grader how to memorize the order of the planets in the solar system. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z I went to the library, checked out books on the moon and the planets, and read them, taking notes. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z So far, then, for our planet fL is less than 1/108, a millionth of a percent. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The ice never melts; it clings to the bottom of the world, spawning winds, storms, and weather that affect the whole planet. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z I headed back up to the planet’s surface. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z These are the terrestrial planets, our family of worlds, the planets more or less like the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Each star is the center of its own solar system, planets encircling it, and moons encircling each planet. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They just go to other planets to check out the scene and pick up a few ferns. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z In short, the Apple-PC-Windows phase begat the Netscape browsing-e-mail phase, and the two together enabled more people to communicate and interact with more other people anywhere on the planet than ever before. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z “You know, the planet you are going to will have a sun or two also.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “Moonlight Sonata” orbited out past the tenth planet. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Now, on the surface of Jupiter, which is the largest planet in our solar system, I would weigh 436 pounds. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z When I finally entered the planet’s atmosphere and began to descend toward the surface, it was like flying through a swarm of metal insects. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z An asteroid could have hit the planet and wiped out all life, and Annabeth wouldn’t have cared. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Ms. Faraci deserved better than to be marooned on such a lonely planet. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Maskelyne and Mason had become friends eleven years earlier while engaged in a project to measure an astronomical event of great importance: the passage of the planet Venus across the face of the Sun. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z So I tried to push all those assumptions about escape and sex and stars and planets out of my head. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Her head was like a dark planet that drew your eyes. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z But why should God leave a huge empty space, at least hundreds of times bigger than the gaps between the planets, between the outermost planet and the stars? The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z On the other hand, it was argued that, on so windy a planet as Mars, microorganisms should be everywhere if they are anywhere. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 He talked in a flat voice, trying to sound like the most boring person on the whole planet. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z “No, an actual blue whale, the largest mammal on the planet.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Every mammal on the planet has a mother, dead or alive. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Like how you remember the names of the planets by saying “My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Nectarines.” P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Every living thing on this planet would die. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z The entire surface of the planet had been wiped clean. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z We are pulled toward the ground by gravity, gravity keeps the moon in orbit around the earth, and our planet is held captive by the sun because of gravity. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z It was simply that I knew how different it was, from a lifetime of crawling around the surface of this planet. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 His avatar was now above thirtieth level, and so he was almost always headed to a planet where it wasn’t safe for my avatar. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Long past midnight, Jake kept showing Sherman and me different planets and stars, until finally he sat down and leaned up against a brick chimney and went to sleep. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z A plan that could topple civilizations and plunge the planet into a cross-species war. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “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 Though it could have been any beach on any part of the planet, I knew it wasn’t. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z No artist ever painted like this because none of them ever left our planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I stare at the murky haze sinking to the planet’s surface in the distance, my stomach twisting with dread. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “You all are really from a different planet.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z There were hundreds of school campuses here on Ludus, spread out evenly across the planet’s surface. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “This is the planet Tyrr,” she said, “if you want to use the proper name.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The picture of the planet was meticulously detailed. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “I feel like I’m on another planet,” I said, pushing my foot harder against the sidewalk to gather speed. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z 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 I’m mostly panicked about the concept of running, and especially with some jock who believes that running on city concrete is the best idea on the planet. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z Just ’cause you guys abandoned me on a godforsaken planet with no chance of survival? The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But if the planet is to be saved for future generations, much more needs to be done. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Moreover, his predecessors had been quite happy to use two distinct models for each planet: one to calculate its movement from east to west, and the other its movement from north to south. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The next chapter explains how the foragers completely reshaped the ecology of our planet long before the first agricultural village was built. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It was even possible that this whole affair was media-oriented, and by tomorrow evening Captain Short’s face would be on the cover of every publication on the planet. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Newton’s laws of motion and gravitation gave physicists an explanation for the way planets and objects move through the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “The MidMerican Conclave is an important one,” Scythe Faraday told them, “because we tend to set the trend for much of the world. There’s an expression, ‘As goes MidMerica, so goes the planet.’ Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter are countless asteroids, tiny terrestrial planets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z His idea was that the sun was stationary at the center and that the earth and the planets moved in circular orbits around the sun. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z No matter how far he roamed across the planet’s surface, he would never find an edge. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I’m happy for everyone and everything—all the creatures on the planet. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z He showed that comets, like planets, move in ellipses: “Comets are a sort of planets revolved in very eccentric orbits about the Sun.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw no reason why the other planets should not be just like the Earth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The tables made it possible to calculate the positions of the planets to an accuracy thirty times better than the tables Copernicus had compiled, and remained the standard used for generations. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z He developed a small device to be sent to the planets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z My brain thinks about the cold and the light and nothing else, and not one person on the planet knows exactly where I am. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I dashed into the shop, knocking over rows of T-shirts, jumping over tables foil of glow-in-the-dark planets and space ooze. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z She had formed the notion that it was concerned with magic, with the movements of the stars and planets, with tiny particles of matter, but that was guesswork, really. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Trent is the nosiest woman on the planet, and it doesn't help that the buildings in my neighborhood are only about fifteen feet apart. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When Galileo pointed his telescope towards Jupiter on the night of 7 January 1610, he noticed what he took to be some fixed stars near the planet. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But how do we explain the apparent motion of the planets—Mars, for example, which had been known for thousands of years before Ptolemy’s time? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first time, I think I might get off this planet alive. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s talked about this before, these lonely, drifting, sunless planets. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Sooner or later comets will collide with planets. 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 The force that drove Newton’s apple from the branch to his head was the same force that guided planets along their celestial orbits. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In that direction—the planet’s dark side—lie Sagan’s icy mountains. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Although he did not state it this way, he was the first astronomer to imagine the planets hanging unsupported in empty space. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Me and Mom and Dad are planets orbiting the Sun. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z “I mean, depending on how long a day or a month is on this planet, you might be...fourteen years old already.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z If we were to succeed, the history of our species and our planet would be changed forever. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Therefore it followed that the Sun and its planets were relatively, but inescapably, youthful. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Joaquin looked in the mirror, straightened his collar, and wondered if he was the biggest idiot on the planet for trying so hard to find the woman who had left him so easily. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z If I had been born in a much earlier age, no matter how great my dedication, I would not have understood what the stars and planets are. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I wonder how the sky would look from the surface of such a planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Of those million worlds inhabited by advanced intelligences, consider a rare planet, the only one in its system with a surface ocean of liquid water. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z What do you call a planet where bad guys stroll through life with success draped around their shoulders like a king’s cloak, while random horrors are visited upon the innocent heads of children? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z An explosion, an expansion of stars and galaxies and planets and suns, our little planet with all our little lives, and then everything turning to dust, until nothing in this universe exists anymore at all. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z How could the earth not He at the center of the universe, critics asked, if all heavy objects on our planet tend to fall toward its center? Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z They could predict the orbits of the planets and the motion of objects with great accuracy. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z And five yards away kneels this woman with varnished fingernails and hairless calves—a woman so entirely removed from Werner’s previous experience that it is as if she is from a different planet. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z As the planet Chthonia grew larger in my cockpit window, the density and number of ships around me seemed to increase exponentially. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z All that arcane business about planets ascendant in this or that solar or lunar “house” or the “Age of Aquarius” comes from Ptolemy, who codified the Babylonian astrological tradition. 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 When I accessed the planet’s colophon, I saw that Syrinx’s author was listed as “Anonymous.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z 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 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 Because that is what it means to be alive on this infinitesimally spinning planet. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “I didn’t see any animal life on the planet that’s dangerous,” I answer. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “And we imagined this would be a friendless world, a planet of hostile faces, all turned against us.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z As late as AD 1400, the vast majority of farmers, along with their plants and animals, clustered together in an area of just 4.25 million square miles—2 per cent of the planet’s surface. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Also, they have a lot of fiber, so . . . let's just say it's good I'm the only guy on this planet. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z We cannot yet directly see the planets of other stars, tiny points of light swamped in the brilliance of their local suns. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We have reached the point where proliferation of nuclear arms and resistance to nuclear disarmament threaten every person on the planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “I never thought of mapping countries, our planet.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z It's quite common for probes to land on the wrong planet. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z And the Pythagoreans insisted that planets moved in circular paths at constant speeds. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The connection between the solids of Pythagoras and the disposition of the planets could admit but one explanation: the Hand of God, Geometer. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Since I brought up the topic of astrology, Gardner’s examples of the first letters of the names of the months and the planets are particularly appropriate. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He was the first to recognize that Saturn was surrounded by a system of rings which nowhere touches the planet.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The blues have been played more than once for the red planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Within the “symphony of voices,” Kepler believed that the speed of each planet corresponds to certain notes in the Latinate musical scale popular in his day—do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing of the galaxies, stars, planets, lifeforms or civilizations evolved in the previous incarnation of the universe oozes into the cusp, flutters past the Big Bang, to be known in our present universe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If I don’t press that button, the sluggers will simply collect a couple of breeding pairs and restart the human experiment on another planet. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I’m going to be a veterinarian and operate on the biggest animals on the planet—elephants, rhinoceroses, giraffes, hippopotamuses. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “The only other person on the planet who knows about this is Jupe, so if it gets out I’m gonna know it was you.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z It was how Meg got to Camazotz, the planet where her father was held prisoner. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z “Sagan’s dwarf sun is much smaller, but so close to the planet it creates a tidal lock,” Dad says. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z As a consequence, the amount of sunlight that is absorbed by the ground has been declining, and by changes in the land use we are lowering the surface temperature of our planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Given a moist planet with methane, formaldehyde, ammonia, and some usable minerals, all of which abound, exposed to lightning or ultraviolet irradiation at the right temperature, life might start off almost anywhere. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Swift had read Cyrano, and Gulliver is a cunning variation on the by then conventional themes of science fiction, one in which islands are substituted for planets. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Perhaps we will find it possible to accommodate other forms of life, from other planets, out of sheer good nature. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Aristotle thought the earth was stationary and that the sun, the moon, the planets, and the stars moved in circular orbits about the earth. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Our clothes won't exploit people, destroy rain forests, or harm any animal on the planet. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The gravity of relativity theory was brilliant at explaining why planets orbited suns or why galaxies tended to cluster, but turned out to have no influence at all at the particle level. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z That became our favorite planet to travel to. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z I tried to push away what was in store by lying back and imagining the ceiling was the unmapped surface of a G-class planet orbiting Alpha Centauri. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Mary Anne yelled from the back of the car, “You know what Chicago is, Popsy? It’s the hemorrhoid of the planet earth.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 So I decided I would be an astronomer, learn about the stars and planets and, if I could, go and visit them. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sacrifices? We lost our planet! Eleven billion of us! There are only hundreds of you! We lost our homes, our families, our friends.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I kept running, farther and farther down, until I reached the Gregarious Simulation Systems Museum, which was located just a few levels above the planet core. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Copies of it existed on hundreds of different planets, spread throughout all twenty-seven sectors. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z However, the surface of the planet is a scorching 467 degrees Celsius, the ground is barren and rocky, and clouds of sulfuric acid roam the atmosphere. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “The South Seas and the Grand Canyon. The planets and the stars.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z In August 1563, for example, a conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter took place—a rare astronomical event in which the two planets are so close together on the sky that they seem to merge. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z All graph lines, and swooping curves, and mathematical equations that looked like a language from another planet. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z As the earth's core is devoured by the black hole, the resulting radiation vaporizes the outer layers of the planet and expels them, and all life, into space. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z When my ship reached Syrinx, I saw the twin moons, By-Tor and Snow Dog, that orbited the planet. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The only planet we are sure is inhabited is a tiny speck of rock and metal, shining feebly by reflected sunlight, and at this distance utterly lost. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “How very com-plicated life on your planet must be. Later on you must try to explain some more to me.” A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The matter in all the satellites and the planets themselves may have been originally distributed in the form of rings, which condensed and accumulated to form the present moons and planets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z All 2,100 miles of the trail, as well as side trails, footbridges, signs, blazes, and shelters, are maintained by volunteers—indeed, the AT is said to be the largest volunteer-run undertaking on the planet. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Luckily, Sector Seven contained hundreds of planets, moons, and other worlds, and the Jade Key could have been hidden on any one of them. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I’m supposed to feel happy my parents were chosen to go to the new planet, Sagan. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Loose forwards are usually not the most evolved primates on the planet. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Around their heads, in the sweetness of a breeze that already smelled of summer, a dozen children blew up their blazing orange bananas and planets. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “But you do have a peaceful planet here.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because there is no way on God’s green earth that you won’t have boatloads of it when you go out and cure cancer or discover another planet or something.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe, still night: too serene for the companionship of fear. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z And I had to wear the stupidest uniform on the planet—a brown 100% polyester apron-style wraparound skirt thing with a white blouse underneath. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Some stars would have no suitable planets—perhaps they would all be giant gas worlds, or tiny asteroids. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In all the galaxies, there are perhaps as many planets as stars, 10" x 10" = 1022, ten billion trillion. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, they showed the worst movies in all the nine planets.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z My field of sunflowers looks like a toxic waste dump, which might turn out to be a cool statement on society’s unthinking gluttonous exploitation of our planet’s natural resources. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Might there not be an even more elaborate effort by an older and wiser species, courageously battling the advance of desiccation on the red planet? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z After puzzling over this for some time, Kepler hit on the idea that the number of planets might be related to the number of regular solid figures that can be constructed using Euclidean geometry. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The next was about the latest mission to Mars and showed a robotic probe collecting specimens from the planet crust. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m a prototype sent to your planet to collect data on what you Earthlings call emotions. I’m not human, as you can clearly see when I play basketball to the best of my ability.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the key assumptions of Eratosthenes’ measurement of the earth’s circumference—that the planet is spherical—would have been reinforced in his mind even before he set foot on Egyptian soil. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z 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 Under the watchful eyes of my alien overlord, I witnessed the planet explode seven more times, but I refused to budge from my seat. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z 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 Her visits, not the tilt of the planet, create the seasons. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “He lives on the western side of the planet.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Our neighbourhood looked odd at first, as if a giant alien presence had been beamed to another planet, leaving behind naked sky. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z The great legacy of Aristarchus is this: neither we nor our planet enjoys a privileged position in Nature. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually the detailed observations of the apparent motion of the planets forced him to abandon the idea of circular paths and to realize that planets travel in ellipses. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Radar pictures of Venus have been obtained, some from ground-based radar telescopes, some from the Pioneer Venus vehicle in orbit around the planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But eventually they would understand that it lived not in their atmosphere, but out among the planets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We built a spaceship and traveled to seven planets and the moon. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z To occupy my mind and keep me from spiraling out of control, I tried to come up with an explanation for why the sluggers chose me to save the planet. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “Is this some end-of-the-world thing? You want to find your father and reconcile before your alien friends nuke the planet?” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Likewise, if you know the way an object moves—whether it be a toy ball or a giant planet—the differential equation can tell you what kind of force is being applied. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It is not realistic to rely on a food system that poisons the planet. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z We tend to count the diseases conquered, the planets explored, the drudgeries banished, and to assert that the greater good is served by seeing things our way. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z 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 I hadn’t thought much of the Collective actually occupying the planet. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The circle was thought to be a “perfect” geometrical shape and the planets, placed high in the heavens, away from earthly “corruption,” were also thought to be in some mystical sense “perfect.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The pet lady looked at me like I was the only person on the planet who thought a Chihuahua was not a rat. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It is one of the most common forms of life on the planet, and it often gets into cell cultures and wrecks them. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z To look at them from a distance, Rat said, you would think they were the happiest two people on the planet. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The outermost planets, Jupiter and Saturn, moved the fastest and made the highest-pitched notes. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It had twelve hands but no numbers; instead, little planets were moving around the edge. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z But the planets do not shine by their own light, as the Sun does. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Our present spaceships, with their robot crews, are the harbingers, the vanguards of future human expeditions to the planets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For most of the 1,800 years between Aristarchus and Copernicus nobody knew the correct disposition of the planets, even though it had been laid out perfectly clearly around 280 B.C. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He claimed science as his religion and then argued that the planets must be inhabited because otherwise God had made worlds for nothing. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Seth whooped the whole way, as if he were riding the coolest roller coaster on the planet. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Even this may be an accurate prophecy: If the planet ever is terraformed, it will be done by human beings whose permanent residence and planetary affiliation is Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 When a given planet is at its nearest to the Sun, it speeds up. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Sometimes I’m sure Mom and I are from different planets, but there’s no denying I’m her daughter. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z They’re the eyes of something that isn’t known but exists anyway; like the green eye of the radio; like the eyes of aliens from a distant planet. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I hope to discover a new planet with evidence of life. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z To show that life is not out of the question in such a very different planet, my Cornell colleague E. E. Salpeter and I have made some calculations. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Our shuttle, which seemed to be flying on automatic pilot, quickly reached the planet and began to skim its mirrored surface. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Ascending the stairs to my room I passed a large four- color poster titled “Himalayan Trilogy,” depicting Everest, K2, and Lhotse—the planet’s highest, second-highest, and fourth-highest mountains, respectively. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The wind was blowing harder than anything I’d ever experienced anywhere, even on the Patagonian Ice Cap, a place reputed to be the windiest on the planet. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Somehow the distant planets sensed the Sun’s presence. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I was going to have to learn to hunt and gather and garden on what amounted to a different planet, full of animals and plants I didn’t know. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Kepler’s first two laws may seem a little remote and abstract: planets move in ellipses, and sweep out equal areas in equal times. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She felt like she was from a different planet than her schoolmates, and maybe it was true. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Rubio walks right by his own planet without giving it a second glance. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The World’s Fair showcased exhibits and cultural tableaux from all over the planet. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The walls and ceiling are painted with planets and stars. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Looks like the pilgrimage has brought him back to planet Earth. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Archie could feel the coldness—more than cold, an icy hate coming across the desk like a deadly ray from some bleak and lethal planet. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In recent years the even smaller deviations of the orbits of the other planets from the Newtonian predictions have been measured by radar and found to agree with the predictions of general relativity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The Forest Service has the second highest number of road engineers of any government institution on the planet. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z And down below, on the planet’s bleak gray surface, there were exactly 1,024 copies of Megadon, the domed city described in the liner notes. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “You don’t talk about your parents flying around outer space in a rocket ship. You don’t talk about leaving the planet. And you stopped wearing crazy costumes.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z This was the moment of conception for our planet. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z We round Callisto and pass the orbit of Jupiter 13, the outermost of the planet’s known moons. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z With the ringed planet in the background, the glow of the ship leaving Sagan bends in an oval like a firefly, until the light is gone. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Turn back time by spinning the planet in reverse? Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Paradoxically, he felt as if his getting dumped was the only thing happening on the entire dark and silent planet, and also as if it weren't happening at all. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z This was the first American-discovered planet and no one was going to be distracted by the thought that it was really just a distant icy dot. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Sidetracked isn’t even the word. We were off the face of this planet. We were holed up twenty-four hours a day. I missed so many concerts.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z We also had a TV show on day number 2, using our TV camera to show the people back home what their puny little planet looked like from 130,000 miles away. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The very planet where I’d been twiddling my thumbs for the past five years? Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z And a time when your mom knew and almost no one else on the planet did. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z About some new expiration date the scientists have set for the planet. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “I should see the patient and examine him thoroughly, and inquire into the positions of the planets at the hour when he fell asleep. These things can’t be done in a hurry.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z It is perhaps conceivable that a planet could survive the evolution of a star into a pulsar; or a planet could be captured at a later time. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This was actually something of a blow to Pluto’s status as a planet which had never been terribly robust anyway. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z You’d have thought the future of the planet depended on it. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z His conjecture that the orbits of the planets are circumscribed by the five platonic solids were no more supported by Tycho’s data than by Copernicus’. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes it’s like my father lives on his own weird little planet. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z If there are intelligent beings on the planets of fairly nearby stars, could they know about us? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t know, sweetness. I’m not a real science teacher. When I was growing up, there were nine planets. It never even occurred to me that that could change.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z “Outer space is the universe outside the atmosphere of our planet.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z She’s always driven like a terrified alien dropped on a new planet. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z That is a fate reserved for planets near stars more massive than the Sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Transport terminals all over the planet were spitting out a steady stream of gunters who then swarmed across the globe, creating chaos and disrupting classes on every school campus. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z These trophies were still on display in the GSS Museum in Columbus, but there were replicas of them on display inside the OASIS, on a planet called Archaide. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z But that is very different from saying that there are a billion planets on which technical civilizations now exist. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The word “planet” originally described “wanderers” that were known only as moving lights in the sky. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z It is always raining sulfuric acid on Venus, all over the planet, and not a drop ever reaches the surface. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “By reducing its half-life, you will be able to occupy the planet far sooner,” I go on, hoping she won’t be able to resist. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z With a third or half a trillion stars in our Milky Way Galaxy alone, could ours be the only one accompanied by an inhabited planet? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And it is not just pieces, it is figures and objects, perfectly carved flowers and planets and tiny books with actual paper pages that turn. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z One moment there had been nothing but darkness; next moment a thousand, thousand points of light leaped out—single stars, constellations, and planets, brighter and bigger than any in our world. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z At that time, it was approximately six gallons of water—about fifty pounds’ worth—for every human being alive on the planet. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Together these areas represented the centered power of the planet in the first years of the Atomic Age. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z 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 “I was sent to your planet to gather scientific data on what you Earthlings call emotions.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z You are finally getting to go somewhere with the girl of your dreams, and you can’t stop thinking about every other female on the planet. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The great majority have lifetimes of billions or more years in which they are shining stably, providing a suitable energy source for the origin and evolution of life on nearby planets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Many, perhaps even most, stars may have planets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Some moons will be so close that their planet will loom high in the heavens, covering half the sky. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Fifty feet away you will hear it, a humming that sounds like it came from another planet. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A nearby mission objective, a sun that may have planets, is Barnard’s Star, about six light-years away. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And that holds especially true for Everest climbers: when presented with a chance to reach the planet’s highest summit, history shows, people are surprisingly quick to abandon good judgment. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The ships were separating into small groups as they descended, heading off in different directions, as if to blanket the entire surface of the planet. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It looks like I could grab planets and stars as easily as picking leaves off a tree. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the church seemed to swell with the Power it held, and, like a planet rocking in space, the temple rocked with the Power of God. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Perhaps Orion and Daedalus could be used as multigeneration ships, so those arriving at a planet of another star would be the remote descendants of those who had set out some centuries before. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘See the stars out the window. It’s a hard thing to realize that every single one of those little stars is a planet as large as the earth.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I held my finger in the air and connected the twinkling dots above the planet, tracing the Leo constellation. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z And on the countless other planets that may circle other suns, is there life also? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t have any jewelry and it had been a long time since anyone had given me a present, except for the planet Venus. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t have time to figure that one out; we weren’t blessed with the most patient bus driver on the planet. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Some zones were so large that they encompassed several planets, while others covered only a few kilometers on the surface of a single world. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It must be true; this little prince has been living on his own personal planet since the Tap-Out. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I thought I should check my hands for blood or something, but it felt like I’d left my arms in another room, in another state, or maybe on another planet. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Kepler’s third law described the time it takes for planets to complete an orbit: r3/t2 = k for time t, distance r; and a constant k. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Before the Agricultural Revolution, the human population of the entire planet was smaller than that of today’s Cairo. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z At the time of the Cognitive Revolution, the planet was home to about 200 genera of large terrestrial mammals weighing over 100 pounds. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Only one answer, that all the planets shine by reflected light, proved robust and stable. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Whatever the planet’s name was, it was cold. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z In Copernicus’ system, the Earth and other planets move in circular orbits about the Sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “This must not be planet earth,” Cone told his partner. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z When we look for life on a planet, we are making certain assumptions. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The words we wrote are on the walls, and the planets and stars he created are there, but they’re dead and still and no longer glowing. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “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 “But you do realize that nearly half the people on this planet are starving, right?” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z New York must be its own planet, I swear, because no one even blinks. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z And there was nothing we could do to stop them from infesting our home planet. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z “I warned you that Cap Anderson is a boy who may as well have been raised on another planet.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z The system did away with epicycles and deferents, and it explained why the motion of the Sun was mixed up with the motion of the planets. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z He chose the composition of distant stars and planets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing like this army has been seen upon the planet. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe on some planets, that’s the kind of thing people look forward to. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z “Why are they coming after you so fiercely? Why is a whole army chasing you across towns and rivers and plains and the whole stupid planet?” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Ms. Sonia Das Johnson crusades for women's rights all over the planet? You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z But as the two thousand million inhabitants of the planet had only ten thousand names between them, the coincidence was not particularly surprising. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The planets were imagined to go around the Earth affixed to perfect transparent spheres. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A being from a planet that no longer existed. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z So they regrouped all of their forces around ten adjacent instances of the Zork playing field near the planet’s south pole. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “He doesn’t believe it, and you may not either, but Petey’s one of the best inventors on the planet. When it comes to brilliant technical minds in Logan County, it’s him or Evangeleen Ellison, right?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Just the five of us on one huge planet. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z They had to study the night skies through their telescopes every Wednesday at midnight and learn the names of different stars and the movements of the planets. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Never mind the girls and the fact that he talked about them like they were from a different frigging planet. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z From the outside it was shaped funny, like something that should’a been on another planet. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z There are no energy sources for comets or planets to be ejected by Jupiter. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It took some inspired deductions by the astronomer William Herschel to work out that they were nowhere near planet sized but much smaller. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Many historians also credit him with at least one noteworthy contribution to astronomy—namely a universal model that put the planets in orbit around the sun, which in turn revolved around the earth. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z By this standard there are no compelling cases of extraterrestrial visitation, despite all the claims about UFOs and ancient astronauts which sometimes make it seem that our planet is awash in uninvited guests. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But these weren’t wild bonobos — they’d been raised with people, and had been cast out of their tiny familiar world and into a strange planet, where the hunters with guns, those mother-killers, were back. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z In the footsteps of Eratosthenes, he was the first person to measure the size of another planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z On one wall he made a scale drawing of the major planets, ranging from little Mercury, represented by a circle about as big as a marble, to Jupiter, as big as a basketball. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z There may be planets where the intelligent beings have about 1014 neural connections, as we do. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In Chryse and Utopia, for the first time in human history, spacecraft had touched down, gently and safely, on the red planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I fired the Vonnegut’s engines and set a course for another planet in Sector Seven, not far from Archaide. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z This alone makes it extremely anomalous; it means that our planetary system consists of four rocky inner planets, four gassy outer giants, and a tiny, solitary iceball. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z This confirmed his conviction that the planets float freely in space. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Which is why perhaps it is good news that in February 1999 the International Astronomical Union ruled officially that Pluto is a planet. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Ben said that the real reason was cuz a small group of people on an isolated planet need all the adults they can get so thirteen is the day you start getting real responsibilities.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z In our tenure on this planet we have accumulated dangerous evolutionary baggage, hereditary propensities for aggression and ritual, submission to leaders and hostility to outsiders, which place our survival in some question. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This is the same planet I was on last week, and yet how could it be? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Hooke also did away with the vortices, introducing the idea of what we would now call ‘action at a distance’—gravity reaching out across empty space to tug on the Moon or the planets. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z He could easily back away from this bear and not a single human being on the planet would ever know. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Or consider consider: it means “with the planets,” evidently a prerequisite for serious reflection. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And the impending all-destructive war with Russia when we would all—when every single living thing on the planet would be—would be...“No. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z How would it be, he wondered, to live on a planet with a wife and three children and have them die, leaving you alone with the wind and silence? The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Alexandria was the publishing capital of the planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The three friends hug, a planet missing from their Pluto Solar System—but never forgotten. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I sometimes think that I am the only male on the planet that she looks forward to seeing. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I nudge one of the planets and the entire system rotates slowly. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Is Philadelphia such a remote region of the planet that her cell phone won’t work? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z According to the data returned by Mars 3, it should have landed successfully on the red planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I'm the first person to be alone on an entire planet. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 And on our small planet, this moment in history is a historical branch point as profound as the confrontation of the Ionian scientists with the mystics 2,500 years ago. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The sooner I create Nyla’s defoliant to rid the planet of the dangerous plants, the sooner she’ll send us back to check its effectiveness, and the sooner we can escape. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z 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 It was an evening in summer upon the placid and temperate planet Mars. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 He told me about Occam’s razor, about Ptolemy and the music of the spheres, and how everyone had been all wrong about the sun and the planets for so many centuries. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Your view of the planet improves as you come closer and more and more fine detail stands out. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z To me, it was a building from another planet. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z The Distracted Globe was located at the western-hemisphere intersection of the Boulevard and the Avenue, two brightly lit streets that stretched completely around the planet along its equator and prime meridian. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z But the gate was now floating in midair, suspended several dozen meters above the planet’s surface, over the crater that had been created by the destruction of the castle. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Above all, it didn’t answer any of the questions that the illustration stirred up in a normal inquiring mind: How did we end up with a Sun in the middle of our planet? A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “I was more than happy to ensure their new planet is safe.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z 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 Neil, first down the ladder and therefore the first human to step on another planet, found he had no difficulty at all in walking on the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Any society with a marked population explosion will be forced to devote all its energies and technological skills to feeding and caring for the population on its home planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s about a girl named Meg—her dad is missing, and she goes on this trip to another planet to save him.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z 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 The Thunderhead monitors heat on every inch of the planet, and the fighting of fires often begins before one can even smell smoke. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z A set of computer investigations has examined the evolution of a flat, condensing disk of gas and dust of the sort that is thought to lead to stars and planets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But we seek the dominant intelligences, the grandest creatures on the planet, the sentient and graceful masters of the deep ocean, the great whales. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like the planets and the stars were aligning to ensure my success. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he declared, “Plus, I couldn’t live under his roof. He’s the most pigheaded man on the planet.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z But Lowell’s lifelong love was the planet Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This for us is more than enough for the calculations, predictions, and information which we need to have of the positions, places, magnitudes and motions of the planets. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In the face of such overpowering numbers, what is the likelihood that only one ordinary star, the Sun, is accompanied by an inhabited planet? 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 Word had arrived that in Venice someone called Galileo, using some sort of new instrument, had discovered four planets circling a distant star. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She holds up both of her hands, like perhaps I’m an alien from another planet and don’t know the meaning of the word hand. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z “But if the planet is incompatible with the Collective, we will leave.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z That news had further fueled the public’s belief in intelligent life on the planet. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z I think of how beautiful the view onto the planet was, but know Crick would grow suspicious if we had the window open when we should be focusing on our work. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Alternatively, they may be the steady state equilibrium between material ejected from a moon of Saturn, such as Titan, and material falling into the atmosphere of the planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Down the slope from our encampment lay Lake Champlain, where I vowed I should learn to swim before we finished our business with the planet Venus and returned to the city. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “I thought reading the book would help Epsilon-5 adjust to the new planet.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I can imagine creatures evolving into glimmerings of knowledge on innumerable worlds, every one of them assuming at first their puny planet and paltry few suns to be all that is. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If the Sixers were already here, in orbit around the planet, I was hoping they hadn’t spotted my ship. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z My chest felt heavy, like someone had dropped a planet on me. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Partridge was born in Norwich in 1785 and was a demon walker—possibly the first person on the whole planet who walked long distances for the simple pleasure of it. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z One’s magnetic and directional subsenses are all wrong on other planets; when the intellect won’t or can’t compensate for that wrongness, the result is a profound bewilderment, a feeling that everything, literally, has come loose. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z For him, as for a handful of others who had the same skin color, the Crane he grew up in might as well have been on another planet. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z When I wanted to share my information about bomb shelters, most of the students stared at me as if I were from another planet. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z 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 Upon him the contempt of three planets descended. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z It is a flowing waterfall of alchemical and astrological symbols, ancient marks for planets and elements all emblazoned in black ink upon her fair skin. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z 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 He couldn’t accept the idea, not least because it needed different equants for different planets. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z To account for the planets’ bizarre behavior, Ptolemy added epicycles to his planetary clockwork: little circles within circles could explain the backward, or retrograde, motion of the planets. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Billionaire philanthropists donate their entire fortunes to fund efforts that bring Fixers to impoverished nations, making certain that every human on the planet in need is able to receive treatment. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Hubble’s discovery that the universe was expanding, and the realization of the insignificance of our own planet in the vastness of the universe, were just the starting point. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe out of all the billions of planets, music is unique to Earth. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z My dad always told me that there are three types of humans on this planet. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z But we now know that the sun is a star, that other stars have planets, and there is every reason to think that there is life elsewhere in the universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The sky is a sheet of purple and pink and gold, and giant planets are suspended against it, their rings curving past the horizon. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z 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 It sounds like the name of a kind of crayfish, or of one of the aliens on my brother’s distant planet. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Matt could name the planets, the brightest stars, and all the constellations. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Large-scale television transmission on the planet Earth began only in the late 1940’s. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But perhaps in another century or two, when the solar system is all explored, we will also have put our planet in order. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In a general way we mean how our species’ excessive predatoriness has made the entire planet our prey. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Once Copernicus had suggested that the earth was not the centre of the universe but a planet orbiting the sun, people were bound to puzzle over what sort of planet it could be. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z When we look at the planet in the morning or evening skies, we are seeing sunlight reflected off the clouds of Venus. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But at the very core of Jupiter there may be a lump of rock and iron, an Earth-like world in a pressure vise, hidden forever at the center of the largest planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Taken all together, the moving planets made a “harmony of the spheres,” and the heavens are a beautiful mathematical orchestra. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The world will probably end in a flood that cleanses the stink of humanity from the face of the planet. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z 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 “You can’t travel between the planets if you don’t know math.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z The outer planets, such as Jupiter and Saturn, move stately and slow, as befits the kings of the gods. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z With her magenta hair, she’s like the sun, around which her admiring planets revolve. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z My parents generally believed that I was the most well-adjusted and not-likely-to-break-into-SeaWorld person on the planet, since my psychological well-being was proof of their professional talents. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z “I hope to discover a new planet with evidence of life. Go to bed.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “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 Even without knowing any of the distances in absolute terms, he could place the planets in order of increasing distance from the Sun. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z This applies, in particular, to the designation “planets.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z And without galaxies, there are no stars, no planets, and so in those universes there’s no chance for our form of life to exist. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z That’s how long it took the fastest horse on the planet to get from Alaska to San Francisco Bay, heading straight over the water down the Northwest Coast. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z In fact, I don’t know anyone’s number by heart, except my stupid eighth grade boyfriend’s, who is the last person on this or any other planet that I’d call. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z He had seen my ship, after all, the little lander that had brought me down on planet; he had free access along with anyone else to the engineers’ reports on the ship and the ansible. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “Do you ever wonder if—well, if there are people living on the third planet?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Venus was only a planet, he went on, and pretty dinky compared to real stars. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Are they part of a global tectonic system, produced perhaps by fracturing of an expanding or contracting planet? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z What account would we give of our stewardship of the planet Earth? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mademoiselle,” said one, in the dry and oft-repeated jest, “to see you depart from our circle is to see the sun cast oil' its planets and roam. What shall we, massy bodies, do, left bereft?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z But far from becoming morose, Kepler wished to find additional satellites and wondered how many satellites each planet should have. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Johannes Kepler, the man who discovered that planets travel in ellipses, took this idea—the infinitely distant point—one step further. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z But for people who were unaware of that view, the reports about the mysterious planet kept alive the possibility that Martians existed. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Having other planets with life on them was as silly as having a sphere with two centers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Exactly the same planets were rising at their births. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind her was the largest flat screen on the planet flashing stills from previous shows. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z It is easy to see that only a very restricted range of laws of nature are consistent with galaxies and stars, planets, life and intelligence. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There would be many of them, each composed of organisms astonishingly different from anything on this planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Attempts to quarantine Georgia are unsuccessful, and the new Fixers, whose sole function is to replicate, consume the entire planet in three days, leaving behind nothing but an ocean of gray goo. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “Everything on this planet talks to each other,” he says. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z In fact, when Mrs. Coulter realized this and explained how the earth and the other five planets revolved around the sun, Lyra laughed loudly at the joke. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “That’s not even a real planet,” she said, opening her book to read. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z He’s the only animal on the planet that I’d allow this honor. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z 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 Some of our most powerful sources are radar transmitters; a few are used for radar astronomy, to probe with radio fingers the surfaces of the nearby planets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was unfair that he was treated like Furball when he had good grades and could name the planets, the brightest stars, and all the constellations. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z If anyone still messed with me, I could kick them off the planet. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The dust which had contaminated most of the planet’s surface had originated in no country, and no one, even the wartime enemy, had planned on it. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “It’s impossible for you to leave me. I’m part of you. You’re taking me and my stories to a new planet and hundreds of years into the future. How lucky I am.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z They were put on display in a zoo on a planet called Zircon-212. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The largest planet is a star that failed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And it was also here, unfortunately, that the Mud People were most in tune with magic, which resulted in a far higher People-sighting rate than you got anywhere else on the planet. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z We explored each planet, in order of increasing distance from the sun: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Pluto. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z It is thought–though it is really nothing more than a thought–that tectonics is an important part of the planet’s organic well being. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Elis experiment belonged to a different world entirely—a world light-years ahead of the floating disks and squat cylinders previous ancient authorities had imagined our planet to be. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z A handful who get to live on two planets. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z My packet of worksheets, my impending academic doom, the hospital, Dr. Katz, even Mom, it’s not that they feel far away; it’s that they feel like a foreign language, an alien planet. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z It looked the size of the planet Jupiter to my dazed senses. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Now her best friend’s neighborhood felt like another planet. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z “Well be lucky if ninety seconds is enough for our ship to make it off the old planet. They’ve overrun the guard station. They’ve taken weapons.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Probably the planets have few ideas in their heads, either. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “The third planet is incapable of supporting life,” stated the husband patiently. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z I hadn’t thought finding others somewhere on a new planet was even an option. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z We swore sacred oaths to be strong and to save the planet and to be friends for ever. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z Everything felt strange, alien, as if she were on another planet, as if she were on the moon. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “The atmospheric evaluation will require a...test subject. A chaperone of our own to explore the planet with Zeta unit.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “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 Bagging and weighing, pound after pound, dollar after dollar, for what Genie considered to be the nastiest food On the planet. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The writers of books on insect behavior generally take pains, in their prefaces, to caution that insects are like creatures from another planet, that their behavior is absolutely foreign, totally unhuman, unearthly, almost unbiological. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A similar argument applies for every planet and asteroid and comet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The pits and bruises looked like craters on a large yellow planet. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z It could have been the last holidays the planet was ever going to celebrate, and you wouldn’t have known it from what Mrs. Bigio cooked for Camillo Junior High’s lunch. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z He sits in the topmost tiers of polymer, glass, and steel, dangling his pulsing legs, surveying at a distance the writhing life of the planet. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The third reason we haven’t had any tourists is that even if life has developed on a number of planets within our galaxy, there’s probably little likelihood they’d be interested in us. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z All those stars millions of light years away shilling down on me—me glued to a minor planet spinning around its own gigantic sum. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Her face looked so flat and empty, so far away, as if it hung miles above the earth and could not be bothered by anything happening on the little planet below. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z We both loved books and stories about stars and distant planets and spaceships. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Adria rolled her eyes and looked at me as if I was the craziest person on the planet. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Insulated lunch bags—hip way to save the planet, or sign of an overinvolved mother? Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Both stared through the open outer door at the red planet below. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a large world, and like the planet Middletown, its surface was covered with hundreds of identical copies of the same simulation—in this case, re-creations of the Zork playing field. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z In particular, our planet has experienced numerous cycles of cooling and warming. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z As the Vonnegut made the jump to light speed, each of the planets on my viewscreen became a long streak of light. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z How about really, really big ones, she said, like a planet? Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z There can’t be any place on the planet scarier than a school cafeteria. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z The epileptic boy had a broken heart, and it was no big deal to anyone else on the planet of humans and dogs. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Near the central star there may be a retinue of dead worlds, the remnants of planets once full of life and now airless and ocean-free, bathed in a wraithlike luminance. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Only the thickness of the barbed wire separated my life in hell from their lives of freedom, but we might as well have been on separate planets. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z I felt like I had stepped onto the surface of the planet Vulcan, and was finally going to master the Kolinahr discipline, embracing logic and purging myself of all emotions. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z This girl was from a whole different planet. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “I would have liked to see in person what creatures the planet has.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z There was another kind of object in the sky, the wandering or vagabond stars called planets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It says that the squares of the periods of any two planets are proportional to the cubes of their distances from the Sun. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z I was liberated there, surrounded by people from all over the planet. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Having discovered almost by accident that elliptical orbits fit the observations well, he could not reconcile them with his idea that the planets were made to orbit the sun by magnetic forces. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Multiplying these factors together, we find N.fpnefififc — 1 x 109, a billion planets on which technical civilizations have arisen at least once. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “That first day you came back I noticed Gat. He looked at you like you were the brightest planet in the galaxy.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z The book is in large part about the nature or environments of the planets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z So she took long, hot showers, even though that was wasting water and bad for the planet. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The planets glowed in the heavens; the moon and the sun each glowed with light. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Alexandria was the greatest seaport on the planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 “I wouldn’t want to live on a planet where everyone looks like a pig.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z And there are billions of planets where there is no life, but there is no one on those planets with brains to notice. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z This power, this black power, originates in a view of the American galaxy taken from a dark and essential planet. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z 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 I know that because when you have heterochromatic eyes, you always look at eyes—always trying to find someone else who is like you, like we come from a different planet or something. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z I felt for some minutes like a visitor from another planet. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The planets sped up on approaching the Sun and slowed down on retreating from it. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly the Dutch were present all over the planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have just learned that one of our Collective was lost to research on the planet,” she says, matter-of-factly talking about Len. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z If the pillar is the sun, then these tables are like the orbits the planets take, making bigger and bigger circles the farther you get away. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “Yes,” I call after, “but while the toxin is effective, no human will be able to occupy the planet for quite some time.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Most significantly, we both use precisely the same code book for translating nucleic acid information into protein information, as do virtually all the other creatures on the planet.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Like I deserve to exist on this planet alongside everyone else. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z So, for the years between 1820 and 1945, he collected data on the hundreds of wars that had been fought on our poor planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And because the future of the planet lies in the hands of today’s and tomorrow’s youth, I decided I wanted to do my share of trying to help you to help the world. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “The land area of the planet is a little less than two hundred million square miles. The percentage is ... so small as to be negligible.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z 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 Outside, the now-empty first stage fell away, eventually to crash on some unknown area of the planet below. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z With the domestication of animals and edible plants, people won a decisive victory in this battle, assuring our survival on this planet. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The planet noises are so loud I can’t hear, so I slide closer, hoping my gray jumpsuit camouflages me enough that they won’t pay any attention to me. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He says we are poisoning the rivers and ruining the gene pools of the planet. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z For a moment, the two of us were alone on the planet, with all the vastness of the sky and the future and the past spreading out around us. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z We visited the planet Goondocks and finished the entire Goonies quest in just one day. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The stars then exploded as supernovas, and their debris went to form other stars and planets, among them those of our Solar System, which is about five thousand million years old. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z After we bought the toys, Mom and I got lunch at my favorite restaurant, which makes the best foot-long hot dogs and iced hot chocolate milk shakes on the planet. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z On summer mornings at sunup, San Francisquito Canyon is one of the most perfect places on the planet of humans and dogs. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z 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 This explained the motion of the planets in the heavens with incredible accuracy; no longer could astronomers object that the heliocentric system was inferior to the geocentric one. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I don't want to come off as arrogant here, but I'm the best botanist on the planet. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z A planet made of sparkles and glass and beats that make the aliens pump their fists and wave their arms around like snakes. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z There, cut off from all communication, I was truly alone, the only person in the solar system who could not even see the planet of his birth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 But we are becoming able to detect the gravitational influence of an unseen planet on an observed star. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The tropical rain forests are the deep reservoirs of life on the planet, containing most of the world’s plant and animal species. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus Bruno imagined an infinite universe, with numberless stars and planets, all possibly inhabited by extraterrestrial life forms. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Gunters had turned all of those planets upside down and scoured every square inch of their surfaces. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Many years later, Kepler came upon his third and last law of planetary motion, a law that relates the motion of various planets Kepler’s second law: A planet sweeps out equal areas in equal times. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And the second part, the ‘heavenly name created in jest’? Well, the planet Mars is in space, making it a heavenly body. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “It was where Blancaflor and the prince lived. It was a planet.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Erin stared right back at her, like she was trying to figure out which planet Stephanie came from. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Giant ringed planets and multicolored moons were suspended in space all around me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z To grow from a tiny cluster of grains to a baby planet some hundreds of miles across is thought to have taken only a few tens of thousands of years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z In fact, Galileo had discovered moons circling Jupiter, not planets circling a distant star. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Plato, Ptolemy and all the Christian astronomers before Kepler had assumed that the planets moved in circular paths. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom had been my nurse, after all, and was more intimately familiar with all my most embarrassing atoms than anyone on the planet of humans and dogs. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z The planet’s only surface feature was a web of glowing green dots similar to the ground lights on an airport runway. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z But I had no way of knowing if the same was true of this tomb, because it was underground, and it didn’t even appear on the planet map. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “You said it was the littlest planet in the solar system!” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z In these perfect forms, he believed he had recognized the invisible supporting structures for the spheres of the six planets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But there were less than five billion people on the planet in the late twentieth century. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Exactly why they call it a Goldilocks planet.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z There was even a song people in the book sang, and soon everyone all over the messed-up, invaded, and cannibalized planet began to hear the song constantly in their heads. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z When the ring began to glow, I said the name of the planet where I wished to teleport. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z But at least the planets will never be melted and frizzled by an erupting supernova. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Unlike the orbits of Mercury and Mars, the orbits of the other planets depart so little from circularity that we cannot make out their true shapes even in an extremely accurate diagram. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He seemed to have disappeared from the planet. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Three mouths gaped open; six eyes, round as tiny planets, stared. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z They suggested that the planet was totally covered with water—except perhaps for an occasional limestone-encrusted island, like the cliffs of Dover. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z My people were spread out by now all over the planet. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps if one less dragonfly had drowned in the Carboniferous swamps, the intelligent organisms on our planet today would have feathers and teach their young in rookeries. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A planet named Gygax in Sector Two seemed like the obvious place to start looking. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Such motion is why we describe the planets as forever falling toward, but never reaching, the Sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Now let’s get going. I just found out Mrs. Droogie will no longer be sharing air with us on this planet.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The search for the new planet began long before it was finally observed in 1846. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Every transport terminal on the planet has been spitting out avatars since last night,” he said, motioning to the scene around us with his Gundam’s massive hand. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The sounds of the planets make for a great conversation starter if you have people to talk to, but if you don’t, they make for great white noise when you’re going to sleep. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z She would have liked a brother or a little sister, but her parents had already traveled to another planet to get her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Kepler found something different for elliptical orbits: As the planet moves along its orbit, it sweeps out a little wedge-shaped area within the ellipse. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In order to understand the movements of the planets, Kepler thought about ferrymen trying to row across a fast-flowing river. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He said all that energy together can shift a whole planet. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z In a period of a few weeks, the Arecibo Observatory could transmit to a comparable observatory on a planet of a nearby star all of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A few thousand years ago, the idea developed that the motions of the planets determined the fates of kings, dynasties, empires. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But if the planets could determine the destinies of nations, how could they avoid influencing what will happen to me tomorrow? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m guessing ye tried to contact us folks down here on New World when ye were a-scouting the planet?” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z No one has ever found their nests, he claims, so it is evident that they visit us from another planet. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Water was rare, but the elegant network of canals carried the life-giving fluid all over the planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Seen from orbit, the planet was a shiny onyx marble covered in overlapping spiderwebs of pulsating light. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Perhaps there are many other planets that today have abundant microbes but no big beasts and vegetables. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I listened to tapes on Australia and Russia, on constellations and on the planets. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z But even if life on another planet has the same molecular chemistry as life here, there is no reason to expect it to resemble familiar organisms. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I said, it’s the planet Neptune I’m talking about, just plain ordinary Neptune, not Paradise, because I don’t happen to know about Paradise. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Gus stared out the window, watching the planet shrink beneath us, and then I felt his hand relax beneath mine. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z There are Mesopotamian inscriptions referring to Venus that predate the time when Velikovsky says Venus changed from a comet into a planet.’ Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It could have been any room in any home on any planet anywhere. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z 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 There was in his stomach a slow, cold, vast rising movement, as though he held within the embrace of his bowels the swing of planets through space. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z From an extraterrestrial perspective, our global civilization is clearly on the edge of failure in the most important task it faces: to preserve the lives and well-being of the citizens of the planet. 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 Illuminated by dozens of round glowing lamps hanging from the top of the tent like planets or stars. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It feels like a completely different planet out here. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z In short, though there may be life on other planets in our galaxy, the sightings of UFOs are almost certainly just that—sightings of unidentified flying objects. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This is not a subject on which we can do much experimentation as long as our investigations are limited to a single planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z So does Erickson, the University of Pennsylvania archaeologist who told me in Bolivia that the lowland tropical forests of South America are among the finest works of art on the planet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They unflinchingly respected the accuracy of observational data, and their predictions of the motion of the planets to high precision provided compelling evidence that, at an unexpectedly deep level, humans can understand the Cosmos. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I woke up on another planet or in an alternate reality. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Imagine yourself a visitor from some other and quite alien planet, approaching Earth with no preconceptions. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z His pale lashes reveal the world behind his hazel eyes, and that world is trembling, dangling, like a lone bright planet in dark space. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Others would carry an entourage of suitable planets, but some would be already inhabited, or the atmosphere would be poisonous or the climate uncomfortable. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A marble rolls around the pucker in a orbit like that of a planet around the Sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He was wearing his sunglasses, playing air bass, totally on another planet. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z The distance from Ohio to California was so huge—he coulda been on another planet. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z But the importance and happiness of the wonder of this planet has been brainwashed out of them. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “One of the other viable planets we’ve found is within two units,” she says, looking away. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Through technological advances in communication our planet is in the final stages of being bound up at a breakneck pace into a single global society. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The entire planet of Frobozz was in a PvP zone, and both magic and technology functioned here, which meant that all bets were off. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I think of what Nyla said about obstacles and leaving for another planet. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z 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 “A device for telling the ship in space where I am on the planet,” she says. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z As we move out past Mars we enter a very different regime— the realm of Jupiter and the other giant or jovian planets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There weren’t too many animals on the planet that were capable of eating a human and I had conflicting thoughts about this. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z 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 Every time it stopped, the metal arms unfolded and turned this way and that, like a roving robot on an alien planet looking for signs of life. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I go into what must be the largest room for a seven-year-old on the planet. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Or perhaps they will merely pick up and leave for Mars or Europa or Titan or, at last, as Robert Goddard envisioned, seek out an uninhabited planet in some young and promising planetary system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a very real possibility the most perfect Muslim girl on the planet may become my future sister-in-law. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Or will they find another Goldilocks planet and never come back? The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Courtesy NASA. shapeType32lineWidth24130shapeType32lineWidth24130shapeType32lineWidth24130A hypothetical ice planet in the system of the Ring Nebula in Lyra. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It takes longer to get back to the surface than you think it will and there’s a moment of feeling as if you’re on another planet or nowhere at all. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Finally, in 1543, a quite different hypothesis to explain the apparent motion of the planets was published by a Polish Catholic cleric named Nicholas Copernicus. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t want to be on the same planet with her, much less the same side of the creek. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, with his face as pale as a planet, he looked up at the night sky. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “But it is still considered a dwarf planet.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Her features are softened by our planet’s dust swimming around her. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z "If we were randomly inserted into the universe," Sagan wrote, "the chances that you would be on or near a planet would be less than one in a billion trillion trillion." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z When we send spacecraft to the planets, when we observe double stars, when we examine the motion of distant galaxies, we find that throughout the universe Kepler’s laws are obeyed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The mathematicians, however, interpreted the apparently irregular movement of the planets in the heavens as evidence that some invisible reality was causing the movement. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The farther away a planet, the greater its orbital period. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z “Or maybe,” she continued, “he was a spy for the government all along and he’s being held captive in Russia or something. Maybe your brother is the most dangerous man on the planet!” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z The larger clans had been openly plotting to nuke the Sixer Operations Complex for several years now, but they’d never managed to get past the defense grid or reach the planet’s surface. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He explained to me that planets glowed because reflected light was constant, and stars twinkled because their light pulsed. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Some subcultists hold that those Afterlife Interims are actually, physically situated on other worlds, other planets of the real universe. Have you met with that idea, Mr. Ai?” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Since then, interest in the planet had waned dramatically. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Just thinking about his stupid face and his stupidly blue eyes turned me into the most confused person on the planet. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Very few scientists thought this could happen, but no one wanted to take a chance on infecting planet earth with moon germs. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Donne would have learnt from Hill about the possibility of life on other planets, and of planets circling other stars; he would also have learnt that these strange ideas derived from Giordano Bruno. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was about the threat of the earth colliding with another planet and how all the scientists in the world united to avert the catastrophe. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Like their contemporaries in Greece, the Han Chinese saw virtue in the relationship between musical pitch in music - the relative distance between notes - and the arrangement of the stars and planets they observed above them. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “Are you going to blow up the planet?” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z If an intelligent creature that had no human feelings suddenly arrived from another planet it would not understand anything about pain and suffering. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z "For infinity," says Gerhard, who is nearly four years older than Helmuth and knows about heavenly things like planets and stars and suns and moons. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z For example, very accurate observations of the planet Mercury revealed a small difference between its motion and the predictions of Newton’s theory of gravity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere above, the rockets burned down to civilize a beautifully dead planet. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z War, famine, and death become the rule of the planet. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z For most of the 1980s and 1990s, Neptune was in fact the solar system’s most far-flung planet. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Every so often, Henry will look up, catch Alex’s eye, go pink around the ears, and return to his rice pilaf as if it’s the most fascinating dish on the planet. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Pluto was a planet all those years and then someone just decided it wasn’t anymore? Too small. Too far away. Orbit not just right.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z We know that the surface is dominated by silicates, which are relatively light and not heavy enough to account for the planet’s overall density. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It was like they were from a different planet entirely. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Stars and their accompanying planets are born in the gravitational collapse of a cloud of interstellar gas and dust. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z "It could happen, you know. We don't really know about life on other planets." Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z Or will we think on longer time scales, with concern for our children and our grandchildren, to understand and protect the complex life-support systems of our planet? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Each time you pick up a book from a table or a dime from the floor you effortlessly overcome the combined gravitational exertion of an entire planet. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He stood and looked in all directions and could see no land, nor plane, nor other boat, no indication that there was another human on the planet. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z An inflatable solar system hung from the ceiling, with the sun and eight planets scaled to size, along with various starship Enterprise models. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z No planet or star or galaxy can be typical, because the Cosmos is mostly empty. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The moons and ringed planet have not moved. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “No one is perfect except God. When I say driven, I mean striving. You can always strive to make life better. For you, for others. For the planet. Whatever.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z On any planet, no matter what its biology or social system, an exponential increase in population will swallow every resource. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If the planet were an apple, we wouldn’t yet have broken through the skin. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Very high winds have been recorded on the surface of Mars, and sometimes nearly the entire surface of the planet is obscured by blowing dust. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The Ptolemaic system, like those of Plato and Aristotle, claimed that the moon, the sun and all the planets circled around the earth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z What are the implications of claiming that the Earth is a planet? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z And sometimes, by accident, there is a planet in the way. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Chances are a few of the Martians, if they were smart, escaped to the mountains. But there aren’t enough, I’ll lay you money, to be a native problem. This planet is through.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z He was also a student on Ludus, a senior at OPS #1172, which was on the opposite side of the planet from my school. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z But, as an indulgence, let us imagine that intelligent life once evolved on such a planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Nobody worried about dividing by zero when conveniently ignoring the rules of mathematics explained everything from the fall of an apple to the orbits of the planets in the sky. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He kissed like he couldn’t imagine wanting to be anywhere else on the planet, because wasn’t this so nice, and didn’t this feel good? Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Not far outside the Galaxy there are almost certainly planets, orbiting stars in the Magellanic Clouds and in the globular clusters that surround the Milky Way. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This law predicts the orbits of the earth, the moon, and the planets with great accuracy. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In the drawing, the stars and planets are storming out of the computer screen and into the room. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Because gravity holds planets in orbit and makes falling objects land with a bang, we tend to think of it as a powerful force, but it is not really. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z But Titan has an atmospheric pressure at least as great as that of the planet Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “A planet is a celestial body orbiting a star.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Searching every planet, one by one, would take forever. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Yet this place was once the brain and glory of the greatest city on the planet, the first true research institute in the history of the world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “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 The electron doesn’t fly around the nucleus like a planet around its sun, but instead takes on the more amorphous aspect of a cloud. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Much more important, it would affect the ecology of our planet in an unknown way. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s like we come from two different planets. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet it predicts the motions of the sun, the moon, and the planets to a high degree of accuracy. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 |
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